Good Friday at Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace

Holy Thursday at Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace

Fr. John Berger, presider, with Fr. Marvin Samiano, JCL, Fr. Gordon Combs, Cap., Fr. Jim Danner and Deacon Eliot Cholymay

Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace Honolulu, Hawaii

Message of Pope Benedict XVI for Lent 2011

"The first Sunday of the Lenten journey reveals our condition as human beings here on earth. The victorious battle against temptation, the starting point of Jesus’ mission, is an invitation to become aware of our own fragility in order to accept the grace that frees [us] from sin and infuses new strength in Christ — the way, the truth and the life." --Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI: Lenten Message for 2011

Message to Priests this Lent 2011

His Eminence Mauro Piacenza

Esteemed Brothers,


This time of grace, which is given to us to live, calls us to a renewed conversion. The ministerial Priesthood is always new and through this gift the Lord Jesus is made present in our lives and, through our lives, in the lives of all men.

Conversion, for us Priests, above all else means to conform our lives more closely to the preaching that we offer daily to the faithful, becoming in this way ‘a piece of the living Gospel’ that everyone can read and accept. The foundation of that behaviour is, without doubt, the conversion of our own identity: we must convert ourselves to that what we are! The identity, welcomed and received sacramentally in our wounded humanity, demands the progressive confirmation of our hearts, our minds, our behaviours to everything that we are in the image of Christ the Good Shepherd that has been sacramentally imprinted in us.

We must enter into the Mysteries that we celebrate, especially in the most Holy Eucharist, and to allow ourselves to be formed by them. It is in the Eucharist that the Priest rediscovers his true identity! It is in the celebration of the Divine Mysteries that one can catch sight of ‘how’ to be a shepherd and ‘what’ is necessary to truly serve each other.

Source: Congregazione per il Clero

Prayers for Our Priests During Lent

Bishop Larry Silva

Cheralyn, a spiritual mom in another diocese recently shared their intentions for their spiritual sons during Lent.  I thought her idea was a very good one and ran it past Easter.

In discussing this with Easter, we thought the following would best suit the spiritual moms in the Diocese of Honolulu.

This is from an email sent to the Spiritual moms yesterday.

With Lent beginning next week, (Ash Wednesday is March 9th), we would ask that you remember our priests in a special way.

Please pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy** and/or the Sorrowful Mysteries on either Tuesdays or Fridays during Lent. We will specifically be praying for the priest we have spiritually adopted but please remember to pray for all our priests and seminarians too!

God bless you and have a wonderfully spiritual Lenten season.

**For those of you not aware of this, Bishop Larry dedicated the Diocese of Honolulu to The Divine Mercy on Divine Mercy Sunday - April 23, 2006

Holy Saturday

Morning Prayer at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace

Bishop Larry Silva, with Deacon John Coughlin

my son, TJ, holds the book

Paula Manz, cantor

Music Director Calvin Liu, organist (not shown)

Blessing of the Catechumens

Good Friday at the Cathedral

At the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace...

Bishop Larry Silva, center

bearer of book, TY, youngest among my 5 children

Bishop Larry knelt and kissed the cross

Passing of the cross

Getting ready for communion

Holy Thursday

Washing of the feet

Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace

Holy Thursday, March 1, 2010

Bishop Larry Silva, presider

Bishop Larry Silva, in his homily, stressed the importance of remembering Jesus at the Last Supper and correlated it to remembering of St. Damien who spent his life caring for those afflicted with leprosy; remembering our brothers and sisters in need, the abused and neglected; re-member those far from church, and bringing them back to the church.

It was a very solemn evening. The choir of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace did a great job at singing songs for Holy Week, which its members have sung for years, to commemorate the events in Jesus' life leading to his death and resurrection.

Our Lord Jesus, the Most High Priest, be praised!