The Lord be with you on this Good Friday of the Year of Our Lord, 2020! The inscription that was placed above the head of Jesus on the cross used to crucify Him read "INRI". The first "I" used in place of "J" for the name "Jesus". The "N" standing for "Nazareth", the town where [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii, 1827-1940" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Published by Louis Boeynaems, SS.CC., Honolulu, HI, 1978) In the course of the 19th century up to 1930, Molokai was designated by names that translated its economic status, such as "The Lonely Island", or "The Forgotten [...]
The Lord be with you this Holy Thursday 2020! If we truly believe in the real presence of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and in the Tabernacle, then we truly believe in His power to wash away all the bad things in our lives and cleanse us of all that takes us away [...]
Molokai History: (from "History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands" by Father Reginald Yzendoorn, SS.CC., Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Limited, Honolulu, U.S. Territory of Hawaii, 1927) There were but few Catholics on the island of Molokai outside of the leper settlement on the peninsula; their number may have amounted to about two hundred, disseminated over [...]
May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit be with each and every one of you on this Tuesday of Holy Week! Let us give thanks to the Lord for all He has done, all He does and all He will do for us! In today's [...]
Molokai History: (more from "Ho'opono: The Hawaiian Way to Put Things Back into Balance (2nd. Edition)" by Pali Jae Lee, I.M. Publishing Ltd., Mountain View, HI, 2006) There are just about as many stories about Kaiakea, the old chief of Molokai, as there are about King Kamehameha. There is one story of the reverence King [...]
Aloha nui & Peace be with you on this Monday of Holy Week! In today's Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 27, we hear a very familiar refrain, echoed by Christian believers over the many centuries: "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom (or what) should I fear? The Lord is my life's refuge; of whom [...]
(tidbits from F. Brian): Molokai History: (from "Ho'opono: The Hawaiian Way to Put Things Back into Balance" by Pali Jae Lee, I.M. Publishing, Ltd., Mountain View, HI, 2006) Molokai is also known by the name of "Pule O'o". This is the story of how it got that name. At the time of the Tahitian invasion [...]
https://youtu.be/1upXCzi4D6c The Lord be with each and every one of you! Today, as we begin the holiest of all weeks in our year, we enter Jerusalem, the holy city, with Jesus as he prepares to celebrate the Passover with his disciples. It is a bittersweet moment, as Jesus continues to show the world [...]