Peace be with you! This is the soothing message Jesus has for us today! Not only peace, but also perseverance and making known the glory that is God and the peace that comes from experiencing that glory. The martyrs experienced that glory, that peace! Yesterday we remembered Father Damien as a martyr. Today, we remember [...]
Aloha nui to everyone and to all of our ohana! The Lord be with you on this Monday of the 5th Week of Easter! Today, from St. Joseph's chapel in Kamalo, Molokai, I said Mass in honor of the Feast Day of Father Damien, whose actual feast day, May 10, was yesterday. But, since the [...]
Peace be with you on this Mother's Day, 2020!!! Jesus is like a mother in today's Gospel for the 5th Sunday of Easter. He has to reassure some of his disciples that He is the way, the truth and the life, just like a mother reassuring her children when something goes wrong that she knows [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii (1827-1940)" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Sturgis Printing Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI, 1978) (continued from May 9th) In Kumueli (Kamalo?), Father Favens, SS.CC. baptized two catechumens. The next day [this was in 1846], while the catechists rounded up Catholics and catechumens, Father [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii (1827-1940)" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Sturgis Printing Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI, 1978) (continued from May 8th) From that time on [late 1830's through the 1870's] a priest from Oahu or Maui periodically visited Molokai's leeward group of Catholics, dispensing to them [...]
Aloha nui to all ohana's and may the peace of Jesus Christ our Lord be with each and every one of you! On this Saturday of the 4th Week of Easter, we remain hunkered down, like the disciples in the Upper Room, praying and awaiting the sending of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. It is [...]
Peace be with you and your ohana! As we continue our Easter journey, let us continue to place our fears and doubts with the Lord! For He is the Way, and the Truth and the Life! Amen! Alleluia! Reflections by Fr. Brian: While I was assigned to our Mission in the Kingdom of Tonga (in [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii (1827-1940)" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Sturgis Printing Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI, 1978) (continued from May 7th) Less than a month later (probably sometime in the 1830's or 1840's), on a Sunday, Father Desvault, provincial of the Sacred Hearts Fathers in Hawaii, [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii (1827-1940)" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Sturgis Printing Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI, 1978) Though Molokai had to wait long for a resident priest of its own, nevertheless the Catholic faith had gotten a firm foothold on the island by the late 1840's. [...]
Aloha nui to you and your ohana! May the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you always! I am reminded daily of the struggles of Father Damien to minister to the faithful on Molokai, both at the leper settlement and topside. But, I know that his faith, perseverance and love was what gave [...]