Peace be with you and your ohana on this Wednesday of the 10th week of ordinary time! It is the fulfillment of the law of Moses that Jesus came into the world. He did not come to abolish that law but to give it more flesh and blood. Jesus speaks of the least and the [...]
A Personal Reflection from Fr. Brian: Light is something we take for granted sometimes. We assume that the sun will come up each day and that it will set at night because it has always done so. Just as the sun rises and sheds its light to give our world light, so too it is [...]
Aloha nui to all on this the Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church! Light is something we can't do without! We need it for the life of plants, animals and humans! Light is not just from the sun. It is also from others. We need models and examples of this light [...]
Hawaii History: (from "History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands" by Father Reginald Yzendoorn, SS.CC., Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 1927) (continued from June 6th) The Hawaiian circumcision rite, which probably was accompanied by baptism, reminds of many ceremonies of Catholic baptism; like Christian baptism it was evidently a dedication to [...]
A Personal Reflection from Fr. Brian: Yesterday we celebrated the feast of the Holy Trinity. When I was young in Catholic grade school, the nuns tried to explain to us kids the mystery of the Trinity. I can't remember exactly what they said, but there was something about creation, salvation and sanctification. I never quite [...]
Hawaii History: (from "History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands" by Father Reginald Yzendoorn, SS.CC., Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 1927) (continued from June 6th) There are in the rites and teachings of the old Hawaiian religion certain things, which, not improbably, are remnants of Catholic worship and teaching. Particularly striking [...]
A Personal Reflection by Fr. Brian: When I was growing up, in the 1960's, I remember watching sporting events on television and whenever the camera would show shots of the crowd, inevitably there would be someone, sometimes with brightly-colored frizzy hair, holding up a sign which simply said, "Jn 3:16". After I saw this more [...]
Peace to all as we open up our churches here on topside Molokai for weekend masses. This weekend we celebrate Trinity Sunday which has special meaning for Catholics since it celebrates the greatest mystery of our faith, the Blessed Trinity! Today's Scriptures speak of professing and showing our faith through persistence, whether convenient or inconvenient. [...]
Hawaii History: (from "History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands" by Father Reginald Yzendoorn, SS.CC., Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 1927) (continued from June 4th) Now since Paao introduced a new religion, it can hardly have been any other but the Roman Catholic religion. It must be [...]
A Personal Reflection from Fr. Brian: My mother's father's side of my family was German, German Catholics, through and through, and also very strict German Catholics. On today, the feast of St. Boniface, Apostle to the German race, I reflect on my own German heritage. My mother's maiden name was Oberhausen, a very German name. [...]