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 19th) For another decade and a half, from 1914 to 1929, Father Thomas Geloen, ss.cc. covered his large district, now counting five sacred buildings. During these [...]
Peace be with you and your ohana this Wednesday 6th Week of Easter, the feast of St. Bernardine of Siena! St. Paul has some encouraging words for us in today's First Reading from the Acts of the Apostles: "The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and [...]
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 18th) Also in Kaunakakai Father Thomas accommodated with the occasional celebration of Holy Mass the score of Catholics of this then tiny and unimportant village. Pukoo [...]
Aloha nui to all ohana on this Tuesday morning, the 6th week of Easter, 2020! Scripture: "Then he brought Paul and Silas out from their jail cell and said, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' And they said, 'Believe in the Lord Jesus.' And his household rejoiced at having come to faith 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 17th) At Kaunakakai, Father Thomas offered Mass in the home of one of the few local Catholics, for lack of a chapel. In every one of [...]
Peace of the Lord be with all on this Monday of the 6th week of Easter! It is the feast of a Pope who became a martyr, St. Pope John I. Let us pray for our Pope, Francis I, as he leads our church and the world through this crisis. Let us pray for a [...]
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 16th) On the beautiful four-acre church property at Kaluaaha with Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Father Thomas had a small but comfortable rectory. It was from [...]
Sunday 6th week of Easter Mass at Kaluaaha, Molokai with Fr. Brian Guerrini, ss.cc. Today's mass was recorded at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows church. May the grace and peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you and your ohana on this 6th Sunday of Easter! We hear Jesus speaking of the Holy Spirit [...]
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 15th) At long last, in 1900, the Pukoo district of East Molokai welcomed a missionary-priest who was to stay at his post for no less than [...]
A Reflection by Fr. Brian: When I was a seminarian at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, CA and staying at our Sacred Hearts House of Studies in North Berkeley, after my first year of study way back in 1988, I thought to myself that I needed a little break from all of the [...]