Aloha nui to all on this Thursday of the 12th week of ordinary time! This will be the last daily message from me. Starting tomorrow, I will be posting a weekly message for the upcoming week. This will lessen the load. And, don't forget, our monthly bulletin will begin in July. Today, in our Scriptures, [...]
Peace be with you and your ohana on this Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist! John leapt in his mother Elizabeth's womb at the presence of the Lord in the womb of Mary. It is said that a fetus in the womb of its mother can sense things outside of the mother's [...]
Aloha to all on this Tuesday of the 12th week of ordinary time! You are all a sign of God's grace and love! As the gospel talks about today, there are two gates, one is wide, the other is narrow. It is much easier to go through the wide gate towards death and destruction than [...]
Peace be with you this on this Monday of the 12th week of ordinary time! Three saints today: St. Paulinus of Nola, St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher. The latter two were martyred for their faith during the reign of King Henry VIII in England. Scripture today tells us that we need God's [...]
Peace be with you and your ohana on this Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus! What a blessed day to celebrate the loving, compassionate heart of our Lord, Jesus Christ! My religious Congregation, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary, celebrates this great feast every year as one of our major days of [...]
Aloha nui to all on this Thursday of the 11th week of ordinary time! Prayer! Prayer! Prayer! Probably one of the oldest forms of communication in the world. To pray is to have a conversation with God. It is to communicate with God. It is to have a relationship with God. It is a human [...]
Peace be with you this Wednesday of the 11th week of ordinary time! Prayer is a wonderful thing. It is free. You don't have to pay for it. You can do it anytime you wish. Prayer is an awesome thing because it is a conversation with God. How many times do you try to reach [...]
Peace to all this Tuesday of the 11th week of ordinary time! Love! Love! Love! It's a Love-In! This is what Jesus is asking us to do in today's gospel. To love! Not just those we like, but those we don't like! You don't have to like everyone, but Jesus asks us to love everyone. [...]
A Reflection from Fr. Brian: As we ease back into Ordinary Time in our Church year, it is with a different frame of mind and a different MO (method of operation)! We are more dependent on others now. It is a realization that we are all in this world as one body, not as separate [...]
Aloha nui to all on this Monday of the 11th week of ordinary time! Since I missed yesterday's message because I didn't have enough time to get to it, here is a message based on yesterday's readings for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi Sunday). The Eucharist is our communion [...]