Aloha nui to all! On this Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church, we are reminded of the power of the Word of God and the power of preaching that Word! Following Christ is a constant challenge! Just ask Elisha in the First Reading today. It requires saying "yes" to [...]
A Personal Reflection from Fr. Brian: I had an experience that really shook me back in the late 90's. I was in a parish in southern California at the time as Pastoral Associate and as a religious brother. My father had just had his second heart attack in less than a year back in Indiana [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Peace and love of the Lord be with you on this Monday of the 10th Week of Ordinary Time! Well, it really isn't ordinary time right now in our world! It seems there is a lot to reflect on and God knows we have all been doing that! In the Beatitudes, Jesus gives his disciples [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]