Peace be with you as we begin the 13th Week in Ordinary Time this Sunday! These weekly messages will be replacing the daily messages. Sorry to all of you daily message fans! I hope and pray that you and your ohana are staying safe and practicing safety measures now that we are beginning inter-island travel. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
A Personal Reflection by Fr. Brian: One time in California in 1992, I drove from the Bay Area down to LA to see the brothers. I was on the staff of a high school in Alameda and it was a break time from school. As I was getting closer to LA, I remember seeing vehicle [...]
A Personal Reflection from Fr. Brian: When I was young, in high school, I would ride to school with my father who worked in downtown Indianapolis. My high school was located in the inner city, fourteen blocks north of the center of the city. It was an all boys Catholic high school located across the [...]
A Personal Reflection by Fr. Brian: I spent 11 years at our mission in New Mexico and during those years, I experienced many cases of poverty. The State of New Mexico has one of the highest per capita poverty rates in the country. We served 3 parishes and 2 missions as kind of a cluster [...]
A Personal Reflection from Fr. Brian: (continued from May 31) As the reports on the television came in from around the Bay Area, it was quite apparent that there had been some extensive damage and some loss of life. A section of the Bay Bridge had collapsed. A freeway in Oakland had collapsed, trapping cars [...]