Weekly Message for the 13th Week In Ordinary Time 2020

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. [...]

By |2020-06-28T08:28:34+00:00June 27th, 2020|Catholicism in Hawaii, celebrating the mass, Damien Church Blog 1, Stories from Fr. Brian|Comments Off on Weekly Message for the 13th Week In Ordinary Time 2020

June 24th Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

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 [...]

By |2020-06-25T07:51:17+00:00June 24th, 2020|Catholicism in Hawaii, celebrating the mass, Damien Church Blog 1, messages from Fr. Brian, Stories from Fr. Brian|Comments Off on June 24th Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

An Unexpected Brush With the Law

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 [...]

By |2020-06-10T21:02:33+00:00June 10th, 2020|Damien Church Blog 1, messages from Fr. Brian, Stories from Fr. Brian|Comments Off on An Unexpected Brush With the Law

Reflecting on Jn 3:16

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 [...]

By |2020-06-09T07:57:24+00:00June 8th, 2020|Damien Church Blog 1, messages from Fr. Brian, Stories from Fr. Brian|Comments Off on Reflecting on Jn 3:16

In Preparation for the Trinity Sunday

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 [...]

By |2020-06-09T08:06:16+00:00June 7th, 2020|celebrating the mass, Damien Church Blog 1, messages from Fr. Brian, Stories from Fr. Brian|Comments Off on In Preparation for the Trinity Sunday

Celebrating St. Boniface Day

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. [...]

By |2020-06-06T08:49:14+00:00June 5th, 2020|Catholicism in Hawaii, Damien Church Blog 1, messages from Fr. Brian, Stories from Fr. Brian|Comments Off on Celebrating St. Boniface Day

Making an effort to understand and go beyond difficult times

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 [...]

By |2020-06-03T23:06:13+00:00June 3rd, 2020|Damien Church Blog 1, Stories from Fr. Brian|Comments Off on Making an effort to understand and go beyond difficult times

On Being a Good and Faithful Follower of our Lord Jesus Christ

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 [...]

By |2020-06-02T23:59:19+00:00June 2nd, 2020|Damien Church Blog 1, Stories from Fr. Brian|Comments Off on On Being a Good and Faithful Follower of our Lord Jesus Christ

A Personal Recount of the 1989 Oakland Earthquake (conclusion)

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 [...]

By |2020-06-01T22:06:19+00:00June 1st, 2020|Damien Church Blog 1, messages from Fr. Brian, Stories from Fr. Brian|Comments Off on A Personal Recount of the 1989 Oakland Earthquake (conclusion)
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