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 [...]
Peace be with you and your ohana on this Monday of the 9th Week of Ordinary Time. Our Scriptures speak today of waiting, patience, growth, knowledge and the acknowledgement of God as our refuge: "We await new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Consider the patience of our Lord as salvation. Grow [...]
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 May 31) As the English first entered the Pacific under Drake in September, 1578, when one of the Admiral's three vessels, the Marigold, parted company in a gale [...]
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 [...]
Today we celebrate a new Memorial in our church calendar. It is the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, the Monday following Pentecost. Today, we lift up Mary as a model of motherhood. That, she was a good mother to her son and to the Beloved Disciple, John. As we struggle [...]