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 Jude 10th) About the year 1870, a journalist visited the heiau of Mookini which Paao built and where Paao officiated. He was accompanied by Naaipaakai, a circuit judge [...]
God bless all this feast of one of the Apostles, St. Barnabas! It is also Kamehameha Day in the State of Hawaii, in remembrance of the unification of the Hawaiian Islands into one Kingdom by King Kamehameha the Great (Kamehameha I). Unity is hard to come by, as we know. Both Barnabas [...]
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 9th) What with more probability may be considered a remnant of Catholic teaching is the belief in the resurrection of the body, which doctrine did not make [...]
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 [...]
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 8th) The centre of Catholic worship is the sacrifice of the Mass. But the celebration of the Mass necessitates bread made from wheat, and wine, the juice [...]
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 [...]
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) The Hawaiian circumcision rite, which probably was accompanied by baptism, reminds of many ceremonies of Catholic baptism; like Christian baptism it was evidently a dedication to [...]
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 [...]