A Reflection by Fr. Brian: (a personal story of Hurricane Harvey, continued from yesterday) We had to set up the cots ourselves and just before some people began to retire on them for the night, the second night in the terminal, they brought by some aluminum foil blankets for us to keep warm through the [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii (1827-1940)" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Sturgis Printing Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI, 1978) (continued from May 12th) Father Damien was, of course, very glad to have this little place of worship [St. Philomena's in Kalawao], which filled his needs for the time [...]
Aloha nui to all on this 13th day of May, 2020! Today, we celebrate Our Lady of Fatima and the apparition of the Blessed Mother to the three shepherd children in Portugal: Lucia Dos Santos and her two cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto. As millions stay home and the Fatima shrine in Portugal is [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii (1827-1940)" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Sturgis Printing Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI, 1978) (continued from May 11th) In the late 1860's, Father Delalande succeeded Father Bouillon. This brings us to 1873, the year Father Damien volunteered to go to Kalawao to minister [...]
A Reflection by Fr. Brian: (a personal story of Hurricane Harvey, continued from May 11th) We tried to get as much sleep as we could that first night, listening to Hurricane Harvey outside pelting the roof of the terminal with buckets and buckets of rain, bundled up in any blankets we could get our hands [...]
Peace be with you! This is the soothing message Jesus has for us today! Not only peace, but also perseverance and making known the glory that is God and the peace that comes from experiencing that glory. The martyrs experienced that glory, that peace! Yesterday we remembered Father Damien as a martyr. Today, we remember [...]
Aloha nui to everyone and to all of our ohana! The Lord be with you on this Monday of the 5th Week of Easter! Today, from St. Joseph's chapel in Kamalo, Molokai, I said Mass in honor of the Feast Day of Father Damien, whose actual feast day, May 10, was yesterday. But, since the [...]
Peace be with you on this Mother's Day, 2020!!! Jesus is like a mother in today's Gospel for the 5th Sunday of Easter. He has to reassure some of his disciples that He is the way, the truth and the life, just like a mother reassuring her children when something goes wrong that she knows [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii (1827-1940)" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Sturgis Printing Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI, 1978) (continued from May 9th) In Kumueli (Kamalo?), Father Favens, SS.CC. baptized two catechumens. The next day [this was in 1846], while the catechists rounded up Catholics and catechumens, Father [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii (1827-1940)" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Sturgis Printing Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI, 1978) (continued from May 8th) From that time on [late 1830's through the 1870's] a priest from Oahu or Maui periodically visited Molokai's leeward group of Catholics, dispensing to them [...]