Aloha nui to all ohanas and peace be with you! On this Monday of the 4th Week of Easter, we continue to shelter in place as we move closer to an end to isolation, in our businesses, in our churches, in our communities, state, country and world. I want to share with you a reflection [...]
Molokai History: (continued from yesterday) (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Male Part-Hawaiian Partly Disfigured 48 years of age 37 years in Kalaupapa It was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which was responsible for [...]
Peace be with you and your ohana! We celebrate the 4th Sunday of Easter today. It is a day of prayer and spiritual renewal for all of us! Today's Psalm, Psalm 23, is a very familiar Psalm to all of us. It speaks of the Lord as our Shepherd who watches over us. Let us [...]
Molokai History: (continued from yesterday) (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Male Part-Hawaiian Partly Disfigured 48 years of age 37 years in Kalaupapa It is ironic, but the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor was responsible [...]
Aloha nui to all of you and your ohana this Saturday of the 3rd Week of Easter! May the Lord bless you with His grace and love! The Divinity of Jesus! It was a challenge for many of Jesus' early disciples. In fact, many of them left because they didn't believe that Jesus was the [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) (continued from yesterday) Male Part-Hawaiian Partly Disfigured 48 years of age 37 years in Kalaupapa There were five years spent at Kalihi. But in the beginning, it [...]
The Lord be with you! On this feast of St. Joseph the Worker, this May Day, this first day of Mary's month! Let us keep in our prayers all who who have no work, all who are struggling financially to put bread on the table! May St. Joseph and the Blessed Mother protect them! As [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) (continued from yesterday) Male Part-Hawaiian Partly Disfigured 48 years of age 37 years in Kalaupapa Leadership My Early Life When we arrived at the Kalihi Receiving Station, [...]
Peace be with you and your ohana! Are you going stir crazy yet? Well, adapting to our new normal takes getting used to. And, asking for God's help! Because it is God who protects us, giving life to our souls and not letting our feet slip. For He came down from Heaven to give us [...]
Peace be with you on this Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter! This Easter Season, especially, unlike past Easters, has a profound significance for all of us suffering through the current global pandemic. In the words of a popular proverb, "It is human nature always to find fresh cause for optimism." And, in the [...]