A Reflection by Fr. Brian: (a personal story of Hurricane Harvey, continued from May14, the conclusion) So, our group was booked on five separate flights into Dallas-Fort Worth. We left Chicago and arrived in Dallas late the third day. We couldn't get a flight out until the next morning, so we caught some sleep in [...]
Aloha nui to all on this feast of St. Isidore, the patron saint of farmers! I think the Molokai High School should adopt him as their patron saint. Scripture: "It is the decision of the Holy Spirit not to place on you any burden beyond these necessities." (Acts of the Apostles 15) "I will give [...]
Peace be with all ohana's this feast of St. Matthias! On this day, the feast of St. Matthias, twelve years ago, while on my knees, I placed my hands in the hands of Bishop Ricardo Ramirez, CSB, the Bishop of the Las Cruces, New Mexico Diocese in the parish church of Our Lady of Grace [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Aloha nui to all ohana's and may the peace of Jesus Christ our Lord be with each and every one of you! On this Saturday of the 4th Week of Easter, we remain hunkered down, like the disciples in the Upper Room, praying and awaiting the sending of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. It is [...]