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50 years ago — Oct. 25, 1963
Hunger ends at the kitchen counter. Presenting the first free lunch during National School Lunch Week was Father Ernest Class, SS.CC., pastor of St. Joseph’s Church and School (Waipahu). Making the lunch program a reality are the cafeteria workers in the background: Mrs. Betty Fo, manager, Mrs. Catherine Chang, Mrs. Dorothy Nakahara, and Mrs. Rose Abad.
25 years ago — Oct. 28, 1988
Life, spirit of Damien hailed in rededication of his church
Last Saturday, guided by the spirit of a dead Catholic priest, 100 dignitaries and ordinary folk bounced along three and a half dirt miles in vans and in the backs of pick-up trucks to a gleaming century-old church to celebrate the only event that could give ultimate meaning to the pilgrimage — the Eucharist. The priest is Father Damien de Veuster, SS.CC., and the church was one he built as he was dying from Hansen’s Disease, St. Philomena in Kalawao …
In the rededication, Bishop Ferrario blessed the church with holy water and marked the altar and walls with holy oil … Architect Spencer Leineweber, who has done several Catholic projects, said that the project took “research, restraint and reverence.”
10 years ago — Oct. 10, 2003
Pope beatifies Mother Teresa
Pope John Paul II offered his thanks to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, for being close to him in her lifetime and for courageously showing the world what it means to love and serve Jesus completely.
“The venerable servant of God, Teresa of Calcutta, from this moment on will be called blessed,” the pope said at the Oct. 19 beatification Mass as the crowd burst into applause.
In the homily he wrote for the ceremony, the 83-year-old pope said: “We honor in her one of the most relevant personalities of our age. Let us accept her message and follow her example” …
St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding streets were a crush of some 300,000 pilgrims and admirers of Mother Teresa.
