The Hawaii Vice Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and their lay association, the CSJ Ohana, are observing their 75th anniversary of ministry on Maui on May 3 at Holy Rosary Church in Paia where the sisters were first assigned in 1939.
The celebration begins with a Mass of Thanksgiving at 10 a.m. presided over by Msgr. Terrence Watanabe followed by luncheon/paina until 3 p.m.
The event will also observe the 60th year of Sister Catherine Acain’s consecrated religious life and 25th year of the CSJ Ohana.
Complimentary luncheon tickets will be reserved upon request by April 15. Contact Sister Eva Mesina at (808) 359-1823, email: ejmesina@hotmail.com; or Yolanda Dumalanta at (808) 269-2970, ydumalanta@gmail.com.
Five Sisters of St. Joseph arrived on Maui in the summer of 1939 to open Holy Rosary School in the historic plantation town of Paia. Later, with the shifting of the plantation, the sisters moved to Kahului to run Christ the King Parish School.
In the years that followed they also worked at St. Anthony Junior-Senior High School in Wailuku and in parishes and social ministry around the Valley Isle. A more complete history will be published in the next Hawaii Catholic Herald.