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50 years ago — May 8, 1964
An editorial cartoon honoring the May devotion to the Blessed Mother.
25 years ago — May 12, 1989
Life and death are ‘larger than politics’
“Why me?” said Father Edgar Saguinsin.
“Because it’s your day off,” Sister Grace Dorothy Lim said matter-of-factly.
The Marcos family had requested a priest to help conduct a novena on the evening of May 4 for Josepha Marcos, the mother of Ferdinand Marcos, who died last year in the Philippines.
Father Saguinsin had good reason to question Sister Grace Dorothy’s asking him to do the job. After all, the former union-organizer priest left the Philippines and ended up in Hawaii because of death threats from elements of the previous Marcos dictatorship. …
“Go and show them you have no hatred,” (Sister Grace) told him …
“Which is right,” Father Saguinsin said afterwards. “This is something larger than politics. Life and death should be above politics.”
10 years ago — May 7, 2004
Pen, prayer and package pals
“525,600 minutes – how do you measure a year in a life?” So goes one of the lines in a song from the musical “Rent” that Cathedral School students sang at a school assembly on April 21.
Their song was directed to 18 men on folding chairs in the front row – their new pen pals from a 25-soldier platoon in the 25th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army that will spend the next year in Afghanistan.
For the next year, students from kindergarten through eighth grade in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace’s parish school on Nuuanu Avenue in Honolulu will send care packages, letters and prayers to the soldiers.
The project is the idea of Lieut. Michael Baskin who thought it would benefit the members of his platoon to correspond with students in Hawaii during their yearlong deployment.
