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50 years ago — Jan. 28, 1966
The 1966 Hawaii Catholic Herald Drive opens today when more than 17,000 students of Hawaii Catholic Schools officially become Herald salesmen for the month of February, Catholic Press Month throughout the United States. With subscription forms these students are on their way to your home.
25 years ago — Feb. 1, 1991
‘Redemptoris Missio’
The primary reason the church engages in missionary activity is not to provide social services but to issue an explicit call to conversion in Christ, Pope John Paul II said in his eighth encyclical letter.
Within the church today there is widespread indifference to missionary activity, characterized by an attitude that “one religion is as good as another,” he said.
The encyclical, titled “Redemptoris Missio” (“Missionaries of the Redeemer”), was released at the Vatican Jan. 22. It was dated Dec. 7, the 25th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Church’s Missionary Activity.
The 153-page letter is subtitled, “On the Permanent Validity of the Church’s Missionary Mandate.”
10 years ago — Jan. 27, 2006
Love, support from Kona parish goes a long way in Kenya
In the tiny village of Miaani in Kenya, Africa, $5 will purchase the mosquito netting that could save a child’s life. Twenty five dollars will feed a hungry family of four for two months. Two hundred and fifty dollars will provide an education for a young girl who, without it, would have little worth in her society.
In Hawaii, on the other hand, $5 will barely buy lunch, $25 is easily spent on a quick trip to the mall, and $250 will get you a couple of tickets and parking for a U2 concert.
It’s no wonder the parishioners of St. Michael Church in Kailua-Kona decided to spend some of their money in Africa. …
The parishioners came to this realization after five of them made a 10-day trip to Kenya last August.
The group had just completed the 30-week JustFaith program, a “justice education” course that integrates spiritual and social ministries.
