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50 years ago — April 21, 1967
During a break in the busy schedule of last week’s meeting of U.S. Bishops at Chicago, Bishop John J. Scanlan, auxiliary of Honolulu (right) chats with Bishop George Leech of Harrisburg (left) and Bishop William Condon of Great Falls (center). Bishop Scanlan is currently on a tour of major seminaries to invite future priests to work in the Diocese of Honolulu. The tour will keep Bishop Scanlan away from Hawaii for a possible three months.
25 years ago — April 24, 1992
An ecumenical Easter triad of love
Catholic Charities and Hawaii’s First Lady recently formed a joyful ecumenical triad of love with the third graders of St. Andrew’s Priory.
The class’ 56 girls had sold lemonade and popcorn to buy games, stuffed toys and other goodies to fill large baskets to be sent through Catholic Charities to the beach children at Kawaihae on the west side of the Big Island.
In a bright April 7 morning ceremony, Episcopal headmaster Rev. David Kennedy blessed 40 large cellophane-wrapped baskets arranged around the coral cross in the Priory’s patio. The headmaster commended the girls for thinking of others less fortunate than themselves.
The third graders also “adopted” their Kawaihae counterparts for future projects – an undertaking initiated by Hawaii’s First Lady, Lynne Waihee.
10 years ago — April 20, 2007
Rockslide can’t stop Easter Mass
Not even a huge rockslide on Holy Saturday, April 7, that closed Kamehameha Highway on the North Shore between St. Michael Parish, Waialua, and its Waimea Bay mission of Sts. Peter and Paul could interfere in Easter services.
Sacred Hearts Father Bertram Lock, administrator of St. Michael Parish, said the rockslide was “enough to cause havoc for transportation to get to the mission” but that people coming from Waimea to attend Easter Vigil at St. Michael found ways to get there.
And Father Lock, who lives at St. Michael, made it to the Waimea mission for Easter morning Masses. … [C]hurch members were surprised he showed up. They had been prepared to hold prayer services without him.
But Mass couldn’t be cancelled.
“Not on Easter Sunday,” Father Lock said.
