NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — Jan. 7, 1972
LAST STOP—His Eminence, Cardinal Terence J. Cooke, Archbishop of New York and Military Ordinary for all U.S. Armed Forces, arrived in Honolulu on the final leg of his annual Christmas visit to the military families scattered throughout the world. He was met at plane-side by Honolulu’s Bishop John J. Scanlan and by Major General Thomas M. Rienzi of Fort Shafter. Rear Admiral (Monsignor) Henry J. Rotrige and the chaplains of all the military branches were host to the Cardinal’s visit and warmly received him at plane-side. The Cardinal’s visit was brief because of pressing problems in New York.
25 years ago — Jan. 10, 1997
Cultural exchange
Visiting from the Fort McDowell Yavapai Apache Indian Community in Arizona in a parish cultural exchange, Native American manchawa (little people) in authentic spirit costumes danced the sacred Mountain Spirit Dance.
The boys’ faces were completely covered because tradition states when dancing as a spirit your identity should not be known. The girls represented maidens from the community there to support the spirits.
Hawaii coordinators for the parish cultural exchange were Lorraine Freitas and the Association of International Cultural Exchange Programs co-director Laurie Enos. Lorraine received trinity bells blessed by Pope John Paul II, a gift to Laurie’s father from a Russian Catholic parish. The trip to Hawaii was funded by a casino owned by the tribe, which supports such educational visits. Two young ladies from the parish danced the hula during the exchange festivities.
10 years ago — Jan. 6, 2012
Anthony Rapozo is Hawaii’s newest priest
Bishop Larry Silva ordained Kauai-born Anthony W. Rapozo to the priesthood in a radiant liturgy in the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa on the eve of the last day of the year.
Introduced by the tolling of church bells, the Dec. 30 ordination Mass began precisely at 6 p.m. with a greeting by cantor Kainoa Fukumoto.
The opening procession of eight seminarian altar servers, 14 deacons, 64 priests and 14 Knights of Columbus, in addition to Rapozo and the bishop, seemed to go on forever as the choir and congregation sang all seven verses, both familiar and obscure, of “O Come All Ye Faithful.”
