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50 years ago — June 16, 1972
Former Island Pastor Founded Korean Community
It will be a quiet affair as celebrations go, probably a slightly better dinner at various convents, school, parishes and hospitals throughout South Korea. Nevertheless, the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help this month will be an event no less momentous for those concerned. It will certainly be an occasion of special joy for an 82-year-old sprightly Maryknoll priest, Father John Morris from Fall River, Mass., who founded the Order.
Only the crew-cut white hair gives any indication of the age of this veteran missioner to Korea as he speaks enthusiastically of those days in 1923 when he was one of the three pioneer Maryknoll missioners to go to Korea.
Photo: Sister Benitas bandages the broken arm of an elderly patient.
Editor’s Note: Father Morris served in Hawaii between 1944 and 1956.
25 years ago — June 27, 1997
A liturgical architectural blend
Walk through the front doors of the renovated Holy Trinity Church in Kuliouou and you may think you’re entering a plush resort. But that elegant fountain in the entry is really a baptistry. And the spotlighted alcove art sculptures are actually religious statues. And, if you look again, you will see a “Trinity” motif in the wrought iron railing guarding the balcony above.
The longer you linger, the more you appreciate the blending of architecture and worship.
And indeed, the 40-year-old church’s new look was the collaborative effort of both craftsman and clergy. Architects Mark Lively and his wife Rebecca worked with parish priests Oratorian Fathers Halbert Weidner and Vincent Mainelli to mix liturgical necessity with structural beauty.
10 years ago — June 22, 2012
One saint, two homes
Hawaii likes to claim Blessed Marianne Cope, who will be canonized Oct. 21, as its own, but in reality, her life spanned two homes and two careers in healthcare. She spent the first 45 years of her life in Syracuse, N.Y., and her last 35 in Hawaii. Island-born Dominican Sister Malia Dominica Wong recently visited Syracuse and brought back observations of the New York side of Mother Marianne for a series of comparisons.
One is surrounded by trees of pine, maple and oak, the other by cedars, mango, guava and plumeria. Wherever Blessed Marianne Cope called home, like a true Franciscan, she embraced nature.
