50 years ago — June 21, 1963
Three Hawaii Catholic chaplains are celebrating 25 years in the priesthood within a period of a little more than a month. Shown at the Fort Shafter chapel are (left to right) Commander Leo F. Rice, Pearl Harbor chaplain; Colonel Edward J. Lambert, U.S. Army, Pacific chaplain; and Lt. Colonel Elwyn L. Bierie, chaplain for the Army Garrison at Fort Shafter. Chaplain Rice was ordained June 19, 1938. Chaplain Lambert became a priest on June 11, 1938, and Chaplain Bierie’s date of ordination was July 17, 1938.
25 years ago — June 17, 1988
Bishop Ferrario off to meetings with bishops, the Holy Father
Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario leaves the islands tomorrow, June 18, to fulfill a few episcopal duties — including reporting to the pope — and to take a vacation.
First stop on the month-and-a-half-long agenda will be a three-day 37th reunion of his ordination class in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Then it’s back to business at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops spring meeting at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, June 24-27.
The bishop then flies to Zurich, Switzerland, for a few days visiting cousins before he goes to the Vatican for his ad limina visit with Pope John Paul II, July 3-10 …
Following his Vatican visit the bishop will return to Zurich and then to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, for an extended vacation.
He returns to Hawaii July 31.
10 years ago — June 20, 2003
A sacred place, a gathering place
The bell in the old church signaled the beginning of the noon Mass on June 15 at Annunciation Church in Waimea on the Big Island. Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo and the pastor, Maryknoll Father Robert Wynne, processed with Father Anastacio Postrano, La Salette Father Maurice Cardinal, Father Salvador Bringas, deacons Bill McPeek, Harvey Kawaihae and Tom Adams from the old church to the lanai of the shiny new building that would be the parish community’s new house of worship.
Father Wynne untied a maile leaf draped across the entrance and the ushers folded back the glass doors and the waiting parishioners streamed into the church, quickly crossing the brown tweed rug, filling the 373-capacity building …
In his homily, the bishop acknowledged the well wishers and guests who had traveled from all points of the island to celebrate the church’s official opening.
