Eighty-one-year-old Florence sits at her dining room table, smiling brightly as she welcomes guests into her Wahiawa apartment. Her place is warm and welcoming, with the spirit of the sharp Puerto Rican grandmother radiating through every nook, cranny, tabletop flower, Spanish book, music CD and family photo in the room. She lives alone in this […]
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Red Mass Homily | Sister Alicia Damien Lau, OSF: St. Marianne brought gift of ‘pono,’ righteousness, to the afflicted
Here is the prepared text of the talk delivered by Sister Alicia Damien Lau, a Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, at the Diocese of Honolulu’s Red Mass, Jan. 17, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu. Aloha! In its profoundest spiritual sense, “to come together face to face” (alo) […]
Jesus captivating my heart: A few short months from ordination, Island-born Jesuit reflects on his 14-year passage to priesthood
Jesuit Phillip Alcon Ganir, the son of Brigido and Lourdes Ganir of Foster Village, Honolulu, was ordained a deacon with 10 others by Bishop Patrick McGrath of San Jose on Oct. 20, 2012, at Santa Clara University in San Jose, Calif. The diaconate is the last major transition on his 14-year path to the priesthood. […]
‘Dialogues of the Carmelites,’ an opera of love and sacrifice, coming to Hawaii
The final scene in Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” has been described as one of the most dramatic moments in opera repertoire. “You’re going to feel like someone punched you in the gut,” said Karen Tiller, executive director of Hawaii Opera Theatre which is bringing the opera to Hawaii for the first time next […]
Mary Adamski: Faith in the midst of diversity
The battle lines are being drawn. The opposing sides are massing behind the boundaries they have set to separate us versus them. But no, wait. This isn’t a war zone. It’s the legislative body representing We the People. I don’t remember voting for someone to gird their loins to do battle. (Eek, hide your eyes […]
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