Chuukese Deacon Luciano “Shiano” Pius, one of a group of Micronesian permanent deacons welcomed by Bishop Larry Silva over the past decade to serve in Hawaii, died on Jan. 14 at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu. He was 67 and a deacon for 13 years.
Photo: Deacon class lectors
Twelve candidates in their fourth year of formation for the permanent diaconate for the Diocese of Honolulu were instituted into the ministry of lector by Bishop Larry Silva in the St. Stephen Diocesan Center Chapel on Jan. 10.
Photo: One more shot
Father William Shannon, diocesan director of seminarians, stands at the sanctuary of Immaculate Conception Church in Lihue, Kauai, Dec. 19 for a photo op with seminarian EJ Resinto. Resinto was ordained a transitional deacon that day at his home parish, his last major step toward the diocesan priesthood. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz)
Kauai-native ordained a deacon in final step toward priesthood
LIHUE — On a sunny winter day on Kauai, less than a week before Christmas, seminarian EJ Resinto took his final major step toward the diocesan priesthood.
DEACON MISA SEWEN | 1947-2015: Deacon energized immigrant community at Waianae parish
Permanent deacon Misa Sewen, who energized the Chuukese Catholic community at his parish of Sacred Heart in Waianae, died Sept. 26 at Kuakini Hospital with his wife Finipa by his side. He had suffered ill health for several years. He was 68 and had been a deacon 27 years. Funeral arrangements are pending. “He was […]
Deacon Hiram Haupu | 1952-2015: Deacon served Maui quietly, humbly for 14 years
“Sometimes our prayers might change the situation and sometimes our prayers just change us.” Maui Deacon Hiram Haupu wrote those words in his pocket calendar shortly before he died at his Wailuku home on Sept. 13. His wife Elaine, who later found the sentence among Hiram’s health notes, considers it to be her deacon husband’s […]
Funeral: Celebrating the life and death of Deacon Julio Akaptio
The Aug. 29 funeral Mass for Deacon Julio Akapito, on a bright and sunny Saturday in St. Joseph Church in Hilo, was an enormous outpouring of prayer and celebration from the Big Island’s Chuukese Catholic community and other Pacific islanders. Nine days of prayer at the Akapito family home in Pahoa preceded the funeral. Hard […]
DEACON JULIO M. AKAPITO | 1945-2015: Former congressman, lawyer, educator served fellow Micronesians
Deacon Julio Muritok Akapito, who came to Hawaii 11 years ago from Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia with a broad range of achievements in politics, law, education, sports and religion, and who, for the past seven years served immigrant Micronesian Catholics as a deacon at two parishes on the Big Island’s east side, […]
Deacon class publishing cookbook to benefit prison project
The diocese’s eighth deacon formation class is publishing a cookbook to raise money for “Star Light, Star Bright,” an annual project of the diocesan Office for Prison Ministry that reunites women incarcerated at the Oahu Women’s Community Correctional Center and their children for a Christmas party. The book, available in October, will contain the favorite […]
DEACON ANDREW GERAKAS | 1928-2015: A life of generous service, shaped by love of the Eucharist
Deacon Andrew Jude Gerakas, whose devotion to daily Eucharist compelled him to leave the Greek Orthodox Church to become a Roman Catholic, and then one of Hawaii’s first permanent deacons, died on May 18 in Honolulu. He was 87 and a deacon at Star of the Sea Parish in Waialae-Kahala for 34 years. Gerakas served […]
