VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald One day I was reading the Hawaii Catholic Herald looking for a ministry to get involved in. I was new to Hawaii and did not know anyone yet. There was one article looking for volunteers, but the list of requirements was quite […]
Sister Marie Rosso, Maryknoll Sisters: We all have a light within us
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald It is a missionary thing to accept people for who they are. To ask the questions that may help them to think differently. Or to give them something to ‘up the ante’ in realizing that everyone has goodness within them. In my […]
The Maryknoll connection: sisters and friends count nine decades in the Islands
Story and photos by Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “We are the Maryknoll connection,” Sister Joan Chatfield told the diverse crowd gathered in the Maryknoll Community Center Oct. 7 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hawaii. The 200-or-so people all knew what the Maryknoll veteran meant. Each had been touched, […]
MARYKNOLL SISTER ANITA SMITH | 1925-2017
Missioner served Isles 30 years as an educator, parish minister Maryknoll Sister Anita Smith, who served more than 30 years in Hawaii as an educator and parish minister, died Sept. 4, in Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, Connecticut. Anita was 92 and a Maryknoll Sister for almost 70 years. Anita Marguerite Smith was born on May 28, […]
Hawaii’s Maryknoll Sisters today
They work in parish outreach, catechetics, prayer ministry, art, pastoral counseling and more Sister Rosalinda Barrozo Sister Rosalinda Barrozo was invited to join Maryknoll’s Central Pacific Region in Hawaii in 1974, specifically to respond to the spiritual and social needs of the Filipino communities. It is a ministry she continues today as spiritual director of […]
Maryknoll Sisters to celebrate 90 years in Hawaii
Hawaii’s Maryknoll Sisters will celebrate the order’s 90th anniversary of mission presence in the Islands at a thanksgiving Eucharist liturgy, 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 7, in the Maryknoll School Community Hall, 1402 Punahou Street, Honolulu. Msgr. Gary Secor will be the celebrant. Ten Maryknoll Sisters came to Hawaii from New York on Sept. 5, […]
Sister Dolores Rosso, Maryknoll Sisters: Ministers to each other
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I was at Maryknoll High School for zillions of years as an educator, and later served as executive director of the alumni association. My students continue to keep in touch with me. I will never forget Hawaii because of its beauty and […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Jennie Burke | 1924-2017
Missioner taught for 25 years in Hawaii schools before serving in Africa Maryknoll Sister Jennie Burke, who was an elementary school teacher in Hawaii for 25 years from the 1950s into the 1970s, died on Jan. 22 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in New York. She was 92 and a Maryknoll Sister for 72 years. […]
MARYKNOLL SISTER CECILE THERESE BURTON | 1924-2016
Maryknoll, N.Y. — Maryknoll Sister Cecile Therese Burton, who served as an educator and social worker in Hawaii for more than 40 years, died Feb. 17 after a long illness at Maryknoll Sisters Home Care, N.Y. She was 91.
Memorial Mass for Maryknoll Sister Sandy Galazin
The memorial Mass for Maryknoll Sister Sandy Galazin will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m., Nov. 28 at Sacred Heart Church, Punahou, followed by a reception and the opportunity to share remembrances of Sister Sandy’s ministry. In Hawaii she served as an educator, a social justice and peace activist and an advocate for clergy through Catholic […]
