VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Bulacan in the Philippines holds a place of great historical importance to me and my religious congregation. The first group of missionary Sisters of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena came from Madrid and joined with the […]
At 40, talking story
Three local sisters, contemporaries, come together over shave ice to reflect on their lives as religious Sharing shave ice and conversation after a recent lunch together, three Oahu women with more than 40 years each lived as local members of religious orders talked about their experiences in professed religious life today and what comes next. […]
Sister Sudarshi Liyanage, Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Philippines: From Facebook: A missionary
VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald “Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong” … (“Take Me Home, Country Roads,” by John Denver) “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is my favorite song. I am a member of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine […]
Sister Rachel Marius, Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians: A God who is loving
VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I never dreamed that I would be asked to go to an overseas mission. As Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians, we are missioned in many places. However, when I was asked by my superior general to go to Hawaii, I […]
Sisters project: Local scout earns top American Heritage Girl award for video telling the story of Hawaii’s women religious
By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald When Sofia Garcia was thinking of ideas for her final project for American Heritage Girls, she thought about the influences on her life growing up. The homeschooled high school senior comes from a Catholic family who regularly visited with religious sisters through homeschool groups and church. She would go […]
Dominican, 108, says God ‘just wants me to hang around’
By Greg Shemitz Catholic News Service EAST WILLISTON, N.Y. — To put Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella’s extraordinarily long life into historical perspective, consider that Pope Pius X was pontiff and Woodrow Wilson was U.S. president when she was born in 1913. Nine popes and 18 presidents later, Sister Piscatella, a member of the Sisters of […]
Sister Ma. P. Myrle Gudilosao, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Added value instruction
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I am enjoying my apostolate here in Hawaii. As an educator relatively new to the islands, I was not sure at first if I was making a difference in the lives of the school children entrusted to me. However, those thoughts […]
