Maryknoll Sister Blanche M. Thiel, a chaplain, pastoral worker and dietary researcher who served 20 years in Hawaii, died Aug. 29 at a Maryknoll Sisters care home in Ossining, N.Y. She was 87 and a religious sister for 64 years. Sister Blanche came to Hawaii in 1971, serving first as a dietician and cook at […]
Photo: Memorial for a parish priest
Capuchin Franciscan Father Michel Dalton prays after Communion in St. Elizabeth Church, Aiea, at an Aug. 29 memorial Mass for Capuchin Father Robert Maher, pictured in the framed photo, a former Oahu parish priest who died on the mainland on Aug. 20 at age 66. Bishop Larry Silva celebrated the Mass with Capuchin Fathers Paulo […]
Conversation: Aloha, Sister Rochelle and Sister Joan
Sister Rochelle Liu, left, and Sister Joan Roddy, Hawaii’s Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. (HCH photo | Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP) Boxes have been mailed; a palette shipped. Hawaii’s only two Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia left this week for Tacoma, Wash., leaving the Diocese of Honolulu minus another religious order. […]
Carondelet Sisters’ 75 years of service a ‘patchwork quilt of the love of Christ’
Visiting Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet stand as they are introduced at the Mass celebrating the 75th anniversary of the order in Hawaii. Standing from left, Sister Anna Bridget Kearns, Sister Helen Janssen and Sister Karen Kennelly. (HCH photo | Patrick Downes) “Yes, we are getting old,” smiled Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet […]
Mary Adamski: Boot camps, religious and otherwise
Jeremy Sabugo, Justin Carrigan and Michael Kamauoha stand in front of Father Johnathan Hurrell, seated, at their profession of first vows, Aug. 10, in St. Patrick Church. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) It was a moment for mini-meditation during a traffic stall last week along the University of Hawaii dormitory row — a conscious […]
Viriditas: Sister Anne-Marie Tamanaha, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Music in the heart Within every letter I write, and throughout the day, I repeat the following Scripture: “Be joyful in hope, persevere in hardship; keep praying regularly.” (Romans 12:12) As a sister of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, my primary ministry is of adoration. It is through my life’s practice of eucharistic […]
Obituary: Capuchin Father Robert Maher, Oahu parish priest for 15 years, had role in Damien canonization
Capuchin Franciscan Father Robert Maher, who served as a parish priest on Oahu for 15 years and was one of the members of the diocesan tribunal that investigated the second miracle that led to the canonization of Father Damien, died Aug. 20 in Ridgewood, N.J. He was 66. Father Maher served in Hawaii from 1997-2012. […]
75 years of aloha: Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet became a vital force in the shaping of the church in Hawaii
It took more than pleading to get the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet to come to Hawaii. There was also some conscience tugging involved. Hawaii’s Bishop Stephen Alencastre’s 1936 cabled entreaty to the mother superior general in St. Louis, Mo., for “at least six” sisters ended with this guilt-inducing conclusion: “Otherwise obliged to close […]
Hawaii’s CSJs today
Here, in alphabetical order, are the 27 members of the Hawaii vice province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and their current ministries. Two of them live on the Mainland. Sister Catherine Anthony Acain: Prayer and witness and volunteer work, Christ the King Parish, Kahului, Maui Sister Rosita Aranita: Fully retired, living in […]
Sacred Hearts novices profess first vows
From left, Sacred Hearts novices Jeremy Sabugo, Justin Carrigan and Michael Kamauoha stand at the sanctuary of St. Patrick Church in Kaimuki during their profession of first vows, Aug. 10. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) Three young men professed their first vows of chastity, poverty and obedience as brothers in the Congregation of the […]
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