The Hawaiian Islands continue to be mission territory for foreign clergy. Here are brief profiles of priests and one religious sister who arrived in Hawaii over the last 12 months or so, mostly from other countries, to work in island parishes and other ministries. The information was compiled from brief surveys taken with the help […]
Memorial Mass scheduled for two Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Vicar general Father Gary Secor will celebrate a memorial Mass for two recently deceased Hawaii-based Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, at 10 a.m., June 8, at Holy Trinity Church in Kuliouou. The Mass is in remembrance for Sisters Julia Marie Acain who died on April 20 and Marie Agnese Arsenault who died on March […]
Viriditas: Brother Brandon Alana-Maugaotega, Society of Mary
Practices of prayer One of the things that keeps me grounded and focused is prayer. There is a clarity that comes when I reflect, discern and recollect events that occur during the day, over the course of a week, or even over where my life has led me. Prayer is one of the key things […]
The hand of God was on me: On his 60th year as a missionary, La Salette Father Rene Bisaillon has tales to tell
Father Rene Bisaillon, a retired Missionary of our Lady of La Salette in residence at St. Theresa Church in Kekaha, Kauai, missed being listed among those celebrating jubilee years of their religious professions and ordinations in the March 29 Hawaii Catholic Herald. Father “Biz,” as he is affectionately known, came to Hawaii in 1991 after […]
To meet the unmeetable needs: Two Punahou grads meet in Taiwan. A conversation about life ensues
I am from Kailua. Jeff is from Honolulu. Both of us studied at Punahou School and embraced religious life after. I taught in Taiwan back in the 1980s. Jeff will complete in July his first year of teaching at Taiwan’s Fu Jen Catholic University. I came home to minister to the unmet needs in Hawaii; […]
Obituary: Carondelet Sister Julia Marie Acain, of Maui, beloved teacher for 50 years
Sister Julia Marie Acain, a Maui girl who, with her sister Catherine, joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet 60 years ago and enjoyed a long fruitful career in education, died on April 20 in Makawao, Maui. She was 79. Sister Julia Marie was a teacher in California, on Oahu and Maui, and was […]
Viriditas: Sister Mary Jo McEnany, Benedictine Congregation of Our Lady of Monte Oliveto
Mary with Jesus, with me I love the month of May. My name is Mary, and Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, has just been a wonderful partner to walk with and to pray with along my spiritual journey. Mary brings my soul closer to Jesus. When I slip and fall, which is often, Our […]
Obituary: Marianist Father Joseph Lackner of Chaminade was global scholar
Marianist Father Joseph Lackner of the Center Marianist Hale Malia Community at Chaminade University, died April 28 in Seoul, South Korea, while en route back to the U.S. from a Marianist teaching assignment in Bangalore, India. He was 71 and a Marianist for 52 years. He had been on the Chaminade faculty since 2011. In […]
Moon over Molokai: My life in Kalaupapa
It was 5:15 a.m. approximately as I stepped out onto the front porch, then onto the lawn facing those great green pali to the south. To the west over Maunaloa hung the full silvery moon, lighting up the landscape and the pali and shimmering on the harbor waters. It was time to prepare for the […]
Hawaii’s Secular Franciscans elect local leadership council
In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI told his rowdy American flock in his homily in New York’s Yankee Stadium that “obedience” wasn’t a bad word. Rather, it is the surrender of one’s will to God in service to him and the church. That’s the spirit of Hawaii’s Secular Franciscans, an order of lay men and women […]