VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald As an immigrant child who grew up in a war zone, I often felt nervous and fearful. When we wanted to visit family, our passes and other documents were inspected before we could cross the barrier. One day, a Japanese soldier came […]
Catholic nuns in forefront of relief work for flooded Kerala
By Saji Thomas Catholic News Service KOCHI, India — More than 6,700 Catholic women religious are among those helping more than 1 million people taking shelter in relief camps after unprecedented floods ravaged Kerala state in southwest India. “This is the biggest rescue and relief operation the Catholic Church in Kerala has undertaken in its […]
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet 80th anniversary in Hawaii: Educators and more
For eight decades, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet helped shape the modern church in Hawaii By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald It took some pleading in 1936 from Hawaii’s Bishop Stephen Alencastre to get the mother superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in St. Louis, Missouri, to send sisters to […]
80th anniversary in Hawaii: Pioneer Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Sister Adele Marie Lemon A prolific writer with a free spirit Sister Adele Marie Lemon, 1901-2006, was born Isabelle Mary in Arizona to a Mexican Catholic mother and a father with no religion. She was a self-described free-spirited “wild” child who once played hooky for an entire year rather than go to the school her […]
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 […]
Father Norlito Concepcion, Augustinians: Whatever God wills
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald My Augustinian confreres of the past are a great source of inspiration to me. In particular, it was the famous navigator and cosmographer Fray Andrés de Urdaneta who discovered the trade route from the west to the east across the Pacific. This […]
Hawaii Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet to celebrate 80 years in Islands with Mass
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet will commemorate the 80th anniversary of their arrival in the islands with a 10:30 a.m. Mass, Aug. 25, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva. A reception will follow in the parish hall. In 1938, nine Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet came […]
To support abbey, English monks brew ‘seriously nice’ ale
By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service COALVILLE, England — Cistercian monks have opened the first Trappist brewery in England and are selling thousands of bottles of beer every day. The monks at Mount St. Bernard Abbey in the English Midlands decided to brew beer to bring in revenue when they realized they could no longer […]
Sister Mary Arnoldussen, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration: Adoration to outreach
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING By Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald From Bavaria in Germany to Wisconsin in the United States of America, for 140 years, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have kept the world wrapped in prayer 24/7 responding to global concerns and prayer requests in their chapel of the Sacred Heart. […]
Of the group that arrived in 1973 from Hong Kong, one sister remains
The death of Sister Marie Tang of the Child Jesus leaves only one of the original seven sisters, Sister Agnella Iu, plus two local vocations who joined the community in recent years, Sister Elizabeth DeJesus and Sister Therese Wilson. Bishop John J. Scanlan invited the Carmelite group to Hawaii from Hong Kong in 1973. The […]
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