VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING I grew up on a sugar plantation, the Nisshi camp in Waipahu, the seventh of 10 children. During the summer we worked in the cane or pineapple fields, and in the cannery. It was a lot of hard work, but we enjoyed it. Whatever we earned helped our poor family. I knew […]
Viriditas: Father Harold Meyer, Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) — part 2
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING The contemplative lifestyle As Trappists, we have the three pillars of the Divine Office, manual labor and lectio divina that create the contemplative lifestyle that supports us. Whether I am in choir or in the orchard, by myself or in community, all throughout the day and night, time is punctuated with prayer. […]
Diocese preparing to celebrate ‘Year of Consecrated Life’
Dominican Sister Malia Dominica Wong displays a poster she created celebrating consecrated life in Hawaii. The poster is part of the material being distributed to parishes and schools. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) “What does ‘consecrated’ mean?” Dominican Sister Malia Dominica Wong asked the assembly of students at St. Anthony School in Kailua, […]
India-based missionary order officially established in diocese
Hawaii’s Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians at their convent in Waimalu, from left, Sister Marykutty Kottuppallil, Sister Meristella Umdor and Sister Ruth Zonunthari. (HCH photo | Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP) The Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians, an India-based congregation that has served in Hawaii since 2008, have established themselves […]
Viriditas: Father Harold Meyer, Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists)
It must be God’s way I joined the Army when I was 18, during the Korean War. After about a year and a half later, I asked myself, “What am I going to be doing after the Army? I will be free and not committed to anything.” In the military chapels there were always magazines […]
Two of Hawaii’s original Carmelites die on the same day
Carmelite Sister Agnella Iu helps Sister Mary Caroline Chow fasten her cape as Mother Agnes Marie Wong looks on during the celebration of first vows for Sister Mary Elizabeth de Jesus, July 16, 2013. Sister Caroline and Mother Agnes Marie both died on Oct. 13. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) The passing of Mother […]
Sister Rose Annette Ahuna, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities: Through saintly parents
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING My mother is from Kohala and my father is from Kona. I spent 17 years at St. Joseph, Hilo, going to school there until the eighth grade. The Hawaiian culture that I grew up in really enriched my background and parallels the Franciscan spirit that I embraced when I became a religious […]
Father Richard McNally | Congregation of the Sacred Hearts: Choosing adoration
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING A retreat master once said that if you come to the point someday where you are so busy that you need to make a choice between saying the Divine Office and making adoration, choose adoration. Others will uphold you as they say the prayer of the church. But in adoration, you are […]
Viriditas: Father Marvin Samiano, diocesan priest
A sign of God’s love I have a friend who is hearing impaired. She would go to Mass and sit there not understanding what was going on and twiddle her thumbs. As a priest, this made me feel really sad. I determined later to learn sign language because we were friends, and also because I […]
New arrivals of religious sisters assigned to parish, school, evangelization ministries
Here are some of the more recent assignments of religious sisters to Hawaii. Sister Michael Anne O’Donnell, OSF Sister Michael Anne, a Franciscan Sister of Charity of Manitowoc, Wis., has been appointed to St. Theresa Church in Kekaha, Kauai. Originally from Ohio, Sister Michael Anne comes from a large household of two families which consisted […]
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