Bravo Darlene Dela Cruz for your excellent report on the church’s sesquicentennial celebration of Father Damien de Veuster’s arrival Ein Honolulu on March 19, 1864. As the perfect sacrifice of Christ, holy Mass, we know, is the sacramental presence of the Nazarene’s sacrifice of the Cross. In this same connection, what John Bannister Tabb celebrates […]
Damien Inspireert* | 150 YEARS: Indonesia: beyond margins
It was a heart-wrenching moment for Damien de Veuster as he said farewell to his family and passed for the last time through the familiar walls surrounding his home village of Tremelo, Belgium. Crossing the fields where cattle grazed and grain grew, the muscles in his arm must have twitched knowing he was leaving behind […]