VIEW FROM THE PEW How long does it take us to recite the Lord’s Prayer together at Mass … less than a minute, for sure. So, maybe a couple seconds of reflection might occur when we say “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” On a recent Sunday, that familiar […]
Mary Adamski: Feeding the hungry in the face of opposition
VIEW FROM THE PEW I got a bit irate last week in a letter to the editor of the daily newspaper. I waxed indignant about the heavy-handed way top city officials pressured a Catholic church to knock off doing what Jesus taught us to do, giving food, drink and solace to the poor. So you […]
Mary Adamski: Special athletes, special flags
VIEW FROM THE PEW If the part of the brain that stores memories is like a shelf of scrapbooks and photo albums, this week’s would be the volume that is overflowing, so packed with images, thrills and happiness that it’s not possible to close the cover. The spectacle of elated, excited young athletes parading behind […]
Mary Adamski: Passing the Kalaupapa baton
VIEW FROM THE PEW Why is it that we humans have this need to measure events, people, what’s important in life, by using numbers? How many years of life, of service, birthdays, anniversaries, we count them. Money counting is important, how much spent, saved, paid, stolen; and there’s the relentless daily stories about spending by […]
Mary Adamski: Alleluia! It’s still Easter! Alleluia!
VIEW FROM THE PEW Happy Easter to all of you! What? You’re wondering if the writer has finally lost touch with reality? Or did the editor hold this column from a previous edition and it has aged out of use. Nope, this IS just in time; it IS still Easter and time to celebrate whether […]
Mary Adamski: The season of elections
VIEW FROM THE PEW Hasn’t this been a headache of a month so far? We survived all the noise and absurd promises, nasty accusations and dire predictions. Whether you were tuned into the red spin or blue spin, it’s been like living in the midst of a rock-crushing operation. I admit that as a news […]
Mary Adamski: ‘No weapons allowed’
VIEW FROM THE PEW ‘Tis the season to be scary, falalalala … la la la la. My friends added a witch and a six-foot fuzzy spider to their flower bower of an entry way. Driving through upper crust Kahala, we passed a pop-up cemetery of gravestones in the landscaped lawn. In some neighborhoods it seems […]
Mary Adamski: Here’s to Catholic News Service
VIEW FROM THE PEW Every year the end of June sets off a rerun of grieving and grievance among a company of journalists and newspaper operational staffers who labored to keep island residents, and people interested in what happens here, fully informed about what’s happening in Hawaii. More than 500 of us were put out […]
Mary Adamski: Worth a thousand words
VIEW FROM THE PEW It was one of those Biblical texts that brought out the writer and editor in me. The evangelist John quoted Jesus, making his farewell to the Apostles, as saying “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot hear it now.” It was just the thing to distract; the worst […]
Mary Adamski: Sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit
VIEW FROM THE PEW School’s out, school’s out, teacher let the students out. It’s graduation time with all the flourishes and flowers, and for other scholars, a break from the discipline and demands, homework and goals and tests. It’s still a vivid happy memory for a lot of adults like me — the bell rang […]