Blogs may be short and infrequent as I am once again on the Big Island (Hawaii) with Oblate Karen- getting rest after major surgery during covid.
Of course here, major topics are birds and art and local saints.
Monday is the feast of ST. MARIANNECOPE, Blessed of Molokai, who gave her life caring for those suffering from leprosy. Her order has been in these islands 140 years. In 1883, St. Marianne and six sisters arrived from Syracuse, New York, responding to a call from the Hawaiian government to care for abandoned natives.
60 years ago on the 80th anniversary of the sisters arrival, my good friend, Msgr. Charles Kekumano said: true to their Franciscan heritage, they followed the gospel norms of doing good, and they did it gladly and prayerfully."
Living what she believed, St. Marianne once said: what little good we can do in this world to help and comfort the suffering, we wish to do it quietly and so far as possible, unnoticed and unknown."
Today she is a saint and the whole world knows!