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MOTHER'S DAY- OUR LADY IN PERU
On this Mother’s Day we present more art depicting Our Lady of the Rosary.Many of the most beautiful paintings depicting Our Lady of the Rosary are from South America, mainly PERU.The practice of...
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LOCAL SAVIOR OF RAPTORS
This past Saturday was Global Big Day, a worldwide bird checklist program used by millions of birders. It allows scientists to compile everyone’s sightings into a single massive list, while at the...
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FREE VIDEO FROM BISHOP BARRON
Our brethren who are freed from this world by the Lord’s summons are not to be lamented, since we know that they are not lost, but sent before; that, departing from us, they precede us as travelers, as...
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OUR LADY IN THE USA
Daniel Thomas PaulosSister Mary Jean DorcyThere are not many examples of the theme of Our Lady of the Rosary in American art (USA), but here are some of my favorites. In May of 2014, I did two Blogs of...
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TRUFFLE HUNTERS OF SHAW ISLAND
Anyone who knows anything about TRUFFLES knows that pigs used to be the main “digger’s for this much sought after fungus. Evidently this fungus smells like testosterone, so the females were used. But...
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THE EUCHARIST IN PARADISE
Those of you who have followed past Blogs know how much I love Hawaii, esp. the BigIsland, which I did not get to this year, due to new puppies. But our faithful Oblate, Karen, sent this to me. At...
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NEW SAINT DAY
Pope Francis has decreed that ST. FAUSTINA KOWALSKA’S feast day be added to the Roman Calendar as an optional memorial to be celebrated by all onOctober 5.The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship...
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THE ASCENSION
Macha Chmakoff- FrenchOnce more, as in these past two months, we come to another great feast, theASCENSION of Jesus into Heaven. Once more, most of the churches will be locked. Once more Catholics...
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WHY THE ROSARY?
1600- ItalianWe are almost through the month of May and many still experiencing either self -imposed or mandated quarantine. So still more time to pray? Why should we pray the Rosary? The Rosary...
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QUEEN OF THE ROSARY
Sister M. Grace Thul, O.P.As we end the month of May, dedicated to Our Mother Mary, Queen of the Rosary, I give a few more images of her, all from recent times. We also continue to pray for all still...
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AN IRISH POET DIES
A poet I have never heard of, but one of Ireland’s best and a woman at that, died April 27, 2020.She had just returned from her long-time teaching position at StanfordUniversity in Californiato wait...
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THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN
May 25, in a letter to an Italian journalist, Pope Francis said we should pray for mothers to have courage as they face the challenges of the post-coronavirus world.“The question of every mother...
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NEW SAINTS FOR A WORLD IN NEED
Today came news that several of our favorite “saints-to-be” will soon be canonized and beatified.BL. CHARLES de FOUCAULD, a French missionary killed in Algeria in 1916 will be declared a saint. The...
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FROM OUR MOTHER ABBESS- PENTECOST
PRAYER to the HOLY SPIRIT in the MIDST OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC MOTHER ABBESS LUCIA KUPPENS,OSB, May 2020P. Solomon Raj, IndiaHow could we have not noticed before? After the...
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MOTHER OF OUR CHURCH
Last week we celebrated the feast of Pope Saint Paul VI, which is listed as a memorial ad lib- which means we can celebrate it if we want, or not. But for us this Pope had a significant influence on...
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APOSTLE OF HAWAII
As readers of this Blog know, I am very fond of Hawaii , especially its "holy people”. Our Oblate, whom I stay with on the Big Island, is here with her, soon to be off to college daughter and two of...
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A NEW CHURCH FOR OUR TIMES
Odon Czintos- HungaryBishop Mario Grech Administrator of Gozo and Pro-Secretary for Synod of Bishops wrote the following to the clergy of his diocese, “one would be committing suicide, if, after this...
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ANOTHER MOTHER IN MOLOKAI
Our next Hawaiian isSISTER MARIA LEOPOLDINA BURNS (1855- 1942) who was a member of the Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York, and a close companion and the biographer of St Marianne Cope.Together...
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PRAYER FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN A PANDEMIC
On October 23, 1982, at the World Congress of Catholic doctors, St. John Paul II called on healthcare professionals to model their conduct on “Christ who was the doctor of the soul and often of the...
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APOSTLE of MAUI
The next holy Hawaiian is, HELIO KOA’ELOA, who was born in 1815 on Wailua Valley, Maui, Hawaii. Wailua ValleyHe was living in Hāna (one of my favorite places on earth) when he heard about the...
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