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Lilikoi blossoms dance in the sun. Lent: a time of abstinence and fasting; small penances amidst our everyday abundance that remind us to savor the sweetness of life. Lent invites us to pare our lives…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Lent: Letting in Light and Beauty
Guest Post: After U.S. INF Withdrawal, Plowshares Activists, Facing Years in Prison, Warn of Nuclear Peril
The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 released the following statement on Monday: “On Friday, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the landmark Intermediate Range Nuclear Missile Treaty (INF). ‘There is a real and present danger that this action will provoke a…
Tagged with: INF, King's Bay Plowshares, Martha Hennessy, Nuclear disarmament
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Politics and Religion
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Politics and Religion
CELEBRATE! Sr. Enda Ryan’s Platinum Jubilee, induction of lay Franciscan Associates
“One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life.” Psalm 27:4 I am one lucky Assuntarian! We made a week-long visit…
Tagged with: Assunta Secondary School, FMM, FMM Lay Associates, Pat Lu, Se. Susan Thomas, Sr. Enda Ryan, Sr. Letitsia FMM
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Family and Friends, Franciscans, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Family and Friends, Franciscans, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Kings Bay Plowshares defend their resistance to nuclear weapons
Professor Jeannine Hill Fletcher of Fordham University reads a statement she prepared about the King’s Bay Plowshares action being fully in accord with centuries-old, fundamental Catholic social teaching. In court this morning Prof. Fletcher provided deeply moving testimony about the…
LGBTQI Catholics in Honolulu celebrate Solidarity Sunday at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
On October 7, 2018, a small group joined in a lay-led liturgy at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, organized by the Honolulu chapter of Dignity USA in advance of Coming Out Day 2018. I was honored to be invited to participate…
Sr. Donna Markham: We are called to welcome the stranger
When the President & CEO of Catholic Charities USA, Sr. Donna Markham spoke at the Mystical Rose Oratory at Chaminade University in Honolulu on Sunday September 30, 2018, she relieved the bleak landscape of our daily news with stories which…
Cleansing and re-inventing the Catholic Church: Let the sisters lead
My Franciscan schooling in Malaysia is one of the building blocks of my Catholic faith that I most cherish, next to everything I learned from my mother’s example. Both the Franciscan nuns, and my mother, had little time for blind…
Guest Post: Multiply or Divide? The Economy of Generosity
With thanks to Rev. David Gierlach, Rector, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, for permission to publish this sermon of July 29, 2018. Back in my seminary days some 40 years ago (ouch!) our homiletics professor said there is one thing you…
CTA Calls on Catholics to Take Immediate Action for Immigrant Families
Call To Action, a Catholic organization committed to justice in our Church and world, is appalled by the forced separation of migrant families, as well as the practice of detaining children in Border Patrol facilities, tent camps and other horrific locations. This…
Tagged with: Border separations, child internment camps, family separation, USCCB
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Child Abuse, Children, Human Rights, Immigration, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Child Abuse, Children, Human Rights, Immigration, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
JOY! Fr. George Cerniglia S.M. Celebrates Diamond Jubilee of Religious Profession
Jesus said: “I call you friends.” That reminder was offered by The Very Rev. Martin Solma, Provincial of the Marianist Province of the United States, the main Presider at the mass to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Fr. George Cerniglia. Not…
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