“Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
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
Guest Post: ADVENT helps us realize we live in in-between times
Today is the first Sunday of the Advent Season. Hence the purple. Purple for the royalty of Christ. Purple for the wounds our Christ endures as he seeks to teach us what it is to be truly human, beings. And…
Tagged with: Advent, Rev. David Gierlach, Tongan choir
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, 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…
Remembering my mother, the political junkie
As I think of my beloved mother on the eve of her passing into eternal life, I revisit notes I shared with my children from my last visit with her: Here is my mother, the Magpie: I noticed her on…
Tagged with: DEvamay Kaithoram, Elaine Morais, Gladys Morais, Sheela Jane Menon, Zubin Menon
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
“One Job Should Be Enough”– Clergy bless Local 5 workers on the picket line, pray for fair resolution
You can’t tiptoe towards justice. You can’t walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone’s home. Justice is a door, that, when closed, must be kicked in. Daniel José Older in Jesmyn Ward’s…
Tagged with: Faith Action, Hawaiʻi hotel workers, Local 5, One Job Should be Enough
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
How rational –or sincere–are we about funding public education?
THIS MORNING on The Takeaway on National Public Radio: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/politics-protest-hitting-streets-trump-era Listen to a discussion of how teachers are making their voices heard across the nation and putting lawmakers on notice–or retiring them for failing to properly fund public education. (starts…
Tagged with: Funding public education, One Job Should be Enough, property taxes, Public Education, Teachers in Hawaii
Posted in I BLOG, Public Education, Teachers
Posted in I BLOG, Public Education, Teachers
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…
