We missed the big sign, but two home-made banners hung from the gates of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in downtown Honolulu, proclaiming JAZZ VESPERS TONIGHT got our attention as we drove past. We were headed to the Pacific Club just…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Every Thursday: Jazz Vespers at St. Peter’s, Honolulu
Tagged with: Jazz, Reggie Padilla, Rev. Diane Martinson, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Starr Kalahiki, Vespers
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Music and Faith, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Music and Faith, Uncategorized
Bishop Bars Sr. Jeannine Gramick from North Carolina Family Gathering
Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
Sister Jeannine Gramick and Francis DeBernardo in St. Peter’s Square following the Ash Wednesday papal audience. Sr. Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, has been barred from speaking at a Catholic parish in North Carolina,…
Tagged with: Bishop Jugis, North Carolina, PFLAG, Sr. Jeannine Grammick
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
We live in the future. Come join us.
Originally posted on KE KAUPU HEHI ALE:
Adapted from NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons We Live in the Future. Come Join Us. by Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada “Hawaiians need to stop living in the past.” We’ve all heard this before,…
Tagged with: Mauna Kea, Native Hawaiians, Thirty Meter Telescope
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Science and Culture, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Science and Culture, Uncategorized
Good Friday: A Call to Abolish Capital Punishment
Yes. If we have truly evolved as a species,if we wish to call ourselves civilized, and people of faith, we should have long ago abolished the death penalty. It is barbaric. How can we express horror at beheadings in faraway…
Catholics Leave Mass Over Bigoted Homily, but Not All Priests Oppose Marriage Equality
Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
Gaelic footballer Eámon McGee, left, supporting the ‘Yes’ campaign Catholics in Ireland walked out of Mass recently after a priest made prejudiced and personal attacks during a homily against marriage equality, about which the Irish are…
Lent: Letting in Light and Beauty
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 down to essentials. It does not require us to dwell in…
Tagged with: Abstinence, Easter, Fast, Lent
Posted in Easter, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Lent, Uncategorized
Posted in Easter, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Lent, Uncategorized
Random Kindness in the Checkout Line
This is a sweet story of a small kindness on which to end a week filled with continuing stories of war and wretchedness on the world stage. A young woman standing in the checkout line at a supermarket saw the…
A Path to Justice and Survival: Divestment from Fossil Fuels
. . .until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching. Is. 42: 1-4 It was a good way to begin the New Year: testifying before the Budget and Finance Committee of the University…
Tagged with: Divestment, fossil fuels, Regents, University of Hawaii
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Environment, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Environment, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Honolulu Protests Failure to Indict Officer for Eric Garner Killing. HNL City Lights 5.15 p.m. Sat 12/06/14
Kollin Elderts. Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. Eric Garner. The list is far from complete. People of color dying at the hands of those who are supposed to protect and serve. Honolulu resident, Carolyn Hadfield looks nothing like any of these…
Tagged with: Eric Garner, Honolulu City Lights, Kollin Elderts, Michael Brown, Noura Erakat, Tamir Rice
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Police Brutality, Racism, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Police Brutality, Racism, US Bishops
Noura Erakat in Honolulu: Solidarity Across Borders
No matter how much you thought you understood–or did not understand–about Palestine and Israel, you would have come away from Noura Erakat’s first talk in Honolulu with new information and a new lens through which to look at the laws,…
Tagged with: Calvary by the Sea, Divestment, Hamas, Israel, Jon Osorio, Noura Erakat, Palestine
Posted in I BLOG, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
Posted in I BLOG, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
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