tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863174887542651312024-02-05T02:28:29.619-08:00A Tribute to Our Priestsa lay's reponse to God's call to support our priests and those studying to become oneEaster Almuenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633972724785600623noreply@blogger.comBlogger340125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486317488754265131.post-66937940587113845622012-12-05T00:38:00.002-08:002020-05-01T19:15:38.356-07:00Aloha, with Apology<br />
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May your Advent be filled with joyful expectations of the coming of our Lord!<br />
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My apology to all. I have to temporarily close this blog for lack of time to update it, mostly due to a densely streamed schedule in school. I do love learning and sharing what I learn, but the sharing part must come at a later time. Should that time not come at all through this blog, I am certain God will bring it to completion somehow. My husband's call to the diaconate formation is most crucial to him, to me and our children. (No, I am not saying that he will definitely make it, but we are giving it our best. Please pray for him; his name is Joe.) I must acquiesce to the will of the One whose voice is stronger than mine. Perhaps, we will encounter each other again.<br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">Update: My husband was ordained into the permanent diaconate on January 31 of this year 2015. We thank you for your prayers! He has been assigned to the <a href="http://www.cathedralofourladyofpeace.com/">Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace </a>in Honolulu, HI. Come visit the Cathedral Basilica if you are in the area! Mahalo!</span><br />
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The most visited post on this blog, which precipitated nearly<b> 100,000 hits</b>, is the one that has my poem for priests: <a href="http://atributetoourpriests.blogspot.com/2011/08/poem-tribute-to-our-priests.html"><b>Poem: A Tribute to Our Priests</b></a>. You may copy it, all of it: <b>Title, Name of author, and the full Content of the poem without rewording it or claiming is as your own, since it is how copyrights are protected and respected. I do thank you. </b><br />
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This poem has been printed in numerous newsletters, church bulletins, and cards. It is recited at anniversary gatherings in celebration of a priest's birthday or ordination, which served as a gift for priests. It will be printed in my next book -- my gift for all priests.<br />
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I will be at <a href="http://prayerswritingsofacatholicmomdaughter.blogspot.com/"><b>Passionate about LIFE</b></a> as often as time allows. You are welcome to visit the blog <b><a href="http://spiritualmomshawaii.blogspot.com/">Spiritual Mom's Apostolate</a> </b>that I share with Esther Gefroh. My dearest friend Esther runs several blogs, the most popular one being <a href="http://hicatholicmom.blogspot.com/">A Catholic Mom in Hawai'i</a>.<br />
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May God richly bless each one of us. May our journeys toward him be one of joyful experience and encounter of the God whose love is boundless, shapeless, and most inconceivably enormous. May we never turn away from strangers, but be a joyful light for them.<br />
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Aloha nui,<br />
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May the joy of Thanksgiving be not just a faint glow but a breaking of the feast that was the Thanksgiving of the God who gave all he's got.</div>
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May grace be outpoured to one and all that beauty may not only be in words but in gestures of true thanksgiving to our Lord, whose grace knows no bounds.</div>
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<br />Easter Almuenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633972724785600623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486317488754265131.post-57039756350057760782012-09-13T05:06:00.002-07:002012-09-13T05:07:01.748-07:00St. John Crysostom, September 13<br />
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<br />Easter Almuenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633972724785600623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486317488754265131.post-62920691071734076552012-09-05T09:17:00.002-07:002013-02-20T00:29:14.718-08:00Pono, Living the Aloha Spirit<br />
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What you will read are the last paragraphs of <a href="http://dzehnle.blogspot.com/">Fr. Daren J. Zehnle's blogpost</a> and homily. This homily was delivered at the 6:00 a.m. Mass at the <a href="http://www.cathedralofourladyofpeace.com/">Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace</a> on the 2nd of September, the day before Fr. Daren left for his present home Springfield, Illinois. Fr. Daren has been a regular visitor to the Islands -- mostly Oahu for about seven years now -- and he hopes to one day become a kama'aina. He already is to many of us, who have known him for many years now, and even to those who had just met him when he was here on Oahu for a 17-day visit. His spirit embodies aloha as we Islanders know it. He blends in -- perfectly! Perhaps, if you didn't know that he was a visitor, you might have thought that he was a local.<br />
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The homily below touches my heart in a special way. I have always regarded Communion of Saints as one of God's most beautiful inventions. <i>Pono </i>most certainly gives communion of God's saints a definitive message that we love each other in the spirit of righteousness -- always with God's spirit -- and letting that spirit live on as we encounter more brothers and sisters -- even those who are not so like us -- and always, with an ultimate loving and natural gesture and desire to walk hand in hand towards our heavenly home, as brothers and sisters in Christ would! Our brother and sister saints in heaven would agree, as they pray for <i>pono</i> to become more and more a reality in our daily life here in our earthly home.<br />
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Praise our Lord and Master for <i>Pono</i>!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A few days ago I walked past a young man wearing a t-shirt that read, “Keep Calm and Live Pono.” That simple phrase stuck with me. It is taken, in part, from that poster of the Ministry of Information and, of course, from the motto of the Kingdom and State of Hawai‘i: “<i>Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ‘Aina i ka Pono,</i>” “The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness”.</span> </blockquote>
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Simple. Straight to the point. There are no in-betweens when we speak of and practice what is moral and what is right.<br />
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Easter Almuenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633972724785600623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486317488754265131.post-58693594239784136032012-08-25T18:08:00.000-07:002012-08-25T18:08:17.120-07:00Video: Why Become a Priest<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jnaLVE4ayDs" width="420"></iframe>Easter Almuenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633972724785600623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486317488754265131.post-78901490044347712852012-08-16T13:12:00.002-07:002012-08-16T13:14:29.482-07:00Prayer Song for All Beloved Priests: A Priest Forever
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From <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/spanish-olympic-athlete-to-enter-seminary-after-london-games/">CNA</a>, find out who among the athletes of the 2012 Olympic Games is going to the seminary afterwards? Let us keep him in prayer!Easter Almuenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633972724785600623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486317488754265131.post-6149182797166558212012-07-28T12:35:00.003-07:002012-07-28T12:36:23.279-07:00Pope Benedict's Message on the Summer Olympics 2012<br />
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Rosary for the Bishop is a campaign that aims to support Catholic Bishops through prayer of the Rosary. Please take a few minutes to join in praying for your Bishop.</blockquote>
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We bishops rely each and every blessed day on the prayers of the good and holy people of our diocese and of all those who have gone before us. We have no better intercessor than our Blessed Mother, the Mother of all the Apostles, the Mother of the Church. It gives me great serenity to know that so many women and men are turning to Mary, asking her special care and intercession for the bishops. As the Lord blesses the bishops through the intercession of Mary, may every person who takes part in the <i>Rosary for the Bishop</i> project also be blessed.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Commitment: If the vocation is there, stick with it. Such is the advice of Fr. John Kavanaugh, regardless of what vocation one has entered into. </span><br />
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To our beloved pope, Pope Benedict XVI, we continue to support you. May God forever bless you!<br />
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Do you desire to enter a more contemplative community? Check out the Benedictines in Oregan, Mount Angel Abbey. <br />
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What is Lent to you? What does it meant to enter into Lent and participate in this extraordinary season of our Church? <br />
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How to write a letter to Washington to defend our rights and to defend life: <a href="http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/">USCCB</a>.<br />
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