Missioner served Isles 30 years as an educator, parish minister Maryknoll Sister Anita Smith, who served more than 30 years in Hawaii as an educator and parish minister, died Sept. 4, in Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, Connecticut. Anita was 92 and a Maryknoll Sister for almost 70 years. Anita Marguerite Smith was born on May 28, […]
Hawaii’s Maryknoll Sisters today
They work in parish outreach, catechetics, prayer ministry, art, pastoral counseling and more Sister Rosalinda Barrozo Sister Rosalinda Barrozo was invited to join Maryknoll’s Central Pacific Region in Hawaii in 1974, specifically to respond to the spiritual and social needs of the Filipino communities. It is a ministry she continues today as spiritual director of […]
Maryknoll Sisters to celebrate 90 years in Hawaii
Hawaii’s Maryknoll Sisters will celebrate the order’s 90th anniversary of mission presence in the Islands at a thanksgiving Eucharist liturgy, 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 7, in the Maryknoll School Community Hall, 1402 Punahou Street, Honolulu. Msgr. Gary Secor will be the celebrant. Ten Maryknoll Sisters came to Hawaii from New York on Sept. 5, […]
Sister Dolores Rosso, Maryknoll Sisters: Ministers to each other
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I was at Maryknoll High School for zillions of years as an educator, and later served as executive director of the alumni association. My students continue to keep in touch with me. I will never forget Hawaii because of its beauty and […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Jennie Burke | 1924-2017
Missioner taught for 25 years in Hawaii schools before serving in Africa Maryknoll Sister Jennie Burke, who was an elementary school teacher in Hawaii for 25 years from the 1950s into the 1970s, died on Jan. 22 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in New York. She was 92 and a Maryknoll Sister for 72 years. […]
MARYKNOLL SISTER CECILE THERESE BURTON | 1924-2016
Maryknoll, N.Y. — Maryknoll Sister Cecile Therese Burton, who served as an educator and social worker in Hawaii for more than 40 years, died Feb. 17 after a long illness at Maryknoll Sisters Home Care, N.Y. She was 91.
Memorial Mass for Maryknoll Sister Sandy Galazin
The memorial Mass for Maryknoll Sister Sandy Galazin will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m., Nov. 28 at Sacred Heart Church, Punahou, followed by a reception and the opportunity to share remembrances of Sister Sandy’s ministry. In Hawaii she served as an educator, a social justice and peace activist and an advocate for clergy through Catholic […]
MARYKNOLL SISTER SANDRA ANNE GALAZIN | 1944-2015: Missioner served more than four decades in Hawaii as social worker, counselor
Maryknoll Sister Sandra Anne Galazin, who served most of her 47 years of religious life as a counselor and social worker in Hawaii, died Sept. 26, at Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, N.Y. She was 71. Sister Sandy, as she was known in the Islands, recalled her religious calling in a 2011 Hawaii Catholic Herald […]
Sister Aurora dela Cruz, Maryknoll Sisters: Making God’s love visible
When I was on the Majuro atoll in the Marshall Islands, I really experienced God’s love and providence in the midst of many challenges. Basic resources were so limited there. When it rained, it was like a miracle and a blessing that God provided fresh water to drink. Because otherwise, being on a coral island […]
Obituary: MARYKNOLL SISTER LEONA MICHIELS | 1917-2015
Missioner teacher served 20 years in Catholic schools on Maui, Oahu Maryknoll Sister Leona Michiels, who served in Hawaii as an educator for more than 20 years, died Jan. 17 at Maryknoll Sisters Home Care IV, Maryknoll, N.Y. She was 97 and a Maryknoll Sister for 76 years. Sister Leona was born in Chicago on […]