BLESSED PEDRO HAWAII VIEW FROM THE PEW MOVIE REVIEW Blessed Marianne isn’t the Merging provinces allow Praising St. Patrick, ‘October Baby’ is a only future saint with a Sacred Hearts Fathers to and dispelling a few Hollywood film with Pacific isle connection return to Wahiawa parish moldy myths a pro-life message Page 3 Page 7 Page 18 Page 23 HawaiiVOLUME 75, NUMBER 6 CatholicFRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012 Herald$1 Sacred oils are consecrated at annual Chrism Mass Page 24 Deacon Modesto Cordero holds up a glass container of olive oil to be blessed at the Oahu Chrism Mass March 8 at the Co-Cathe- dral of St. Theresa. HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz 2 HAWAII HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • MARCH 16, 2012 Hawaii Catholic Herald Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu Founded in 1936 Published every other Friday PUBLISHER Bishop Larry Silva (808) 585-3356 [email protected] EDITOR Patrick Downes (808) 585-3317 [email protected] REPORTER/PHOTOGRAPHER Darlene J.M. 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Sweeney, “poorest of the poor.” “I was just going to raise some money and then pull out, but now QUESTIONS? Bishop of Honolulu, presented the school with the Oahu Council of Call Donna, 585-3321 Holy Name Societies plaque of excellence. Pictured with the Bishop I’m involved for the rest of my life,” James said. “It’s transformed my are (left to right) Joseph Toledo, Dennis Chun with 1962 plaque, life and has become the most fulfilling thing, though it hasn’t been Edward Lardizibal with 1958 plaque, John Wong holding 1961 plaque, easy.” MARCH 16, 2012 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD HAWAII 3 A new Visayan saint with a Micronesian connection Logo for Blessed Pedro’s Also to be canonized canonization with Blessed It was “like love Marianne, a teenage at first sight,” Fa- Filipino catechist ther Arong said, of his first “en- martyred on Guam counter” with Blessed Pedro. By Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz “He was a Hawaii Catholic Herald missionary who was not even Among the six others chosen to a priest or reli- be canonized with Blessed Mari- gious,” he said. anne Cope in Rome in October is “Filipinos could a lesser-known saint-to-be whom think of him as more Island Catholics should an example and in- know about. spiration to live and Pope Benedict XVI will raise share their faith in a to sainthood on Oct. 21 Blessed foreign land despite op- Pedro Calungsod, a 17th century position — not just physical teenage lay catechist and martyr opposition, but more the secu- from the Philippines. He will be lar culture of the lands where they only the second saint from the cause for Calungsod. He was be- find themselves.” predominantly Catholic country, atified on March 5, 2000, by Pope Father Arong, who lives in Oak- which has known the faith for 400 John Paul II. Father Diego had land, Calif., and is a good friend years. The Philippines’ first saint been beatified 15 years prior in of Bishop Larry Silva, who is from was St. Lorenzo Ruiz, canonized 1985. Oakland, said he has volunteered in 1987. The late pope called Blessed to promote devotion to Blessed The devotion to Blessed Pedro Pedro an inspiration for Filipino Pedro in the United States and is particularly strong in his native youth. Canada. He has started a website Cebu, a province of nearly 4 mil- “Young people today can draw — www.pedrocalungsod.net — lion people in the southern Philip- encouragement and strength from where people can read Blessed Pe- pines where Visayan, or Cebuano, the example of Pedro, whose love dro’s biography and find prayers is the dialect spoken. But the story of Jesus inspired him to devote to the future saint. of his life has slowly been spread- his teenage years to teaching the In Hawaii, Lumantas hopes to Blessed Pedro Calungsod as depicted on a website dedicated to him. ing among Filipino Catholics in faith,” said Pope John Paul II. begin catechesis within the Visay- the Mainland United States and in Last December, the path to an community about Calungsod’s Hawaii. sainthood was cleared for Blessed life. She is also planning to orga- be as familiar to islanders as that Calungsod and Father Diego “Saints are alive in our midst, Pedro when Pope Benedict XVI nize a pilgrimage group to travel especially in our world of so many of Blessed Marianne.