HAWAII OBITUARY SPECIAL SECTION VIEW FROM THE PEW Veteran local diocesan Harold Conroy was the Religious congregations A phrase honoring a mother priests, Father Colton and diocesan attorney for continue to build a lively we revere has crept into Father Freitas, to retire Bishops Sweeney, Scanlan faith on the Valley Isle modern American speech Page 3 Page 6 Page 9 Page 18 HawaiiVOLUME 75, NUMBER 10 CatholicFRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 Herald$1 Liturgical masters The minister of ceremonies plays an invisible role directing the church’s big liturgies, page 7 Minister of ceremonies Jonathan Farinas, right, directs an altar server to her station during the Holy Thursday liturgy April 5 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace. Farinas is one of about a dozen ministers of ceremonies in the diocese who help direct major episco- pal Masses with the bishop. 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MAY 11, 2012 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD HAWAII 3 Two veteran local diocesan priests to retire this summer By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Two of the three remaining ac- tive Hawaii diocesan priests who ‘Time ahead, still another invitation’ attended St. Stephen Seminary The pastor of St. Rita, Haiku, Father Patrick Freitas reflects high school in windward Oahu on retirement and the journey ahead will retire this summer. Father Patrick Freitas, 72, and “A persistent feeling of gratitude — that’s there! Loads Father Gary Colton, 70, both pas- of it! tors on Maui, will step down from full-time ministry on June 30. “But in a particularly existential way, there is an Their retirement heralds the attendant and saving sense of always being called to be sunsetting of the era when young a happy learner in the unfolding of each day and each men started their training for the priesthood in Hawaii at age 14. particular assignment. I learned how to be and, in a sense, Today seminarians go to schools I learned that I had to be a ‘happy learner.’ There were on the mainland at the college or so many and they were each so different. Providentially, post-graduate level. Father Freitas graduated from the idealism and dynamism of those days past still urge St. Stephen High School Seminary us to be our best self in the present moment in simplicity in 1957, Father Colton in 1960. and peace. They each continued at St. Ste- Father Gary Colton Father Patrick Freitas phen for two years of college be- “I suspect all that moving and turning (assignments) fore completing their college and Maui, was ordained on June 1, Colton said. “Those were very over the years worked a magic only God could design — post-college studies at St. Patrick good years. I was moving around 1968, at Star of the Sea Church in all to bring me home to myself in the faithfulness of God, Seminary in Menlo Park, Calif. Waialae-Kahala. a lot.” Both priests entered the semi- He was named a pastor “rather During that time, he was ac- learning how as priest to be present in the mystery of nary before the convening of the early” in his priesthood, of Our tive with Maui Catholic Chari- the human journey with the heart of Christ … and how Second Vatican Council and were ties which began out of a desire Lady of Sorrows in Wahiawa, he to find in this gift of retirement time ahead, still another ordained in its afterglow.