ALOHA makamaka,
I kēia mahina e hiki mai ana, e hoʻokuʻu ana kā mākou ʻoihana i kekahi mau papahana nui loa e like me (kaomi i nā poʻo inoa e hele ai e loulou):
Nui mākou hauʻoli e pili ana i ka pehea e hoʻohana ai ke Akua i kēia mau mea hana e hoʻonui i kona aloha i nā ʻuhane he nui.
ʻO ke kumukūʻai o kēia mau papahana ʻekolu i hui ʻia ma kahi o $ 50,000. Makemake nui mākou i ka hoʻomaikaʻi hou ʻana i kaʻu kamepiula ($ 2,300), kahi mea kōkua i ke kōkua ʻana iaʻu e launa pū me ʻoe ke hele huakaʻi wau. ʻO ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻaiʻē maʻalahi mākou e hana i kēia mau papahana ... a hana i ke koena mai nā makana ʻano ʻē e ʻōwili nei, a me nā mea e hiki mai iā mākou ma o nā huakaʻi ʻaha mele a me nā kūʻai CD. Hāʻawi kēia i ka mea wale nō no kā mākou overhead nui, nā koina o kēlā me kēia lā, akā no nā meaʻai a mākou i kau ai i mua o kā mākou keiki ʻehiku.
Makemake wau ʻaʻole pono mākou e hōʻaiʻē, akā ʻo ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, he nui nā lawelawe Kakolika e hana nei. I kēia makahiki i hala iho nei, ʻaʻole hiki i kekahi mau katolika i ʻike nui ʻia ma waena o ka honua ke ʻike i nā kukui.
ʻO ka poʻe i ukali i kēia ʻoihana ʻike ʻaʻole mākou e nīnau pinepine. Akā inā hiki iā ʻoe ke kōkua iā mākou e hele i loko o kahi ʻōmole ʻē aʻe, mahalo nui mākou.
Hiki iā ʻoe hāʻawi ma ka pūnaewele me kāu kāleka hōʻaiʻē
a loaʻa i ka ʻike hou aku ma ke kaomi ʻana i nā paws o ka pōpoki liʻiliʻi maikaʻi
(ka mea aʻu i hoʻolimalima ai no kēia hoʻopiʻi ... kitty maikaʻi):
Mahalo, a na ke Akua e hoʻopōmaikaʻi iā ʻoe no kou lokomaikaʻi a me kāu mau pule. Hoʻomau ʻoe i kaʻu pule i kēlā me kēia lā.
ʻO Mark Mallett
—More ma Fr. ʻO Don Calloway maanei-
E kaomi i 'aneʻi i Hoʻokaʻawale or kakau i keia Pai.