The season of Lent has traditionally been a time of prolonged penance – hoʻopaʻi mihi for the Christian community. Together we prepare for the great Easter mysteries by committing ourselves to fulfill our baptismal call to maturity, holiness, service, and community.
Bishop Dottie (magenta-ish gown)
of the United Methodist Church
California – Pacific visiting Mauna Ala
and the Kalakaua/Liliuokalani Crypt
with Hawaii District UMC,
in preparation for the Queen
Liliuokalani Hookuikahi Service at
Honpa Hongwanji on Jan 19th, 2024
this event hosted by the
Pacific Justice & Reconciliation Center
since January 17th, 1993
HERE ARE THE MORNING PRAYERS – TAP HERE FOR CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS
Kalakaua/Liliuokalani Crypt
with Hookupu on Jan 19th 2024
w/ Rev. Dr. Dottie Escobedo-Frank, UMC
remembering and honoring
the legacy of justice,
nonviolence, and reconciliation
of Queen Liliuokalani
for the Annual Queen Liliuokalani
Hookuikahi Reconciliation Interfaith
Service, hosted by the
Pacific Justice and Reconciliation Center
every year since 1993 in a
Honolulu Historic Church
From Mark 8:31-38 (2nd Sunday in Lent):
He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
1st Corintians 13, and spoke about the
UMC Apology Resolution for the
Illegal Overthrow
of the Hawaiian Kingdom,
that will be voted on at the
General Conference UMC, in April 2024
Prayers for the Acts of Repentance (AOR) Task Force w/ Rev. Amy Wake, and Hawaii District Supt. Rev. Dr. Tom Choi, as they prepare with others for the UMC General Conference:
In 2018, the Hawaii District and the California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church approved a Resolution for an Apology for the Illegal Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy. The Resolution was then to be presented and voted on at the global General United Methodist Conference in 2020. But COVID-19 gripped the world and shut it down, leading to the postponement of the 2020 General Conference, not once, but three times. The global pandemic, as well as extended waits for visas, eventually pushed the gathering to April 23 – May 3, 2024.
General Conference is comprised of United Methodist clergy and lay leaders who are elected from annual, missionary and provisional conferences around the world. This representative body is the only one that can set official policy and speak for the denomination. General Conference gathers for a 10-day meeting every four years. A delegation from Hawaii will attend the 2024 General Conference in North Carolina to promote this Resolution and justice for the Hawaiian people.
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