The arrival of three Mi-ssionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians from India has answered the 22-year long prayers of the parishioners and parents of a Catholic school in Hawaii for the return of nuns to their school. On October 7 their prayers were answered.
They arrived at Lihue airport to assume involvement in parish ministry at St. Catherine of Alexandria Church and School in Kapaa, Kauai. They are Sisters Jincy Thomas from the southern India state of Kerala; Rachel Marius from the northeastern India state of Manipur; and Philisita Jyrwa from the northeastern India state of Meghalaya.
The sisters were warmly greeted by St. Catherine’s ad-ministrator Father Nicholas Apetorgbor and parochial vicar Father Dario Rinaldi, and with more leis of aloha from about a dozen pari-shioners.
The three sisters expand the community’s Hawaii mission to seven members. Four others serve on Oahu.