Birthday Celebration during Easter

Parishioners enjoying the music and singing from our Filipino choir. Blanche Macadangdang and Roland reveling in the festivities.

Imagine this year 2008 celebrating my birthday during Easter week; first time in a long time. Easter is the earliest ocassion in 60 years. The next time that that Easter will occur this early in the Church's calendar is 200 years from now. We began the birthday celebration with Mass at 5:00 p.m. in our Church Center. The Filipino choir and musicians from Christ the King parish in Kahului added so much color, energy and joy to the celebration. Deacon Hiram assisted me at the liturgy. After Mass we had a potluck dinner at our Marian Hall and continued the festivities. Many of the parishioners who are very active here at the parish joined me and Tom Phillips for this celebration. What an evening of fun, food, laughter and friendship. As you can imagine there were lots of Filipino food and delicacies.