This ministry is happy to report that several special events have been ongoing in Kailua to celebrate the "Month of the Holy Rosary" ...
🌹 First Saturday Rosary for Peace & Sunday Rosaries
First off, St. Anthony of Padua Church's longstanding monthly First Saturday Rosary for Peace had hit another major milestone on 10/4/2025 - it's 15th Anniversary and what abundant graces we've received since we started!
In addition, Rosaries are being prayed by our congregation, 35 minutes prior to every Mass during the month of October. Come and pray with us ... and in the months ahead, consider making the Five First Saturdays Devotion (see above) at our parish. We continue to have Confession, Rosary, and Vigil Mass every Saturday afternoon beginning at 4pm.
(NOTE: At neighboring St. John Vianney Church, for the month of October, the congregation is praying the Rosary every Saturday morning after the 8am Mass led by the parish's Sodality of Mary.)
🌹 Pilgrim Madonna Home Visits
Initially implemented by our Pastor, Fr. Tony, for the month of October 2024, then again in May 2025, we started with 2 statues that traveled at 3-day intervals between 26 homes in Kailua. The statues were a Fatima image provided by a friend and a Lady of Grace statue owned by this ministry.
ABOVE: The two original Pilgrim Madonnas
and Fr. Tony commissioning 4 (of 5) Pilgrim
Madonnas for October 2025.
BELOW: A few photos of the Queen of Peace
Pilgrim Icon visiting parish homes.
This October 2025, our parishioners responded so enthusiastically, we had to add more 3 images, which includes this ministry's Queen of Peace Icon with its three stones collected from sites in Medjugorje sanctified by the Virgin Mary’s continuing apparitions there: Apparition Hill, Cross Mountain, and the Blue Cross locations. With the additional Pilgrim Madonnas, our Blessed Mother will now get to visit over 60 homes in which parishioners have committed themselves to pray the Rosary for the duration of the visitation - I personally anticipate great graces for our families and general community!
🌹 America Needs Fatima (ANF) Rosary Rally 2025
Once again, Auntie Patty Vargas and her extended family hosted its annual ANF Rosary Rally at their Kailua home. This wonderful family has been faithfully hosting uninterrupted annual rallies since 2009 (except for 2020 due to the covid pandemic). The event is something many of us, fortunate enough to be invited, look forward to each year because of its devout atmosphere ... and the light-hearted fellowship and delicious luncheon that follows the prayers. This year's rally did not disappoint.
The Vargas Ohana's 2025 Rosary Rally in
Kailua (Oahu), Hawaii ...
An annual event of Prayer, Faith, Food & Fellowship!
🌹 Affirmations
With all these special observances honoring the Holy Mother of Christ in our parish, spiritual fruits have inevitably followed: increased Mass attendance; increased OCIA enrollments this year; increased participation in parish-sponsored special events/celebrations (e.g. the Rosary Marathon, Pilgrim Madonna program, etc.); increased membership with our FIAT: Faith In Action Today Prayer Group; and, lastly, seemingly increased signs in the skies above our two Kailua parishes (St. Anthony of Padua Church and St. John Vianney Church)!
On the morning of the 10/11/2025 Rally:
the Holy Mother's figure was witnessed from
St. John Vianney Church's garden shrine. She
expressed her joy over all the Rosary Rallies
being held around the world!
It all goes to show that wherever Our Lady is venerated through the Rosary, her loving, motherly presence is there ... and, trust me - she comes loaded with gifts!
Ave Maria & Thanks be to God!