Schedule
annual meeting
General Events
All-member Business Meeting
Year in review update from our Executive Council. Learn about all the great programs our Order and Western Lieutenancy have accomplished during the year.
As a bonus this year, Abouna Bernard Poggi will be offering a situation update from Beit Jala Seminary and the Holy Land.
Saturday Dinner Event
Aloha!
Join us for a night of fun, food, and festivities at our Hawaiian Luau!
Put on your best Hawaiian shirt, grass skirt, or tropical attire, and get ready for an evening of delicious Hawaiian cuisine, lively music, and traditional dancing. If you would like to purchase a Hawaiian Shirt with our Order logo, please visit our Great Impact online store here: https://www.promoplace.com/EOHSJWest/annual-meeting-shirt.html
Mahalo!
Grand Ball
All members come together to close out the Annual Meeting with our Grand Ball. Preceded by the Investiture Mass and the opportunity for professional formal portraits, the Grand Ball is an opportunity to culminate the weekend in celebration of member Investitures and Promotions, in consolidation of our objectives for the year, and in camaraderie developed over the previous few days. Aloha formal wear will be the dress attire for this year’s Grand Ball. Please click here for Dress Guidelines.
If you haven’t yet chosen your Grand Ball seating, please click here.
Ministry Fair & Vendor Events
Running in tandem with many of the hospitality and registration events, a hall will be opened to members of ministries to celebrate the many ways in which they have furthered their service to the Church and Christians of the Holy Land through the intervention of EOHSJ. Additionally, the Order is blessed with a myriad of service providers and product merchants who provide benefits to members themed around pilgrimages, the Holy Land, the Church and EOHSJ. Please take some time to browse the tables and connect with these ministries and vendors, and learn about what has been accomplished and what more we can do.
Bishop Larry &
Fr. Lane Akiona
The Saints of Molokai
We welcome our fellow members of the Order to come and experience an evening with Saint Damien De Veuster, Saint Marianne Cope and Servant of God Joseph Dutton. They all came to bring hope and serve the lepers on the Island of Molokai. They have been recognized for their charity and devotion to a suffering people living in an isolated peninsula. They dared to go where others feared and devoted their lives to serving Christ in those who suffered.
The Islands of Hawaii are filled with the “Spirit of Aloha” which is love, peace, compassion, mutual understanding and regard for others. Our speakers Bishop Larry and Fr. Lane Akiona are both born in Hawaii and know firsthand the spirituality and history of Hawaii, its saints and servant of God. Come and be filled with the knowledge and spirituality of these great men and woman who embraced the “Spirit of Aloha” and brought God’s Hope to a place where it did not exist.
Pope Francis at his address declaring the Jubilee 2025 closed with the following statement: “During the Holy Year, may the light of Christian hope illumine every man and woman, as a message of God’s love addressed to all!” May we all be inspired to make God our hope and as Saint Damian, Saint Marianne and Servant of God Joseph bring light to our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. A hui Kakou (Until we meet) and God bless you!
With Hawaiian family roots in Hawaii that extend back to the monarchy of King Kalakaua, Bishop Clarence “Larry” Silva is the fifth Bishop of Honolulu since the establishment of the diocese in 1941 and the eleventh since missionaries brought the faith here in 1827.
Ordained a bishop and installed as Bishop of Honolulu on July 21, 2005 at the Neal Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, he was welcomed by Hawaii Catholics as a man known to be a great priest, an experienced pastor, and a man of integrity. A parish priest for most of his ordained years, Bishop Silva has faithfully served the 66 island parishes, 28 mission churches and over 200,000 faithful contained within the Honolulu diocese.
Fr Lane K. Akiona serves as the Provincial of the United States Province of the Priests and Brothers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (SS.CC.), is a member of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem.
He was born on the island of Moloka‘i in the Hawaiian Islands and serves as pastor of Saint Augustine by the Sea Catholic Church in the Waikiki district of Honolulu. He also served as the vicar forane for the East Honolulu Vicariate of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
Masses & Ceremonies
Liturgies
Friday – SUNDAY
Adoration Chapel
Members are encouraged to spend time accompanying Our Lord exposed for Adoration during specific times Friday through Sunday. Please refer to your schedule for exposition and adoration times.
Friday 4PM
Monday 8AM
Traveler’s Mass
In order to support our calling to a deepen daily in our spiritual life, Mass is also provided on days where a solemn ceremony is not programmed.
Friday Evening
Retreats
Retreats are a way to prepare mind and soul to deepen in spirituality and grow in our calling to the Order. Investees, Promotees and Members are served with different retreats at separate locations. Please refer to your schedule for details and shuttle times.
Saturday morning
Promotions & Memorial Mass
Please refer to your schedule for details.
Sunday afternoon
Investiture Mass
Please refer to your schedule for details.
Friday – Sunday
Confessions
Priests of the Order will be available at scheduled times to provide the sacrament of Confession for members. You are highly encouraged to take advantage of their availability. Please refer to your schedule for details.