ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fr. Brian Vincenzo Guerrini, ss.cc. is an ordained member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (ss.cc.), a worldwide Catholic religious order of men and women dedicated to contemplating, living and proclaiming the compassionate love of God in the world through the hearts of Jesus and Mary. He spent eleven years living and ministering in southeastern New Mexico, and has ministered in the U.S. (NM, CA, TX, IN, HI), the Kingdom of Tonga, Fiji and India. He was the National Coordinator of the Sacred Heart Communities in Collaboration organization and Executive Director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of the Pecos Valley, Inc., both for six years. From 2019-2022 (the years of the COVID-19 pandemic), he was the pastor/administrator of St. Damien of Molokai parish and missions on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai and has taught at ‘Api’fo’ou College in Nuku’alofa, Kingdom of Tonga, as well as being a priest-in-residence at the Pacific Regional Seminary in Suva, Fiji. He currently is in residence at the Sacred Hearts residence at Damien High School in La Verne, CA and is also working on a book about the history of the Sacred Hearts on Molokai for his Congregation.