Sr. Bernadette Alofaki is a member of the Servants of Holiness, the first local women’s religious community on the island of Tonga, South Pacific, founded in 1995, in the Diocese of Tonga and Niue. She is from Tonga, where she attended Catholic school and business college. She worked at 'Apifo'ou College before her current ministry at the Education of Christian Living Department for the diocese.

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The night before the mid-January volcano eruption in Tonga, the sky grew dark with a blood red color. (Courtesy of Bernadette Alofaki)

The Tonga volcano eruption shook the Earth

May 2, 2022

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano's eruption in Tonga recalls Matthew's Gospel account of darkness and sounds of an earthquake the day Jesus was crucified.