2747 ?ali Highway Honolulu, Hawaii 96817
(808) ses-310s ssccpali@rcchawaii.org
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Tues-Sat Monday
9:00 am to 5:00 pm 9;00 am to 12:00 pm
PASTOR
Fr. Khanh Pham-Nguyen PERMANENT DEACON Deacon Ronald Choo
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Rosemary Hashimoto FAITH FORMATION CCD-Clzitdren Velma Guieb-Mamuad
&
Vauth
Corzfirrn*tiort
Rosemary Hashimoto (interim) Debbie Fujiyama Paris& Scrrp{ure Groups Francis Jordan PARISH MINISTRIES
Homebound
&
Bereaaement
WEEKEND MASS SUNDAY
(Chapel) (Main Church)
Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke
..
pm am
MONDAY_
SATURDAY
Leetar Beverly Perry
Holy Communio* at lWsss Jennifer Tamayo
Soerisfy Celine Asato & David Tom .fwstice & Feaee TBA TBA
TBA -
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(Respect Life) (Aloysius Food Pantry) (Family promise Hawaii)
3:45 pm 9:15 am
9:3O am
DEVOTION & ADORATION Eucharistic Adoration ...... WED Holy
B:OO OM
Rosary
Mass
before Mass
I-
Liturgical Music Leka Leaeno (Saturday Vigil) Stanley Wong (Sunday)
SATURDAY 3:oo 8:45SUNDAY
Chapel ofSt. Catherine
(SaturdayVigil)
Donald Yee (Sunday) Altar Senser Nicole Heafner
4:oo
....7i15
WEEKDAY MASS
Haspitality
TBA-
(MainChurch)
SATURDAY
CONFESSION
VISITATIONOFTHESICK: Priest and Homebound Ministers are available to visit
the infirm or hospitalized. Please contact the Parish. For
sacramental
emergency, call 595-3105 and press #2 BAPTISM: Sacramental preparation is required. If you are expecting or have a child to be baptized, please call the Parish office for more information
The Diocese of Honolulu requires couples to marry in the Church to participate in the preparation for the Sacrament of Matrimony. Couples should contact the office for Marriage Preparation at least 6 months before the wedding MARRIAGE:
PARISH ORGANIZATIONS
Psstaral Cauncil Patricia Silva
Stewordship/ Discipleship Cauncil
Kokua! Please contact your Church prior to making arrangements with a funeral home {Funerals on Tuesday, Thurstlay or Frittay} FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS:
Bernard Ho (interim)
Finance Cauneil James Solidum (interim)
When changing address/telephone, Parish, please kindly notif,/ the office PARISHIONERS:
or moving out of the
Liturgy Commissien TBA
Building/ Planning Carnmittee Loretta Chee & Richard Leong Soeio,l
Fellauship
Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew
NEW PARISHIONERS: If you would like to become a parishioner of St. Stephen, please use forms available at the entrance of the Church or contact the office E KOMA
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Saturday, SePtember zz:
3:16-4:3 / Mark 9:3o-37
The day will come when an instruction I give my daughter-"Please make your bed," "Don't forget your lunch money," or "Stop hitting your brother over the head"- will go in one ear and out the other: Five minutes later the bed will be unmade, the Iunch money forgotten, the brother still getting a bruising. l'm sure most parents have wondered how their child can misunderstand perfectly clear instructions.
I imagine Jesus felt similarly about his disciples in today's Gospel. Jesus teaches about his suffering and death-a time of utter vulnerability and humiliation. Yet not moments later, his disciples are arguing about who is the greatest-as if they hadn't heard anything he said. He must have been shocked. But as a good teacher, he reiterates his message with an example. He brings a child forth and actually identifies himself with the child. "Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me." ln Jesus'time, those who were dependent and couldn't provide for themselves had no social status or importance.
Children
fall into that category.
Jesus claimed
to be one of the vulnerable
and
dependent-in stark contrast to his disciples' arguments about who is the greatest. Today, who are the vulnerable people Jesus identifies with? Perhaps a single parent
who relies on the welfare system for survival. Perhaps a lonely elderly woman plagued with illness in a nursing home. Perhaps the man who's a regular at your parish's food pantry, Do we recognize Jesus in these people, or do we dismiss them as burdensome to society as we seek more for ourselves? Does Jesus need to reiterate his message to us again, just as he did to his disciples?
4 pm
Vigil: AllFamllies
Sunday, September z3: 7:15 am Mass: All Farnilies
g:3o am Mass: All Catechists Monday, September z4: 8 am Mass:
t Gladys
Chun
Tuesday, September z5: 8 am Mass: + Peter Pham Ngoc Wednesday, September z6: 8 am Mass: t George W. Yomes, Sr. requested by Nancy Tom
Thursday, September z7: 8 am Mass: Patrick Low (healing) Friday, September z8: 8 am Mass, Gail Houle (healing) Saturday, September z9: 8 am Mass: f Mary Lou Fink
For the sick & homebound: ROLAN D ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, HARRY BENDER, GINNY STAHL, ETHEL AU, MABEL LUKE
Janel Esker I sundaybulletins@liguori.org
For the recently deceo.sed: DICKSON YOUNG, LESTER GORA, DEREK ALBARADO, ROBERT CUNDOFF, RAY TOM, RITA HONG, KATHLEEN AWAKUNI, RAY TEVES, MARIANO BERENGUE, tGNAC|O BABAUTA, SHIRLEY WONG,
A.I-OYSIUS TOM FOOD PA.NTRY "We must sacrifice everything for the poor. " St. Gerard Majella (qz6-55)
JANE AKI
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AUOTE OF THE WEEK
""Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me." Mark 9:357
Weekly Offerings Sat 4:oo
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7:t5 am Mass
9:jo am Mass
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William Maze Barry Chang Yvonne Nagai Agnes Freitas
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Sept. z3rd
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begins
Our Faith Formation Consultants have worked very hard to organize our Wednesday night ASK A PRIEST, however, due to our present circumstances and guest schedules we will be need to reschedule. Mahalo for your interest. Please watch for a new date that will be announced in future bulletins.
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after 9:3o a.m. Mass Retreat Oct. t4th
IN TI-IE FOOTSTEPS OF A Sl\INT-September 29th at Kaka'ako
Classes
Parish Scripture Groups
Wed. Sept z6 61 9:t5 p.m. R.C.T.A. N
EXT M EETI
NG-October 14th
Monday*Friday, Sept z4-z&z 6:3o
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9:oo Packing for Walk
TuesdaS Sept 25:
Counting down to the Walk in the Park (7 days) We are still accepting registrations. Volunteers needed to guide walkers on the walk, pass out water, stamp cards, pass out flowers and collect canned goods. Volunteers are also needed this week to help prepare from 6:3o-9:oo p.m. Monday: Prepare pennants Tuesday: Pack Registration bag (Wednesday: none) Thursday: Prepare snacks Friday: Cut and Package Fresh Snacks Donations of bottled water (at least z6 cases) and energy bars (at least 8 cases) needed and help the week of Sept z3rd to pack participants packets. CANONIZATION INFORMATION: Blessed Mother Marianne will be canonized on October zrst in Rome (Hawaiitime 9:3o pm on Saturday, October zoth)
3:3o pm (Sat.) Choir practice
NEW [T,&SS, MOFTE OFFICE HOURS * OOoPATION
Wednesday, Sept z6: Eucharistic Adoration after Mass
We've added a Monday B a.m. Mass. We also begin monthly Eucharistic Adoration on First Wednesdays. Please see sign up. We need people in the afternoon.
Thursday, Sept 27: 7 pm (Sun.) Choir practice
LITUI?GICAL MINISTRY EI\RICHMENT DAY
Saturday, Sept 29:
(includes lunch) 8:oo a.m. to r:oo p.m. Saturday, October 6th ALL LITURGICAL MINISTERS: Join other ministers for a morning of spiritual enrichment as we share the wonderful treasure of the Mass. The day begins with Mass at 8:oo a.m. in the Main Church and continues in the Parish Hall. Please sign up so we know if you are interested in continuing your ministry and especially if you are unable to attend.
Walk-in-the-Park 8:3 o a.m. Kaka'ako waterfront park
Next Weeh: Sept 29 €t 30, 2012 Altarsetver:
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Lector:
[SatJ *aic*elle McGinrilaandy Tom [Sun] *avid {k*oflV*sley F*ng EMHC: [Sat] Nrlstyn & tltraris Yl,o [SunJ Helen Luke, TonI Farm, Frenk Sardan
Collection Counting: Team
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Church Cleaners:
Lorraine Albarado, Helen Luke, Maria Guieb, Velma Mamuad, Caroline Hasegawa
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Mahalo to our coordinators and all who participated in our Movie Night on Friday. "For Greate r Glory" if you have not seen it, please find time to listen to a zoth century story of Faith in action.
YEAR OF FAITH Pope Benedict XVI has declared October a\ 2c:-2 to November 24t 201-2as the Year of Faith. The upcoming Year of Faith is a "summons to an
authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord, the One Savior of the YTAR TAffi{fi]l world" (Porta Fidei6).ln other words, the Year of Faith is an opportunity for Catholics to experience a conversion - to turn back to Jesus and enter into a deeper relationship with him. The "door of faith" is opened at one's baptism, but during this year Catholics are called to open it again, walk through it and rediscover and renew their relationship with Christ and his Church. Celebrate the opening Mass of the "Year of Faith" on Tuesday, October 9th at 7.oo P.m. at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. OF
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As an itinerant preacher, pastor, seminary director, and lifelong friend of the destitute, Seelos was a spiritual father to thousands. Countless pilgrims visit his sacred remains at the National Shrine of Blessed Francis Seelos within Saint Mary's Assumption Church in New Orleans. He was beatified by PopeJohn Paul II in 2000, and we pray for his canonization (www.seelos.org).
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the "Cheerful Ascetic," Father Francis Xavier possessed great mystical gifts due to (1819-1867) Seelos his intense prayer life, and numerous miracles are attributed to his powerful intercession both in life and in the almost 150 years since his death at age 48 from yellow fever. His dedication to ministry with cheerful holiness makes him an outstanding model for today's clerg, religious, and laity. He wrote, 'T/e must strive to embrace the crosses which God sends us with a willing, evenjoyful heart." 'V/hen left his Bavarian homeland to serve the
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For information on A Life of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Redemptorist, call 800-325-9521 or visit liguori.org.
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Second Vatican Council opened up opportunities for you and me
in Ordinarg Time
to play apart in the celebration of the Eucharist, the Liturgy of the Church. The Church Fathers drafted a Document that stated "Let the spiritual shepherds recognize and promote the dignity and the responsibility of the laity in the Church." (The Dogmatic Constitution onthe Church, #37) We can now serve as Lectors and Acolytes and Ministers of Music and even help the priest to distribute the Body and Blood of Christ. Let's find out how we can be better Ministers: October 6th at B:00 a.m. in the Church.
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