'l gvvie
-{'i{wt \}r
GOOD NEWS Wisdom z:tz, :r7-zo
I
Jarnes
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
STEIII/ARDSHIP OF OLJR LORD
gl4
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
pm Mass
7:t5 am Mass
9:jo am Mass
Takl Affering
9124
lrma (Ruis) Malone
9lz5
William Maze Barry Chang Yvonne Nagai Agnes Freitas
Donation s/Col lections
(September t5 &t6, zotz)
Votive Offering 551.oo
335.oo 1452.o1
2,;}8.a1
M*6n{o foryowr {aitifu{sewice
BlMo Marianne Magnificat reimbursed Tatul Affering
anl confixue{gexerasi$ !
Elizabeth Awana (rg68)
First to be buried from new church lsabel Carvalho
58.oo
glza
Albert Kalahele
110.OO 25.OO
Donald Chinn Donald Lewis
glzt
Frank Vasconcellos
glzB
John Meyer Alexander Farm
9129
Hilda Mark Robert Nakamura
193.oo
Ruth Yamamoto Lisa Molina-Petrie