HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH 830 main street, honolulu, Hawaii 96818 MASS SCHEDULE Monday - Saturday Saturday Vigil Sunday 1st Sunday - Samoan Mass 3rd Sunday - Pohnpeian Mass CONFESSIONS Saturday and after daily Masses BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE Please contact Fr. Sebastian Phone: (808) 422-1135 or Mrs. Malins (808) 42
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH 830 main street, honolulu, Hawaii 96818 MASS SCHEDULE Monday - Saturday Saturday Vigil Sunday 1st Sunday - Samoan Mass 3rd Sunday - Pohnpeian Mass CONFESSIONS Saturday and after daily Masses BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE Please contact Fr. Sebastian Phone: (808) 422-1135 or Mrs. Malins (808) 42
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH 830 main street, honolulu, Hawaii 96818 MASS SCHEDULE Monday - Saturday Saturday Vigil Sunday 1st Sunday - Samoan Mass 3rd Sunday - Pohnpeian Mass CONFESSIONS Saturday and after daily Masses BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE Please contact Fr. Sebastian Phone: (808) 422-1135 or Mrs. Malins (808) 42
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH 830 main street, honolulu, Hawaii 96818 MASS SCHEDULE Monday - Saturday Saturday Vigil Sunday 1st Sunday - Samoan Mass 3rd Sunday - Pohnpeian Mass CONFESSIONS Saturday and after daily Masses BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE Please contact Fr. Sebastian Phone: (808) 422-1135 or Mrs. Malins (808) 42
CATHOLIC CHURCH 830 Main Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96818
Fourth Sunday in Lent
March 15, 2015
MASS SCHEDULE Monday Saturday
7:15AM
Saturday Vigil
5:00PM
Sunday
8:30AM, 11:00AM, 7:00PM
1st Sunday Samoan Mass
4:00PM
3rd Sunday Pohnpeian Mass
3:00PM
CONFESSIONS Saturday and after daily Masses
4:00 4:45PM
BENEDICTION First Friday of the Month after Mass
BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE
Please contact Fr. Sebastian Phone: (808) 422-1135 or Mrs. Malins (808) 423-9611 ext.302 Email: HFC830@gmail.com or Sebchacko@hawaii.rr.com Certificates ~ For all certificates a written application is necessary. Send by post or email with your address, or hand over personally.
This is the New Format for our Weekly Bulletin. We thank
Ms Kathy Kerch of the Holy Family Academy for helping us come up with new Format. We hope to improve on it. Suggestions are welcome. Please take note of the date Confession/Reconciliation Service for this Lent.
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Those of you, who have Palms in your yard, please prepare
to bring them on Friday/Saturday March 27/28. Our Scripture Readings this week-end help us understand and appreciate Gods love for us. He has mercy, even though we do not keep our covenant. We are exiled, yet we are saved. We are punished and yet we are given liberation. We die because of our transgressions, and yet we are saved by His Grace. God will not condemn anyone who believes in Christ. Our Lenten acts of Prayer, Fasting, Abstinence and Almsgiving are an expression of our belief in the efficacy of Christs death that has merited us Gods Grace. Through prayer and penance we make ourselves ready, prepared and willing to commit ourselves to the Saving Grace that God has effected for us through the Passion and Death of Christ. Our Belief and Life must go hand in hand. Many of us are doing the bare minimum. We believe, but we still hold on to the things of this world. WE MUST LET GO, AND LET GOD dwell in our minds and hearts. Fr Sebastian
GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD.
John 3:15
SAINT OF THE WEEK
ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Lenten Confessions are scheduled for Thursday March 25 at 7 PM. Please mark your Calendars. Christ died on the Cross to save us from our sins. Confessing our sins is a sure way for us to be forgiven of all our sins. 2. EMS/LECTORS: Volunteers needed for Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil, Please sign up. Thank you.
SAINT JOSEPH Novena Saint Joseph whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the Throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires. Oh Saint Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession and obtain for me from your Divine Son, all spiritual blessings through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, so that having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers. Oh Saint Joseph, I never weary of contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms. I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him in my name and kiss His fine head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath.
3. First Holy Communion kids have made their First
Reconciliation on Saturday March 14. We thank God for them. We thank the Parents, the Teachers of the Academy and the Parish for preparing these kids for the reception of their First Holy Communion on the Sunday after Easter. 4. Children who have not been baptized (those getting ready for First Holy Communion) will be baptized on Easter Sunday at the 8.30 Mass 5. Choirs for the Holy WEEK Holy Thursday - 8.30 AM Musicians and Singers Good Friday: Combined Divine Mercy and International Easter Vigil Our Lady of the Rosary Choir Easter Sunday 8.30 AM 8.30 Musicians/Singers Easter Sunday 11.00 AM Divine Mercy & International
Saint Joseph, Patron of the departing souls,
pray for us. Amen.
OUR WEEKLY OFFERINGS
March 1, 2015 Thank you for your generous contribution for the past weekend. 5:00 PM 8:30 AM 11:00 AM 7:00 PM
$ 1,069.05 $ 1,692.78 $ 1,475.50 $ 1115.56
GRAND TOTAL
$ 5,352.89
NEW PARISHONERS Newcomers are encouraged to register with the parish and are welcome to participate in all parish activities and ministers. Registration forms are available in the back of the Church.
4th Sunday of Lent
2 Chron 36:14-16,19-23 Ps 137:1-6 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21 Monday March 16 Isaiah 65:17-21 Ps 30:2,4,5-6,11-13b John 4:43-54 Tuesday March 17 Ezekiel 47:1-9,12 Ps 46:2-3,5-6,8-9 John 5:1-16 Wednesday March 18 Isaiah 49:8-15 Ps 145:8-9,13cd-14,17-18 John 5:17-30 Thursday March 19 Saint Joseph 2 Sam 7:4-5a,12-14a,16 Ps 89:2-3,4-5,27,29 Romans 4:13,16-18,22 Matthew 1:16,18-21,24a or Luke 2:41-51a Friday March 20 Wisdom 2:1a,12-22 Ps 34:17-21,23 John 7:1-2,10,25-30 Saturday March 21 Jeremiah 11:18-20 Ps 7:2-3,9bc-12 John 7:40-53
Why do we prefer to conceal our sins rather than face them and go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and speak about them out loud? It's Jesus who meets us in the confessional, appearing to us in the form of a priest who's sworn to secrecy. In the Gospel reading, Jesus assures us that he did not come to condemn us. It is safe to come into the light where our sins are exposed. However, we don't like going to Confession when guilt is driving us deeper into the darkness of low self-esteem, the fear of being unlovable, or an inability to forgive ourselves. Guilt is a good motivator for repentance and change, but when combined with the messages of a poor selfimage, we feel undeserving of forgiveness. We feel shame. And shame makes us even more afraid to face
the truth about our sins.
However, Gods image of you is not poor: He sees what is wonderful about you. He says you do deserve forgiveness. He wants to replace shame with joy. What keeps you from repenting? Perhaps you would benefit from a therapist or spiritual director who helps you heal from low self-esteem. Whatever opportunity will help you get into the confessional, this is where your healing begins.
Jesus completes the
healing by curing your spirit with forgiveness, mercy, and unconditional love through the words of absolution that he speaks to you through the priest. In today's Gospel reading, Jesus points out that whoever lives the truth (whoever is honest about themselves) "comes to the light" to be rescued. When we admit our sins, speaking it out loud to the ears of one of Christ's servants, we are rescued by Jesus. We hear Jesus minister to us through the vocal chords of the priest, and we receive from Jesus the power to resist the same sins in the future. Why suffer any longer, hiding in the darkness of fear and a poor selfimage? Jesus has come to rescue you!
Reflect & Discuss:
1. What do you feel ashamed about? Have you taken this to the Sacrament of Reconciliation? If not, what are you waiting for? Blessings and healing await you! 2. Why does admitting our sins and receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation set us free to live in joy and peace? 3. Describe a time when you lived in darkness; how did Jesus bring you into the light?
2015 by Terry Modica Catholic Digital Resources: catholicdr.com Reprinted by license.
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HFCA NEWS Honolulu Festival Parade Holy Family Catholic Academys Marching Band students and Marching Hula dancers performed in the Honolulu Festival parade on Sunday, March 8th. They were outstanding in every way!! Congratulations for being HFCAs Ambassadors at this premier cultural event, promoting understanding, economic cooperation and ethnic harmony between the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Rim region. Mahalo, students, for a job well done!!
DIOCESAN NEWS http://www.catholichawaii.org/
WORLD NEWS Colorado has shot down assisted suicide Bill. Canada and almost all the countries of Europe have already passed bills that would allow assisted suicide. Archbishop Michael Miller of Vancouver, Canada has said: We have the technology to control pain and we have the ability to overcome loneliness and despair. It is sad how students of a University in California have voted to remove the American Flag. Their reason: It is a symbol of oppression!!! How can a few liberals feel oppressed when they see our National Flag. Politicians and Professors who promote this idea, while receiving generous pay checks from the US are certainly an ungrateful lot, not knowing any bit of National History and Pride. For more Catholic News go to: http://www.vis.va/vissolr/ind ex.php?lang=en
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