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OFFICE HOURS:

Tues-Thurs: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Mon, Fri & Sat: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm PASTOR

Fr. Khanh Pham-Nguyen PERMANENT DEACON Deacon Ronald Choo

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Rosemary Hashimoto

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CCD-Children Velma Guieb-Mamuad

Youth& Confirmation Rosemary Hashimoto (interim)

R.C.I.A, Debbie Fujiyama Parish Scipture Ctoups Francis Jordan PARISH MINISTRIES

Homebound & Bereqoement

WEEKEND MASS SATURDAY (Main SUNDAY

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....7:15 am 9:3O am

WEEKDAY MASS

Hospitality (SaturdayVigil) Donald Yee (Sunday) .Altar Seruer Nicole Heafner

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Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke

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MONDAY_SATURDAY

Litugical Music

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DEVOTION & ADORATION Eucharistic Adoration ...... WED Mass Holy

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Leka Leaeno (Saturday Vigil)

VISITATIONOFTHESICK: Priest and Homebound Ministers are available to visit

StanleyWong (Sunday)

the infirm or hospitalized. Please contact the Parish. For

Lector Beverly Perry

Holy Communion at Mass Jennifer Tamayo

Socrisfy Celine Asato & David Tom Justiee & Peace (Respect Life) TBA TBA

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PARISH ORGANIZATIONS

Pastoral Council Patricia Silva

Steoardshipl Discipleship Council Bernard Ho (interim) Finance Cauncil James Solidum (interim)

Liturgy Cammissian TBA

Euilding/ Planning Committee Loretta Chee & Richard Leong

Social Fellooship Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew

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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 MARRIAGE:

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 FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS: Kokua! Please contact your Church prior to making arrangements with a funeral home {Funerals on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday) PARISHIONERS:

When changing address/telephone, or moving out of the

Parish, please kindly notif,r the office 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 KOMO

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Yes, it's only Labor Day, but stores are already in full Halloween mode with plenty of costumes and candy on display. I grew up in St. Louis, where tradition requires costumed children to tell a joke at each door on Halloween before receiving the candy "treat." As children, we'd pore over joke books for a month to discern the highest-quality riddle to spring on the neighbors.

I now realize this tradition is unique to St. Louis (and Des Moines). ln most locales you don't have to do anythingiust say "trick or trea!" and you get free, undeserved candy.

What? Free candy for no work? The injustice! I tease that St. Louis has it right-you ought to have lo earn your Snickers and Starbursts.

Thank goodness God doesn't follow St. Louis in his distribution of gifts.

What if we were required to perform a song and dance of deservedness to receive God's abundant generosity? We're undeserving of God's extraordinary goodness, yet he showers us with his grace.

So we ought to hear, with humble hearts, the same challenge from today's gospel. We can be stingy with our money, our time, our patience*seeking first to determine whether the recipient is deserving, has done something for us lately, will use our gifts well.

What if God applied those same standards to us? Would we be worthy? I doubt it. Jesus challenges us to be generous-especially to those who are undeserving, cannot repay US, and Seem Unworthy of our love and time. We are those people in God's eyes, yet God gives without need of return. What Janel Eske r su ndaybu lletin @ liguori.org willwe do?

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9:3o am Mass: All Families Monday, September z,: 8 am Mass: + Jane Aki Tuesday, September 3: 8 am Mass: Robert Sterlacci (healing) Wednesday, September 4: 8 am Mass: Joe Almuena (healing) Thursday, September 5: 8 am Mass: Santiago Felix(healing) Fridayr September 6: 8 am Mass: t Benigno & Maria Guieb Saturday, September 7: 8 am Mass: Allthe sick

For the sick & homebound: " ROLAN D ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, HARRY BENDER, GINNY STAHL, ETHELAU, MABEL LUKE For the recently deceased: IGNACIO BABAUTA, JANE AKI,

SANTOS, ETHEL LEE, JOHN NASCIMENTO, WALLY CHANG, FANNIE GORA, ELLEN SHAM, PATSY TAM, GWENDOLYN JOSEPH, HAZEL ANDRADE, MARIA GUIEB, MERRY CRIS HO, YVONNE PACARRO

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Our monthly Adoration takes place September 4th in the chapel after the 8:oo a.m. daily Mass and concludes with Benediction at 6:45 p.m. All are invited to take time out of your busy days to spend time in prayer for our schools, our nation and our world. tsNSHOP'S PAST(}RAL \/IS{T

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R.C.I.A. Break for summer

Monday, September z: Labor Day Holiday

Tuesday, September 3: i:3s p.:r=. *qai. ch*ii p=*ciice ; c-m. l-t.afi{e Louiti:i Wednesday, September 4: I u ci'l a g'!st ii Adoratior: fi-cm 8:3c-7:so p.tri.

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Mahalo to all who participated in the survey last weekend. Thank you to those who helped put it together and-lvha-ars wor-king on a report to present to Bishop Larry. We appreciate all who gave their honest evaluation and ideas.

SECOND COLLECTION The Catholic University of America is the national University of the Catholic Church in the United States, located in Washington, D.C. lt provides an academically rigorous education guided by the Catholic intellectual tradition to nearly 7,ooo students every year. Over 4,ooo students directly receive scholarship aid form this Collection, including many from our diocese. Next week is the National Collection for The Catholic University of America. Please be generous.

NURSING HOME IVIASS ^AT NUU"A.NU hiALE Each week our dedicated Ministers take Communion to our parishioners who are confined to a bed or a wheelchair at Nu'uanu Hale. Once a month Father Khanh takes Mass to them and we celebrate with a handful of grateful patients. Please join us to help them celebrate. Thursday, Sept. 5 at 9:3o a.m.

ALTATA SERVER TRAINING

Help to encourage our youngest Liturgical Ministers, our Altar Servers with prayer cards, individually wrapped goodies or a note and drop it off in the Hall before 9:oo a.m. on the morning of the Bth or bring it to the office this week.

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Parish Scripture Group - Currently we have only 2 groups. Both meet Wednesdays, morning and evening. Each week the Scripture for the upcoming Sunday is read and examined. Ouestions about faith are always welcome. lf you would like to help start another group that meets on another day, please see Father Khanh or Frank Jordan.

YOUTH FAITH FORMATION (YFF) - Educating our youth in Liturgy, Church Doctrine, History, Scripture, Morality and Social Justice is an important part of our Youth Formation. We are working toward an ongoing formation and not allowing Confirmation to be an end to the processes, but a beginning. Our youth this year blossomed in their service to the parish in their participation with the Vigil Liturgies, the Parish Feast, Christmas, Epiphany, Stations of the Cross. Our Youth Leaders need a tremendous amount of time and energy to keep up with our newest leaders of the church. Mahalo to Geno & Christiana Astarita who put in a lot of time and energy this past year to help with the PSG

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received many complaints about that answer. When I wrote it, I was thinking of a Baptist church in a town where I used to be pastor. They invited young people from our parish to a movie-tnd-pizza plry.After the purty, the pastor attacked the Catholic Church, saying the pope was the anti-Christ and that praying to the crucifix was idol worship. The Catholic teens were so upset that I told them not to go to activities at that church anymore.

I made nvo mistakes in that column: First, in trying to be briee I left out details you needed to understand my point. Second, I painted all Protestants with the same brush. Most Protestants are faithful believers who respect the Catholic faith. If the pastor at that Baptist church had simply talked about the Baptist faith in positive terms and hadn't attacked Catholicism, I'd have no problem with our young people attending their parties. '[/hen parents, teachers, and priests do a So we agree: good job of teaching our children about their Catholic faith, we prepare them to withstand any challenge to it.

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This is an exert from the Bishops statement on Labor and Justice. I encourage you to download the entire statement from htt p : //www. u s ccb. o rg /i ss u es - an d - acti o n /h u m an - life - a n d- di g n ity/ labor-em ployment/lab o r-day-state me nt- zotj. cfm T ake a moment to read it as a family and discuss how it affects you.

"Everyl human being enjoys a basic right to be respected, not because of any title, position, prestige, or accomplishment but first of all because we are created in the image and likeness of God. .

Today's competitive culture challenges us to strive for victory and advantage, butfor St. Paulthe challenge is to build each other up and honor one another's innate dignity. . " (Copies are available at the entrance of the church)

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