First Sunday of Advent

2747 Pali Highway Honolulu, Hawaii 96817

(808j ses-310s

t.s ssccpali@rcchawaii.org E-8 facebook.com/st.stephenpali 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 FAITH FORMATION

CCD-Children Velma Guieb-Mamuad

Youth& Confirmatiod Rosemary Hashimoto (interim)

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Debbie Fujiyama Parish Scipture Qroups Francis Jordan

CONFESSION

WEEKEND MASS SATURDAY SUNDAY

PARISH MINISTRIES

H amebound & Bereansement Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke

Hospitality

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(SaturdayVigil) Donald Yee (Sunday) Altor Seroer Nicole Heafner

Litursical Music Leka Leaeno (Saturday Vigil) Stanley Wong (Sunday)

Lectar

(MainChurch).. 4:oo pm

(chapet) (Main Church) ..

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

3:45 pm 9:15 am

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

WEEKDAY MASS Chapel ofSt. Catherine

MONDAY-SATURDAY

SATURDAY 3:oo SUNDAY B:45-

8:OO AM

Holy

Rosary

before Mass

Homebound Ministers are available to visit VIS|TATIONOFTHESICK: Priest and-:-

the infirm or hospitalized. Please contact the Parish. For

sacramental

emergency, call 595-3105 and press #2

Beverly Perry

Holy Communion at Mass Jennifer Tamayo

Sacrisfy

BAPTISM: Sacramental preparation is required. If you are expecting or have a child to be baptized, please call the Parish office for more information

Celine Asato & David Tom

.Iustice & Peace

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(RespectLife)

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(Aloysius Food Pantry) (Family Promise Hawaii)

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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

PARISH ORGANIZATIONS

Pastaral Councit

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS:

Patricia Silva

Steuardship/Diseipleship Council

Kokua! Please contact your Church prior to

making arrangements with a funeral home

(Funerals on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday)

Bernard Ho (interim)

PARISHIONERS:

Finance Council James Solidum (interim)

When changing address/telephone,

or moving out of the

Parish, please kindly notif,r the office

Liturgy Commission TBA B uildin s/ P la nning C o m

mitt e e

Loretta Chee & Richard Leong Saeial Fellauship 5ui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew

would like to become a parishioner of St. Stephen, please use forms available at the entrance of the Church or contact the office NEW PARISHIoNERS: If you

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up one side The hike wasn,t long-less than a mile-but the trail ran steeply the ocean of a cliff face and down just as steeply into the next valley, where having a hard lapped the sand and a waterfallfell lazily in the distance' I was time going up. I thought about the times I blew off exercise in favor of more shape," l'd sedentarypursuits and laughed about being in shape. "Round is a say to myself.

Despite the encouragement of my family, I had to stop climbing eventually. I went back down to wait for them, enjoying the beautiful point' surroundings from my perch on a rock a bit closer to the starting the ln today's Scripture reading, lsaiah describes the Lord's mountain and the for joy with which lsrael approaches the climb, an apt metaphor teginning of the Church year. But make no mistake, the climb won't always start be"easy. Both Paul and Matthew tell us to stay awake, because it will throwing by before we know it. Paul urges us'to get some spiritual exercise off things that weigh us down-like excessive indulgence for food, drink, sexual intimacy, power, and wealth. Rather, says Paul, "Put on Christ'" fit The question for all of us this first sunday of Advent is, "How spiritually up am l?" lf we've regularly put on Christ and practiced our faith, the climb the Lord's mountain won't seem so arduous and long' And when we arrive, the Lord will greet us with joy'

Mary Katharine Deeley I sundaybulletin@Iiguori'org Mary Katharine Deeley lo lhe Liguori Sunday_Bulletinsl currently the pastoral

please welcome Mary has a master of associate for sheil catholic center at Northwestern Iniversity in Evanston, lL, literature from Christian yale and.early Scripture in Hebrew a doctorate and ai"i"ity O"gr"e from (Liguori, zor3)' Northwestirn. Her latest book is Remembering God: Restin$ in the Midst of Life

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Sunday, December t: 7:15 a.m. Mass: Parish Families 9:3o am Mass: Paris Families

Monday, December z: 8 am Mass: + Allan L. Keeno requested by Madeline Lum

Tuesday, December 3: 8 am Mass: + Dora Kop

Wednesday, December 4: 8 am Mass: + Robert K.K. Pang requested by Madeline Lum

Thursday, December 5: 8 am Mass: + Kathryn Zeitner Friday, December 6: 8 am Mass' + Harriet Makanui Saturday, December 7: 8 am Mass: Allthe Sick

For the sick & homebound: ROLAND ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, HARRY BENDER, GINNY STAHL, ETHELAU, MABEL LUKE

For the recently deceased: IGNACIO BABAUTA, JANE AKI,

MARTIN LUKE, IRENE JOHNSON, DAVID LIU, BOBBY LOWE, BEN

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We will honor our patron saint for his love of Christ and his position as Protomartyr of the Church. We have much to be thankful for the blood of the martyrs which is the seed of our faith.

,A.DVENT I-IELPS

With C"hristmas encroaching in on even Thanksgiving, how do we observe the Season of Advent? lt's like swimming upstream. We have included weekly Advent inserts as well as our yearly blue Advent devotional resources. Please take an extra one to share.

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CHARISTiC .ADORATION-Decem ber 4ih

ln the chapel after Morning Mass until Benediction ending at7:oo p.m.

"l keep up the Holy Hour to grow more and more into His likeness... Looking at the Eucharistic Lord for an hour transforms the heart in a mysterious way as the face of Moses was transformed after his companionship with God on the - Fulton J. Sheen

mountain."

NURSING HOMF MA55 Thursday, December Sth

Thursday, December 5th at 9:3o a.m. is our Nuuanu Hale Mass. Our parishioners there look forward to this special time of prayer. We could use your voices in prayer and song if you are able to join us.

IMMACULATE COI\TCEPTI{]N-December 9th at 8:OO a.mDecember 8th is usuallythe Feast of the lmmaculate Conception. The day in which Blessed Virgin Mary is honored as being the sinless bearer of the Christ who is God. This is the only other Holy Day of Obligation for our Diocese, the other being Christmas. This year it falls on the Second Sunday of Advent. The Feast of the lmmaculate Conception is transferred to Monday, December 9th, but the obligation is not transferred. You do not need to go to mass on Monday.

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Take time to make room in your heartfor Jesus.

Friday, December r3 at 7:oo p.m.

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ruUUANU F{ALE OUTREACH The CCD teachers, parents and students will be preparing 8o gift bags for the parishioners at Nuuanu Hale this year on December r5th. Please help us make their Christmas a little bit warmer. We are looking for donations of tissue packs, socks, toothbrushes, toothpaste and small bottles of hand lotion'

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.to our Pastoral Advisory Council and all who helped with the luncheon, the decorating, imu and all the Thanksgiving preparation for our Kupuna Outreach Ministry.

Mahalo to those who helped replace the Missalettes this weekend

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Why are the candles in tfu Advent wreath dffirent eolors? And *ny a, some wreaths hauefiue candles ond sowi hauefour?

Most Advent wreaths have three purple candles and one rose to echo the liturgical colors of the Church's Advent celebrations.

Whether the wreath is being used at home or in a church, the lighting of the candles should follow the liturgical colors of the Sundays of Advent. The vestments at Mass are purple during the first two weeks of Advent, and we light a purple candle on the first and second Sundays ofAdvent.

On the third Sunday, the Church celebrates Caudett Sunday or Rejoice Sund-ay, named after the first word of the day's traditional entrance verse (Philippians 4:4-5). The priest wears rose vestments at Mass as a sign of our brightening hope and joy, and on the Advent wreath we light the rose candle to reflect the action in the liturgyThe fourth Sunday of Advent sees the lighting of the last

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Some churches and families add a fifth candle to their Advent practices by placing a white candle in the center of the wreath. They light this at Christmas, again echoing the Church's liturgical color for the season and rejoicing in Christ our Lord, whose birth brings light and life to our world.

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