S STephen t.
CATHOLIC PARISH
2747 Pali Highway Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 (808) 595-3105
ssccpali@rcchawaii.org 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 *Closed for lunch from 12:30-1:30 p.m.
PASTOR
Fr. Mario Raquepo STAFF
Deacon Ronald Choo Sister Marykutty Kottuppallil, MSMHC Rosemary Hashimoto, Secretary FAITH FORMATION
CCD-Children Velma Guieb-Mamuad Youth & Confirmation Rosemary Hashimoto (interim) R. C. I. A. Debbie Fujiyama Parish Scripture Groups Francis Jordan PARISH MINISTRIES
Homebound & Bereavement Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke Hospitality David Tom Altar Server Zachary Choo Liturgical Music Leka Leaeno (Saturday Vigil) Stanley Wong (Sunday) Lector Beverly Perry Holy Communion at Mass Jennifer Tamayo Sacristy Celine Asato & David Tom Justice & Peace TBA ——— (Respect Life) TBA ——— (Aloysius Food Pantry) TBA ——— (Family Promise Hawaii) PARISH ORGANIZATIONS
Pastoral Council Patricia Silva Stewardship/Discipleship Council Bernard Ho (interim) Finance Council James Solidum (interim) Liturgy Commission TBA Building/Planning Committee Loretta Chee & Richard Leong Social Fellowship Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew
weekend MASS
CONFESSION
SATURDAY (Main Church ) ………... 4:00 pm SUNDAY (Chapel) ………...………… 7:15 am
SATURDAY …..…… 3:00 — 3:30 pm or by appointment
(Main Church) .……...….… 9:30 am
WEEKDAY mass Chapel of St. Catherine
MONDAY— SATURDAY ............ 8:00 am
Devotion & ADORATION Eucharistic Adoration ...… WED Mass Holy Rosary ……………….. before Mass
VISITATION OF THE SICK: 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 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 PARISHIONERS: When changing address/telephone, or moving out of the
Parish, please kindly notify 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 MAI
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time GOOD NEWS
Mass Intentions
Proverbs 31:10–13, 19–20, 30–31 / 1 Thessalonians 5:1–6 / Matthew 25:14–30
Saturday, November 15:
“Stay awake.” My siblings and I used to huddle in our rooms on Christmas night, determined to stay up for Christmas dawn. We’d inevitably fall asleep, awakening around dawn to find the presents already around the tree and Jesus in the manger. “Stay awake,” we would say again on New Year’s Eve. This got a little easier as we got older and beat on pots and pans to celebrate the New Year. Special occasions call for special wakefulness. We anticipate, we watch, we try to glimpse the first signs of the holiday, birthday, or first day of vacation. These are important to us, and we don’t want to miss them. “Stay alert,” Paul says to us. “Prepare for the Master’s return,” Jesus says to us. At the end of the Church year, everything is about watchfulness. We reflect on the end times, when Christ will return in glory to judge the living and the dead and draw all creation to himself. What happens in the end? We show God what we’ve done with his many gifts. We behave as children of light and refuse to fall asleep (a metaphor for turning away from God) so we’ll be found waiting when Christ comes again. We keep the faith, knowing our hope is in the Lord. When we were children, the temptation to fall asleep was great; we didn’t always make it to the first minutes of celebration. As adults in faith, the stakes are much higher. If we fall asleep here, we may miss the party altogether. Let’s encourage one another while we still have time.
4:00 p.m. Mass: † Siew Choo Ong
Mary Katharine Deeley sundaybulletin@liguori.org
Mahalo for your generous donations. We will be taking your gifts and offerings to St. John the Baptist soon. Please continue to remember them in your prayers.
STEWARDSHIP OF OUR LORD QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“.. .We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. .” 1 Thessalonians 5:6
Saturday 4:00 pm Mass
608.00
Votive Offering
46.00
7:15 am Mass
952.00
All Souls Day
340.00
805.06
Hall Use
500.00
9:30 am Mass Total Offering
Monday, November 17:
8 am Mass: † All who have died Tuesday, November 18:
8 am Mass: † Harry Bender Wednesday, November 19:
8 am Mass: † Christopher Berengue Thursday, November 20:
8 am Mass: † Rochelle Tomaselli Friday, November 21:
8 am Mass: † Christopher Berengue Saturday, November 22:
8 am Mass: All Souls in Purgatory
PLEASE PRAY For the sick & homebound: ROLAND ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, JOE CHANG, DON YEE, CARRIE TALWAR
2,365.06
Mahalo for your faithful service and continued generosity!
MARTIN LUKE, DAVID LIU, BOBBY LOWE, ETHEL LEE, ELLEN SHAM, PATSY TAM, GWENDOLYN JOSEPH, HAZEL ANDRADE, MARIA GUIEB , MERRY CRIS HO, YVONNE PACARRO, LESTER MABERY, FLORENCE HO, ETHEL AU, GINNY STAHL, PAUL WONG, TONY BARON, MABEL LUKE, ELLEN KALAHELE, JOHN COSTA, MARTHA OYADAMORI, CAROLYN AKI, HARRY BENDER
11/16 Ronald Fernandez
Donations/Collections
(November 8 & 9, 2014)
7:15 a.m. Mass:† All who have died 9:30 am Mass: Special Intention
For the recently deceased:
ALOYSIUS TOM FOOD PANTRY
Weekly Offerings
Sunday, November 16:
11/17 Catherine Ferreira 11/18 Carl Lesley Francis Oyadomori Peter DeMello, Sr. 11/19 Demetria Elizabeth Meyer Clarence Hon 11/20 Dai Yai Lum 11/22 Alice Akamine Allan Andrade
November 16, 2014 Faith Formation CCD
November 16 & 22 Class YOUTH
Class Parish Scripture Groups
Wed. November 19 9:15 a.m. & 6:30 pm R.C.I.A.
November 23 Advent & the Liturgical Year
This week Tuesday, November 18: 4:00 p.m. (Sat.) Choir Practice (Please call the office if you are interested in attending)
Wednesday, November 19: 8:30 a.m.—9:15 a.m. Eucharistic Adoration
Thursday, November 20: 7:00 p.m. (Sun) Choir Practice
Liturgical Ministries Next Week: November 22 & 23
Altar server: [Sat] — [Sun] — Genesis Hahn, Logan Choo, Adrian Abcede
Lector: [Sat] - Richard Leong/Michelle Silva
[Sun] -Sweetie Pacarro/Arlette Aki EMHC: [Sat] — Maris Ho, Kristyn Ho [Sun] — Gwen Kurahara/Sandy Wong/Helen Luke
CONGRATUALTIONS Ian Glidden and Stephanie Wong who were married on Sunday November 9th. Please pray for this newly formed family, a mini-church of God. ANOINTING OF THE SICK—November 22nd We will celebrate the Anointing of the Sick on the Feast of Christ the King at the 4:00 p.m. Saturday Mass (Nov. 22) only. This is one of the Seven Sacraments Christ has given to the faithful as a sign of the Father’s healing love for his people. This is a privilege for all baptized Catholics who are: 1) Suffering any kind of illness beyond the norm of daily stress, 2) Dangerously ill due to sickness or old age or 3) Preparing to undergo serious surgery. THANKSGIVING DAY—November 27 Our Thanksgiving Mass will be November 27th at 9:00 a.m. This year there will be two tables that Father will bless our usual bountiful offering and a new one with items from your home to be used at your Thanksgiving celebration. END OF THE CHURCH YEAR—November 29th Next week will be a busy one for us. We will be changing out the 2014 Missals for the 2015 on Saturday Nov. 29th as we prepare for the First Sunday of Advent. Please meet in the church after the 8:00 a.m. Mass PARISH FEAST DAY—November 30th A reminder that our Parish Feast Day is celebrated on the First Sunday of Advent. (actual feast is December 26th). A Fellowship will follow the Sunday 9:30 a.m. Mass. Please join your parish in honoring our patron Saint the First Martyr of the Christian Church. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION—DECEMBER 8TH We only have two Holy Days of Obligation that we observe in our parish. Christmas and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the Patroness of our nation. Masses will be at 8:00 a.m. in the chapel and 6:00 p.m. in the church. Following our 6:00 p.m. Mass we will bless the Marian Grotto . Her quiet presence along the Pali Highway is a comfort to many. Let us give thanks and honor her for her constant help and intercession.. PIANO FUND—December 13-14 Mahalo to our generous parishioner who paid for the new used piano as well as the cost to move it. We are beginning a fund to purchase a new piano in a few years. To help start the fund, there will be a Bread Sale on Dec. 13 & 14. Please see the sign up. (you may also contribute directly to the Piano fund if you wish)
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED A CATHOLIC EDUCATION? Collection Counting: Team 4 Church Cleaners: Donna Louis, Gwen Kurahara, Laura Chun, Debbie & Paul Fujiyama, Juanita Ruis
Sacred Hearts Academy, private school for girls preschool to 12th grade will conduct a Fall Open House on Sunday November 23rd at 2:30 p.m. For more information call the Admissions Office at 734-5058, ext. 224 (Karen Muramoto)
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time GOOD NEWS
Mass Intentions
Proverbs 31:10–13, 19–20, 30–31 / 1 Thessalonians 5:1–6 / Matthew 25:14–30
Saturday, November 15:
“Stay awake.” My siblings and I used to huddle in our rooms on Christmas night, determined to stay up for Christmas dawn. We’d inevitably fall asleep, awakening around dawn to find the presents already around the tree and Jesus in the manger. “Stay awake,” we would say again on New Year’s Eve. This got a little easier as we got older and beat on pots and pans to celebrate the New Year. Special occasions call for special wakefulness. We anticipate, we watch, we try to glimpse the first signs of the holiday, birthday, or first day of vacation. These are important to us, and we don’t want to miss them. “Stay alert,” Paul says to us. “Prepare for the Master’s return,” Jesus says to us. At the end of the Church year, everything is about watchfulness. We reflect on the end times, when Christ will return in glory to judge the living and the dead and draw all creation to himself. What happens in the end? We show God what we’ve done with his many gifts. We behave as children of light and refuse to fall asleep (a metaphor for turning away from God) so we’ll be found waiting when Christ comes again. We keep the faith, knowing our hope is in the Lord. When we were children, the temptation to fall asleep was great; we didn’t always make it to the first minutes of celebration. As adults in faith, the stakes are much higher. If we fall asleep here, we may miss the party altogether. Let’s encourage one another while we still have time.
4:00 p.m. Mass: † Siew Choo Ong
Mary Katharine Deeley sundaybulletin@liguori.org
Mahalo for your generous donations. We will be taking your gifts and offerings to St. John the Baptist soon. Please continue to remember them in your prayers.
STEWARDSHIP OF OUR LORD QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“.. .We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. .” 1 Thessalonians 5:6
Saturday 4:00 pm Mass
608.00
Votive Offering
46.00
7:15 am Mass
952.00
All Souls Day
340.00
805.06
Hall Use
500.00
9:30 am Mass Total Offering
Monday, November 17:
8 am Mass: † All who have died Tuesday, November 18:
8 am Mass: † Harry Bender Wednesday, November 19:
8 am Mass: † Christopher Berengue Thursday, November 20:
8 am Mass: † Rochelle Tomaselli Friday, November 21:
8 am Mass: † Christopher Berengue Saturday, November 22:
8 am Mass: All Souls in Purgatory
PLEASE PRAY For the sick & homebound: ROLAND ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, JOE CHANG, DON YEE, CARRIE TALWAR
2,365.06
Mahalo for your faithful service and continued generosity!
MARTIN LUKE, DAVID LIU, BOBBY LOWE, ETHEL LEE, ELLEN SHAM, PATSY TAM, GWENDOLYN JOSEPH, HAZEL ANDRADE, MARIA GUIEB , MERRY CRIS HO, YVONNE PACARRO, LESTER MABERY, FLORENCE HO, ETHEL AU, GINNY STAHL, PAUL WONG, TONY BARON, MABEL LUKE, ELLEN KALAHELE, JOHN COSTA, MARTHA OYADAMORI, CAROLYN AKI, HARRY BENDER
11/16 Ronald Fernandez
Donations/Collections
(November 8 & 9, 2014)
7:15 a.m. Mass:† All who have died 9:30 am Mass: Special Intention
For the recently deceased:
ALOYSIUS TOM FOOD PANTRY
Weekly Offerings
Sunday, November 16:
11/17 Catherine Ferreira 11/18 Carl Lesley Francis Oyadomori Peter DeMello, Sr. 11/19 Demetria Elizabeth Meyer Clarence Hon 11/20 Dai Yai Lum 11/22 Alice Akamine Allan Andrade
dear PADRE How long should Mass be?
WEEKLY SCRIPTURAL READINGS Monday, November 17 St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Revelation 1:1—4; 2:1—5 Luke 18:35—43
Tuesday, November 18
Dedication of Sts. Peter & Paul Basilica St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
Revelation 3:1—6, 14—22 Luke 19:1—10
Wednesday, November 19 Revelation 4:1—11 Luke 19:11—28
Thursday, November 20 Revelation 5:1—10 Luke 19:41—44
Q
How long Mass is supposed to last? My sister leaves after an hour even if the priest is still talking. Shouldn’t she stay until it’s over?
A
There’s no rule about how long Mass should last, but it’s inappropriate to arrive late or leave before the final blessing or the end of the recessional song. People should leave early only if they get sick or if they’re doctors, police officers, and fire fighters called away for an emergency. Weekend activities should be scheduled around Mass. Saturday night Masses were designed for people who work Sundays and for parishes with too few priests to accommodate everyone on Sunday—they weren’t designed to make it easier to get a good tee time on Sunday morning. It’s also important to remember that local customs and traditions affect the length of Mass. When I worked as a missionary in Brazil, Sunday Mass could go on for nearly three hours. When I celebrated Mass in Scotland, the pastor said I had to be done in a half hour. Most areas have more than one church. Encourage your sister to either grow accustomed to the tradition of the parish she attends or look for another church. As a rule, I don’t think it’s good to “shop around” for Mass, but if your sister is that bothered by the length of the Mass at her current church, it might be better for her to go elsewhere. FR. PATRICK KEYES, CSsR sundaybulletin@liguori.org
Friday, November 21
Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Revelation 10:8—11 Luke 19:45—48
Saturday, November 22 St. Cecelia
Revelation 11:4—12 Luke 20:27—40
SUNDAY, November 23 OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING of the UNIVERSE
Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28 Matthew 25:31—46
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