First Sunday of Lent by Tom Low

2747 Pali Highway Honolulu, Hawaii 96817

[808) ses-310s ssccpali@rcchawaii.org &S facebook.com/st.stephenpali OFFICE HOURS:

Tues-Thurs: Mon, Fri & sat:

9:00 am to 5:00 pm 9:00 am to 12:00 prn

PASTOR

Fr. Khanh Pham-Nguyen STAFF

Deacon Ronald Choo Sister Marykutty Kottuppallil, MSMHC Rosemary Hashimoto, Secretary FAITH FORJVIATION

CCD-Children Velma Guieb-Mamuad

Youth & Confirmstion Rosemary Hashimoto (interi m) DT'

Debbie Fujiyama P arish

Scripture Groups

Francis Jordan

WETKEND

SATURDAY

PARISH MINISTRIES

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Homebound & Bereansement Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke

CONFESSION :

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Donald Yee (Sunday) Server Nicole Heafner

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DIVOTION & ADORATION Eucharistic Adoration ...... WED iVass

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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 hai/e a child to be baptized, please cali the Parish office for more information

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Sacrisfy Celine Asato & David Tom

Justice & Peace

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PARISH ORGANIZATIONS

Pastoral Cauncil

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

Patricia Silva Ste uardship / D i*c

The Diocese of Honolulu requires couples to marry in the Church participate in the preparation for the Sacrament of Matrimony. Couples to should contact the office for Marriage Preparation at least 6 months before the wedding MARRIAGE:

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Bernard tlo (interim)

Finance Couneil James Solidum (interim)

Liturgy Commission TBA B uildin g/ Planni

ng C o m mi t t e e Loretta Chee & Richard Leong Sociel Fellousship Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew

When changing address/telephone, or moving out of the Parish, please kindly notify the office PARISHIONERS:

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

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In the campus Church where I work, more people show up on Ash Wednesday than on any other day. Practicing Catholics, Catholics who are a little (or a lot) out of practice, and non-Catholics who sense the need for a period of discipline stream through the doors to remember that they are dust and into dust they shall return. With a cross smudged on their foreheads, they go out, sensing that this defined six-week block we call Lent is a real chance to change course and renew their lives. Many of them return each sunday to hear ancient stories and try to live into the good intentions symbolized by the ashes. Ash Wednesday creates a framework for conversion, and the First Sunday of Lent tells us why we need it. The Genesis story is an explanation for the brokenness of the world that comes not from God's error in creation, but from our desire to be God and control our own destiny. The creature cannot be the creator. we cannot know fully what God knows. For Adam and Eve, such knowledge is power, and they aren't content with what God has given them. In the deseft, Jesus is also tempted to show his power and take control from his Father. He could refuse to subject himself to God's will. He could make bread and force God to care for him. Even more, he could give power over to one who is not God. lnstead, Jesus gives his life over to God. With his grace, we can do the same. Where are you being tempted to push God aside and take control? Ma ry Katharine Deeley s undayb ulletin @ li guori.

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Weekly Offerings ( March t & z,

7:15 a.m. Mass: Parish Families 9:3o am Mass: t Anthony Sterlacci

Monday, March 3: 8 am Mass: George Abcede

(intentions) Tuesday, March 4: 8 am Mass: Eduardo & Emolyn intentions

Wednesday, March 5: 8 am Mass: t Rodney Ho Thursday, March 6: 8 am Mass: + George Kishaba Friday, March 7: 8 am Mass: t Rodney Ho Saturday, March 8: 8 am Mass: + Harriet Makanui

For the sick & homebound: ROLAND ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, HARRY BENDER, MABEL LUKE, JOE CHANG, DON YEE

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Rite of Election

The Rite of Election will be held at the Cathedral at 2:oo p.m. on Sunday. The Catechumens will be sent from the 9:3o a.rn. Mass. This is one of the "hinge" rites in the RCIA process. We know a lot about elections. We hear candidates promoting themselves, but not much testimony from others. Election in the Church is a little different. lt is God who chooses and it is through the witness of others that we know a person is chosen by God. Election begins with God and is witnessed by the Church. To be elected means to be chosen by God and we see God's influence in their lives, evidence of God's continued presence in our world. Our community sends them to the Bishop, they sign their names in the Book of the Elect and the Bishop declares them to join the ranks of the Elect.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS

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March 9-Rite of Election March tt-CIass The Battle of Prayer

Tuesday, March tt: 4:oo p.m. (Sat.) Chcir Practice

Stations of the Cross begin at 7:oo p.m. ivith a fellowship supper from

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6:oo to 5:45 p.m. The following: Marir' ,g ministries are in charge of the,-April4 Stations, please see the sign up if Aprilrr you would like to help.

CCD Fafth Formation

Lenten Penance Service

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Youth Faith Formation

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Wednesday, March t2: 8:3o-g:oo Eucharistic Adoration

Mahalo to all our hardworking CCD children, their families and catechists and

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to our generous parishioners who helped support our Operation Rice Bowl

7:oo p.rn. (Sun.) Choir Practice

Wednesday, March t4: 7 pm Stations of ihe Ca"oss

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bake and craft sale. Through your generosity and kindness, we are able to donate $r,186.5o to Catholic Relief Services projects around the world.

LIVING IN LOVE RETREAT March

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Married couples invited to give themselves a fantastic Lenten resolution! Treat your spouse to a delightful experience designed to put the fun and romance back into marriage! This retreat workshop affirms, energizes, and frees husbands and wives to live in love the way they always dreamed they would. Living in Love offers liberating insight from Pope John Paul ll's Theology of the Body into how differently men and women prefer to achieve intimacy and helps couples get in touch with the resources that draw them to each other and fuel their passion. The workshop consists of a series of lively, inspirational presentations, followed by questions for reflection, private couple time, and a brief communal prayer. There is no large group discussion or open sharing on the topics. Saturday's time schedule is 8:ooAM - 9:ooPM and includes a lovely, romantic candlelight dinner. Sunday ends by 3:ooPM and includes Mass. Cost is still just sr5o.oo per couple. Scholarships are available and no one has ever been denied access to the weekend because of cost. (we have three couples so far.) For more information please call Ed & Betty Coda at 8o8-839-o837 or email them at codafam@aol.com. Also, you can visit www.livinginlove.org to register.

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EASTER DUTY All the faithful, after they have been initiated into the Most Holy Eucharist, are bound by the obligation of receiving communiofl at least once a year. This precepr is to be fulfilled during the Easter Season unless it is fulfilled, for a just cause, at some other time during the year. This period is exended to

include all the weeks of Lent and the Easter Season, and extending beyond to Trinity Sunday (]une 15).

LENTEN PRACTICES The faithful are encouraged during Lent to attend daily Mass, receive Holy Communion, participate in penance services, and receive sacramental absolution; to take part in public and private exercises of piety, give generously to works of religion and charity, perform acts of kindness toward the sick, aged and the poor; to practice voluntary self-denial, especially regarding food, drink and worldly amusements; and to pray more fervently, particularly for the intentions of the Holy Father. For others

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