Sunday of Divine Mercy

2747 Pali Highway Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 (808J s9s-3105

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OFFICE HOURS:

Tues-Thurs: Mon, Fri &

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

Sat: 9!00 am to

PASTOR

Fr. Khanh Pham-Nguyen STATF

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

CCD-Children Velma Guieb-Mamuad

& Confirmation

Yourt

Rosemary Hashimoto (interim)

R. C. t. A" Debbie Fujiyama Francis Jordan

SATURDAY(lvtcinChurch)-...........4:oopm

PARISH MINISTRIES

SUNDAYlchapel........................7:L5

Homebound & Bereaoement

{Main Church)

Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke

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am

TBA-

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

ChapelofSt. Catherine

(SaturdayVigil) Donald Yee (Sunday)

SATURDAY 3:oo-3:45Pm 8:45-9:15am SUNDAY

9:3O am

WEEKDAY MASS

Hospitality

,{ltar

CONFESSION

WEEKEND MASS

Parish Scripture Groups

MONDAY-SATURDAY

Srooam

Holy

Rosary

before Mass

Senser

Nicole Heafner

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

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VISITAT|ONOFTHESICK: Priest and Homebound Ministers are available to visit

the infirm or hospitalized.

Please contact emergency, call 595-3105 and press #2

Lector Beverly Perry

Holy Communion at Mass

the Parish. For

sacramental

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

Jennifer Tamayo

Saerisfy Celine Asato & David Tom

,Iustice

&

TBATBA

Peace (RespectLife) (Aloysius Food Pantry)

797 PARISH

Promise Hawaii)

ORGANIZATIONS -(Family

MARRIAGE: The Diocese of Honolulu requires couples to marryz 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

Pastoral Council

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS:

Patricia Silva Ste w ails

h ip / Dis ciple s hip C o u n c

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making arrangements with

Kokuo! Please contact your Church prior to funeral home 6Funera ls on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday)

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Bernard Ho (interim)

Finance Council James Solidum (interim)

Liturgy Commission

PARISHIONERS:

When changing address/telephone, or moving out of the notiff the office

Parish, please kindly

TBA

Buildingl Planning Committee Loretta Chee & Richard Leong Social Fellowship Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew

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 KAMO

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GOOD NEWS A<7s ztt 2-47 I

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Peter

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Exaltation, sincerity of heart, indescribable and glorious joy-these are the words that describe the gathering of believers that formed the early Church after Pentecost. Filled with the Spirit, they committed themselves to Yhe Way" by caring for one an-other, following the teaching of the apostles, and breaking bread in their homes. lmagine going to Mass every week and being greeted as an old friend or a new one, not worrying whether someone was genuine, and feeling that something miraculous and new was in the world.

Why isn't it this way in every church? ln an age that demands proof, I wonder whether we've grown suspicious of faith. ln a culture that thinks most people have an angle, lwon-derwhetherwe have a hard time believing that someone could love us so much that he would die for us' Maybe we've all become a little more like Thomas in his doubt rather than in his belief. I keep returning to Peter's words: "Although you have not seen him you love him."

It takes a remarkable faith to love someone you haven't seen. But parents do it for their unborn children. We love those who have been taken from us in death. lf we can love these, however imperfectly, surely we can love Christ, who died that we might live. Surely we can strive to love all people, known and unknown, because they are God's children. ln the stories of the early Church, we see the evidence of love-joy and compassion for all.

What if every church could do this today?

MARY KATHAR I N E D EE LEY su ndayb u lleti n @ lig u ori. org

ALOYSIUS TOM FOOD PANTRY

4:oo p.m. Mass: Merry Cris Ho Sunday, April

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7:15 a.m. Mass: Parish Families g:3o am Mass: Parish Families

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Tuesdan April 19: 8 am Mass: t You Yuen Wong

WednesdanApril 3ol 8 am Mass:

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Florence Ho

Thursday, May t: 8 am Mass: + Benigno Guieb

FridaS May z: 8 am Mass: + Anna Saturdan May 3: 8 am Mass: All the Sick

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

Non perishable items and rice are neededforthe Food Pantry ministry assisting 5t. John the Baptist Parish in Kalihi-

STEWARDSHIP OF OUR LORD SUOTE OF THE WEEK

PACARRO, LESTER MABERY, FLORENCE HO, ETHELAU, GINNY STAHL, PAULWONG

". . ...Although you have not seen him you love him; even though you do not see him now yet believe in him, I Peter

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For the recentty deceased: MARTIN LUKE, DAVID LIU, BOBBY LOWE, ETHEL LEE ELLEN SHAM, PATSYTAM, GWENDOLYN JOSEPH, HAZEL ANDRADE, MARIA GUIEB, MERRY CRIS HO, YVONNE

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PFIAY FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS CCD

AprilzT-Class May

4-May Crowning YOUTH

April zTth-Parish Presentation May

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Parish Scripturt Groups Wed. April 3oth & 7:oo p.m.

9:15 a.m.

R.C.I.A.

April zg-Class Mystagogia

Tuesday, April z9: 4:oo p.m. (Sat.) Choir Practice

Please pray for Paul K. Wong and for his family. Mr. Wong passed away on April 6th just before Holy Week. His funeral Mass will be Monday, April z8 at 11:oo a.m. with visitation beginning at 9:3o and burial at 1:oo p'fn.

PARISH PRESENTATION-APriI 27 We are ever closer to accessibility for our Kupuna and families, find out more after the g:3o a.m. Mass. Presentation by Mitsunaga & Associates. Father Khanh has asked that this also be his aloha celebration.

Today we also celebrate the Canonization in Rome of the two great popes.

Pope John XXllland Pope John Paul ll.

DTVINE MERCY SUND^AY Divine Mercy chaplet will begin tomorrow after the Daily Mass in the chapel.

All interested are invited to join in this powerful Prayerforthe world.

Other Diocesan celebrations today: at Star of the Sea Church, Waialae-Kahala $r.5 p.m.-Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet Video talk on Pope John Paul ll (Father Donald Calloway) celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva 3:oo p.m.

-Mass FAMILY PROMISE HAWAII

7:oo p.m. (5un.) Choir practice

Our week to host Family Promise is May rr-May r8. Mahalo to allthose who have helped the last three visits. We will need families to prepare dinner and help with clean up, overnight and set up and tear down. See the sign up sheet if you can help in any of these areas.

Sunday, May 4: 9: oo a.m. May Crowning

NUUANU HALE MASS-MaY 1, 2074

Wednesday, April 3o: 8:30-9 am Eucharistic Adoration Thursday, May t:

NextWeeh: Msy394,2014 Altar seruer: [Sat] -tvtarian, John Paul, George

Thursday morning at g:3o a.m. During this Easter season we celebrate with our parishioners at Nuuanu Hale. Please join our chorus of voices and Prayer with our kupuna and residents.

MAY CROWNING

[Sun] -nachel Heafner, Maile

May 4th at 9:oo a.m. Parishioners are invited to join in honoring our Blessed Mother, who brought us the Resurrected Savior of the Nations. We ask you to join in a decade of the rosary and if you are able offering of flowers.

Lector:

CELEBFI,ATION OF ST. DAMIEN 15O YEAR ORDINATION

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McGuinn, Jasmine Labrador, Carly Nakano

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- Michelle silva, David Houle

[5un] -aennet Chun, Ginny Jordan EMHC

[Sot] * Valerie Low, Olive Houle fsun] - Joel/Jennifer Tamayo, Collection Counting: Team t Church Cleaners Donna Louis, Gwen Kurahara, Laura Chun, Debbie & Paul Fuiiyama, Juanita Ruis

6:00 p.m. Mass with the Parishes and 8:oo p.m. Concert at Friday May 9th Neal S. Blaisdell Arena.

Saturday May roth - g:oo Mass with Bishop Larry Silva at the Cathedral of of Peace and rr AM Rally at the Hawaii State Capitol Our

MONTHLY EUCH.A,RISTIC I\DOFTI\TION Wednesday, May 7th afterthe 8:oo a.m. Mass and closing with Benediction at 6:45 p.m. This is followed by Parish Scripture Study. Lectors and other Ministers are encouraged to attend to prepare for Sunday proclamation of the Word of God. 0t rs also a great learning andfaith sharing experience.l

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Many times we think of conversion as something that happens only when someone joins the Catholic Church.

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I have a non-Catholic friend who has the date she accepted Christ on her Bible. I could putJanuary 8, 1962, on my Bible because that's the date of my baptism, the day I was saved. At baptism I received the grace to convert daily when I am old enough to do so on my own.

But my conversion isn't something that happened once in the past. It wasn't the last sacrament I received. It was the first sacrament I received as I began myjourney of faith. We deepen our faith and continue our conversion as we live the sacramental life ofthe Church.

This is seen most clearly througlr the sacraments of Eucharist and penance. Eucharist is something Catholics participate in weekly, and most Catholics take part in the sacrament of penance at least once

a

year.

Why? Because we need to deepen our conversion.

FR. PATRICK KWES, CSsR sundaybulletin@liguori.org

Divine Mercy Sunday During the course of Jesus' revelations to Saint Faustina on the Divine Mercy He asked on numerous occasions that a feast day be dedicated to the Divine Mercy and that this feast be celebrated on the Sunday after Easter. The liturgical texts ofthat day, the 2nd Sunday of Easter, concern the institution of the Sacrament of Penance, the Tribunal of the Divine Mercy, and are thus already suited to the request of Our Lord. This Feast was granted to the Universal Church by Pope John Paul ll on the occasion of the canonization of Sr. Faustina on 30 April 2000. ln a decree dated 23 May 2OOg the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments stated that "fhroughout the world the Second Sunday of Easter will receive the name Divine Mercy Sunday, a perennial invitation to the Christian world to face, with confidence in divine benevolence, the difficulties and trials that mankind will experience in the years to come." These papal acts represent the highest endorsement that the Church can give to a private revelation, an act of papal infallibility proclaiming the certain sanctity of the mystic, and the granting of a universal feast, as requested by Our Lord to St. Faustina.