Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

2747 Pali Highway Honolulu, Hawaii 96817

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(808) ses-310s ssccpali@rcchawaii.org facebookcom/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

& Confirmation

Rosemary Hashimoto (interim)

R, C.I. A. Debbie Fujiyama

WEEKEND MASS

Parish Scripture Groups Francis Jordan

SATURDAY SUNDAY

PARISH MINISTRIES

H omebound & B ere arteme nt

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Donald - Yee (Sunday)

Church)..

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(SaturdayVigil)

Altar Seoer

4:oo pm ....7:15 am

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3:oo 8:45

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3:45 pm 9:15 am

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

Catherine

MONDAY_SATURDAY

SATURDAY SUNDAY

9:3O am

WEEKDAY MASS

Hospitality TBA

(Mainchurch)..

(Chapel)

Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke

CONFESSION

8:OO AM

Holy

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Rosary

Mass

before Mass

Nicole Heafner

Liturgical Music Leka Leaeno (Saturday Vigil)

VISITATTONOFTHESICK: Priest and Homebound Ministers are available

StanleyWong (Sunday)

the infirm or hospitalized. Please contact the Parish. For

Lector Beverly Perry

Holy Communion at Mass Jennifer Tamayo

Sacrisfy

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to visit

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

Celine Asato & David Tom

Justiee & Peace TBA TBA

TBA -

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(Respect Life) (Aloysius Food Pantry) (Family Promise Hawaii)

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:

PARISH ORGANIZATIONS

Pastoral Council Patricia 5ilva

Steuordship/ Discipleship Cauncil

Kokua! Please contactyour Church prior to making arrangements with a funeral home (Funerals on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday) FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS:

Bernard Ho (interim)

Finance Council James Solidum (interim)

Litutgy Commission TBA B

uilding/ Planning Co mmittee Loretta Chee & Richard Leong

Social Fellooship Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew

PARISHIONERS;

When changing address/telephone,

or moving out of the

Parish, please kindly notit/ 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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GGSD T{EIA/S lsaiah 66:r8-zr / Hebrews !2:5-7, ::-:r3 I Luke r3:zz-3o

I pride myself on being prompt. lt's about being considerate of those

waiting for you. So my initial feelings toward the people in today's gospelthose who didn't get to the master's house before he locked the door-are not particularly sympathetic. "should've checked your watchistopped dawdling/planned ahead" is what cynically runs through my mind. But that's exactly Jesus' point-once we're certain of our moral superiority and others' failures, we get in trouble.

Jesus' story reveals that people who assumed they'd be welcomed by the master simply by association, heritage, or neighborhood are surprised to be left outside even as outsiders from distant lands are welcomed. God doesn't abide by our rules, divisions, and judgments. ln fact, God delights in upending our ideas of who is right and who is wrong.

Jesus states it clearly, "Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." We hear it repeatedly-"Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:3)-yet we holler in political and religious arenas about who will be saved, who's going to hell, and who God favors and despises.

Jesus is clear: Strive to enter through the narrow door. He says many will attempt to enter but won't be strong enough.

It's an interesting word choice-to fit through a narrow door, you need only be lean or thin, not necessarily strong. Perhaps he meant strong enough to resist condemning others, strong enough to focus on stripping ourselves of sinful behaviors that keep us from intimacy with God.

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ALCIYSIUS TOM FOOD PI\NTFTY "Who wiliteach rne what is most pleasing to Gcd that I may do it?"

- St. Kateri Tekak'witha

5TE\T,/ARNSHIF3 OF GUR LORD

Saturday, August 24: 4:oo p.m. Mass: AII Families Sunday, August 25: 7:15 a.m. Mass: All Families 9:3o am Mass: All Families Monday, August 25: 8 am Mass: Landi Luke (birthday) Tuesday, August 27: 8 am Mass: t Mike Lee (anniversary) Wednesday, August z8: 8 am Mass: Joe Almuena (healing) Thursday, August z9: 8 am Mass: Monica Hahn (birthday) Friday, August 30: 8 am Mass, t Martin Luke Saturday, August 31: 8 am Mass: t Merry Chris Ho

For the sick & homebound: '' RO LAND ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, HARRY BENDER, GINNY STAHL, ETHELAU, MABEL LUKE For the recently deceased: ELLEN SHAM, PATSY TAM, GWENDOLYN JOSEPH, HAZEL ANDRADE, MARIA GUIEB, MERRY CRIS HO, YVONNE PACARRO

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Stanley Lizama

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Robert Choy Esther Leong

Michael Lee Week!y Sfferir:gs

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Meet Sept. t5 after mass Parish Scripture Groups

Wed. Aug. z8- 9:t5 a.m. and at 6:3o p.m.

It,c.l.A. Break for summer

Tuesday, August 27: 3;3+ p.n-r. s=i, cheir prectiee Wednesday, August z8: Eucharisti; Ad+raii*n f r"crn I :3+-9:06 ;-;:'?.

Thursday, August 29: 7 p.m. CE:+ir practice iSsn.i

Next Weeh: August 31 I SePtember 1,2013

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Bishop Larry Silva has published a very important and urgent letter to all parishioners in the Diocese of Honolulu regarding the issue of same-sex marriage. lt is available today in our parish bulletin. Please read it carefully and r"rpond accordingly. Legislators for Nuuanu are Representatives r) Takashi Ohno (S86-g+rSlrepohno@captiol.hawaii.gov)z) Sylvia Luke (S86853o/repluke@capitol.hawaii.gov and Senator Suzanne Chun-Oakland (5866r3o/senchunoakland@capitol.hawaii.gov). A list of all others is also available.

MAHALO Many thanks to Father Joe Carroll for filling in for Father Khanh while he away on retreat. Please pray he comes back refreshed in his priestly ministry.

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ALTAR SER1.rER TRAINING Mahalo

to Nicole Heafner, Marian Houle and Zachary Choo for training our Altar

Servers this past weekend. There's a lot of small things to remember. Commissioning will be September 8th at the 9:3o a.m. Mass. We appreciate them (and their parents who get them to Mass early) so much that to show our appreciation we are putting together 17 thank you bags. Please share with us in this project and bring a treat for our Altar Servers (prayer cards, individually wrapped goodies, a note) and drop it off in the Hall before 9:oo a.m. on the morning of the 8th or bring it to the office.

EUCHARISTIC ADOF?ATION Our monthly Adoration takes place September 4th in the chapel after the B:oo a.m. daily Mass and concludes with Benediction at 6:(! 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.

BISHOP'S PASTOR"AL \/ISIT October rz & r3. Please take time to fill out the survey in preparation for the Bishop's visit in October. The Bishop wants to hear from all our parishioners no matter how small. Your ideas and concerns are important This visit coincides with the celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation for B of our young people. Please pray for them as they begin the final preparation to receive this important Sacrament: Zachary Choo, Benett Chun, Jonah Chun, Claire Devaney, Rachel Heafner, Carly Nakano, Madison Seto and Jace Sisneroz. (Sorry I l"ft off Claire's name last week)

FAITH FORMATION

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RCIA - (Rite of Christian lnitiation of Adults) - The RCIA stands for the Rite of Christian lnitiation of Adults. RCIA in its purest form is for those adults who have not yet been baptized-however in reality those that are converting from other Christian religions often go through the RCIA as well as baptized Catholics who need to complete Sacraments of initiation. The RCIA is a process by which adults are introduced to the life of the Catholic Church through catechesis and liturgy. When an adult becomes Catholic they receive all 3 sacraments of initiation at the same timeBaptism, Eucharist and Confirmation. Debbie Fujiyama is our Coordinator. Lively discussionsr prayer and true conversion through formation are a part of each RCIA class.

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