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9:00 am to 5:00 pm* Mon, Fri & Sat: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm *C losed for lu nc h from tz jo -t:jo p. m. :

PASTOR

Fr. Mario Raquepo STAFF

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

CCD-Children Velma Guieb-Mamuad

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Youth & Confimation Rosemary Hashimoto (interim) l?. C. I. .tt.

Debbie Fujiyama Parish Scripture Groups Francis Jordan PARISH MINISTRIES

Homebound & Bereaaement Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke

Hospitality

WEEKEND MASS

SATURDAY

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3:3o pm or by appointment 3:oo

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

Chapel ofSt. Catherine

MONDAY-SATURDAY

David Tom

CONFESSION

SATURDAY )............ 4:oo pm SUNDAY(Chapet)........... 7:15 am (Main Church)....

9:3O am WEEKDAY MASS (Main Church

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8:oo AM

Holy

Rosary

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Altar Senter Zachary Choo

Liturgical Music Leka Leaeno (Saturday Vig il) Stanley Wong (Sunday)

Lector

VISITATIONOFTHESICK: Priest and Homebound Ministers are available to visit

the infirm or hospitalized.

Please contact

the Parish. For

sacramental

emergency, call595-3105 and press #2

Beverly Perry

Holy Comntunion at Mass Jennifer Tamayo

Sacristy

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

Justice

& Pedce

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(RespectLife)

TBA

(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

Pastoral Council Patricia Silva

Steuardship/Dis ciple ship C oun cil

FUNERALARRANGEMENTS: Kokual Please contact

Bernard Ho (interim)

Finance Council James Solidum (interim)

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

Liturgy Commission TBA

Social Fellouship Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew

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

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Saturday, April z5: 4:oo p.m. Mass: t Donna McDonnell

My mother lived for a time on a ranch in Texas. The ranch had cattle and sheep. My mother told me that sheep are pretty dumb and need a lot of care. She had great respectforthe ranch hands who patiently gotthem out to pasture and then rounded them up when it was time to come in. Left to their own devices, she said, sheep would be easy prey for coyotes, foxes, and bobcats that roam the hill country.

Sunday, April z6: 7:15 am Mass: All Families 9:3o am Mass: Confirmandee

Sheep were important for many families living in first-century Palestine as well. They provided food, clothing, milk, and a source of income.

Tuesday, April z8: 8 am Mass: t charles Ho

A good shepherd was worth his weight in gold, because he spent his days with the sheep, leading them to pasture, protecting them from harm, and finding them when they got lost.

Shepherds may not have had a high social status, but it would have been hard to live without them.

Jesus, the Good Shepherd, does all these things for his flock, and then goes even further: "1 came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."

The ranch hands my mother talked about would have grieved over a dead sheep but wouldn't have died trying to save it. They made sure the sheep were watered and fed, but they didn't make the sheep's lives more

Wednesday, April z9: 8 a.m. Mass: t Edwin Ohta

abundant.

But we have abundant life because Jesus laid down his life for us. He is our Good Shepherd. Can we ask anything more?

Mahalo for your donations and gifts to the poor.

Mahalo to allthose who helped with the Food Collection at Harbor Square. {-.i i

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Thursday, April 3o: 8 a.m. Mass: + Donna McDonnell

Friday, May t: 8 am Mass: t Benigno 6uieb Saturday, May z: 8 am Mass: t Jane Aki

For the sick & homebound: ROLAND ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, JOE CHANG, DON YEE, CARRIE TALWAR, FRED LUM

For the recently deceased: FLORENCE HO, GINNY STAHL, PAUL WONG, TONY BARON, MABEL LUKE,

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Monday, April z7: 8 am Mass: Elliana Abcede (birthday)

ELLEN KALAHELE, ]OHN COSTA, MARTHA OYADAMORT, CAROLYN AKI, HARRY BENDER, CHARLES HO, EDTTH DEMELLO, CATHERTNE AOKI,

DONNA MCDONNELL, JERRY TARUTANI

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the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me.

I will lay down my life forthe sheep.. " John to:t4

Frank Medeiros Hatsue Borboa

Donations/Collections

Weekly Offerings (April 26, zor5)

Sat.4 p.m.

Sun.7t5 a.m.

515.oo

Votive Offering

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Stained glass

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59g.oo Chapel Renovation

Sun.93o a.m.

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Beatrice Peltier

4129

Shinei Miyagi

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Laura Nobriga

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Arthur Nusser Frederico Cadiz, Sr. Beningo V. Guieb Clarence Lopes

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to the newest member of the church: Stephen Metcalf, received into full communion with the Catholic Church.

0 . . to Gabby Andrade who is confirmed in the Holy spirit (by delegation of the Bishop) completing her Sacraments of lnitiation.

Mahalo to our RCIA team and helpers for preparing a rich experience for them.

Aprilz6 Class

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May 3-Class

Wed. April z9 9:15 a.m. & 6:3o p.m.

MaY 3 Classes continue thru May z3

st. Pedro, a young sacristan and missionary catechist from the philippines, was marlyred in Guam in t672. His actual Feast day is April znd. we celebrate our faith, culture and our heritage after the 9:3o Mass. . we also honor our other Filipino saint Lorenzo Ruiz, martyred in Japan.

Mahalo to all those who have been cooking and preparrng for days and to our dancers and singers, especially our CCD children with their specialsong

The Masses on May roth will be forthe intentions of our mothers. Cards are available at the entrance of the church. complete the outer envelope and drop it in the collection. Give the inner the card to a mother or if she is deceased you may leave it to be used by others. Turn the names in to the office by May 7 for inclusion in the Mother's Day bulletin.

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The Bishop published a letter in the Catholic Herald that shares his vision to Reorder the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Holy Communion.

What this means is that the children in our Diocese will receive Confirmation on the same day that they receive First Holy communion. we will revisit our Sacraments and understand more fully their meaning. We look forward to what the church has in store for us. Father Mario and the ccD staff as well as our Youth catechists will be meeting to plan out a time line for how we will transition into this new way of conferring the Sacraments.

The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace already does this as well as several Diocese in the United States. The Bishop's letter is available at the entrance of the church if you would like to read it.

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Saturday, May 9, 2015 -1o:oo a.m. to rz:3o p.m. The Sisters of the Daughters of St. Paul would like to offer a morning as a gift to all mothers to rest in the Lord and be rejuvenated fortheirvocation.

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Collection Counting: Church Cleaners:

Mark Burnett and Roma Downey have produces a series (:-z episodes) to follow "The Bible" telling the story of Christ and the disciples after the Resurrection. we often read the scriptures and forget that the stories are about real people. NBC at 7:oo p.m. every Sunday night.

Sunday's episode is about Peter and John in prison and next week will be the maftyrdom of St. Stephen.

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should be kneeling. The faithful should kneel after the Agnus Dei unless the diocesan bishop has determined otherwise.

During the period of sacred silence after Communion, the congregation may sit or kneel. Someone might sit because she can't kneel or stand. To allow for this possibiliry is an act of chariry. Uniformiry in gestures and postures express and foster the proper intention and spiritual attitude of the congregation. However, exceptions do exist.

Reasonable causes for not kneeling include ill health, lack of space, and a large number of people present. But, outside of the reasonable exceptions, it's important that everyone use the samc gestures and posturcs during Mass. Ask your pastor to clariSr the instructions for the parish so you and your fellow

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Unbelievable were her austerities, her miracles, her ecstasies. The reputation of her sanctity soon spread abroad; thousands came to see her, to be converted by her. The priests associated with her,

having received extraordinary faculties of absolution, were unable to accommodate the crowds of penitents. She was a helper and a consoler in every need. As time went on, her influence reached out to secular and ecclesiastical St. Catherine of Srena matters. 5he made peace between worldly princes.

by Gwenyth Holston The heads of Church and State bowed to her words. She weaned ltaly away from an anti-pope, and made cardinals and princes promise allegiance to the rightful pontiff. She journeyed to Avignon and persuaded Pope Gregory Xl to return to Rome. Even though she barely reached the age of thirty-three her accomplishments place her among the great women of the Middle Ages. The virgin Catherine was espoused to Christ by a precious nuptial ring which, although visible only to her, always remained on her finger.

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