The Presentation of the Lord

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(808) s95-310s ssccpali@rcchawaii.org facebookcom/sLstephenpali

OFFICE HOURS:

Tues-Thurs: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Mon, Fri &Satr 9:00am to 12t00pm PASTOR

Fr. Khanh Pham-Nguyen STAFF

Deacon Ronald Choo Sister Marykutty Kottuppallil, MSMHC Rosemary Hash imoto, Secretary FAITHFORMATION

CCD-Chil*en Velma Guieb-Mamuad

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Youth

Confllrnartion

Rosemary Hashimoto (interim) R. C. I. A. Debbie Fujiyama Francis Jordan PARISH MINISTRIES

H omebouad & Be re anse ment Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke

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Donald Yee (Sunday)

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WEEKEND MASS

Pafish Suiptulre Groups

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SATURDAY 3:oo-3:45Pm 8:45 * 9:r5 am SUNDAY

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DEVOTION & ADORATION

WEEKDAY MASS

Eucharistic Adoration ...... WED Mass

Chapel ofSt. Cathe,ine

MONDAY- SATURDAY ............ 8:oo Em

Holy

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Nicole Heafner

Liturgical Music Leka Leaeno (Saturday Vigil) StanleyWong (Sunday)

Icctor Beverly Perry

Holy Communion at Msss Jennifer Tarnayo

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VISTTATTONOFTHESICK: Priest and Homebound Ministers are available

the infirm or hospitalized.

Please

to visit

sacramental

emergency, call 595-3105 and press #2 BAPTlSttl: Sacramental preparation is required. If you are expecti*g or have a child to be baptized, please call the Parish office for more information

Celine Asato & David Tom

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(Respect Life) {Aloysius Food Pantry) (Famity Promise Hawaii)

ORGANIAITIONS -

Pastoral Council

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 far Marriage Preparation at least 6 months before the wedding

: Kokua! Please contact your Church prior to with a funeral home lFunerals on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday) arrangements making

Patricia Silva Stewordship/ Discipleship Council Bernard Ho (interim)

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

Finance Council

PARISHIONERS:

James Solidum (interim)

Liturgy Commission TBA

Buildins/ Plannbrâ‚Ź Committee Loretta Chee & Richard Leong

Social Fellooship Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew

When changing address/telephone, or moving out of the Parish, please kindly notiry the office NEw PARISHIONERS: If you would like to become a parishioner of St Stepheu please use forms available at the entrance of the Church or contact the office E KOMO

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Parents who bring a new baby home bring also their hopes and dreams for the child. At the very leas! we hope the child will be happy and healthy and will have better than we had. Frorn there, we may harbor a secret hope that

4:oo p.m. Mass: Parish families

the child might create the cure for some disease, write a prize-winning

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novel, or bring peace to the world.

I did all of those things, and I also prayed I wouldn't mess things up too badly. That was a secret hope I didn't share with our children until they were

much older and it already seemed I hadn't done too much damage.

I can only imagine what Mary and Joseph thought when they brought Jesus to the Temple. Even though the angel Gabriel had revealed their son's identity, did they look at him and see the refine/s fire of Malachi's prophecy?

It's possible, but I think they saw him more as their beloved child. Mary had been told her son would be great, but did she know everything that meant?

That's hard to see when your child is an infant in your arms.

What we know is this: Mary and Jo-seph brought Jesus to the Temple, and two people who had been waiting all their lives for a sign from God took that child into their arms and into their hearts and saw in him the answer to their prayers and the fulfillment of their hopes. ln that moment, Mary and Joseph could simply hold their collective breath and pray for grace and strength to raise this child of God-and to hold their own hope out to him. Mary Katharine Deeley sundaybulletin@liguori.org

tg7 items. We will be taking the food pantry items to St. John the Baptist to help with their outreach program to the homeless.

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Weekly Offerings (Jan. z5&26,

Monday, February3: 8 am Mass: Pam Garrow(heqlrhg) TuesdaS February4: 8 am Mass: Joan Marquis(heo&hg) Wednesday, February 5: 8 am Mass: t Rodney Ho Thursday, February6: 8 am Mass: Kathy Zeitner (healing)

FridayrFebruaryT: 8 am Mass, Father Khanh Saturdan February 8: 8 am Mass: Myrna Hanaoka (healing)

For the sick & homebound: ROLAND ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, HARRY BENDER, GINNY STAHL, ETHELAU, MABEL LUKE, For the recently deceased: JOHN NASCIMENTO, WALLY CHANG, FANNIE GORA, ELLEN JOSEPH, HAZEL ANDRADE, MARIA GUIEB, MERRY CRIS HO, YVONNE PACARRO, BERNADETTE RANNEY

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"...Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people lsrael ."

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Wed. February 7:OO p.m.

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The Lord's Prayer

Tuesday, February 4: 6:3o p.m. Finance Council Mtg

Wednesdan February 5: 8:3o-9:oo Eucharistic Adoration

Thursday, February 6: 7:oo p.m. (5un.) Choir Practice

Saturday, February 8: Movie night

Next Week: Feb Altar server:

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WHEN: Wednesday, February 5th afterthe 8:oo a.m. Mass and closing with Benediction at 5:45 p.m. This is followed by Parish Scripture Study. Lectors and other Ministers are strongly urged to attend to adequately prepare for Sunday proclamation of the Word of God. Please see Father or Frank Jordan if you would like to attend but cannot make that time.

MOVIE NIGHT-*Song of Bemadette" February 8th-after the 4 p.m. Mass * Dinner: 5:oo * Movie at 6:15 p.m.

The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is February rrth which marks the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to Marie Bernadette Soubirous. She appeared to her 18 times and on March 25 announced to her, "l am the lmmaculate Conception."

Since then Lourdes has become a place of pilgrimage and many cures and conversions have take place. The message of Lourdes is a call to personal conversion, prayer and charity. Please sign up to bring something for dinner.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS-January 25th Black & lndian Mission Collection. Ever since the first Collection in 1887, the Commission has administered the yearly, national Black and lndian Mission Collection. The generosity of the good People of God allows the Commission to give helpful grants to dioceses across the country to operate schools, parishes, and other missionary services that build the Body of Christ in Native American, The Church in Latin America. Thank you for your generous donation to the Collection for the Church in Latin America. Your gift will ensure that present and future generations will have the opportunity to deepen and share their

faith. Your support helps ensure adequate catechists and lay

leadership

programs, along with strong formation for seminarians and religious. Thank you for taking this opportunity to share your faith. To learn more about how your donations are making a difference, please visit wwuusccb.org (search "National Collections").

SUPER BOWL FELLOWSHIP- February Znd

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MONTHLY EUCHARISTIC ADOTLqTION

Alaska Native, and Black Catholic communities. Thank you for your generosity.

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many cures attributed to him. According to tradition, he was Bishop of sebaste in Armenia and was martyred under Licinius. On this day the Church gives a "Blessing of the Throats" in honor of St. Blaise. From the eighth century he has been invoked on behalf of the siclg especially those afflicted with illnesses of the throat. We will bless throats after all Masses today and at the 8:oo a,m. February 3rd.

Kristyn & Maris Ho -* Joelpennifer Tamayo Lorraine Albarado,

MEriam Ladrillono

The Sunday 9:3o a.m. Choir invites you to share in a potluck barbecue fellowship and viewing of the Super Bowl after Mass on Sunday. See the sign up at the entrance of the church and join in the lighthearted rivalry.

HOUSEKEEPING Collection Counting: Team z Church Cleaners: Carolyn & Bâ‚Źrnard Ho, Christy Nakano, Helen Luke, Alma & Alfredo Tuazon

The driveway on the Honolulu side of the Church leads out to a private road (Moanawai). Legally we are not allowed access since it is private property. Please respect the rights of others and use the main driveway to exit and enter the church parking. Please see Father Khanh if you have any questions.

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The Presentation of the Lord falls on February 2, forty deys after Christmas, so we celebrate it every year.

F{owever, February 2 has fallen on a Sunday only nvo other times in the last trrenry-one years, so unless you auend weekday Mass, you're right-you haven't celebrated it much.

Candlcmas is another name for our celebra-tion of the day Mary and Joseph presented their child to God in the Temple atJerusalem in accordance with the law of Moses (Luke 2:32-38). We remember how the elderly believers Simeon and Anna recognized Jesus as their longed-for Messiah and how, addressing God in a canticle (song), Simeon proclaimed Christ to be "a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory foryour people Israel."

Mass on this day starts with a blessing and the lighting of candles, which the priest and people carry into the church. The name Candlemu springs from this ritual blessing.

ln 1997 , Pope John Paul II proclaimed the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord to also be the annual World Day Consecrated Life. Now many religious brothers, sisters, and priests mark the day by renewing their vows of religious con-secration and celebrating their special vocation within the Church.

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