Second Sunday of Advent

2747 Pali Highway Honolulu, Hawaii 96817

[808) ses-310s ssccpali@ rcchawaii.org faceboo k.com/st.stephenpali

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OFFICE HOURS:

Tues-Thurs: Mon, Fri &

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Sat: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

PASTOR

Fr. Khanh Pham-Nguyen PERMANENTDEACON Deacon Ronald Choo ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Rosemary Hashimoto FAITH FORMATION

CCD-Chil&en Velma Guieb-Mamuad

Youth & Confrrmation Rosemary Hashimoto (interim)

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Debbie Fujiyama Francis Jordan PARISH MINISTRIES

H omebou nd & B ere aoeme nt

SATURDAY SUNDAY

Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke (Saturday Vigil) Donald - Yee (Sunday)

Altar

(MainChurch).. 4roo Pm

(Chapel) (Main Church) ..

....7:15 am 9:3O am

Chapelofst Catherine

MONDAY-SATURDAY

SATURDAY SUhIDAY

3:oo 8:45

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3:45 pm 9:15 am

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

WEEKDAY MASS

Hospitality TBA

CONFESSION

WEEKEND MASS

Paish Scripture Croups

8:OO

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Holy

Rosary

before Mass

Senser

Nicole Heafner

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

Lector

Homebound Ministers are available to visit V|SITAT|ONOFTHESICK: Priest and-l-

the infirm or hospitalized. Please contact the Parish. For

sacramental

emergency, call 595-3105 and press #2

Beverly Perry

Holy Communion at Mass Jennifer Tamayo

Sacrisfy

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

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TBA TBA

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

-(Family

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

Pastaral Council Patricia Silva

Steuardship/ Diseipleship Council

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

Bernard Ho (interim)

Finance Coancil James Solidum (interim)

PARISHIONERS:

When changing address/telephone,

or moving out of the

Parish, please kindly noti$r the office

Liturgy Commission TBA B

uilding/ Planning Committee

Loretta Chee & Richard Leong Saeial Felbuship Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew

NEW PARTSHIONERS:

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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3:r-rz About this time of year, nearly everyone is preparing to visit or be visited as families gather for traditional Christmas preparations, concerts, and meals.

At our house, we also make way for those who have no one to visit-whether because of distance or circumstance. lsaiah

I wonder, though, whether we'd welcome a stranger or someone who challenged the way we live or think about things. Paul tells everyone to welcome one another and to glorify God with one voice.

That's easier when everyone thinks alike. Not all of us want to reflect on the possibility that we may be wrong.

This is the issue facing the religious leaders when John the Baptist bursts onto the scene, calling on everyone to repent and prepare for the kingdom of God. John recognizes that they came to him for show-not because they sought repentance for sin. He wastes no time demanding evidence of the "good fruit" repentance brings and warning about the consequences if it's not forthcoming.

John is a challenging guest for us as well. Sometimes we want to dictate the outcome of our discussion and our lives, but John demands that we show the fruit of our ef-forts. lt's not enough to go through the motions of living faithfully-we must give our very selves over to the will of God and the conversion of our lives.

Only then can we welcome everyone in love and in the praise of God. Mary Katharine Deeley sundaybulletin @ liguori.org O 2o1l L,GUORt PUBLtCATtONS, Liguori, MO 630t-9999. Printed in U.5.A. lmprimatu.: "ln accordance with c. 827, permission to Publish has been granted on May 28, 2013, by the Most Reverend Edward M. Rice, Auxiliar BishoD Archdiocese of 5t. Louis. Pemission to publish is an indication that nothing contcr to Church tea.h;ng is <ontained inthis wotk. h doe, not imply any endoE€mert ofthe op;nions expressed in the pvblication; nor is any liability.srumed by this pemission." No pa( ofthis work may b€ u*d in any form $thout the Dodrine, lnc., Warhington, DC. All Riqks Reserved. Io orderLiguod Sunday Bulletins, call 8oo-325-9511.

Giving to the poor is giving to Jesus

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"Welcome one another, then, as Christ welcomed you, for the glory of God. " Romans r5:7 Donaticxs/Coi lecticns

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Sat 4 pm Mass

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Wednesday, December ll: 8 am Mass: Special intention Thursday, December tz: 8 am Mass: Terry Metcalf (healing) Friday, December t3: 8 am Mass, + Lowell Lum requested by Madeline Lum

Saturday, December t4: 8 am Mass: Allthe Sick

For the sick & homebound: ROLAND ALBARADO, MARGARET ROBELLO, HARRY BENDER, GINNY STAHL, ETHELAU, MABEL LUKE

For the recently deceased: IGNACIO BABAUTA, JANE AKI, MARTIN LUKE, IRENE JOHNSON,

PACARRO

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Mary Carvalho Sarah Louis Dickson Young

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Tuesday, December to: 8 am Mass: Joe Almuena (healing)

:.-zl::- Lawrence Perry Philippine Disaster

7t5 am Mass

Monday, December 9: 8 am Mass: soLEMNtrY

:.zl:.o Eugene Cacho

(wov.3o &Dec.t,zor3)

Votive Offering

Sunday, December 8: 7:15 a.m. Mass: Parlsh Families 9:3o am Mass: t Sarah Louis

DAVID LIU, BOBBY LOWE, BEN SANTOS, ETHEL LEE, JOHN NASCIMENTO, WALLY CHANG, FANNIE GORA, ELLEN SHAM, PATSYTAM, GWENDOLYN JOSEPH, HAZEL ANDRADE, MARIA GUIEB, MERRY CRIS HO, YVONNE

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Saturday, December 7: 4:oo p.m. Mass: Parish Families

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Merlin White Dilinda Julian

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John Nakagaki Clara Zane Byron Aikau, Sr.

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II\{MACULATE CONCEPTION-December 9th at 8:OO a.ne.

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Get ready for Advent-Dec t Dec

B-Pray me a story

(porents too), Jayne Mondoy

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l-Feast Day Youth-Dec. B

Today (Dec. 8) is usuallythe Feast of the lmmaculate Conception, the day in which Blessed Virgin Mary is honored as being the sinless bearerof the Christ who is God. This is the only other Holy Day of Obligation for our Diocese, the other being Christmas. The Feast of the lmmaculate Conception is transferred to Monday, December 9th, but the obligation is not transferred. You do not need tb go to mass on Monday.

IVTAKE ROOM IN YOUR HEAF?T THIS CX..{RISTMA5

Year

Advent Penance Service Friday, December 13 at 7:oo p.m. Taizd Prayer at 6:45 and during individual confessions (There will be 6 priests) and a soup and breadfellowship to follow.

Panis!r Scripture C l'cups

Wed. December tt 9:15 a.m. & 7:oo p.m.

Five of our First Sacraments class will celebrate Reconciliation with us. Let us be good examples for them to follow! Confession guides are available.

R"C.T.A.

Other Communal Penance Services in the Honolulu area: * Tuesday December roth at 6:3o p.m.-St. Philomena * Wednesday Dec. rrth at 7:oo p.m.-St. Theresa * Wednesday Dec. rr.th at 7:oo p.m.*St. Anthony Kalihi * Wednesday Dec. rrth at 7:3o p.m.-Sacred Heart Punahou * Tuesday Dec. rTth at 7:oo p.m.-Blessed Sacrament Church * Wednesday Dec. r8th at 7:oo p.m.-St. John the Baptist * Wednesday Dec. r8th at 7:oo p.m.-Holy Family Church * Saturday Dec. zrst at ro:oo a.m. Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace

Tuesday night at 7:oo p.m.

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Thursday, December tz: 7:#s p,:'r, iE-:-iEtr*a= practice Friday, December t3:

Our Christmas outreach to our homebound will be ready for pick up next week Sunday. Thank you for your patience.

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CHRISTMAS CHOIR: Practices will be at 7:oo p.m. on December roth, rzth & rgth and at 6:oo p.m. on December r7th. Voices raised in song make Christmas truly a feast of angels. *DECK THE HALLS: We will be checking lights and putting togethertrees beginning December roth and help is needed on December zznd after the Nuuanu Hale Caroling. Church will be undecked on January rzth.

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Collection Counting Team 3 Church Cleaners: l-arraine Albarada, i*ioiine H*s*gaw*, Veln:a Mamued

Please help us make their Christmas a little bit warmer. We are looking for donations of tissue packs, socks, toothbrushes, toothpaste and small bottles of hand lotion. Bring them in before 8:oo a.ffi. on Dec r5th Everyone is invited to join in the Christmas Caroling on Dec zz to Nuuanu Hale after 9:3o a.m. Mass.

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Patti Silva, Jack Wong, Sui Kozuma, Terri Easley, Helen Luke, Velma Mamuad, David Tom & Celine Asato and their helpers who helped make last week's Parish Feast Day such a joyful one.

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A Jesse tree is a great way to celebrate Advent. The tree takes its name from Jesus' ancestor Jesse, who is mentioned in Jesus' genealogy in the first chapter of Monday,December 9 IMMACULATâ&#x201A;Ź CONCâ&#x201A;ŹPTION

Genesis

3:9-15 1:3*6

Ephesians

stump of Jesse, and from his roots

Luke 1:26--38 Tuesday,December 10 Isaiah

Matthew

40:1-11 7B:t2-14

Wednesdag,December 5t. Damasus

11

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Matihew 11:2&*30 12

Our LadU of Guadalupe

Zechanah2:74-17 or l0ab Luke 1:26-38 or 1:39-47

Rev 11:19a, L2:!-6a,

Friday,December 5t.

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48:17-19

Matthew 11:16-19

Salurday,Oecember 14 5t. John of the Cnoss

Sirach 48:t*4,9-11 Matthew 17:9a,10-13

SlAN2hY,December 15 Third Sundag of Advent Isaiah 35:1--6a, 10 James 5:7-10

Matthew

112-11

a bud

shall

blossom" (11:1) and that "on that day, the root ofJesse, set up as a sigpal for the peoples-Him the nations will seek out; his dwelling shall be glorious" (11:10).

Christians have long understood these verses as applying to Jesus, our long-promised Messiah, the Lord whose coming would be the fulfillment of all Old Testament prophesy.

Jesse trees can take all sorts

Isaiah 40:25--31

thursday,December

Matthew's Gospel.

Jesse was King David's father. Lorg after King David's royal house had started to fall into trouble, the prophet Isaiah proclaimed that "a shoot shall sprout from the

of shapes and sizes, and or banners. But no trees, drawings, real can be they matter what, they are means for recalling the story of salvation and the promises of God fulfilled in Christ's coming.

Jesse trees can be set up at home or in a church. Typically a family or a parish community decorates their Jesse tree daily or weeHy throughout Advent with lines from sacred Scripture or symbols of verses and stories that tell the tale of Jesus' ancestors and of God's preparetion of his people for the coming of Christ.

F r. Matthew Allman, CSsR sundaybulletin@liguori.org