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Holy Trinity Catholic Church A Stewardship Parish
December 31, 2017 Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
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Pastor: Fr. Michel Dalton, OFM Capuchin
Deacons: Steve Kula , Dan Guinaugh , Fernando Ona
Masses: Saturday: 5pm
Sunday: 7, 9 & 11am
Weekdays: 5pm
Reconciliation (Confession): Saturday: 3:45-4:15 or by appointment Our mission: make Christ known to the world through Word, Sacrament, Prayer and Service. Our vision: is to be a welcoming parish committed to serving others.
5919 Kalanianaole Highway; Honolulu, HI 96821 Ph. 808-396-0551 email: [email protected] Website: holytrinitychurchhi.org
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Office Hours: M-F 8:30 to 4:30 Sat. 8:00 to 12
To register: call the Parish office to register and to sign up for envelopes
Parish Staff: 396-0551 Pastoral Associate: Carole Suapaia Business Administrator: Nancy Lui-Kwan Assistant Bookkeeper: Devon Knight Office Assistant: Evelyn Lee Secretary: Patti Dau Music Directors: Ken & Trissa Walter
Religious Education Staff K-8 & First Sacraments Carrie Boyer: 393-6797 9-12 & Confirmation Dominic Olaso: 358-5335 Adult Education Staff Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Dcn. Steve Kula: 396-0299 Sacraments
Marriage: call office before making any wedding arrangements Funerals: call office before calling Funeral Director.
Anointing of the sick: if you are seriously ill, or will be undergoing surgery, please contact Parish office
Thrift Shop: Thursday-Saturday 9 to 2; drop off all donations in bins. 396-0678
Want to join a Ministry? Please contact: Eucharistic and Sacristan Ministry Dcn. Steve Kula: [email protected] Lector Ministry Phyllis Young: [email protected] Altar servers: Dave Belatti: [email protected] Art & Environment Maureen Yamasaki: [email protected] Baptismal Prep Terri Koike & Marlin Van Vleet [email protected] Cancer Support Group Ann Jones: [email protected] CCD/RE/First Sacrament Prep Carrie Boyer: [email protected]
Children’s Sunday Liturgy/Kidsword Carrie Boyer: [email protected] Church Cleaning Shirley Fake: [email protected] Family Promise Gloria Zane: [email protected] Greeters/Hospitality Charlotte White: [email protected] Homebound Ministry Gloria Zane: [email protected] Maintenance Committee Tom Fake: [email protected] Music Ministry Trissa Walter: [email protected] Parking Lot Ministry Mike Ishii: [email protected] Social Activities Committee Ann Jones: [email protected] Stewardship Committee
Bob & Charlotte White: [email protected]
Sick & Bereavement Carole Suapaia: [email protected]
Thrift Shop Ministry Eileen DeLucia: [email protected] Ushers Ministry Bob White: [email protected]
Website Paul Hilton: [email protected]
MyParish APP [email protected]
Youth Ministry Dominic Olaso: [email protected]
HTC Groups and Ministry Weekly Calendar Monday: Cancer Support Group Parish Meeting
Rm 6:30pm, 2nd and 4th weeks of the month.
Tuesday: Choir practice held in the Church, 6:30pm
Wednesday: Charismatic Prayer Group, in Church at 7pm
Thursday: Youth Group Parish Meeting Rm.6:30 pm BCC Group held at Don & Phyllis Young’s home, inform: call 395-6694
Sunday Scriptures Sharing Group, once a month; Frank & Lillian Chang, Meeting in RCIA Room, 753-1190 [email protected] Saturday: Neocatechumenate Group-end of month in chapel
Sunday: Sunday Evening Bible Sharing Group, Parish Meeting Rm. 6pm, call Dcn. Dan 396-9726
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Holy Family of God…that’s Us!
For the several weeks before Christmas, our local newspaper and T.V. stations have been highlighting families within our community that are in some sort of need. The response from the ‘general public’ has been tremendous. It seems that when there’s a family in need that people rally, and food is collected, clothes are purchased, toys for children are gotten, and a sense of taking care of one another prevails. Such was not the case for the family of Jesus…they were basically on their own. Our Christmas story relates how they came up short on a place to stay and one where Mary could appropriately give birth to her child. Despite this less than optimal situation Joseph and Mary did the best that they could with the little they had…they embraced their faith in God.
In a certain sense we are now the holy family of God…the church. And maybe we en-counter parallel situations but not as intense as the Holy Family experienced. We worry our-selves when what’s called for is a deeper trust in God’s care for us. Recently, Pope Francis addressed the workers at the Vatican and stirred them up to see themselves as people of faith who trust and who serve the larger church, he said this: “A faith that doesn’t put itself in crisis (in the thick of the worlds problems) is a faith in crisis. A faith that does not grow, is a faith that must grow. A faith that does not question is a faith that must question.” Those words were spoken in love by a shepherd (the head of our household) who wants his entire family to include everybody. He challenges us to be faith-filled and faithful to treating one another as true sisters and brothers. He sees everyone as part of Gods family and wants us to do likewise.
As we begin a new calendar year let’s not rack our brains trying to come up with ‘resolutions’ that we probably won’t follow through on. Let’s make it very simple…trust, re-spect, and love one another as God’s Ohana. That’s how the Holy Family lived and if they could do it so can we.
Happy New Year with God’s blessings,
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ORIGINAL ORDER OF THE SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION Questions and Answers
9. How will they be prepared? Will they have special classes? Children and young people will be prepared as part of their regular religious education classes. [There will also be special family retreats/ workshops/ sessions focused specifically on Confirmation throughout the year to sup-plement their formation and rehearse them for the celebration of the Sacrament.] Please check with your Coordi-nator of Religious Education or Coordinator of Youth Ministry for details of the parish preparation program.
ADORATION This Friday, January 5, 2018 we will have Adoration. It will be held immediately fol-lowing the 5 pm Mass. Come and join us and get a prayerful start to the new year.
Sacrament Preparation 2018 / 2019
Baptism Classes– February, April, July and October– Classes are the second and third Sundays of the month from 10:30 to noon in the Parish meeting Room. You must attend both classes. If you are interested in the February Bap-tism classes please have all paperwork turned in by February 5.
NEW YEARS DAY
Looking for a prayerful way to begin the New Year?
Join us for Mass tomorrow, January 1st at 9:00am.
Our Cottage Thrift Shop will reopen on Jan. 4th at 9:00am.
Oahu Catechist Retreat 2018
You are invited!
All parish members are welcome to attend.
"Let's Talk Story" We'll celebrate Christ alive through the lens of Ha-waiian cultural values such as mo'olelo (story-telling), ha'aha'a (humility), kuleana (responsibility) and more. And we'll give voice to our own stories as a tool for evangelization.
``Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa
Saturday, January 20, 2018 9 AM - 12 PM: Retreat with Dallas Carter 12 - 1 PM: Original Order Q & A with Jayne Mondoy Attendance is free. Please bring your own lunch. **Register online at www.catholichawaii.org/oahucatechistretreat. Registration Deadline: January 15, 2018
Vatican watchers: Why not read something inspiring today? The Pope has a twitter ac-count @PONTIFEX Instagram users can find the Pope too! @FRANCISCUS
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2018 Celebrating Saint Marianne Cope
SAVE-THE-DATES Details about the celebrations will be forthcoming.
180th Birthday Anniversary -At Kalaupapa Jan. 21 -On Oahu Jan. 23
135th Anniversary of Arrival in Hawaii -On Oahu Nov. 8
130th Anniversary of Kalaupapa Arrival -At Kalaupapa Nov. 14
100th Death Anniversary -On Oahu Aug.9 -At Kalaupapa Aug. 12
LIVIING CATHOLIC IN THE 808
The 5th Joyful Mystery: The Finding of Jesus in the Temple
By Rafael Mendoza, Business Manager Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa
Luke 2:19 (NAB) “And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.”
How do we evangelize? PRACTICE THE DISCIPLINE OF THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION
It is so easy to be a Sunday Catholic – celebrate the Eucharist with our family, spend an hour or less with the affairs of God and then off we go to our next schedule. For most of us, it is living in compartmentalized lives, blocked off by set schedules and time commitments each day of the week, clearly marked in our calen-dars.
But there should more to life than this. What is my purpose? What significance am I living for? What legacy am I living behind? Is the material wealth all there is to life? As Catholics, how do we allow the Scripture and our Catholic faith impact our daily lives? How do we bring the Gospel into our homes and workplace?
This is the importance of Theological Reflection - an attempt to see deeply into life experiences. It is a tool to help us reflect in ways that allow faith to touch our lives and our lives to touch our faith; a tool to help us integrate life and faith. Ponder the intimate connection between faith and daily life.
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+ = repose/in memory h= health/healing st= safe trip/ travel hb= happy birthday wa = wedding anniversary tg = thanksgiving si– special intention
MASS INTENTIONS For This Week:
Sunday, December 31– 7 am- 9 am- 11 am– Bernice Baquering+ Monday, January 1, 2018– 9 am- Tuesday, January 2, 2018– 5 pm – Wednesday, January 3, 2018- 5 pm
Friday, January 5, 2018- 9 am Saturday, January 6, 2018– 5 pm
PLEASE PRAY FOR HEALTH, COMFORT AND HEALING Fr. Dennis Koshko Michael Kaleiopu John Dubrovin Lauren Nicole John Baricuatro Jr. John M. Kichak Marion Baricuatro Rose Sylvester Edward Reyes Barbara Malone Leo Sinclair John Baricuatro Richard Hoke Kathy Lau & family Leo Kaeo Katherine Dennehy Ikaika Fairchild Deanna Luster
Eternal Rest Gerald Adarna Andrew Wallace, Jr. Wanda Chock Mary Louise Leslie Bernice C.K. Mau Beatrice Vida Gene Rogers Brian Joseph McKown Mary Chun McConnell Leo Kuboi Mark Beppu Beverly Page Vince Dijos Chris Noel Lee
Please advise the Parish Office when it is no longer necessary or appropriate to keep names on the list, so we may use the space for future entries.
LONGEST MARRIED COUPLE
Worldwide Marriage Encounter is celebrating its 8th year in honoring the Longest Married Couple in the United States. The National winner, along with
the winner from each State, will be honored on World Marriage Day, celebrated by WWME on Feb-ruary 11, 2018 (the 2nd Sunday in February annually). WWME is considered the original faith-based mar-riage enrichment program in the US for over 49 years and has presence in over 100 countries, which makes it the largest pro-marriage movement in the world! In order to be eligible to win, the husband & wife cou-ple must be nominated. In the last 7 years, many cou-ples and family members have nominated their parents and grandparents for this special honor. You are en-couraged to nominate family and friends you know who’ve been married for a long time. Nominations are open to all husband & wife couples regardless of faith expression. Send your nominations no later than January 8, 2018 to: Jose & Mary Elizabeth Alvior at 808-391-2045 (call or text) or [email protected] (e-mail) Nominations require the following info: Name of husband & wife Wedding date Current residence (City & Island) Name & contact number and/or e-mail of couple/person making the nomination.
A prayer to say together on the feast of the Holy Family
Father, help us to live as the holy family, united in respect and love. Bring us to the joy and peace of your eternal home. Amen.
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Stewardship Corner
Stewardship at Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Lesson 79
A Resolution for the New Year Each of us traditionally makes resolutions at the dawn of the New Year. We resolve to live a healthier lifestyle, a more disciplined life; perhaps to stop smoking, or to lose weight. Ever con-sider a stewardship resolution? A resolution to improve an aspect of stewardship in our life can be an excellent way to start a new year. Outdoing God’s generosity in our life might be a bold challenge, but consider the challenge. If we
resolve to give more of our time, talent and treasure to Him, He certainly will not be outdone in
His generosity. His abundant blessings will be ours.
“You Can’t Out Do God’s Generosity “ Summary of Weekly Offerings 12/ 23 & 12/25
Offerings $ 24,467.00 Major Maintenance & Repairs $ 1,415.00
Christmas Day Offerings $ 10,917.00 Family Promise $ 50.00
Christmas Donations $ 1,195.00 Religious Retirement Fund $ 60.00
Candles $ 457.07 Initial Offering $ 50.00
Thrift Shop $ 527.00
(Includes Credit Card purchases)
TOTAL: $ 39,138.07
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