HOLY FAMILY

CATHOLIC CHURCH
830 Main Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96818

Fourth Sunday in Lent

March 15, 2015

MASS SCHEDULE
Monday Saturday

7:15AM

Saturday Vigil

5:00PM

Sunday

8:30AM, 11:00AM, 7:00PM

1st Sunday Samoan Mass

4:00PM

3rd Sunday Pohnpeian Mass

3:00PM

CONFESSIONS
Saturday
and after daily Masses

4:00 4:45PM

BENEDICTION
First Friday of the Month after Mass

BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE

Please contact Fr. Sebastian
Phone: (808) 422-1135 or
Mrs. Malins (808) 423-9611 ext.302
Email: HFC830@gmail.com or
Sebchacko@hawaii.rr.com
Certificates ~ For all certificates a
written application is necessary. Send by
post or email with your address, or hand
over personally.

WEBSITES
http://holyfamilyhonolulu.org
http://hfcahawaii.org
http://catholic.com
http://catholic.org
Hictv.com & Cable133.3
Catholictv.com

PASTORS CORNER
Father Sebastian

This is the New Format for our Weekly Bulletin. We thank

Ms Kathy Kerch of the Holy Family Academy for helping us
come up with new Format. We hope to improve on it.
Suggestions are welcome.
Please
take
note
of
the
date
Confession/Reconciliation Service for this Lent.

of

our

Those of you, who have Palms in your yard, please prepare

to bring them on Friday/Saturday March 27/28.
Our Scripture Readings this week-end help us understand
and appreciate Gods love for us. He has mercy, even
though we do not keep our covenant. We are exiled, yet we
are saved. We are punished and yet we are given liberation.
We die because of our transgressions, and yet we are saved
by His Grace.
God will not condemn anyone who believes in Christ. Our
Lenten acts of Prayer, Fasting, Abstinence and Almsgiving
are an expression of our belief in the efficacy of Christs
death that has merited us Gods Grace. Through prayer and
penance we make ourselves ready, prepared and willing to
commit ourselves to the Saving Grace that God has effected
for us through the Passion and Death of Christ.
Our Belief and Life must go hand in hand. Many of us are
doing the bare minimum. We believe, but we still hold on to
the things of this world. WE MUST LET GO, AND LET GOD
dwell in our minds and hearts. Fr Sebastian

GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD.

John 3:15

SAINT OF THE WEEK

ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Lenten Confessions are scheduled for Thursday
March 25 at 7 PM. Please mark your Calendars.
Christ died on the Cross to save us from our sins.
Confessing our sins is a sure way for us to be
forgiven of all our sins.
2. EMS/LECTORS:
Volunteers needed for Holy
Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil, Please sign
up. Thank you.

SAINT JOSEPH
Novena
Saint Joseph whose protection is so great, so
strong, so prompt before the Throne of God, I
place in you all my interests and desires.
Oh Saint Joseph, do assist me by your powerful
intercession and obtain for me from your
Divine Son, all spiritual blessings through
Jesus Christ, Our Lord, so that having engaged
here below your heavenly power, I may offer
my thanksgiving and homage to the most
loving of fathers.
Oh Saint Joseph, I never weary of
contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your
arms. I dare not approach while He reposes
near your heart. Press Him in my name and
kiss His fine head for me, and ask Him to
return the kiss when I draw my dying breath.

3. First Holy Communion kids have made their First

Reconciliation on Saturday March 14. We thank
God for them. We thank the Parents, the Teachers
of the Academy and the Parish for preparing these
kids for the reception of their First Holy
Communion on the Sunday after Easter.
4. Children who have not been baptized (those
getting ready for First Holy Communion) will be
baptized on Easter Sunday at the 8.30 Mass
5. Choirs for the Holy WEEK
Holy Thursday - 8.30 AM Musicians and Singers
Good Friday: Combined Divine Mercy and
International
Easter Vigil Our Lady of the Rosary Choir
Easter Sunday 8.30 AM 8.30 Musicians/Singers
Easter Sunday
11.00 AM Divine Mercy &
International

Saint Joseph, Patron of the departing souls,

pray for us. Amen.

OUR WEEKLY OFFERINGS

March 1, 2015
Thank you for your generous
contribution for the past weekend.
5:00 PM
8:30 AM
11:00 AM
7:00 PM

$ 1,069.05
$ 1,692.78
$ 1,475.50
$ 1115.56

GRAND TOTAL

$ 5,352.89

NEW PARISHONERS
Newcomers are encouraged to register with the parish
and are welcome to participate in all parish activities and
ministers. Registration forms are available in the back
of the Church.

4th Sunday of Lent

2 Chron 36:14-16,19-23
Ps 137:1-6
Ephesians 2:4-10
John 3:14-21
Monday March 16
Isaiah 65:17-21
Ps 30:2,4,5-6,11-13b
John 4:43-54
Tuesday March 17
Ezekiel 47:1-9,12
Ps 46:2-3,5-6,8-9
John 5:1-16
Wednesday March 18
Isaiah 49:8-15
Ps 145:8-9,13cd-14,17-18
John 5:17-30
Thursday March 19
Saint Joseph
2 Sam 7:4-5a,12-14a,16
Ps 89:2-3,4-5,27,29
Romans 4:13,16-18,22
Matthew 1:16,18-21,24a
or Luke 2:41-51a
Friday March 20
Wisdom 2:1a,12-22
Ps 34:17-21,23
John 7:1-2,10,25-30
Saturday March 21
Jeremiah 11:18-20
Ps 7:2-3,9bc-12
John 7:40-53

Why do we prefer to
conceal our sins rather than face them
and go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and speak about
them out loud?
It's Jesus who meets
us in the confessional, appearing to us in
the form of a priest
who's sworn to secrecy. In
the Gospel reading, Jesus
assures us that he did not
come to condemn us. It is
safe to come into the light
where our sins are exposed.
However, we don't like going
to Confession when guilt is
driving us deeper into the
darkness of low self-esteem,
the fear of being unlovable,
or an inability to forgive ourselves.
Guilt is a good motivator for
repentance and change, but
when combined with the
messages of a poor selfimage, we feel undeserving
of forgiveness. We feel
shame. And shame makes
us even more afraid to face

the truth about our sins.

However, Gods image of you is not poor: He sees
what is wonderful about you. He says you do deserve
forgiveness. He wants to replace shame with joy.
What keeps you from repenting? Perhaps you would
benefit from a therapist or spiritual director who helps
you heal from low self-esteem. Whatever opportunity
will help you get into the confessional, this is where
your healing begins.

Jesus completes the

healing by curing
your spirit with forgiveness, mercy, and
unconditional
love
through the words of
absolution that he
speaks to
you
through the priest.
In today's Gospel
reading, Jesus points
out that whoever
lives the truth (whoever is honest about themselves)
"comes to the light" to be rescued.
When we admit our sins, speaking it
out loud to the ears of one of Christ's
servants, we are rescued by Jesus.
We hear Jesus minister to us
through the vocal chords of the
priest, and we receive from Jesus
the power to resist the same sins in
the future.
Why suffer any longer, hiding in the
darkness of fear and a poor selfimage? Jesus has come to rescue
you!

Reflect & Discuss:

1. What do you feel ashamed
about? Have you taken this to
the Sacrament of Reconciliation?
If not, what are you waiting for?
Blessings and healing await you!
2. Why does admitting our sins and
receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation set us free to live in
joy and peace?
3. Describe a time when you lived
in darkness; how did Jesus bring
you into the light?

2015 by Terry Modica Catholic Digital Resources: catholicdr.com Reprinted by license.

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HFCA NEWS
Honolulu Festival Parade
Holy Family Catholic Academys Marching Band students and Marching Hula
dancers performed in the Honolulu Festival parade on Sunday, March 8th.
They were outstanding in every way!! Congratulations for being HFCAs
Ambassadors at this premier cultural event, promoting understanding,
economic cooperation and ethnic harmony between the people of Hawaii and
the Pacific Rim region. Mahalo, students, for a job well done!!

DIOCESAN NEWS
http://www.catholichawaii.org/

WORLD NEWS
Colorado has shot down
assisted suicide Bill. Canada
and almost all the countries
of Europe have already
passed bills that would allow
assisted suicide. Archbishop
Michael Miller of Vancouver,
Canada has said: We have the
technology to control pain and
we have the ability to overcome
loneliness and despair.
It is sad how students of a
University in California have
voted
to
remove
the
American Flag. Their reason:
It is a symbol of oppression!!!
How can a few liberals feel
oppressed when they see our
National Flag. Politicians
and Professors who promote
this idea, while receiving
generous pay checks from the
US
are certainly an
ungrateful lot, not knowing
any bit of National History
and Pride.
For more Catholic News go to:
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