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May 27, 2020A HAPPY AND BLESSED BIRTHDAY! PENTECOST is the birthday of the Church! Let us rejoice and be glad! As promised by our Risen Lord, and out of His great love, He gave us the Holy Spirit who remains always with us. Someone said that the Holy Spirit is the Present Tense of God! As the whole world still suffers from the corona virus, through the eyes of our faith, we are seeing and experiencing how the Holy Spirit is actively present in assurance that God never leaves us. Through His Spirit, the Lord teaches us lessons on living our gospel values and virtues especially in the very concrete situations in which we find ourselves. Thanks be to God for the reopening of our Churches this Pentecost Sunday.Read More -
May 26, 2020Please watch these three important videos on Faithful and Safe Guidelines for Returning to Church from our Diocese of Honolulu.Read More
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May 23, 2020The Gospel is from John 16:16-20. Jesus said to His disciples: "A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me." What a promise! These words must have brought them a great deal of comfort. Of course, they did see Jesus again when He appeared to them in the upper room.Read More -
May 23, 2020Peace be with you! Those are the words of the risen Jesus as he breathed out the Holy Spirit upon his Apostles, sending them out in the power of the Spirit to proclaim that He is risen from the dead, and is always with us. Just as the Apostles encountered Jesus physically in the Upper Room on the night of the Resurrection, we encounter him physically in the Holy Eucharist. Now that it has been deemed safe for us to gather again in our churches to physically encounter the risen Lord in Holy Communion, we rejoice that the Spirit will open the way for us once again. Our gathering for the Eucharist after so long a time without being able to celebrate together, while it will be a joyful event, will also have restrictions, because we want to be sure that all who attend are kept as safe as possible from infection. After consulting with the Priests’ Council, it was decided that, while the parishes are not ready to open this coming weekend, we will open for public worship the weekend of May 30/31, which is Pentecost Sunday.Read More
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May 16, 2020The Gospel is from St. John 14:15-21. In this discourse at the Last Supper, which was His last will and testament, our divine Lord promised His Church, through the Apostles, that the Holy Spirit would be with it until the end of time. The Spirit of truth will be directing it and effectively aiding it to preserve the faith, the doctrine, and the morals which Christ taught His Apostles.Read More -
May 9, 2020"Do not let your hearts be troubled." (John 14:1) Be at peace, Jesus said. Don't be afraid. It's the most common command in the Gospels. Much of the time, Jesus says it when the disciples catch a glimpse of His glory. Think about His transfiguration, or when He walked on water. But this time, Jesus reassures them because He is leaving. They were used to having Him walk with them in one way, but once He was gone, He'll be with them in a new way. Jesus wanted His friends to know that even though He would not be with them in bodily form, He wasn't really leaving them alone. He would be with them through the Holy Spirit living inside them. He would be with them in His Eucharistic presence. He would be present in their brothers and sisters in the faith. They just needed to learn to see Him in a different way.Read More -
May 2, 2020The Gospel is from St. John 10:1-10. One of the oldest paintings of Christ, in the Roman catacombs, represents Christ as carrying the injured, straying sheep gently on His shoulders back to the sheepfold. This is an image of Christ which has always appealed to Christians. We have Christ as our shepherd—He tells us so himself in today's gospel—and we do not resent being called sheep in this context. There is something guileless about a sheep, but with Christ as our shepherd and the "good shepherd" who is sincerely interested in the true welfare of His flock, we have reason to rejoice.Read More
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