HOLY FAMILY

CATHOLIC CHURCH
830 Main Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96818

March 20, 2016

PASTORS CORNER
Father Sebastian

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

As we celebrate Palm Sunday, also known as

Passion Sunday, we have an opportunity to think
about successes and failures in our lives.
Palms and branches of trees (the most common
being olives) were carried by people to welcome
Generals and War Heroes. Christ was not a War
Hero, but He did enter Jerusalem as a Hero. His
war was against the Evil/Sin that existed in the
minds of the Civil and Religious authorities of the
time. Jesus had compassion and mercy for
ordinary people, who were also in need of
repentance and conversion. They came out in
droves to meet Him. Their motives were uncertain,
as many of them turned against Him on Good
Friday.
We are however asked to recall to our minds that
event in the life of Christ. Christ purposely chose a
donkey, in contrast the War Heroes, who always
arrived in chariots of glory. Christ knew He was
going to suffer, to be betrayed and ultimately
crucified. We refuse pain and suffering. We refuse
to undergo any rejection. Christ was willing to
embrace His sufferings, to free us from our sins.
Let us pause and examine our consciencesdo we
reject pain, sorrow and suffering? Or are we
willing to carry our crosses, as Jesus did?

CHRIST HUMBLED HIMSELF

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SAINT OF THE WEEK

SAINT CATHERINE OF SWEDEN

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Today is PALM SUNDAY/PASSION

SUNDAY. Let us begin the Holy Week and
participate in the Readings that will give
us a clear picture of what happened to
Jesus, during the Final Week of His Life
on Earth.

Blessed Oscar Arnulfo Romero

(1917-1980)
March 23

As Archbishop of El Salvador, Blessed Oscar

witnessed numerous violations of human rights
and began a ministry speaking out on behalf of
the poor and victims of the country's civil war.
Chosen to be archbishop for his conservatism,
once in office his conscience led him to embrace
a non-violent form of liberation theology,
putting him in the line of Mahatma Gandhi and
Martin Luther King. Like them, he was martyred
for his non-violent advocacy. In 1980, he was
assassinated by gunshot shortly after his
homily. His death provoked international outcry
for human rights reform in El Salvador.
May this body immolated and this blood
sacrificed for [humanity] nourish us also, so that
we may give our body and our blood to suffering
and to painlike Christ, not for self, but to bring
about justice and peace for our people. ~ Blessed
Oscar Arnulfo Romero finally homily.
2015. Reprinted with permission of Franciscan Media. To read more about these saints,
visit their website http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saintofday/, or get daily
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OUR WEEKLY OFFERINGS

March
Thank you for your generous
contribution for the past weekend.
5:00 PM
8:30 AM
11:00 AM
7:00 PM
Other donations
GRAND TOTAL
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$1,373.25
$1,596.00
$1,204.07
$1,472.31
$ 100.00
$5,745.73

All those who made their Confessions, are

hereby congratulated and thanked, for doing so.
Please remember that Jesus came to SAVE US
FROM OUR SINS. The sure way for us Catholics to
seek and receive Gods Mercy and Forgiveness, is
through the Sacrament of Confession. We had
about 200 Parishioners who made the Penitential
service and we had Eight Priests from the
Vicariate who came to assist us. If you need to
make your Confession, Father Sebastian will be
available on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
(3/21-23). Please call and make an appointment.

EASER BUNNY.
We will not have Easter Egg Hunt as we have had
for many years in the past. However, we will have
an EASTER BUNNY EVENT. Those who would like
to help, please contact Chet Malins ph-456-3933
or malinsc001@hawaii.rr.com

There will be no Morning Masses on

Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday there
will be Masses at 7.15 AM as usual

Newcomers are encouraged to register with the parish

and are welcome to participate in all ministries and
activities. Request Registration Forms from the ushers.

Passion Sunday
Entrance Procession:
Luke 19:28-40
Readings for Mass:
Isaiah 50:4-7
Ps 22:8-9,17-20,23-24
Philippians 2:6-11
Luke 22:14--23:56
Monday March 21
Isaiah 42:1-7
Ps 27:1-3,13-14
John 12:1-11
Tuesday March 22
Isaiah 49:1-6
Ps 71:1-6,15,17
John 13:21-33,36-38
Wednesday March 23
Isaiah 50:4-9
Ps 69:8-10,21-22,31,33-34
Matt 26:14-25

This Sunday begins the

highest holy week of the
liturgical year. Will it also
begin in your life a high holy
experience of uniting yourself to Jesus and to his
awesome love?
There's a key phrase in the
reading that we hear at the
beginning of this Mass, during the Procession with
Palms, which sums up this
experience of your union
with God: "The Master has
need of it."

Why do you think the Gospel writer spent time explaining how Jesus obHoly Thursday March 24
tained the colt for his ride
The Lords Supper
into Jerusalem? It's meant
Exodus 12:1-8,11-14
to teach us something in
Ps 116:12-13,15-18
our current circumstances.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
We each have a "colt" tied
John 13:1-15
up somewhere in our lives.
It's anything that belongs to
Good Friday March 25
The Lords Passion
us and is not yet being
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
shared with Christ: It could
Ps 31:2,6,12-13,15-17,25
be our possessions, monHebrews 4:14-16;5:7-9
ey, talents and skills, creaJohn 18:1--19:42
tivity, time and energy, etc.
The Master has need of it!
But sometimes we selfishly tie these up with our own
agendas and busyness. They would useful to Jesus
if we let him have them. Like the colt that Jesus
rode, they could become gifts that glorify our Savior.
Palm Sunday teaches us that he deserves to be glorified for his awesome love, which he made visible
on the cross. Who else would die for you -- with that
much suffering? Jesus sacrificed his comfort and his

body and blood to take the punishment that we deserve for our
sins.
We should rejoice gratefully for this
every Sunday with hosannas and
admiration, for in the Eucharist we
reunite ourselves to that tremendous love. In this communion, why
aren't we grinning like lovers who
have become joined to their beloved? The answer to that is: Our
"colts" are still tied to the post.
Jesus has sent his disciples to you
to ask you to share your "colt" with
Jesus. They are at the altar consecrating the Eucharist for you. They
are writing bulletin "help wanted"
blurbs. They are interrupting you at
work asking for your prayers or
counsel or other assistance. They
are the strangers who are in need
of your charitable donations.
Who have you heard asking you to
become more involved in the plans
of God's kingdom?

Reflect & Discuss:

1. Make a list of the "colts" in your
life. Which ones would you like
Jesus to put to good use?
2. Describe a "colt" in your life
that Jesus has need of.
3. How can giving control of it
over to Jesus help him complete his Good Friday sacrifice
in today's world?

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