ST. STEPHEN Sunday, November 25, 2018 ❖ Feast of Christ the King

“For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify for the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”

❖ A Catholic Community ❖ PARISH MINISTRIES ❖ VISITATION OF THE SICK ❖ Homebound & Bereavement Diocese of Honolulu Priest and Homebound Ministers are Virginia Jordan & Helen Luke 2747 Pali Highway ~ Honolulu HI 96817 available to visit the infirm or hospitalized. 808.595.3105 ❖ Hospitality Email Address: [email protected] Tom Please contact the Church Office. Website address: ssccpali.net ❖ Liturgical Music For sacramental emergency, Dr. Stanley Wong ~ Sat. 4:00 PM call 595.3105 and press #2. MISSION STATEMENT Sunday, 7:15 AM (TBA) “Inspired by the Holy Spirit, we the family Sunday, 9:30 AM (TBA) ❖ BAPTISM of St. Stephen Catholic Church nurture ❖ Lectors and sustain our faith through Love, Beverly Perry Sacramental preparation is required. If you Service and Unity.” ❖ Holy Communion At Mass are expecting or have a child to be baptized, please call the Church Office for PASTOR Jennifer Tamayo ❖ Rev. Fr. Mario Raquepo Sacristy more information at 808.595.3105, [Cell] 808.228.3053 Celine Asato & David Tom Monday thru Friday 9:00 AM to 12 Noon. ❖ Respect Life STAFF Juanita Ruis ❖ MARRIAGE Rev. Deacon Ronald Choo ❖ Holo Holo Ministry Sr. Marykutty Kottuppallil, MSMHC Stan Contrades The Diocese of Honolulu requires couples to Celine Asato marry in the Church and participate in the FAITH FORMATION Tina Welch, Secretary preparation for the Sacrament of eMAIL: [email protected] ❖ Confraternity of Christian Doctrine WEBSITE: ssccpali.net Children Matrimony. Couples should contact the OFFICE HOURS: Velma Guieb-Mamuad office for Marriage Preparation at least six Monday~Friday: 9:00 AM to 12 Noon ❖ Youth & Confirmation months before the wedding. MASS SCHEDULES Brian Laroya ❖ St. Catherine Chapel Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ❖ FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Monday ~ Saturday ~ 8:00 A. M. Debbie Fujiyama Kokua! Please contact your Church ❖ Parish Scripture Group Tuesday ~ Communion Service Only to making arrangements Saturday (Main Church) ~ 4:00 PM Francis Jordan with a funeral home. Sunday (Main Church) ~ 7:15 AM PARISH ORGANIZATIONS Sunday (Main Church) ~ 9:30 AM ❖ Pastoral Council ❖ PARISHIONERS Sacrament of Reconciliation Patricia Silva Saturday 3:15 to 3:45 PM ❖ Stewardship/Discipleship When changing address/telephone, or Or by appointment. Randy Tom moving out of the Parish, please notify the DEVOTION ❖ Finance Council Church Office. Holy before Mass James Solidum ADORATION ❖ Knights of Columbus ❖ NEW PARISHIONERS First Wednesday of the Month Worthy Grand Knight Randy Tom If you would like to become a parishioner After the 8:00 AM Mass ❖ Liturgy Committee of St. Stephen Catholic Church, please use From 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM Sr. Marykutty Kottuppallil, MSMHC the forms available at the entrance of the Other Wednesdays ❖ Social Fellowship 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM Sui Kozuma & Kitchen Crew Church or contact the Church Office.

Mass I N T E N T I O N S SUNDAY, November 25, 2018 Fellowship By: SUNDAY, 11.25.2018 7:15 A.M. Mass: ♰ Bridgett Dela Cruz KITCHEN CREW 9:30 A.M. Mass ♰ Nancy & Raymond Tom St. Stephen The First Martyr˝ ♰ Fredrick & Stephanie Foo Knights of Columbus Council 16267 ♰ Pearl Lau ♰ Harriet Makanui MONDAY, 11.26.2018 Contact Worthy Grand Knight Randy Tom 8:00 A.M. Mass Birthday Blessings for Stacey Luke eMail Address: [email protected]

Hollow Tile ˝ TUESDAY, 11.27.2018 The St. Stephen Knights of Columbus is asking for 8:00 A.M. Communion Service Only donations of hollow tile that will be used in the construction of Wedding Anniversary Blessings for Arlette & Steve Aki the St. Stephen Church Unborn Memorial. The size that is WEDNESDAY, 11.28.2018 needed is the 6X8X16. Mahalo! 8:00 A.M. Mass Birthday Blessings for Sheryl Ladrillono Dodge St. Stephen Knights of Columbus continue to collect cards to be sent to the military serving THURSDAY, 11.29.2018 8:00 A.M. Mass Prayers for the Homebound overseas. Please be generous for this special Christmas project. Please leave your gifts at the FRIDAY, 11.30.2018 office. Mahalo! 8:00 A.M. Mass Healing Prayers for Steve Aki Volunteers are needed to add greetings to the cards, thanking military members for their service, as well as SATURDAY, 12.01.2018 8:00 A.M. Mass ♰ For The Deceased Of The Parish wishing them a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. CCD children are also asked to help with this project. For more 4:00 P.M. Mass ♰ Valentine Kong Weng Chong information please ask WGK Randy Tom. ♰ Doreen & Francis Chia ♰ Betty & Albert Chong ♰ Senator Daniel Akaka Healing Prayers for Mary Souza ˝ ♰ Kenneth Asato ♰ Steve Fuji Friday, November 30˝ ♰ Deceased Benefactors of MSMHC Join us in the Church Hall for Family Movie Night on Friday, November 30, 2018, at 6:00 P.M. for dinner, and the movie to follow.

Misa de Gallo˝ For The Sick & The Homebound˝ Misa de Gallo begins on December 16, 2018 with˝ Margaret Robello, Carrie Talwar, Nancy Asato, Richard Wong, Benito Masses at 5:30 A.M. in the main Church. Bautista, Ron Asato, Steve Aki, Mary Souza Newspapers Needed˝ For The Deceased Of The Parish˝ Don’t know what to do with those stacks of old Eileen Green, Don Yee, Ron Kano, Gladys Wong, Kenneth Asato, newspapers? Problem solved! Bring them to Tomiko Asato, Doreen & Francis Chia, Betty & Albert Chong, the Church Hall and they will be used where Dr. Chang, Frederick Lum, Steve Fuji they are needed. Mahalo!

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. “Look at the face of the other…discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that We are the Easter people and he is a person and that God loves this hallelujah is our song.” person.” ~ St. John Paul II ~ Pope Benedict XVI

Saint Of The Day (Continued from last week) NOVEMBER 25, 2018 SPECIFIC CASES — St. St. Catherine of Alexandria˝ is the first recorded stigmatic in Christian his- St. Catherine of Alexandria was martyred around 305 in tory. In 1224, two years before his death, he Alexandria, Egypt. She is also recognized as the and embarked on a journey to Mt. La Verna for a forty by the Orthodox Church. There are no surviving primary day fast. One morning near the feast of the sources attesting to her existence, but the fact that her memory, and Exaltation of the Cross, a six winged angel allegedly the stories about her, have been kept alive - and handed down in the appeared to Francis while he prayed. As the angel approached, tradition - certainly confirm her existence, and her life of heroic virtue Francis could see that the angel was crucified. He was humbled by the and holiness. sight, and his heart was filled with elation joined by pain and The young saint was born around 287 in Alexandria, Egypt. At suffering. When the angel departed, Francis was purportedly left with that time, Alexandria was one of the finest cities in the world, and a wounds in his hands, feet, and side as if caused by the same lance that center of learning and culture as well as faith. pierced Christ’s side. The image of nails immediately appeared in his Christian tradition states she was of noble birth, possibly a hands and feet, and the wound in his side often seeped blood. princess. As a member of the nobility, she was also educated and was St. Francis' first biographer, Thomas of Celano, reports the event an avid scholar. Around the age of fourteen, she experienced a as follows in his 1230 First Life of St. Francis: moving vision of Mary and the infant , and she decided to "When the blessed saw these things he was filled become a Christian. with wonder, but he did not know what the vision meant. He rejoiced Although she was a teenager, she was very intelligent and gifted. greatly in the benign and gracious expression with which he saw When the emperor Maxentius began persecuting Christians, himself regarded by the seraph, whose beauty was indescribable; yet Catherine visited him to denounce his cruelty. he was alarmed by the fact that the seraph was affixed to the cross Rather than order her execution, Maxentius summoned fifty and was suffering terribly. Thus Francis rose, one might say, sad and orators and philosophers to debate her. However, Catherine was happy, joy and grief alternating in him. He wondered anxiously what moved by the power of the Holy Spirit and spoke eloquently in this vision could mean, and his soul was uneasy as it searched for defense of her faith. Her words were so moving that several of the understanding. And as his understanding sought in vain for an pagans converted to Christianity and were immediately executed. explanation and his heart was filled with perplexity at the great Unable to defeat her rhetorically or to intimidate her into giving novelty of this vision, the marks of nails began to appear in his hands up her belief, the emperor ordered her to be tortured and and feet, just as he had seen them slightly earlier in the crucified man imprisoned. above him. His wrists and feet seemed to be pierced by nails, with the Catherine was arrested and scourged. Despite the torture, she heads of the nails appearing on his wrists and on the upper sides of did not abandon her faith. Word of her arrest and the power of her his feet, the points appearing on the other side. The marks were faith quickly spread and over 200 people visited her. According to round on the palm of each hand but elongated on the other side, and some legends, the emperor's own wife, Valeria Maximilla was small pieces of flesh jutting out from the rest took on the appearance converted by Catherine. The emperor eventually executed his own of the nail-ends, bent and driven back. In the same way the marks of wife over her conversion. However, this is not mentioned in the nails were impressed on his feet and projected beyond the rest of the historical record and may be a legend. It is believed that Maximilla flesh. Moreover, his right side had a large wound as if it had been was alive and with her husband at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in pierced with a spear, and it often bled so that his tunic and trousers 312, seven years after the death of Catherina. were soaked with his sacred blood.” Following her imprisonment, Maxentius made a final attempt to Next week — STIGMATA, Specific Cases: St. Pio of Pietrelcina persuade the beautiful Catherine to abandon her faith by proposing marriage to her. This would have made her a powerful empress. Catherine refused, saying she was married to Jesus Christ and that her NOTABLE STIGMATICS: virginity was dedicated to him. St. Bl. Lucia Brocadelli of Narni The emperor angrily ordered her to be executed on a breaking St. Catherine of Ricci St. wheel. The breaking wheel is an ancient form of torture where a Bl. St. Francesco di Assisi person's limbs are threaded among the spokes and their bones are St. St. shattered by an executioner with a heavy rod. It is a brutal punishment that results in a slow and painful death, normally St. John of God St. reserved for the worst criminals. Bl. Marie of the Incarnation When Catherine was presented before the wheel, she touched it and a occurred that caused the wheel to shatter. St. of Pietrelcina St. Rita of Cascia Unable to torture her to death, the emperor simply ordered her Zlatko Sudac Natuzza Evolo beheaded. One account claimed that angels took her body to Mt. Maria Esperanza de Bianchini Sinai. In the sixth century, the Emperor Justinian ordered a Carcelline Pauper, member of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers established in her name. The monastery, Saint Catherine's, remains to this day and is one of the oldest in the world. ~ catholic.org parish Scripture Time, Talent, Treasure, Stewardship Group St. Stephen Catholic Church˝ The 9:30 A.M. Wednesday Parish Scripture Group Daily Readings˝ meets again in the SPAM Conference Room.. ♦ ♦ ♦ Profit & Loss Monday, November 26 (November 17 & 18, 2018) PARISH Revelation 14:1-3, 4-5 Ordinary Income/Expense ADVISORY St. John Berchmans Income ♦ ♦ ♦ Debt Reduction $478.00 COUNCIL Tuesday, November 27 Life at the Poverty Line Fund $308.00 The Council meets on the third Thursday Revelation 14:14-19 All Souls Day Remembrance $100.00 of the month, at 6:00 P.M. in the SPAM Conference St. James Intercisus Building Fund $50.00 Room. ♦ ♦ ♦ Elevator Fund $100.00 CCD Community Service Wednesday, November 28 Mass Intentions $35.00 Revelation 15:1-4 Thank you for your Quarterly MasterCard Rebate $55.59 generous donations last St. Catherine Laboure Special Services Income $275.00 ♦ ♦ ♦ year to Project Hawai`i, an Sunday Offerings $1,683.00 organization that serves the Thursday, November 29 Votive Candles Fund $95.00 Revelation 18:1-2, 21-23; homeless Keiki on the Total Income $3,179.59 islands. This year they need our help again to 19:1-3, 9 Gross Profit $3,179.95 St. Saturninus bring Christmas to the less fortunate. Net Ordinary Income $3,179.95 They are happily accepting donations of brand ♦ ♦ ♦ Net Income $3,179.59 Friday, November 30 new Keiki shoes and full-size kid-friendly Romans 10:9-18 Last Week: $4,448.00 shampoos, conditioners, and toothpastes. I will have labeled containers in the SPAM St. Andrew Ordinary Income/Expense ♦ ♦ ♦ attendance sign up table and at the back of the Income church starting this Sunday, November 25, 2018. Saturday, December 1 CCD Fund $3,337.72 Last day to drop off donations will be Friday, Revelation 22:1-7 Total Income $3,337.72 December 14, 2018. St. Eligius Gross Profit $3,337.72 Thank you in advance for your generous ♦ ♦ ♦ Net Ordinary Income $3,337.72 Aloha! Net Income $3,337.72 ~ Shin Kim, CCD Catechist Mahalo We are grateful to all who generously contribute CCD Fall/Christmas Craft Fair˝ their time, talent and treasure to our Parish Through your help, donations and Community. generous hearts we have reached our

R.C.I.A. Fundraising Goal. This will allow us to continue on with St. Stephen’s Faith Sunday, December 2 Sunday, November 25, 2018 Formation Mission to educate our children First Reading R.C.I.A. Topic:˝ and youth in their Catholic Faith. 33:14-16 (3C) Symbolon 7— The Holy Spirit and the Life of Thank you for taking your precious time [Page 31, Breaking Bread] Grace away from your busy schedules to support Responsorial Psalm God’s Divine Life Within Us this worthy cause. We, the Catechists, cannot To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. New participants are always welcome! thank you enough. We humbly look forward [Page 31, Breaking Bread] to your continued support. God Bless You All! Second Reading 1 Thessalonians 3:12—4:2 **Our gratitude and appreciation also [Page 32, Breaking Bread] goes out to Father Mario for allowing us to hold this event.** Gospel Luke 21:25-28, 34-36 “The devil is capable of [Page 32, Breaking Bread] confusing the most brilliant Saint of the Day mind. St. Bibiana ~ St. Padre Pio