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ST. STEPHEN CATHOLIC CHURCH 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.” PARISH MINISTRIES ❖ A Catholic Community ❖ ❖ 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] David 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 prior 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 Rosary 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. Joseph 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. Pope John Paul II ~ Pope Benedict XVI Saint Of The Day Stigmata (Continued from last week) NOVEMBER 25, 2018 SPECIFIC CASES — St. Francis of Assisi 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 Great Martyr and embarked on a journey to Mt. La Verna for a forty Saint 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 Jesus, and she decided to "When the blessed servant of God 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.