ST. STEPHEN Sunday, November 18, 2018 ❖ 33rd Sunday In “And then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in the clouds’ with great power and glory, and then He will send out the angels and gather His elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.” ~ Mark 13:24-32

❖ A Catholic Community ❖ MINISTRIES ❖ VISITATION OF THE SICK ❖ Homebound & Bereavement 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 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 ❖ and sustain our faith through Love, Beverly Perry Sacramental preparation is required. If you Service and Unity.” ❖ Holy At 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. 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 before Mass James Solidum ADORATION ❖ of Columbus ❖ NEW PARISHIONERS First Wednesday of the Month Worthy Grand Randy Tom If you would like to become a parishioner After the 8:00 AM Mass ❖ 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, 11.18.2018 KITCHEN CREW 7:15 A.M. Mass: ♰ Bridgett Dela Cruz ♰ Tony Louis St. Stephen The First Martyr˝ 9:30 A.M. Mass ♰ Nancy & Raymond Tom Knights of Columbus Council 16267 ♰ Fredrick & Stephanie Foo Birthday Blessings for Kitana Travis ♰ Eugene Moniz ♰ Pearl Lau Celebration of Life ♰ Christina Ladrillono Contact Worthy Grand Knight Randy Tom eMail Address: [email protected] MONDAY, 11.19.2018 Hollow Tile ˝ 8:00 A.M. Mass ♰ For the of Purgatory

The St. Stephen Knights of Columbus is asking for TUESDAY, 11.20.2018 donations of hollow tile that will be used in the construction of 8:00 A.M. Communion Service Only the St. Stephen Church Unborn . There are two sizes that are needed: 6X8X16, and 8X8X16. For more information WEDNESDAY, 11.21.2018 please reach out to Worthy Grand Knight Randy Tom. Mahalo! 8:00 A.M. Mass Healing Prayers for the Sick

THURSDAY, 11.22.2018 St. Stephen Knights of Columbus continue to 8:00 A.M. Mass Prayers for the Homebound cards to be sent to the military serving overseas. Please be generous for this special FRIDAY, 11.23.2018 project. Please leave your gifts at the 8:00 A.M. Mass Healing Prayers for Steve Aki office. Mahalo! Volunteers are needed to add greetings to the SATURDAY, 11.24.2018 8:00 A.M. Mass ♰ For The Deceased Of The Parish cards, thanking military members for their service, as well as wishing them a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. CCD 4:00 P.M. Mass ♰ Valentine Kong Weng Chong children are also asked to help with this project. For more ♰ Doreen & Francis Chia ♰ Betty & Albert Chong information please ask WGK Randy Tom. ♰ Senator Daniel Akaka Healing Prayers for Mary Souza ♰ George Gerald Kong Jen Chong ˝

For The Sick & The Homebound˝ Margaret Robello, Carrie Talwar, Nancy Asato, Richard Wong, Benito Bautista, Ron Asato, Steve Aki, Mary Souza For The Deceased Of The Parish˝ Eileen Green, Don Yee, Ron Kano, Gladys Wong, Kenneth Asato, Tomiko Asato, Doreen & Francis Chia, Betty & Albert Chong, Dr. Joseph Chang, Frederick Lum

“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.” ~ St. John Paul II

Saint Of The Day (Continued) NOVEMBER 18, 2018 performed. When these methods were used, a number of false St. Rose Philippine Duchesne˝ stigmatics were exposed. Sometimes this stigmata became invisible on express request and prayers by the who suffered them. St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin (Feast day - November 18) Some stigmatics claim to feel the pain of wounds with no Born in Grenoble, France, in 1769, Rose joined the Society of the external marks; these are referred to as invisible stigmata. In other . In 1818, when she was forty-nine years old, Rose was claims, stigmata are accompanied by extreme pain. Some stigmatics' sent to the United States. She founded a boarding school for wounds do not appear to clot, and stay fresh and uninfected. The daughters of pioneers near St. Louis and opened the first free school blood from the wounds is said, in some cases, to have a pleasant, west of the Missouri. At the age of seventy-one, she began a school for perfumed odor, known as the Odour of Sanctity. Indians, who soon came to call her "the woman who is always Individuals who have obtained the stigmata are many times praying". Her biographers have also stressed her courage in frontier described as ecstatics. At the time of receiving the stigmata they are conditions, her single-mindedness in pursuing her dream of serving overwhelmed with emotions. Native Americans, and her self-acceptance. This holy servant of God No case of stigmata is known to have occurred before the was beatified by Pope Pius XII in 1940 and canonized by Pope John thirteenth century, when the depiction of the crucified in Paul II in 1988. Western Christendom emphasized his humanity. Stigmata˝ In his paper Hospitality and Pain, Christian theologian Ivan Illich states: "Compassion with Christ... is faith so strong and so Stigmata (singular stigma) is a term used by members deeply incarnate that it leads to the individual embodiment of the of the Christian faith to describe bodily marks, sores, contemplated pain." His thesis is that stigmata result from exceptional or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the poignancy of religious faith and desire to associate oneself with the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, such as the hands, wrists, and suffering Messiah. feet. The term originates from the line at the end of Paul's Letter Next week: Specific cases — St. & St. Padre to the Galatians where he says, "I bear on my body the marks of Pio ~ catholic.org Jesus." Stigmata is the plural of the Greek word .... stigma, meaning a mark, tattoo, or brand such as might have been used for identification of an animal or slave. An individual bearing stigmata is referred to as a stigmatic or a stigmatist. Stigmata are primarily associated with the Roman Catholic faith. Many reported stigmatics are members of Catholic religious orders. St. Francis of Assisi was the first recorded stigmatic in Christian history. For over fifty years of Pietrelcina of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin reported stigmata which were studied by several 20th century physicians, whose independence from the Church is not known. The observations were reportedly unexplainable and the wounds never became infected. A high percentage (perhaps over 80%) of all stigmatics are women. In his Stigmata: A Medieval Phenomenon in a Modern Age, Edward Harrison suggests that there is no single mechanism whereby the marks of stigmata were produced. Reported cases of stigmata take various forms. Many show some or all of five Holy Wounds that were, according to the Bible, inflicted on Jesus during his crucifixion: wounds in the wrists and feet, from nails, and in the side, from a lance. Some stigmatics display wounds to the forehead similar to those caused by the . Stigmata as crown of thorns appearing in the 20th century, e.g. on Marie Rose Ferron, have been repeatedly photographed. Other “Do not allow the reported forms include tears of blood or sweating blood, and wounds to the back as from scourging. sad spectacle of The ecstasy and sufferings usually began for the Saints who suffered stigmata starting on Thursday and ending on Friday human injustice to afternoon around 3 or 4 o'clock. All the recipients of this mystical disturb your . wounding suffered dreadfully. Many of the stigmatics experienced cruel rejection and suspicion before their wounds were authenticated. Saints who suffered stigmata were carefully watched ~ St.Padre Pio day and night so that tampering with the wounds could not be parish Scripture Group WEEKLY The 9:30 A.M. Wednesday Parish Scripture Group OFFERINGS meets again in the SPAM Conference Room.. Daily Readings˝ (November 10 & 11, 2018) ♦ ♦ ♦ Ordinary Income Expenses PARISH Monday, November 19 Income ADVISORY 1:1-4; 2:1-5 St. Nerses the Great Knights of Columbus $500.00 COUNCIL Debt Reduction $416.00 ♦ ♦ ♦ The Council meets on the third Thursday Life at the Poverty Line Fund $5.00 Tuesday, November 20 of the month, at 6:00 P.M. in the SPAM Conference All Souls Day Remembrance $\65.00 Room. Revelation 3:1-6, 14-22 Elevator Fund $250.00 St. Edmund Rich ♦ ♦ ♦ Mass Intentions $20.00 85th Feast Day Donations $1,026.00 Wednesday, November 21 Sr. Marykutty Fund $40.00 Revelation 4:1-11 Sunday Offerings $2,056.00 St. Gelasius Votive Candles Fund $70.00 ♦ ♦ ♦ Gross Profit: $4,448.00 Thursday, November 22 Revelation 5:1-10 Last Week: $4,289.00 Saturday, November 17, 2018 ~ St. Cecilia Mahalo Craft Fair/Bazaar/Garage Sale after 4:00 PM Mass ♦ ♦ ♦ We are grateful to all who generously contribute Sunday, November 18, 2018 ~ Friday, November 23 their time, talent and treasure to our Parish Craft Fair Continues ~ NO Class Revelation 10:8-11 Community. Thursday, November 22 ~

Bl. Miguel Pro Thanksgiving Day ♦ ♦ ♦ R.C.I.A. Origin and history in the Catholic Church Saturday, November 24 Sunday, November 18, 2018 Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the Revelation 11:4-12 ˝ King in his 1925 letter Quas primas, in St. Andrew Dung Lac R.C.I.A. Topic: Symbolon 6—The Paschal Mystery response to growing nationalism and secularism ♦ ♦ ♦ and in the context of the unresolved Roman The Mystery of Jesus’ Death & Resurrection Question. The title of the feast was “D. N. Jesu Christi Regis” (Our Lord Jesus ), New participants are always welcome! and the date was “the last Sunday of the month of Sunday, November 25 October – the Sunday, that is, which immediately : ˝ Feast of˝ precedes the Feast of All Saints”. In Pope John Origin And Meaning XXIII’s 1960 revision of the Calendar, the date and Christ The King˝ The of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King title remained the same and, in the new simpler First Reading of the Universe (commonly referred to as the ranking of feasts, it was classified as a feast of the Daniel 7:13-14 (161B) Feast of Christ the King) is a relatively recent first class. [Page 236, Breaking Bread] addition to the western liturgical calendar, having In his 1969 Mysterii Paschalis, been instituted in 1925 by Pope Pius XI. In 1970 Pope Paul VI gave the celebration a new title: Our Responsorial Psalm its observance was moved to the last Sunday of Lord Jesus Christ King of the Universe. He also The Lord is King; he is robed in Ordinary Time and adopted by Anglicans, gave it a new date: the last Sunday in the liturgical majesty. Lutherans, and many other Protestants along with year, before a new year begins with the First [Page 236, Breaking Bread] the new Revised Common ; it is also Sunday in , the earliest date for which is 27 Second Reading observed in this same position as the last Sunday November. Through this choice of date “the Revelation 1: 5-8 of the church year, the Sunday before the First eschatological importance of this Sunday is made [Page 237, Breaking Bread] Sunday of Advent, by Western rite parishes of the clearer”. He assigned to it the highest rank, that of Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia “Solemnity”. As happens with all Sundays whose Roman Catholics adhering to the Extraordinary are replaced by those of important feasts, John 18:33b-37 Form of the (as permitted under the the prayers of the Sunday on which the [Page 237, Breaking Bread] motu proprio ) use the celebration of Christ the King falls are used on the Saint of the Day of 1960, and as such ferias (weekdays) of the following week. The St. continue to observe the feast on its original date Sunday liturgy is thus not totally omitted. of the last Sunday of October.