ST. ANTHONY of PADUA and School August 9, 2020 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time “Our parish is an inclusive Catholic community brought together by our faith in Jesus Christ. Our Mission is to evangelize, educate, serve, and to love one another as God loves us.” Mass Schedule Monday - Saturday 6:30am Saturday Vigil Mass 5:00pm “TAKE COURAGE, IT IS I; DO NOT BE AFRAID.” Sunday 6:30am, 8:30am, 11:00am, Matthew 14:27 6:00pm Our readings this week speak of God coming into the lives of individuals Parish Office 148-A Makawao St in very different ways. For Elijah, God comes as a quiet whisper. For Peter, the Kailua, HI 96734 encounter comes during a powerful and frightening storm. In both cases, those 266-2222 www.stanthonyskailua.org who meet God are dealing with a crisis of faith in their lives. On both occa- Mon - Thurs 8:30am-4:00pm (Located on the 2nd floor above the sions, God comes to them to comfort and save them. The message is clear- no Early Learning Center) matter what the current state of our lives is, God will come to us and surround

St. Anthony’s School us with the saving love of The Spirit. 148 Makawao St. Kailua, HI 96734 Whether in dramatic or unassuming ways, God continually comes to us. 261-3331 www.saskailua.org We, in turn, must come to God in faith. Only by faith can we remove the stum- bling blocks that can keep us from recognizing God, from coming to God when Outreach Thrift Shop (Directly across from the Church on we are called, from losing our courage to do what is right. Makawao Street) Closed until further notice. We are all Peter in our daily lives. Every day, we hear the words of Jesus 266-2227 “Come, my child. Do not be afraid!”. We step out of the boat. We move

Outreach Food Pantry towards Jesus who appears to us in so many forms. But then something dis- Accepts food donations Mon & Wed, 9am-12pm. tracts us. Cares and concerns begin to weigh us down. Our feet become lead- Food distribution Tues & Thurs 9am-12pm en. Fear grips us. We begin to sink. That is when Peter’s experience reminds us 266-2227 that we cannot make the journey through the chaos of life if we are burdened

Hospital Ministry with cares. Without God, we will quickly sink beneath the waves. Ph: 266-2222 Ministers take Holy Communion to Now, my brothers and sisters, as we are surrounded by the craziness of Catholic patients at Castle Hospital. today’s world, is the time to gather up our cares and toss them to Jesus as He

Homebound Ministry stands amidst the chaos saying, “COME!” Ph: 266-2222 Ministers take Holy Communion to parishioners unable to attend Mass. Malama pono!

Deacon Michael

Clergy This Week’s Sunday Readings - August 9, 2020 1 Kings 19:9, 11-13 Psalm 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 Rev. Exsequel Tuyor, Parish Administrator Romans 9:1-5 Mathew 14:22-33 [email protected] Rev. Roel delos Reyes Next Week’s Sunday Readings - August 16, 2020 [email protected] Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Psalm 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 Deacon Ernest Carlbom [email protected] Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Mathew 15:21-28 Deacon Michael Weaver [email protected] “Did You Know?” by Deacon Michael Weaver

Parish Office Staff John Ah Key, Front Desk, 266-2222 Last Week’s Question: Who did John Paul II declare as Nikki DeWitt, Rel Ed/Youth Ministry, 791-6525 "The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century” in October of 1982? Hint: This saint’s feast day is August 14th. Lucy Poueu, Accounting/Facilities, 791-6523 Valerie Haole, Thrift Shop/Food Pantry, 266-2227 Solinuu Topalian, Bulletin/Website, 266-2221 Answer: St. was a Polish Catholic priest School Administration Office and Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a Bridget Olsen, Principal, 261-3331 ext 444 stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz during World War II. He is credited with writing “The Immaculata Prayer”: Patricia Barros, Vice-Principal, 261-3331 ext 442 Betty Kam, School Secretary, 261-3331 ext 441 “O Immaculata, and earth, refuge of sinners Devotions and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the en- is recited daily at 6:00am in the Main tire order of mercy to you. I, a repentant sinner, cast myself at Church. your feet, humbly imploring you to take me with all that I am Rosary for Peace is at 4:15pm on the 1st and have, wholly to yourself as your possession and property. Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and body, of my Saturday in the Day Chapel. whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases you. Eucharistic Adoration & Benediction is on the 1st Friday, at 7:00am in the Main Church. Next Week’s Question: What is a “theophany”? Sacraments Reconciliation: Confessions are by appointment only at this time (due to the pandemic). Contact The Stewardship Corner the parish office (266-2222) to set up appoint- All that we are and all that we have comes from God. Our ment. time, talent, and resources are gifts from God. How are we Baptism Preparation: Class is usually held on using these gifts? Are we responsible and reliable stewards of the 1st Sunday, but is now offered online on an ad God’s gifts? hoc basis until further notice. Call 791-6525 for more details. Stewardship Challenge: Can you spare one hour of First Reconciliation, First Communion, and your time on either Saturday or Sunday to help the ushers? Confirmation: Call 791-6525 for information. Marriage or Convalidation: Call 266-2222 at The ushers need your help. Ushers are a group of volunteer least six months in advance to set up a marriage men and women who welcome us when we come to church, preparation class with a priest or a deacon. who take up the collection, who show us to our seats as need- Anointing of the Sick: Call 266-2222 (Mon- ed, and who do much more for our church ohana. Thur, 8:30am-4pm) Or 295-5738 (after hours) Please prayerfully consider joining the Usher Ministry. Funerals or Memorial Services Call 266-2222 to set up a meeting with a priest to Contact Mike DeWitt, 630-6063; [email protected] discuss arrangements for a funeral mass or Dear Lord, memorial service. We thank you for watching over all our parishioners. We humbly pray for an increase in the number of parishioners Welcoming Catholics Home who are willing to volunteer to help our Usher Ministry. Sr. Isabel Rabbon: 261-6356 We ask this through Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.

2 Prayers for Healing Parish Calendar Betty Akeo Wendell Haole Marie Ramirez Monday, August 10 Robert Beyer Denise Hepfer Donald R. 6:00am Daily Rosary Greg Brossier Dr. Joe Herzog Jan Rich 6:30am Daily Mass Teagan Brossier Mary Ip Victoria Rivenburgh Tuesday, August 11 Geoffrey Bough Ed Lafleur Robert S. 6:00am Daily Rosary Ruth Cabrinha Denny Lau Frank Silva, Jr. Sue Capello Donna Lauriano Helen Sing 6:30am Daily Mass Laverne Lei Chow Randy Lichter Matthew Souza Wednesday, August 12 Linda Cravalho Gordon Lowell Megan Souza 6:00am Daily Rosary Sandra D. June & Francis Lum Steven Stiles 6:30am Daily Mass Lorraine Dias Mary Mannion Julie Strivens Thursday, August 13 Janet Doyle Paul Mannion Jim Swoish 6:00am Daily Rosary Rachel Dupre Charlene Medeiros Richard Teixeira 6:30am Daily Mass Thierry Fairon Edward Medeiros Dcn George Thorp Friday, August 14 Rose Marie Farthing Betty Mihlbauer Bob Trujillo 6:00am Daily Rosary Ella Gentry Jim Miltier Lydia Viernez Maria Gorak Virginia Najarian Gloria Viveiros 6:30am Daily Mass Ethan Hackner Sharon Odom Lehua Weatherwax Saturday, August 15 Wendy Hackner Sharon O’Donnell Olivia Wong 6:00am Daily Rosary Henrietta Hamachi Mika Poueu Pua’ala Wong 6:30am Daily Mass Bill Haole Karen Poulin Audrey Yannell 5:00pm Vigil Mass Maria Querubin Howard Yannell Sunday, Aug 16 6:30am Mass, 8:30am Mass 11:00am Mass, 6:00pm Mass Prayers for Deployed U.S. Military

Gaby Espino • Tanner Meyer III • Timothy Bonham Weekend of August 1 & 2, 2020 Mario Espino • Justin L Calhoun • Christopher Jozwiak Jimmy Richardson• Paul Rivers • Gary Tani Donations at all Masses $ 7189 Donations sent to office $ 510 For updates to the names on the Prayers for Healing and/or Total $ 7,699 Deployed U.S. Military email [email protected] Catholic Campaign $ 20 Monday, August 10 Seminary Fund $ 5 6:30am Spencer Wilson-Furr (Birthday Blessings) Tuesday, August 11 Go to www.stanthonyskailua.org and click on 6:30am Charlie Johnson (Birthday Blessings) “Online Giving” at the top to begin donating Wednesday, August 12 online. Your donations help us cover opera- 6:30am Janet Almeida (RIP) tional expenses for St. Anthony’s Parish. Thursday, August 13 Please prayerfully consider starting your 6:30am Blessings for Parishioners online donations or if you prefer to mail in Friday, August 14 donations, you are welcome to do so. May the 6:30am Blessings for Parishioners Lord shower you with blessings! Saturday, August 15 6:30am Blessings for Parishioners 5:00pm Blessings for Parishioners Sunday, August 16 6:30am Blessings for Parishioners Thank you sincerely for your 8:30am Bert Malott Jr. (RIP) 11:00am Arnold M. Souza (RIP) generosity. May God reward you 6:00pm Blessings for Parishioners a hundredfold. Please submit Mass intentions by Tuesday at noon for inclusion in the following week’s bulletin. Thank you for your understanding.

3 Spiritual Communion Prayer

It has long been a Catholic understanding that when circumstances prevent one from receiving Holy Communion, it is possible to make an Act of Spiritual Communion, which is a source of grace. Spiritual Com- munion is an ardent desire to receive Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament and lovingly embrace him at a time or in circumstances when one cannot receive Him in sacramental Communion.

My Jesus, While we often think of pregnancy as I believe that you are present in the culminating in the birth of child, we know that Most Holy Sacrament. the journey is only just beginning. While moth- I love you above all things and I desire to receive you in my soul. erhood brings with it many joys and blessings, Since I cannot at this moment receive it also involves challenges and difficulties. In you sacramentally, raising their children and dedicating them- Come at least spiritually into my heart. selves to their families, mothers participate in I embrace you a type of “daily heroism,” one for which they as if you were already there “do not always find support in the world around and unite myself wholly to you. them” (EV 86). Providing and caring for chil- Never permit me to be separated from dren as a single mother includes additional you. Amen. hardships.

https://d2ibg1ov78r365.cloudfront.net/wp-content/ Sadly, today, one in four children are uploads/2020/03/Spiritual-Communion.pdf being raised without a father. Certainly, there are many reasons this might occur in any given RESPECT LIFE circumstance. However, it is also true that in a culture that largely rejects the Church’s “As a gift from God, every human life is teachings on marriage, life, and sexuality, wom- sacred from conception to natural death.” en and their children are often disproportion- ately impacted. The life and dignity of every person must It was Pope Paul VI in Humanae vitae be respected and protected at every stage and in every condition. The right to life is who warned that, “a man who grows accus- the first and most fundamental principle tomed to the use of contraceptive methods of human rights that leads Catholics to may forget the reverence due to a woman... no actively work for a world of greater longer considering her as his partner whom he respect for human life and greater should surround with care and affection” (HV commitment to justice and peace. 17).

Pope Benedict XVI writes in Caritas in Ver- In the midst of this reality, the Church itate... that “The Church forcefully main- is called to be a beacon of light, hope, and sup- tains this link between life ethics and port. May we respond to this call, individually social ethics, fully aware that ‘a society and communally, to surround mothers with as- lacks solid foundations when, on the one sistance and support as they lovingly care for hand, it asserts values such as the dignity their children. of the person, justice and peace, but then, on the other hand, radically acts to the Get monthly prayer guides at usccb.org/ contrary by allowing or tolerating a prayforlife variety of ways in which human life is http://www.usccb.org/about/pro-life- devalued and violated, especially where it activities/prayers/upload/pray-for-life-07- is weak or marginalized.” (usccb.org) Life is a sacred gift, beginning at conception. 2020-print.pdf

4 Outreach Food Pantry Building the Culture of Life

A Big Mahalo to all of you who We encourage all citizens, particu- generously donated food to our Outreach larly Catholics, to embrace their citizen- pantry. Thanks to your help, we are able to ship not merely as a duty and privilege, assist those in our community in need of but as an opportunity meaningfully to food. participate in building the culture of life. Unfortunately, our refrigerator space Every act of responsible citizen- is limited and we don’t have sufficient room ship is an exercise of significant individu- for donated milk and eggs. Instead of do- al power. We must exercise that power nating milk and eggs, we would like to ask in ways that defend human life, especial- that you consider donating gift cards from ly those of God's children who are un- local grocery stores ($5, $10, $25) so that we born, disabled or otherwise vulnerable. can distribute them to the families who can ...we urge our fellow citizens to see then use the cards to buy the food items they beyond party politics, to analyze cam- need to include milk and eggs. paign rhetoric critically and to choose their political leaders according to princi- Some of the food items we are low on right ple, not party affiliation or mere self- now are: interest. Living the Gospel of Life: A Canned vegetables (corn, green beans, etc.) Challenge to American Catholics34, Na- Pork & Beans tional Conference of Catholic Bishops, Canned soup (chicken noodle, chicken rice) November 1998 Cereal Bars Visit https://www.ewtn.com/vote/ Rice & Bread download/moralguide.pdf for additional Mahalo nui loa & God bless you! Catholic guidance on voting.

The Catholic bishops of the United States are pleased to offer once again to the Catholic faithful Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, our teaching document on the politi- cal responsibility of Catholics. This statement represents our guidance for Catholics in the exercise of their rights and duties as participants in our democracy. https://www.usccb.org/resources/forming-consciences-faithful- citizenship-pdf

5 What is conscience and how is it formed? A Call to Faithful Citizenship Why does the Church teach about public policy issues? What are my voting responsibilities as a Merciful Father, Thank you for inviting each of us to join in your work of building the kingdom Catholic? of love, justice, and peace. By our baptism, Catholics are committed to following Jesus Christ and to being “salt for the Draw us close to you in prayer as we discern earth, light for the nations.” The Catechism of the your call in our families and communities. Catholic Church tells us that it is every person’s responsibility to participate in promoting the com- Send us forth to encounter all whom you love: mon good and, as far as possible, we should all take those not yet born, those in poverty, those in an active part in public life. To assist you and your need of welcome. family in fulfilling this task in this election year of Inspire us to respond to the call to faithful 2020, our nation’s Catholic bishops have developed citizenship, during election season and beyond. Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship. It is designed to help Catholics understand the Help us to imitate your charity and compassion, importance of forming our consciences around the and to serve as models of loving dialogue. basic principles and moral framework of Catholic social doctrine. While other Catholic organizations Teach us to treat others with respect, even have produced their own versions of this topic, this when we disagree, and seek to share your love document is the OFFICIAL teaching of the Church in and mercy. the United States on the issues of voting and the We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord, proper formation of our consciences in making the who lives and reigns with you in the unity of vital choices needed for our nation’s moral and civic the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. health. Go to http://www.usccb.org/issues-and- Amen. action/faithful-citizenship/index.cfm to view the Bishop’s official document. http://www.usccb.org

Catholics must form their consciences by Church teaching As Catholics, we have the benefit of the Church's teaching authority or Magisterium endowed upon her by Christ. The Magisterium assists you and all people of good will in understanding the natural moral law as it relates to specific issues. As Catholics, we have the obligation to be correctly informed and normed by the teaching of the Church's Magis- terium.

Our conscience is the voice of truth that is within us, and our opinions need to be in harmony with that truth. This is the goal of correctly informing and properly forming our conscience. As we prepare to vote for elected officials, let us examine the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1706. By his reason, man recognizes the voice of God which urges him "to do what is good and avoid what is evil." Everyone is obliged to follow this law, which makes itself heard in conscience and is fulfilled in the love of God and of neighbor. Living a moral life bears witness to the dignity of the person. (www.ewtn.com/vote/general-moral-principles.asp)

Fr. Stephen F. Torraco addresses several questions to help inform us as we discern how to vote in elec- tions. For example, “If I have strong feelings or opinions in favor of a particular candidate, even if he is pro- abortion, why may I not vote for him?" According to Fr. Torraco, neither your feelings nor your opinions can take the place of your conscience. Your feelings and opinions should be governed by your conscience. If the candidate about whom you have strong feelings or opinions is pro-abortion, then your feelings and opinions need to be corrected by your correctly informed conscience, which would tell you that it is wrong for you to allow your feelings and opinions to give lesser weight to the fact that the candidate supports a moral evil [such as abortion]. (www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6068)

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