MARCH 28, 2021 PALM SUNDAY Passion of the Lord

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE — 2021 Office Hours Tuesday through Friday — 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Office is closed every Monday. Pastor’s Day Off: Monday. Staff Meeting: Tuesday— 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Phone: 808-879-4844. Fax: 808-879-0045. E-Mail: [email protected]. www.saint-theresa.com

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“In my Lenten Journey I offered … to the Lord so that I may become one with Him. DID I? Now I ask myself, “How do I continue to grow closer to Him this Holy Week and throughout the Easter Season?”

All is forgiven if you show up at 9 a.m. Saturday morning, April 3rd to see and help be part of the beautification of the Church for Easter! Be part of the Easter Parade of Lilies and transform the church from the somberness of Good Friday to the Splendor of Easter! And Lunch too! Please join us as we prepare the Church for the Resurrection of the Lord. COME ONE COME ALL!

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Holy Week Schedule 2021 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Saturday, March 27th 5:00 pm Mass, 7:00 pm Misa en Español 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Reconciliation Sunday, March 28th 7:00 am, 9:00 am, 11:00 am and 5:00 pm

SACRED PASCHAL TRIDUUM Holy Thursday of the Lord’s Supper NO Mass at 7:00 am Thursday, April 1st 7:00 pm Service followed by Solemn Adoration 10:15 pm Night Prayer to close Adoration

Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) NO Mass at 7:00 am Friday, April 2nd 12:00 noon, 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm Services

Holy Saturday Faithful to observe times of prayer & reflection Preparation for celebration of the Sacrament of Initiation The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night NO 3:30 pm Reconciliation NO 5:00 pm Evening Mass Saturday, April 3rd 7:30 pm The Great Easter Vigil (No gathering for the Blessing of the Fire, please proceed directly to Church)

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Sunday, April 4th 7:00 am, 9:00 am & 11:00 am Masses (Church & Courtyard) NO 5:00 pm Evening Mass

** In observance of Good Friday and Easter, ** Parish Office will be closed on Monday, April 5 and Tuesday, April 6. Office will -re open on Wednesday, April 7, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

4 Remembering and Honoring your loved ones this Easter...

Your Easter Lily or Hydrangea will create a glorious worship space in St. Theresa Church on Easter Sunday. — and will memorialize your loved one.

EASTER LILIES $15.00

HYDRANGEAS

$30.00

Please complete the donation envelopes provided in Church or come into the office to pick up or drop off your envelopes. Please PRINT names of your loved ones on the envelope.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

5 Abreu, Loretta Johnson, Anne Pinaula, Joseph GOSPEL REFLECTION Ambata, Emily Karlsson, Annika Stoutenburgh, Eric Aquino, Patzy Klempert, Patricia Quesada, Carmen PALM SUNDAY Asuncion, Lino Kotubetey-Adodo, Renee Reyes, Bennett MARCH 28, 2021 Bediamol, Patricia Lagsay, Candy Reyes, Chris Beck , Leiko Lubaton, Cornelio Romero, Teresita If the gospel accounts stopped just after Jesus’s entry Benton, Baby Boy Lundberg, Marlene Salisbury, Jane into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, how would you imagine Berry, Shan Maea, Tanifa Sanchez, Arnold the next few days playing out? The scene could easily Bolger, Mary Mesa, Joe Santiago, Casamajor be imagined as a hero’s entry in advance of his great Bolosan, Chyle McClure, Karen Schulte, Marybeth triumph soon to follow. Bumanglag, Arnold Naumann, Jeff Shepard, Marvin When Jesus entered Jerusalem, his disciples must have Cablay, Carlotta Osaki, Marie Sink, Ian felt the same weight of expectations, the portent of Calvo, Antonio Oswald, Therese Spens-Blakley, Becky what Jesus’s entry meant, not just for themselves, but Camello, Balbina Pada, Filipinas Toves, Doris, Jim & Jon for everyone. If Jesus was the promised Messiah, the Church Family Palleson, Harold Uehara, Naomi events to come were not just concerned with the Davidson, Cathy Phaneuf, Gail Untalan, June realities of one Passover in Jerusalem or the fate of the Farris, Eric Piller, Kathy Victorino, Naomi people of Judah but with the world and, yes, the world Venencians, Justiniano to come. What could one do but wait with sharp Fontanilla, Joy expectancy for events to unfold? Foo Sum, Sylvia Wietecha, Alika And yet one unnamed woman does more than wait. Gutierrez, Fred Woodd, Vanessa Her actions interpret not only Jesus’s entry as the Hipley, Jane Wrolstad, Ella Lynn expected king, but the sort of king Jesus must be. After Inzano, Karen Wrolstad, Julianne his entrance into Jerusalem, Jesus went to Bethany. In Bethany, “a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She broke the HEALING PRAYERS FOR YOUR INTENTIONS, alabaster jar and poured it on his head.” In this action, FOR THE SICK & DYING she simply supports the reception accorded Jesus as he entered Jerusalem as the king. The mashiach (Greek, christos) is the “anointed one,” and her actions tell us For All The Faithful Departed that she not only understands that Jesus is the anointed +Bill Sabog one but that she has a need or responsibility to anoint Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them, O Lord, him. But who is she to anoint a king? And Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them The people gathered around Jesus, however, ask a different question: “ ‘Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil? It could have been sold for more than three hundred days’ wages and the money given to the would not find a body. The unnamed woman, though, already poor.’ They were infuriated with her.” Their question is had anointed Jesus not only as a king but as the humble King not without merit, for in scolding her they probably who emptied himself out in death. were attempting to voice Jesus’s concern for the poor The humility of Jesus is reflected by the generosity of this seen throughout his ministry. Jesus asks another ques- woman who pours out all that she has as a witness for him. Who tion, “Let her alone. Why do you make trouble for her?” is she to anoint a king? Given the universal significance of Jesus’s Somehow the concerned disciples have missed passion week, her anointing might seem a little thing, but it is something. “She has done a good thing for me. The the most any of us can do: she recognizes Jesus, and gives all she poor you will always have with you, and whenever you has for him, not understanding completely that her actions wish you can do good to them, but you will not always helped to prepare the King, first for his death and then for his have me.” Jesus’s response is not an attempt to mark triumph, but knowing somehow he is the Messiah. out the permanence of poverty as a social problem, but The significance of her actions is felt when Jesus says, “Amen, to note that her “good thing for me” has focused I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed to the whole proper attention on him. Whether or not she knows the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” We, full implications of what she has done, she has directed too, are called to recognize Jesus the Messiah in faith, not those present to see Jesus as the Messiah, to grasp his simply as a conquering hero but as a servant willing to give him- christological identity. self up to death for us. Her identification of Jesus as the Christ by anointing went deeper, however, than even she knew, for she Copyright owned / controlled by Liturgical Press. All rights reserved. could not have known that she had “anticipated anointing [Jesus’s] body for burial.” Faithful women will later seek to care for Jesus’s broken body after his death in order to anoint it with burial spices, but they

6 FRIDAYS IN LENT HISPANIC MINISTRY—LENT & EASTER SCHEDULE STATIONS OF THE Holy Week Schedule 2021 CROSS & March 27 PALM SUNDAY / SATURDAY Misa en Español 7:00 PM MASS IN SPANISH 7:15 PM TRIDUUM April 1 HOLY THURSDAY 6:30 PM Kapalua, Lahaina St. Theresa Church April 2 GOOD FRIDAY 5:00 PM Kapalua, Lahaina Regular Sat/Sun Mass Celebrations April 3 EASTER VIGIL 6:30 PM Kapalua, Lahaina Saturday 5:00 PM St. Theresa April 4 EASTER SUNDAY 12:00 PM Christ the King (w/St. Theresa) Sunday 12:00 PM Christ the King 7:00 PM Maria Lanakila, Lahaina Sunday 7:00 PM Maria Lanakila

28 de marzo de 2021 to qué fue lo que entonces sucedió, para que nuestros oídos se acostumbren a la música de Domingo de Ramos drama y de amor que es la Pasión del Señor. Es bueno oír así de una sola vez la Pasión para Hermanas y hermanos,nuestro Señor y Divino entender que Uno solo triunfó sobre la muerte, Salvador no aceptó la aclamación de las multitudes Uno solo nos amó hasta el extremo, Uno solo nos que pretendían hacerlo rey después de ver sus dio el perdón, la paz, la gracia y la vida que no asombrosos milagros (cf. Jn 6,15). No quiso una acaba. Uno solo: Jesucristo, el Hijo del Dios vivo. corona cuando todos exclamaban: "¡todo lo hace Miremos, pues, con ojos de gratitud y escuche- bien!" (Mc 7,37). Huyó a la montaña muchas veces mos con oídos de discípulo el sublime testimonio y a menudo se refugió en la oración y la intimidad de este relato. Nada hay semejante en las con Dios, su Padre (Mt 14,23). páginas o escritos de esta tierra. Nada se compa- Percibía su corazón el odio exacerbado de aquellos ra a la altura de ese perdón que, como en cas- que veían en él un peligro para sus intereses. Sabía cada, cae desde la Cruz para hacer un nuevo dilu- que los poderosos, tantas veces fustigados por el vio, no de venganza y castigo, sino de misericor- verbo del Verbo, terminarían por unirse, aunque dia y de gracia. Nada tan útil y saludable como sólo fuera para estar de acuerdo en quitarlo de en esta historia de redención, la única que será de medio. Y en cuanto a sus discípulos, entendía cuán nuestro interés cuando nuestros ojos se cierren a frágil era su amor, así le juraran lo contrario. Com- las vanidades de esta tierra y tengan que abrirse, prendía entonces que las cotas más altas de la mal- para gloria o condena, en la eternidad. dad brotarían con inusitado ímpetu de uno a otro Feliz inicio de la Semana Mayor, (Semana Santa). momento, y sabía que ser rey, en medio de P. Ornoldo Cherrez, Capellan de la Cominidad Hispana de semejante torbellino de pasiones y venganzas, más Maui. que un honor era un acto de compasión, una obra de misericordia, una manifestación, la última y más perfecta, de su amor inextinguible. Y por eso la Iglesia, después de invitarnos a cantar aclamaciones al Mesías Pacífico y verdadero Rey, nos invita a mirar en un solo y maravilloso conjun-

7 8 9 "The Divine Heart is an ocean full of all good things, wherein poor souls can cast all their needs; it is an ocean full of joy to drown all our sadness, an ocean of humility to drown our folly, an ocean of mercy to those in distress, an ocean of love in which to submerge our poverty." — St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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10 Sharing the Gospel In today's Gospel, Jesus spent forty days in the desert. Jesus stayed close to God, and he followed God's directions every day of his life. When Satan came to test Jesus he was ready. Jesus passed every test beautifully. He said "No" to temptation. When you write spelling words over and over, it is easier to remember them. If you are learning a new language, it helps to make flash cards to practice with. Once you memorize all your words, taking the test is pretty easy. The more you read the Bible and do what God asks in his word, the easier it will be for you to pass Satan's tests, too. Prayer God, help me to stay close to you so that I am ready for my tests. Something to Draw Draw a picture of Jesus helping you remember Bible verses.

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APRIL 2021 St. Theresa Church SECOND COLLECTIONS MARCH 2021 April 1—Holy Thursday

Week of March 21 Rice Bowl — please bring to parish office Sunday Offerings $ 4,815.00

Online Offerings $ 4,458.00 Donations to St. Theresa Church $ 285.00 Hispanic Mass Offerings $ 279.00 Maui Catholic Schools $ 143.00 Donations to Hale Kau Kau $ 3,747.00 April 2— Good Friday Filipino Catholic Club Donations $ 29.00 Collection for Holy Land Maintenance $ 102.00

Candles $ 34.00 April 10 & 11 St. Joseph Feast Day $ 499.00 Maui Catholic School Catholic Relief Services $ 1,420.00 Support Stations of the Cross $ 82.00 April 24 & 25 Life Teen Donations $ 105.00 Diocesan Priest INCOME TOTAL: $ 15,998.00 Retirement Fund

In 2020, the Diocese of Honolulu initiated a second collection for our retired diocesan priests. We are delighted to report that St. Theresa Church contributed $6,210.00 to this fund! The entire Diocesan collection took in $165,627.02. Thank you to YOU, our generous parishioners, who are helping the priests who served our diocese and our parishes so well for so many years. Mahalo!

13 14 15 16 17 WEBSITE: https://www.saint-theresa.com DONATIONS: https://www.osvonlinegiving.com/1745/Home/ NewQuickGive WATCH MASS: https://www.facebook.com/sttheresamaui * Available by 9:00 AM on Sunday *

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18 19 UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE — 2021 Office Hours: Tuesday through Friday — 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Office is closed every Monday. Pastor’s Day Off: Monday. Staff Meeting: Tuesday — 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Phone: 808-879-4844. Fax: 808-879-0045. E-Mail: [email protected]. www.saint-theresa.com

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