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DECEMBER 15, 2019 THIRD SUNDAY of ADVENT MISSION STATEMENT: to Live Our Baptismal Promises by Living Our Faith Through Prayer DECEMBER 15, 2019 THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT St. Michael Church Est. 1853 Sts. Peter and Paul Mission Est. 1953 St. Michael School Est. 1944 MISSION STATEMENT: To live our baptismal promises by living our faith through prayer, service and generosity. Mass Schedule APOSTOLIC LETTER the same time, its portrayal in the ADMIRABILE SIGNUM crèche helps us to imagine the sce- St. Michael Church OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ne. It touches our hearts and makes Monday - 7:00am MEANING AND IMPORTANCE us enter into salvation history as (Communion Service Only) OF THE NATIVITY SCENE contemporaries of an event that is Tuesday - Saturday - 7:00am (Continuation from living and real in a broad gamut Saturday Vigil Mass - 5:00pm last week’s article) of historical and cultural contexts. Sunday - 7:00am & 11:00am In a particular way, from the time of Sts. Peter and Paul Mission 3. With the simplicity of that sign, Saint Francis carried out a great its Franciscan origins, the nativity Sunday - 9:00am scene has invited us to “feel” and work of evangelization. His teaching Reconciliation at St. Michael touched the hearts of Christians and “touch” the poverty that God’s Son Saturdays - 4:00pm - 4:30pm continues today to offer a simple yet took upon himself in the Incarnation. Or call for appointment authentic means of portraying the Implicitly, it summons us to follow beauty of our faith. Indeed, the him along the path of humility, Morning Prayers (St. Michael) place where this first nativity scene poverty and self-denial that leads Sunday Rosary - 6:15am was enacted expresses and evokes from the manger of Bethlehem to Monday—Friday these sentiments. Greccio has be- the cross. It asks us to meet him (Lauds – Morning Prayer) – 6:35am and serve him by showing mercy to come a refuge for the soul, a moun- Parish Office tain fastness wrapped in silence. those of our brothers and sisters in greatest need (cf. Mt 25:31-46). Monday—Friday - 9:00am - 3:00pm Why does the Christmas crèche Closed on Holidays arouse such wonder and move us 4. I would like now to reflect on the 67-390 Goodale Avenue so deeply? First, because it shows various elements of the nativity Waialua, HI 96791 God’s tender love: the Creator scene in order to appreciate their Phone: (808) 637-4040 of the universe lowered himself to deeper meaning. First, there is the Fax: (808) 637-4287 take up our littleness. The gift of background of a starry sky wrapped in the darkness and silence of night. E-mail: life, in all its mystery, becomes all We represent this not only out of [email protected] the more wondrous as we realize fidelity to the Gospel accounts, but Website: that the Son of Mary is the source also for its symbolic value. We can www.stsmichaelpeterpaul.org and sustenance of all life. In Jesus, think of all those times in our lives the Father has given us a brother when we have experienced the St. Michael School who comes to seek us out whenever darkness of night. Yet even then, Monday – Friday - 8:00am - 3:00pm we are confused or lost, a loyal (Continue on page 3) Closed on School Holidays friend ever at our side. He gave us 67-340 Haona St.. his Son who forgives us and frees us from our sins. Waialua, HI 96791 Phone: (808) 637-7772 Setting up the Christmas crèche in Fax: (808) 637-7722 our homes helps us to relive the E-mail: history of what took place in Beth- [email protected] lehem. Naturally, the Gospels Website: remain our source for understand- www.stmichaelschoolhi.com ing and reflecting on that event. At MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2019 PARISH EVENTS and Sunday, December 15 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2019 7:00a Filipino Catholic Club Mass 6:30 PM - ST. MICHAEL CHURCH 9:00a Religious Education Classes SM 11:00a SM School Mass with Parish Light refreshments will be served. Monday, December 16 Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers of 5:00a MISA DE GALLO Holy Communion of St. Michael and 8:30a Community Outreach Sts. Peter & Paul are required to 7:00p EPIC With Dallas Carter attend in order to be recommissioned. 6:30p ADVENT MISSION All parishioners and friends are Tuesday, December 17 welcome to this Advent Mission. 5:00a MISA DE GALLO 6:30p ADVENT MISSION Wednesday, December 18 Come and join us for nine days 5:00a MISA DE GALLO of early morning novena Mass to 8:00a SM School prepare for the birth of our Lord, 10:00a Visitation ALFRED GABRIEL, JR. SM Jesus Christ. 11:00a Funeral Mass with luncheon to follow Sponsored by the Filipino 7:00p PENITENTIAL SERVICE Catholic Club ... Special novena Thursday, December 19 envelopes will be accepted by the 5:00a MISA DE GALLO sponsors of the day and breakfast 5:00p Hula Class will be served in St. Damien Hall. 6:30p Scripture Reading/Sharing Friday, December 20 NOTE 5:00a MISA DE GALLO There will be no Morning 10:00a Choir Practice (SPP) Prayers and 7:00AM Masses 6:30p Choir Practice (SM) Dec. 16-24 at 5:00AM during this time period. 11:00a SM School Early Dismissal Saturday, December 21 5:00a MISA DE GALLO Parish Registration PARISH ADMINISTRATOR If you are interested in registering or Sunday, December 22 would like more information, please Father Ernesto A. Juarez, Jr. 5:00a MISA DE GALLO contact the parish office or visit our Parish Pastoral Assistant 8:00a Religious Education Classes SPP website. Mr. Joshua Kapika 9:00a Religious Education Classes SM Sacrament of Baptism School Principal Preparation is required. Please call the Mr. Kainoa Fukumoto St. Michael School will be on parish office to attend a class. Christmas break Funerals December 23, 2019, to January 3, 2020. Facilities Scheduling It is customary to contact the parish office before making arrangements with the Rental of St. Damien Hall must be scheduled through the Parish Office. mortuary. Final arrangements are made with the SEE SCHEDULE FOR MASS TIMES cooperation of the mortuary and priest. REMINDER Mass intentions requests must Marriage Must contact the parish office at least six be submitted to the church office AA MEETINGS @ SPP months prior to the wedding date. by Thursday morning for Daily, Open Group: (Nooners) Saturday or Sunday Prayer of the Meets Mon.-Sat. Noon to 1pm Blessings & Anointing of the Sick Faithful. Open Group: (Imua Waimea) Call parish office for appointments. Meets Mondays 8pm-9:30pm REMINDER: Articles to be printed Women Only: (Waimea Wahine) Outreach (Food Pantry) Meets Thursdays 6:45pm-8pm Mondays …. 8:30 am - 11:00 am in the church bulletin must be AA MEETINGS @ SM Holidays…....Closed submitted to the parish office by Adult Children of AA: Meets Tuesdays 6:30pm Open Group: Meets Wednesdays 6:30pm Monday afternoon. (continued from front page) gratitude and awe. Thanks to Jesus, this encounter God does not abandon us, but is there to answer between God and his children gives birth to our religion our crucial questions about the meaning of life. Who am I? and accounts for its unique beauty, so wonderfully evident Where do I come from? Why was I born at this time in in the nativity scene. history? Why do I love? Why do I suffer? Why will I die? It 6. It is customary to add many symbolic figures to our na- was to answer these questions that God became man. His tivity scenes. First, there are the beggars and the others closeness brings light where there is darkness and shows who know only the wealth of the heart. They too have eve- the way to those dwelling in the shadow of suffering ry right to draw near to the Infant Jesus; no one can evict (cf. Lk 1:79). them or send them away from a crib so makeshift that the The landscapes that are part of the nativity scene also poor seem entirely at home. Indeed, the poor are a privi- deserve some mention. Frequently they include the ruins of leged part of this mystery; often they are the first to recog- ancient houses or buildings, which in some instances nize God’s presence in our midst. replace the cave of Bethlehem and become a home for the The presence of the poor and the lowly in the nativity Holy Family. These ruins appear to be inspired by the scene remind us that God became man for the sake of thirteenth-century Golden Legend of the Dominican those who feel most in need of his love and who ask him to Jacobus de Varagine, which relates a pagan belief that the draw near to them. Jesus, “gentle and humble in Temple of Peace in Rome would collapse when a Virgin heart” (Mt 11:29), was born in poverty and led a simple life gave birth. More than anything, the ruins are the visible in order to teach us to recognize what is essential and to sign of fallen humanity, of everything that inevitably falls act accordingly. The nativity scene clearly teaches that we into ruin, decays and disappoints. This scenic setting tells cannot let ourselves be fooled by wealth and fleeting us that Jesus is newness in the midst of an aging world, promises of happiness. We see Herod’s palace in the that he has come to heal and rebuild, to restore the world background, closed and deaf to the tidings of joy. By and our lives to their original splendor. being born in a manger, God himself launches the only 5.
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