2017 DAMIEN AND MARIANNE CATHOLIC CONFERENCE October 20 – 22, 2017 Hawai’i Convention Center CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Friday, October 20 Saturday, October 21 Sunday, October 22 Exhibit Hall Open Registration Check-in Registration Check-In 8:00am 7:00am 7:30am Registration Check-In Exhibit Hall Open Exhibit Hall Open Opening Ceremony 10:00am 8:30am Tongan Mass 8:30am Rosary Keynote Speaker 10:30am 10:00am Keynote Speaker 9:00am Keynote Speaker Lunch Break 12:15pm 11:15am Breakout Sessions 10:30am Performing Arts Play Exhibit Hall Open, Book Signing, 12:30pm 12:15pm Lunch Break 12:15pm Lunch Break Reconciliation Prayer Service – Divine Mercy Exhibit Hall Open, Book Signing, 3:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm Closing Mass Chaplet Reconciliation Welcome from Bishop Larry Silva 1:45pm & 3:45pm Breakout Sessions Hawaiian Mass 3:00pm Dinner Break 5:00pm 4:00pm Dinner Break Exhibit Hall Open, Book Signing, Exhibit Hall Open, Book Signing, 5:00pm 4:00pm Reconciliation Reconciliation Keynote Speaker 7:00pm 7:15pm Breakout Sessions Youth Activities 8:00pm 8:30pm Concert Conference Sessions and Prayer Service Friday, October 20 10:00am 3:00pm – 5:00pm OPENING CEREMONY & SAINTS AWARD DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET Oli Prayer acknowledging Ke Akua, those who are present, and the In 1935, St. Faustina received a vision of an angel sent by God to reason for the gathering. chastise a certain city. She began to pray for mercy, but her prayers were powerless. Suddenly she saw the Holy Trinity and felt the 10:30am – 11:30am power of Jesus’ grace within her. At the same time she found P101 EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS! herself pleading with God for mercy with words she heard interiorly. Dewitt Jones Join Fr. Chris Alar as he leads us in this beautiful prayer of the Where do we find the vision to take our lives to the next level? How do Chaplet during the “Hour of Great Mercy”. we summon the passion to keep “raising the bar”? How can we make our “ALOHA” WELCOME BY BISHOP LARRY SILVA life less of a struggle and more of a joy? For photographer and creativity HAWAIIAN MASS – CELEBRANT FR. ALAPAKI KIM expert, Dewitt Jones, the answers to these questions lie in the images we hold about ourselves, our future and the way in which we grow. 7:00pm – 8:00pm In his twenty year career with National Geographic, Dewitt lived the vision F100 WHO AM I TO JUDGE? - LIVING MERCY & TRUTH of “celebrating what’s right with the world” and embraced an attitude that TOGETHER IN THE MODERN WORLD took him to new heights both in business and in life. He found that the Dr. Edward Sri creative tools he employed as a photographer had even deeper “Morality is just a personal opinion”. “What’s true for you isn’t application when applied directly to his personal and professional growth. necessarily true for me.” “Don’t impose your morality on me!” How do we talk about morality in a culture that no longer believes in Extraordinary Visions is an hour of both motivation and inspiration. Using moral truth? Even many good Catholics feel afraid to say anything is his own extraordinary photographs as illustrations, Dewitt weaves a visual right or wrong anymore. We don’t know what to say and we’re tapestry of emotion and content. One that allows you to touch your own scared others will think we’re “judgmental” and “intolerant”. With passion: to balance your head with your heart: and to come away inspired humor and personal examples, Edward Sri gives practical strategies with your own creative potential. for engaging your secular friends in a compelling and compassionate way. And he helps form us in a Catholic moral worldview. Learn how Catholic morality is all about love, how making a judgement is not judging a person’s soul and how in the words of Pope Francis, “relativism wounds people” and is “the spiritual poverty of all times”. Appealing to the head and the heart, this talk is based on Edward Sri’s new book on this topic called, Who am I to Judge? – Responding to Relativism with Logic & Love. 1 Friday, October 20 Saturday, October 21 8:00pm – 10:00pm 11:15am – 12:15pm (continued) F200 CONCERT: LOCAL YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT BANDS S203 DIVINE MERCY & ST. DAMIEN, PART 1 EMCEE: Paul Kim & Jackie Francois Angel Fr. Chris Alar Join us help young people become true disciples of Christ in the world by During this session, learn about God's eternal mercy and how it encouraging full, active, and responsible participation in the life and radically changes the lives of those who love Him. Then, we'll begin mission of the Church tonight through music. to delve into a brief summary of the life and work of St. Damien who F300 MOVIE: MOLOKA’I: THE STORY OF FATHER DAMIEN spent his time with lepers at Moloka’i, Hawaii. Learn that St. Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help Faustina's spirituality, though many years after St. Damien, was people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), really an expression of God's love since the dawn of time. Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, S204 LIFE IN CHRIST: BUILDING VIRTUE AND LIVING TO THE Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, FULLEST! volunteers to spend three months working in a colony for victims of Dallas Carter leprosy on the island of Moloka’i. The moral issues of young Catholics today often relate to their self- image and making tough decisions. Accepting that we are made in the image of God can liberate us to live life to the fullest. Let’s take a look at special gifts that God has given us to build our relationship Saturday, October 21 with Him and to strengthen our life of virtue each day as we all strive towards Beatitude and union with God. S205 ACCOMPANYING JESUS IN EUCHARIST IN A BUSY 8:30am SCIENTIST LIFE TONGAN MASS – CELEBRANT CARDINAL SOANE PATITA PAINI Dr. H. Anthony Chan MAFI Ungrateful human beings have received God’s abundant gifts of intelligence to greatly improve living conditions and productivity. Yet many people still lack the basic needs, and people have become 10:00am – 11:00am increasingly busy. One can find little security in the turmoil of S101 VIBRANT FAITH IN A SECULAR AGE – TODAYS CHALLENGES economy inflicted with high jobless rate and in societies with FOR FAMILIES, TEACHERS & PARISH LEADERS numerous conflicts and terrorism. Meanwhile moral values are twisted and families are broken. Yet the Dr. Edward Sri unfathomable love of Jesus truly present in the Eucharist continues - Why do I need Church? Can’t I be spiritual on my own? to invite each and every one. Even in a very busy life with a - Isn’t each person free to make up his own morality? demanding career in science and engineering research, the speaker - Why does the Church talk so much about human life, sex and has been taking time for adoration since 1996. He had personally marriage? Shouldn’t we just love people? witnessed this miraculous gift which continues the sweet moment of Many parents and pastoral leaders recognize that the challenges to the sacrament in the liturgy and which has fundamentally changed fait life today are very different than they were even 10 or 20 years his daily life at mass, in the family, and at work. Such witnesses from ago. So passing on the faith in the parish or in the home cannot be his experiences have encouraged many people to commit to “business as usual.” We must anticipate the cultural influences that adoration. affect our children’s lives and give them the tools to thrive as intentional Catholics. At the heart of this approach is discovering S206 OUR SAINTS – GOD’S MANY FACES OF LOVE AND how everything we believe and do as Catholics is all about love- MERCY about the God who is love and invites us to experience his love and Peter Cruz who calls us to share his love in a world that so needs it. In this talk, Utilizing an informative slideshow, narrated biographies, and Edward Sri draws on insights from his recent book Love Unveiled: genuine relics, this presentation aims to introduce people to the The Catholic Faith Explained (Ignatius Press), which is based on the lives and pious examples of several Saints and [holy] individuals who acclaimed Symbolon film series. are currently in different stages of the Canonization Process. 11:15am – 12:15pm Emphasis is placed on how each diverse candidate’s path to S201 ON FIRE FOR GOD sainthood can be applied to our own lives; that we, too, can ascend Jackie Francois Angel higher in our walk with Jesus! While the world may think being Catholic is boring, we know a life lived for S207 POUR YOUR HEART INTO IT! Christ is a life that is fully alive, free and adventurous. Through humor, Councilman Brandon Elefante music, and testimony, Jackie will share how God alone satisfies our desires We all have our own personal journey in life; riddled with obstacles for “more” in this life, and how God wants to set you on fire with His love and opportunity. Have you ever felt you’ve reached a roadblock in so you can be a saint and go share that love with the world. your life and find it difficult to overcome it? Hear from Brandon S202 RECONCILING TWO CULTURES: THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS Elefante’s personal faith journey on how he survived three major OF IMMIGRANTS and CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF surgeries, became a teacher, and followed his dream to serve in OUR CULTURE elected public office.