Holy Family Catholic Church

830 Main Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818

Telephone: 422-1135 Fax:423-0389
Email: [email protected] and [email protected]
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 20, 2014
Mass Schedule
Monday-Saturday: 7:15 AM
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 PM

Sunday: 8:30 AM, 11:00 AM &
7:00 PM

1st SundaySamoan Mass-2 PM

3rd Sunday-Pohnpeian Mass-2 PM

Confessions Saturday:
4:004:45 PM
and after daily Masses

First Friday of the Month
Benediction
After 7:15 am Mass
WEBSITES

PARISH:
Holyfamilyhonolulu.org

ACADEMY
Hfcahawaii.org

2014 THE YEAR
OF THE
CONSECRATED
LIFE

Come Follow me.

Matthew 4:19
PASTORS CORNER

Last week-ends Readings helped us understand that God ex-
pects His Word to be accepted, to grow and bear fruit in each
one of us who listen to Him. Like the rain and the snow make
the earth fertile and produce, so should the Word of God be-
come active and bring forth the good that is in all of us. We
have to be pro-active. We have to be fruitful.

This week-end we are advised to be patient. We all have a ten-
dency to expect good results in anything that we do. In mat-
ters of morality, we expect others to be upright. We are fast in
judging and condemning others. The First Reading tells us
that if we are just, we must be kind and show clemency. In
the Second Readings, Saint Paul realizes that we are all weak
and unjust. But we need to take courage and be patient, be-
cause the Spirit will come to our aid in all circumstances of
weakness and failure.

In the Gospel there are three parables. In one, Jesus asks His
disciples, not to be rash and punish the guilty without know-
ing the harm that it does in general. We cannot be unjust our-
selves, while we punish those who have been unjust. Jesus ad-
vice to turn the other cheek to your enemy, when one cheek
struck by the enemy sums it all. The ability to be patient will
have the desired effect of getting our enemy to behave. Re-
venge and even just punishment will not perhaps have the de-
sired effect in the behavior of our enemies. In the second and
third parables, we are given to understand the value of our
good behavior that can force even the enemy to become a bet-
ter person.

The many problems and conflicts that we are faced with can
all end in possible peace, if we listened to the Gospel of Jesus.
No revenge, but patient endurance and a new way of thinking
from what we are used to, will bring about positive changes in
our foes. We do not take action that further complicates the
matter, but patience and justice that will assure peace and
progress in relationships with one another. Fr Sebastian

BE PATIENT
St. James

This James is the brother of John the Evangelist. The two were called by Jesus as they worked with their father in a fishing boat
on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus had already called another pair of brothers from a similar occupation: Peter and Andrew. He walked
along a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They too were in a boat mending their nets. Then
he called them. So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired men and followed him (Mark 1:19-20).

James was one of the favored three who had the privilege of witnessing the Transfiguration, the raising to life of the daughter of
Jairus and the agony in Gethsemani. Welcome Jesus because he was on his way to hated Jerusalem. When the disciples James
and John saw this they asked, Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them? Jesus turned and rebuked
them... James was apparently the first of the apostles to be martyred. About that time King Herod laid hands upon some mem-
bers of the church to harm them. He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword, and when he saw that this was pleasing
to the Jews he proceeded to arrest Peter also (Acts 12:1-3a). This James, sometimes called James the Greater, is not to be con-
fused with James the Lesser (May 3) or with the author of the Letter of James and the leader of the Jerusalem community.
Church Bulletin: EditorJoe Padron, Phone 423-2439. Bulletin deadline is Tuesday 12:00 noon. Please
email notice and picture if applicable to [email protected]
Our Weekly Offerings
July 13, 2014
Thank you for your generosity

5:00 PM $ 924.44
8:30 AM $1,191.00
11:00 AM $907.50
7:00 PM $1,232.18
Other donations $640.00

GRAND TOTAL $4,895.12
PARISH/ACADEMY APPRECIATION DIN-
NER. The First Annual PARISH Appreciation
Dinner will be held at Holy Family on Thursday,
July 31 at 6.00 PM. THANK YOU to all who have
already signed up. If you need to sign up, please
contact Fr Sebastian/Tom Grant/Joe Padron. As of
today about 100 Teachers and Staff and an equal
number of Volunteers from the various ministries of
the Parish will attend. Thank you in anticipation.

NEW LECTORS/EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

All those who wish to be Lectors or Eucharistic
Ministers, please attend a special training session on
Saturday, July 26. You are requested to attend the
Mass at 5 PM and following the Mass you will have
your training done. Induction into service will take
place at the various Masses on August 2-3 week-
end. Thank you, and God bless you.

RCIA/CONFIRMATION/R/ED

The registration forms for the new classes will be-
gin next Sunday. All those intending to join any of
the above courses, please sign up as soon as possi-
ble, so we can order and procure the necessary
teaching materials for you on time. Thank you.

We wish the Staff, Teachers and Students of Holy
Family Catholic Academy and ELC all
Gods blessings as you begin another new Year of
studies.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

REGISTRATION for parish Religious Education
classes will be held each weekend following
the Saturday evening and Sunday morning and
evening Masses - beginning on July 26/27, Aug.
2/3 and Aug. 9/10. Please make sure you get your
registration forms in no later that Aug. 10.

Catechists are also needed, so you may volunteer
with anyone at the registration desk outside of
church. For more information - contact Diane
Fujinaga @ 256-7343. MAHALO!!!

Take time to pray
It can be extremely
Powerful!


NEW PARISHIONERS: Newcomers are encouraged to register with the parish and are welcome to par-
ticipate in all parish activities and ministries. Registration forms are available in the back of the Church.
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Father Basile Moreau: France's
Blessed Teacher
Basile Moreau, C.S.C., founded a
worldwide congregation devoted to
schools such as the University of Notre
Dame and St. Mary's College.

VENERABLE Father Basile An-
toine-Marie Moreau, C.S.C., will
be beatified this month, and if he
is later canonized, he might be considered the patron
saint of learning. Education is the lasting legacy of this
French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy
Cross. His order is renowned for the institutions of
learning that it established to help enrich the minds and
hearts of the faithful and spread the word of Christ in
honor of Our Lady around the world.
With zeal and determination, Father Moreau built his con-
gregation from a small group of priests into a dynamic
organization with three branches. More than 3,000 men
and women religious are devoted to the spiritual renewal
of the Church, Christian education of youth and charity
among the poor.

Today, the Congregation of Holy Cross serves in 15
countries and on four continents. It was all part of Fa-
ther Moreaus dream to build an order dedicated to
minds and souls, though he was humble in spirit.
He led a simple and austere life, willingly adding acts of
penance to those already prescribed by Church discipline,
wrote Cardinal Joseph Saraiva Martins in Decretum Super
Virtutibus for Father Moreaus beatification. With pa-
tience and the deepest spirit of humility, he endured innu-
merable adversities and illnesses.
Father Moreau believed in a spirituality that was
ahead of his time and serves as a guiding light in
this modern era. He encouraged his followers to
look beyond the extravagances of the material
world and seek the soothing calm of Gods holy
realm.
Our founder, Basile Moreau, engaged the modern
epoch and brought to bear a spirituality for our
times, says Father Hugh W. Cleary, C.S.C., supe-
rior general of the Congregation of Holy Cross in
Rome.
He believed in faith in the teaching of Jesus as
revealing the true and ultimate meaning of life,
healing hope in an age of injustice and passionate
love through a prayerful breathing of Gods very
own Spirit.
Father Robert J. Kruse, C.S.C., an authority on
Father Moreau, believes the Holy Cross founder
envisioned one large family. In his own life and
work in founding a religious community, Father
Moreau was influenced by the idea that priests,
brothers and sisters constituted the family of Je-
sus, Father Kruse says.
He wanted religious and laity to be equal part-
ners. The way he fostered collaboration between
them made him a pioneer in his own time and a
model for our own.
Father Moreau was driven by a religious fervor to
spread the word of Christ to all those who would
listen. He equated it to a flame of burning desire
which one feels to make God known and served
and thus save souls. This vision would guide him
as he built the congregation. It would strengthen
him after he left the order.
Our zeal is always guided by charity, everything is
done with strength and gentleness, Father Moreau
wrote in 1855: strength because we are courageous
and unshakable in the midst of pain, difficulty and
trials...and with gentleness because we have the ten-
derness of our Divine Model.

Holy Family Catholic Academy
is a prime example of
Fr. Basile Moreaus
philosophy in education
and spirituality.