BIBLE STUDY
Fr. Jack is going to begin Bible study again. The first day will be Tuesday, February 16th at 7:00 PM in Kamiano Hall. Everyone is welcome.
SUPPORT ST. MICHAEL’S BUILDING FUND
You wanna malassada??
We are planning a delicious fund raising event with those wonderful Traditional Portuguese Malassadas. Plan to buy something sweet for your Valentine.
Here are the facts:
DATE: Sunday, February 14th
WHERE: St. Michael’s CommunityWHEN: After the morning masses
COST: $10 per doz. Mardi Gras beads to the first fifty folksPre-sale tickets available today. For more information please call: Fanny Gouveia @ 329-3080 ; Barbara Kossow @ 938-0806; or Kristen Kam @ 756-3192. YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED.
Next Infant Baptism Session
The next session will be done this month since no Baptisms are allowed during the season of Lent which begins in February.
Baptism Session: (Mass, then Class)
- Sunday, April 18th – 10:45am: arrive for the 11am Mass at St. Michael’s; please sit in the front row
- Sunday, April 18th – 12:15pm: attend Baptism class in Kamiano Hall (approx. one-hour long)
- Sat/Sun, April 24th or 25th: Baptism weekend
The Baptism form and a copy of your child’s Birth Certificate must have arrived in the office no later than Thursday, Jan. 21st. If you were unable to get your paperwork in by this past week, you must wait until the next session to have your child baptized.
If the godparents are not parishioners here, they must attend a Baptism Class at their home parish, with a letter from their parish priest stating they attended the class, and submitted to the office along with the Baptism form and baby’s Birth Certificate. If you have any questions, please call Susan at the office.
AARP Tax-Aide
Free tax help for taxpayers with low- and moderate-income, with special attention to those age 60 and older, is again being offered by AARP at various locations. The schedule will begin Feb. 2nd and end April 15th.
Tuesdays: 12noon-6pm (appointment only) at AARP
Information Center at Pottery Terrace; call 334-1212
Thursdays: 8am-12noon (walk-in) at Hale Halawai
Wednesdays: 9am-12noon (walk-in) at Yano Hall
St. Angela Merici – January 27th
Born in Northern Italy, orphaned in childhood, Angela Merici faced a society in which education was largely the privilege of wealthy young men and based primarily in monastic schools. This reality shaped Angela’s insightful conviction that society’s disorder was caused by disorder in the home, and a lack of model Christian mothers the result of neglecting the education of young women. Transform the Christian family by placing an educated wife and mother at its heart, Angela believed, and the whole world would be renewed in Christ!
So she gathered a small group of unmarried women, many of them Franciscan Tertiaries (lay affiliates) like herself, and set out to educate poor girls, free of charge, in their homes. She and her band of teachers called themselves “companions,” pioneering a new form of non-cloistered religious life for women, bearing witness to evangelical simplicity in the midst of the world, not as a formal “order” but as the “Company (compagnia) of St. Ursula.” Known today as the Ursulines, Angela Merici’s spiritual daughters continue serving the Church and society in a rich diversity of ministries. —Peter Scagnelli, © Copyright, J.S. Paluch Co.
Living the Paschal Mystery
For most of us, Jesus does not come in dramatic and miraculous ways and bid us to follow him; rather, he comes in the ordinary events of daily living. The gospel invites us to look at the simple ways we live, the ways we have changed our purpose in life to follow Jesus — for example, in the generosity of so many volunteers, in the faithfulness of husbands and wives, in the unselfishness of pastoral workers, in the uncomplaining suffering of the sick, in the gracious wisdom of the elderly, we see faithful followers of Jesus living his teachings. Our yes response is to imitate these good behaviors, and by doing so we are faithful followers. Living the paschal mystery means we respond to God in these little, everyday things. The astonishing thing about this Good News is that we are all made worthy followers simply because God calls. - Living Liturgy™ Spirituality, Celebration, and Catechesis for Sundays and Solemnities, Year C · 2010. © 2009. Order of Saint Benedict, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
Homily Points
As human beings we are often impulsive. We hear a pitch for a new product and we run out to buy it. We hear a motivational speaker and we sign on the dotted line. Yet how often the new product ends up sitting on our shelf, how quickly we drop out of trends or fads. The gospel narrative relates what might appear to be an impulsive response on the part of the first disciples, yet we know they grew into a lifelong commitment of being faithful followers of Jesus.
Jesus’ own words and actions were not impulse decisions but flowed from the clarity of his mission and the consistent, radical orientation of his whole life toward service of his Father and others. The disciples were “caught” by the integrity of Jesus’ words and actions.
The miracle of the great catch is dramatic and sensational, as is the radical response of the first disciples who leave everything to take on a new way of life. For our part, we rarely if ever experience such dramatic miracles or such all –encompassing life changes. But our ordinary daily living can nonetheless flow from a similar integrity of our own words and actions—our own radical response to Jesus. —Living Liturgy™ Spirituality, Celebration, and Catechesis for Sundays and Solemnities, Year C · 2010. © 2009 Order of Saint Benedict, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
REFLECTING ON THE GOSPEL
All of us, at times, give in to our impulses. Retail stores count on this when they place certain items near the checkout counters—in our face as we stand waiting in line. Sometimes acting on impulse is just fun, as when we skip along the hopscotch boxes some child has chalked on the sidewalk. Sometimes acting on impulse has implications, as when we agree to do something and then find how much time and energy the task will take. Rarely if ever does acting on impulse have lifelong implications. The gospel this Sunday seems to be about impulses: Jesus commands the fisherman to put out their nets in spite of laboring all night catching nothing; the fishermen leave all and follow Jesus. These impulses certainly have lifelong implications!
What precipitated the radical response of the first disciples who “left everything and followed” Jesus? Clearly, Jesus’ words and actions. To fishermen who had labored fruitlessly all night, Jesus says try again and leads them to a great catch. To a sinful Peter who considers himself unworthy of Jesus’ company, Jesus says follow me, and transforms his life’s purpose. More than one miracle has occurred in this gospel.
Jesus “taught the crowds.” The miracle of the great catch makes concrete the Good News of Jesus’ teaching: God’s intervention overturning the futility of mere human work, the superabundance of God’s actions on our behalf, the invitation to follow in Jesus’ footsteps. The miracle of the catch is the bridge to the second miracle; hearing the Good News and living it. The miracle enabled the disciples to see more deeply into the truth of Jesus’ teaching. It’s the power of Jesus’ Good News that drew them to follow him. Today we are the miracle that makes the Good News viable when we allow God to work in and through us.
Following Jesus can hardly be an impulse decision, although the gospel account might make it seem that way. Between the miracle of the great catch and the disciples leaving everything to follow Jesus stands Peter’s recognition that he is “a sinful man.” Their encounter with Jesus helped the disciples see themselves for who they were opened up the willingness to change their life course. They would still be fishermen—but now their catch would be human beings to whom they would tell the Good News of God’s presence. Jesus is the net God lowers into the sea of humanity, knowing full well there will be a great catch.
FOCUSING THE GOSPEL
Key words and phrases: word of God, put out into deep water, caught great number, I am a sinful man, they left everything and followed him.
To the point: What precipitated the radical response of the first disciples who “left everything and followed” Jesus? Clearly, Jesus’ words and actions. To fishermen who had labored fruitlessly all night, Jesus says try again and leads them to a great catch. To a sinful Peter who considers himself unworthy of Jesus’ company, Jesus says follow me and transforms his life’s purpose. More than one miracle has occurred in this gospel.
CONNECTING THE GOSPEL
To the first reading: In responding to God’s call, our person worthiness is not the issue, for all humanity is sinful, as both Isaiah and Peter declare. All that matters are the call of God, the mission God gives, and our fidelity to it.
To our experience: Contemporary culture sets up standards of acceptability: body shape, fashions, job performance, etc. The Good News is that God calls us precisely as we are and works through our humanity
Stewardship Report: Week of Jan. 30th-31st
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# of Attendees |
Total Contributions |
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St. Michael’s |
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Saturday 5pm |
216 |
$1,695.00 |
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Sunday 7am |
279 |
$2,160.00 |
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Sunday 9am |
405 |
$2411.00 |
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Sunday 11am |
205 |
$1,573.00 |
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Sunday 4pm |
110 |
$555.00 |
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Sunday 6pm |
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$396.00 |
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Immaculate Conception |
120 |
$726.00 |
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Holy Rosary |
55 |
$322.00 |
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Totals = |
1,390 |
$9,838.00 |
