As One Catholic ‘Ohana, we gather; we learn; we reflect; we serve.
Our next One Catholic ‘Ohana will be on Sunday, April 11th at 12noon. It will begin with lunch in the tent and proceed with event-centered learning activities. Please register at the back of the tent as you enter. It is very important that we have a record of all who attend, especially any child or young person who wishes to receive Holy Eucharist or Confirmation for the first time in 2010 or 2011. There will be child care for pre-school children.
This month’s topic will be the care of God’s creation. Bring your ideas; learn new ways from others and listen to what the Church teaches us about our responsibility to the Earth and all living things. We look forward to seeing you there.
Sincere Thanks From RCIA Coordinators
Thanks to all who joyfully shared their own faith to help the 11 people who were received into the Catholic Church this year!
Monica Choe and Loraine Gateley provided individual instruction to two candidates who were received into full participation during the year. Candidates are those who have already been baptized in another Christian faith and wish to be received into the Catholic Church. They prepare to receive the Sacraments of Holy Eucharist and Confirmation. Candidates are received into the Church whenever, in consultation with their Catechists, they feel adequately prepared.
The six neophyte children completed seven months of preparation to receive the Sacrament of Initiation, culminating at the Easter Vigil. The three adults gathered twice a week. One session was focused on learning about the Catholic Church, and the other was the Sunday breaking open the Word. All the neophytes will continue to meet with us each Sunday after the 9am Mass to experience the ancient practice of mystagogia.
Thanks to the following people who participated in preparing the adult neophytes: Fathers Lio Faletoi, John Quintero, and Jack Stawasz; Susan Bender, Jill Spanheimer, and Alana Yamamoto.
Auntie Beatrice Correa made the beautiful white Baptismal garments for the men and women. Her gift to these new Catholics will be evident each Sunday until Pentecost. They will wear their dresses and shirts to Sunday Mass.
After the Easter Vigil, Allie Bennett-Moran provided a lovely reception for the neophytes, their families, and the faith community. Allie gives a great party. This was Allie’s second year to do this for the neophytes. She was a godmother both this year and last.
Chuck & Joann Ahlswede, Allie Bennett-Moran, Jill Spanheimer, and Ken Takaki served as godparents for their neophytes. We could not have done this without their cooperation and assistance.
It is our desire to make this process, of supporting and welcoming those who desire to join us, a function of the whole community. It is with grateful hearts that we say “Thanks.” —Zola Ingram and Cynthia M. Taylor
Second Annual Easter “Feasta”
Infant Baptism Session Next Sunday!
The next session will be April 18th and 24th/25th.
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 this Thursday, April 15th. If your paperwork is not in by that date, you must wait until the next session to have your child baptized.
If godparents are not parishioners, they must attend a Baptism Class at their parish, and have a letter sent to our parish office from their priest stating they attended a class, along with the Baptism form and baby’s Birth Certificate. Any questions? Call Susan at the office.
Adult Confirmation
If you are a baptized Catholic adult who, for some reason, never received the Sacrament of Confirmation, you may be confirmed on Sunday, May 2nd. We will be having Confirmation here at St. Michael’s and adults may be Confirmed. If this applies to you and you would like to prepare for and receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, please call Cynthia Taylor at 960-0734.
First Holy Communion Preparation Schedule
April 18th Mandatory Eucharist preparation: 10am
May 2nd: Mandatory Eucharist preparation: 10am
May 16th: Mandatory Eucharist preparation: 10am
June 5th: Mandatory Eucharist prep/practice: 8am
June 6th: First Holy Communion: 9am Mass
Food Pantry Slips to Be Distributed
This weekend at all the Masses, Food Pantry Slips will be made available. Please take a food slip from the basket and bring the food item listed on it with you to Mass next weekend. This monthly plea to parishioners and visitors to help bring in food for our hungry brothers and sisters has been a godsend to many individuals and families in the Kona area. God bless you for your kind generosity!
Phone Book Recycling Contest
Hawaiian Telcom’s Phone Book Recycling Contest will be from May 1st through 30th. Please ask family and friends to save those books! which will benefit St. Joseph’s Elementary School. We still haven’t yet been told where the drop-off site will be, so just hang onto them until next month when the contest begins. Thank you for your continued support of St. Joseph’s School.
St. Bernadette Soubirous—April 16th
With Immaculate Mary’s “Ave Maria” for its refrain, Andy Williams’ “Village of Saint Bernadette” peaked at #7 on Billboard’s Top 40 at Christmas 1959, airing on radio stations all over America. Imagine! In some dioceses, today marks the feast of Bernadette Soubirous, the teenager who, combing a refuse heap for firewood, saw a “beautiful lady” who identified herself in words Bernadette faithfully reported to the Bishop, though she did not understand their meaning: “I am the Immaculate Conception.”
Relentlessly interrogated, she never wavered in her story or sweetness. Chronically ill all her life and dead at thirty-five, Bernadette left behind the shrine at Lourdes where healing waters still flow from the spring that her “beautiful lady” pointed out to her. —Peter Scagnelli, © Copyright, J.S. Paluch Co.
How to Subscribe to Email Updates
St. Michael’s Parish, as part of the North Kona Catholic Community (NKCC) is doing its part to help save the environment and save money. We are giving you the option of delivering the bulletin online via our website and/or via email. If you would like to receive an e-version, please go to http://onecatholicohana.org/get-email-updates.html.
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Living the Paschal Mystery
Our greeting of others must also be one of peace since we, too, share in the Lord’s risen life. As with the disciples, Jesus allays our fears and offers us a whole new relationship with Him—not one where we need to touch His wounds but one in which we utter with joyful conviction, “My Lord and my God!”
We also enter into a whole new relationship with each other as we continue the works of Jesus that lead others to believing. These works include forgiveness, yes, but also caring for others, accepting them for who they are, easing pain and suffering. Any good we do brings new, risen life to others; our ministry of goodness brings salvation. We are empowered to do so through the Holy Spirit. All we need do is surrender to God’s action within us. We have these fifty days of Easter to come to greater belief, deepen our relationships, forgive, spread peace. We have our whole lifetime to manifest the good works of our belief. —Living Liturgy™ 2010, © 2009 by Order of St. Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
First Reading From Acts and the Easter Lectionary: During these eight Sundays of Easter the First Reading deviates from the norm: rather than being taken from the Old Testament, it is always taken from the Acts of the Apostles. This first book of the New Testament after the four Gospels records for us the reception of Easter faith in the early Christian community. Although these first readings don’t accord with the Gospels for these Sundays in the usual way—either by a parallel theme or account, promise-fulfillment motif, or a contrast—they do in one sense accord with the Gospel.
The Easter Lectionary presents 8 Gospels that form a marvelous progression and whole: the first 3 Sundays of Easter all present appearance accounts of the Risen Jesus; the 4th Sunday of Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday, on which we are assured of Jesus’ continue care and love, the 5th through 7th Sundays of Easter prepare us to be disciples who receive the Holy Spirit and carry on the saving ministry of Jesus; the 8th Sunday is Pentecost, on which we celebrate the giving and receiving of the Holy Spirit. We move in these eight Gospels from celebrating the Risen Lord to being given the power (the Holy Spirit) to continue the works of Jesus.
The selections from the Acts of the Apostles simply record for us how those first Christians received the Spirit and carried forward Jesus’ mission. We see in this “mini-history” how the new life of Jesus’ resurrection re-created these people. These accounts from Acts, then, make concrete what the Gospels promise and help us see how we make risen life real in our own lives. —Living Liturgy 2010, © 2009 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
True Teachers—“Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.” —St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Helping Your Neighbor—“If you truly want to help the soul of your neighbor, you should approach God first with all your heart. Ask God simply to fill you with charity… with it you can accomplish what you desire.” - St. Vincent Ferrer
“Love with your whole heart the One who offered Himself with His whole heart for you.” —St. Clare of Assisi
“God speaks to us every day through His fellow creatures, and through the world around us. God speaks to us through the Gospel, from which we learn what we ought to do both for ourselves and for others. - St. Marcian
Stewardship Report: Holy Week of April 1st—4th
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# of Attendees |
Total Contributions |
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St. Michael’s |
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Holy Thursday |
321 |
$1,761.00 |
|
Good Friday—Stations |
100 |
(no collection) |
|
Good Friday—Service |
366 |
$1,513.00 |
|
Holy Saturday—Vigil |
450 |
$2,085.00 |
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St. Paul’s (Spanish) |
|
|
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Holy Thursday |
250 |
$221.00 |
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Good Friday—Stations |
300 |
(no collection) |
|
Good Friday—Service |
200 |
$469.00 |
|
Holy Saturday—Vigil |
250 |
$275.00 |
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Easter Sunday—10am |
125 |
$205.00 |
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St. Michael’s |
|
|
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Sunday 7am |
555 |
$5,773.00 |
|
Sunday 9am |
665 |
$4,295.00 |
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Sunday 11am |
352 |
$2,236.00 |
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Sunday 4pm |
160 |
$768.00 |
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Sunday 6pm |
255 |
$317.00 |
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Immac Concept’n |
110 |
$1,201.00 |
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Holy Rosary |
64 |
$563.00 |
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Building Fund* |
*Excludes pledges |
$925.00 |
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Totals = |
4,523 |
$22,607.00 |
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