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 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!
Got Spirit? GO!
The 32nd Annual Charismatic Conference will be held Fri., August 13th (6:30-10pm), Sat., August 14th (8:30am-10pm), and Sun., August 15th (1-4pm). What happens when hundreds of Charismatics gather for a weekend of powerful praise and worship, anointed teachings, inspiring testimonies, loving fellowship, and the enkindling of the Holy Spirit? Come...See...Experi-ence! Great speaker!!!
Fr. Tom DiLorenzo, who began a Catholic evangelical Bible outreach on the radio in 1984 called In Season and Out of Season, is now heard on over 15 radio stations across the United States, and is also seen on over 40 local Cable TV broadcasts weekly in the New England area. Fr. Tom has been active in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal for over two decades, and has preached at countless conferences and prayer meetings.
Registration forms are available in the parish office. For more information, see http://www.hccrs.net, or call Flo Andrade at (808) 455-3224.
Seminarian Education Fund Collection
Second Collection This Weekend, July 10—11. This fall our Diocese’s new vocation initiative will be a second collection that will take place the second Sunday in the month of July on an annual basis. This initiative has a two-fold purpose: to pray for and talk about vocations to the ordained priesthood and consecrated life; and to raise the resources for supporting the seminary education of those who will, God willing, one day serve the Diocese as priests.
First, the responsibility of cultivating vocations belongs to the whole Church. Each of us has an important part in God’s plan to provide shepherds for His people. We have a responsibility to pray, asking the Lord of the harvest to provide laborers for His vineyard. Priestly and religious vocations are present in every community in this Diocese, but it takes all of us working together to promote, identify, nurture, and bring them to fruition.
The second purpose is to raise sufficient resources to support seminarians and vocation efforts of the Diocese. The Diocese is soliciting your prayers and support. Seminary costs now average up to $45,000 per year per student, and our Diocese now has nine students in seminary studies at various levels. We would like you to help us bring Christ to the people of God today and tomorrow by your prayers and generous investment.
This second collection will occur on this weekend of July 10th—11th, 2010. Any help which you can provide will be appreciated.
Catholic Charities Hawaii, Employment Services
Catholic Charities—Hawaii’s Employment and Immigration Services office at Immaculate Conception in Holualoa will be closed until August16, 2010.
For Employment Assistance Call: Achun Niro at 961-7032 or Ray Campainha at 961-7033.
For Immigration Assistance Call: Rose Bautista, County Immigration Office, at 961-8220 or Linda Spencer’s voicemail at 961-7031 and leave a message for a return call after August 14th.
For Legal Assistance Call: James Tai, Attorney, at 769-4684-ofc or (321) 287-1556-cell. James will consult and give guidance, but if he must do immigration papers or travel, he’ll charge his regular attorney fee.
* Do not call the Holualoa number (326-1332) during this time until after Linda returns on August 16th.
Bring a Friend to Adult Inquiry for RCIA
The first phase of RCIA is coming to inquire. People come to ask questions, get a feel for what it means to be a Catholic and to learn a little about the Catholic Faith. After that a person can decide whether or not they are even interested in going on to the next step.
The second step begins when the inquirer decides to embark on the journey of learning what it means to be a Catholic. This should occur in September. Some who inquire have never been baptized in any Christian religion. Others seek to be Catholics but have already been baptized in another faith. Then again, there are always some who were baptized as Catholics but never practiced their faith. All are welcome to inquire.
“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you, and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.” —Ephesians 5:1-2
RCIA For Children
In September, Zola Ingram will begin inquiry for unbaptized children over the age of 7 years. If you have children who fall into this category, please leave your name and number in the parish office.
Vacation Bible School
Registration Forms for the Baobab Blast Bible School are coming in steadily. There are still a few slots left for 1st to 6th graders. We would like to have five children in each group. Forms are available in the parish office.
Some of the parents are available to help, which is wonderful. We will still be happy for more volunteers, teens or adults. Teens who are interested are often very helpful in assisting younger children with games, crafts, putting skits together, and storytelling. We are looking for adults, too (can be aunties or grandmas) to help with guiding groups with Bible stories or any of the activities named above. There will also be lunch and snacks to put together.
This is a perfect opportunity for intergenerational exchange. If you love children, this is the time for you to get involved. We’ll have a short meeting for volunteers in July. Thank you in advance.
Remember: Vacation Bible School is July 19th—23rd, 9:30am—3pm at Immaculate Conception Hall. —Cynthia Taylor: 960-0734
Prayer & Serendipity Bible Studies
The Prayer Group will continue to meet at St. John’s on Thursday evenings from 7pm to 8:30pm. We will be using the NAB Catholic Serendipity Bible Studies. The theme for this current Bible Study is “Women of Excellence—Being a Godly Woman.”
The Bible Study, which began June 10th, will conclude this Thursday, July 15th and will be followed by a new session.
We begin the evening with intercessory prayer and song of praise, then the Scriptures/Bible Study and end in prayer. So we usually are done by 8:30pm. Some of us linger for a little while longer drinking coffee and talking story. If you have any questions, please call Margie Fujimoto at 323-3469 or 217-6054.
Attention Young Adults 18-35!
We would like to begin a Young Adult Group for St. Michael’s Parish and are inviting you to join! Please contact John Paul Nardelli at 217-6886 with questions and to get more information.
God Is Everywhere
“In everything, be it a thing sensed or a thing known, God is hidden within.” —St. Bonaventure
We still have copies of a new Bible to offer you. It is written with families in mind. This Bible was developed by the same people who have given us the One ‘Ohana. We will, therefore, use it in our One ‘Ohana sessions, so you have time to get your copy for the next session in September.
The retail cost of this Bible is $29.00. We were able to purchase them at a discount. They are now $20.00. If you would like one, please ask at the Gift Shop table, and they can take your name and number. Selling these Bibles is not the desired outcome. There is no profit in just selling them. Our goal is to get these Bibles into the hands and the lives of our One ‘Ohana families.
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha—July 14th
Though the New York State Thruway runs close by the North American Martyrs’ Shrine, traffic’s roar never pierces the peace enveloping Auriesville-Ossernon to Native Americans—in the lovely Mohawk Valley, where Kateri Tekakwitha was born barely ten years after the martyrdom of Isaac Jogues and his Jesuit and lay companions. Daughter of a Christian Algonquin mother and non-Christian Mohawk chief, Kateri’s parents died in a smallpox epidemic widely blamed on the missionaries. Moreover, many Native Americans had experienced exploitation at the hands of “Christian” traders and trappers, further discrediting the faith Kateri embraced in baptism, then pledged to live even more intensely in vowed virginity.
Misunderstanding led to harassment, prompting her move to a Christian village farther north along the St. Lawrence River. Despite this, Kateri’s faith remained undaunted, her selfless charity undiminished. Both before and after her death at twenty-four, this young “Lily of the Mohawks” drew countless converts to Christ by the fragrance of her goodness. Through us, does “the aroma of Christ” (2 Corinthians 2:15), attract others to the beauty of His Gospel? - —Peter Scagnelli, © Copyright, J.S. Paluch Co.
In our society and Church today we probably need to become more aware of the value of keeping laws. Our reflection does alert us to the fact that simply keeping the laws and commandments isn’t enough. All our actions must be directed to the good of others. Keeping laws promotes good order in any community; doing good for others promotes right relationships in those same communities.
Law is something external to us, rather easily measured. Mercy and compassion are internal to us and can be measured only in terms of the good we actually do for others. Laws are internalized—written in our hearts—when they are kept for the sake of others. We are to do as the Samaritan in the parable: let the law of love and compassion guide us and gain for us eternal life. - Living Liturgy™ 2010, © 2009 by Order of St. Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
Focusing the Gospel
To the Point: The lawyer puts an important question to Jesus, but it is insincere because he is really posing the question “to test” Him. Jesus takes His question at face value and gives a right and all-embracing answer about how we “inherit eternal life.” We must make love of God and neighbor the guiding focus of our lives here and now. The Good Samaritan parable illustrates this kind of love. Our challenge: to go this far in our loving. - Living Liturgy™ 2010, © 2009 by Order of St. Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
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# of Attendees |
Total Contributions |
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St. Michael’s |
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Saturday 5pm |
140 |
$1,482.00 |
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Sunday 7am |
261 |
$1,953.00 |
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Sunday 9am |
267 |
$1,599.00 |
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Sunday 11am |
152 |
$973.00 |
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Sunday 4pm |
92 |
$363.00 |
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Sunday 6pm |
241 |
$366.00 |
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Immac Concept’n |
36 |
$268.00 |
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Holy Rosary |
60 |
$482.00 |
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Building Fund* |
*Excludes pledges |
$206.00 |
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Totals = |
1,249 |
$7,692.00 |
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