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Exterior of original Immaculate Conception Church, Holualoa, date unknown.

Exterior of original Immaculate Conception Church, Holualoa, date unknown.

Located in the heart of Holualoa, Immaculate Conception was built in 1880 to service the Portuguese and Filipino immigrants working in the coffee plantations. The frame church was destroyed by fire on December 6, 1943. Under the direction of Father Benno Evers, it was rebuilt with the help of the military within eight months; an on-site plaque dates the construction.

Immaculate Conception is the second largest church of St. Michael’s Parish. It is surrounded by church property. The two houses on the north previously housed nuns from the Sisters of the Holy Family and Maryknoll Missions. Today a house to the south and north serve as rectories for St. Michael’s Parish. There is also an on-site meeting hall—all structures have panoramic views of the Kona Coast.

Weekly Mass is held at Immaculate Conception and it serves as the mauka (mountainside) hub of St. Michael’s Parish with numerous weddings and Spanish quinceanera (coming of age ceremonies).

Find more info on St. Michael’s mission churches in the 2009 book, “North Kona’s Catholic Heritage….remembered.” It’s for sale in the parish office and bookstore on the grounds of St. Michael’s Church in Kailua-Kona, 326-7771.

Location:  76-5960 Mamalahoa Highway - Holualoa, HI  96725

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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 June 2010 09:53  

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Eighteenth Sunday in OrdinaryTime

Reading I – Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23

Reading II – Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11

Gospel – Luke 12:13-21

Values to Live By -  Today’s Scriptures contain some catch phrases that are still quite familiar in our world:  “All is vanity,” and “Eat, drink, and be merry” are both Scriptural in origin.  In the same way that it is easy to pray last week’s Lord’s Prayer thoughtlessly, it is easy to let the potent passages of Scripture that are built on these common sayings glide right off our slick ears.

Last week’s Scriptures instructed us to listen attentively to the Lord, so that we might pray carefully.  Our listening and our prayer are intimately connected.  In the same way, this week we learn that our values and our living are connected as well.  It has become quite common to ask, “Do you own your possessions or do they own you?”  Like the familiar maxims from today’s Readings, we might be tempted to quote this saying flippantly, and think that in the quoting of it we have truly considered it, perhaps lived it.  Not true, Qoheleth, Paul and Jesus tell us today.  It is not wrong to treasure or cherish things of earth or of our own humanity; it is only wrong when those things we cherish are not of God, are not of the self-giving Christ.  Copyright, J.S. Paluch Co.

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