Holy Family Catholic Church

830 Main Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818

Telephone: 422-1135 Fax:423-0389
Email: HFC830@gmail.com and Sebchacko@hawaii.rr.com
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 17, 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

The Scripture Readings for this third week-end of Au-
gust is both a blessing and a warning to the people of Is-
rael. It is a blessing to have foreigners added to the num-
ber of the Israelites or the Believers. It is a warning, be-
cause the Believers were taking things for granted and
not living up to their Faith and practices.

In the First Reading Isaiah towards the end of his minis-
try, invites foreigners to keep the Sabbath, to bring their
gifts to the Altar. He promises that they and their gifts
will be pleasing to the Lord.

In the Second Reading, Saint Paul justifies his ministry
to the Gentiles and explains to the Israelites that their
disobedience has brought about that situation and that
both they and the Gentiles need conversion and obey
Gods commandments.

In the Gospel Jesus praises the faith of a Canaanite
woman, even in the face of Jesus comparing her and her
child to dog, a common way in which the Jews re-
ferred to foreigners.

We have a lot to learn from the important message of the
Lord. It is not our race, or color or ethnicity that guaran-
tees us glory in heaven, but our faith and obedience to
Gods will. This thought should shake us up. Regardless
of our backgrounds, we all tend to claim privileges and
seek advantages for ourselves, without fulfilling our
duty in belonging to any Group that we proudly profess
to be a member of. God bless you with faith Fr Seb

GREAT IS YOUR FAITH
Queenship of Mary
Pius XII established this feast in 1954. But Marys queenship has roots in Scripture. At the Annunciation, Gabriel
announced that Marys Son would receive the throne of David and rule forever. At the Visitation, Elizabeth calls
Mary mother of my Lord. As in all the mysteries of Marys life, Mary is closely associated with Jesus: Her queen-
ship is a share in Jesus kingship. We can also recall that in the Old Testament the mother of the king has great influ-
ence in court. In the fourth century St. Ephrem (June 9) called Mary Lady and Queen. Later Church fathers and
doctors continued to use the title. Hymns of the 11th to 13th centuries address Mary as queen: Hail, Holy Queen,
Hail, Queen of Heaven, Queen of Heaven. The Dominican rosary and the Franciscan crown as well as numerous
invocations in Marys litany celebrate her queenship. The feast is a logical follow-up to the Assumption and is now
celebrated on the octave day of that feast. In his 1954 encyclical To the Queen of Heaven, Pius XII points out that
Mary deserves the title because she is Mother of God, because she is closely associated as the New Eve with Jesus
Church Bulletin: EditorJoe Padron, Phone 423-2439. Bulletin deadline is Tuesday 12:00 noon. Please
email notice and picture if applicable to pad.ronjoe@gmail.com
Our Weekly Offerings
August 10, 2014

5:00 PM $ 1,385.28
8:30 AM $1,878.94
11:00 AM $939.17
7:00 PM $1,209.01
Other donations $ 750.00

GRAND TOTAL $6,122.40
BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII

HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC ACADEMY/ELC
welcomed back over 500 students for the new Year
2014-2015 on August 4th. We look forward to an
exciting year of learning ahead.

Service to others is a strong component of a Catho-
lic faith-based education. The Schools first service
Project of the year is a BLOOD DRIVE to help
support the Blood Bank of Hawaii. The Blood Mo-
bile will be present in the Church Parking Lot from
7.30 AM to 12 noon for blood draws on Sunday,
September 7, 2014. Registration Forms for donor
sign-ups are available at Church exits or call 423-
9611 at extension 301 for more information.

Please help the Holy family Catholic Community
successfully meet our goal of collecting 30 pints of
blood. Every pint collected helps 3 people. GIVE
THE GIFT OF LIFE, BE A BLOOD DONOR.
Thank you for your support.

RCIA candidates, your course will begin next
Sunday at 5 PM. See info on the left of this col-
umn.

We thanks the parents and the students who
have signed up for Religious Education and for
Confirmation. Your classes will begin on Sep-
tember 7.
Mark Your Calendar

Aug. 19-Tuesday-Meet at the Church:
6:00pm-Our Lady of Perpetual Help Devotion
6:30 pm-Bible Sharing
Aug. 22-Friday-The Queenship of the Blessed
Virgin Mary
Aug. 29-Friday-The Passion of St. John
RCIA CLASS
If you want to nurture your relationship with Jesus
to the intimate point of receiving Him physically --
body, blood, soul and divinity, please join us as we
commence a new class on Sunday, August 24,
2014 from 5-6:30 pm at Holy Family Church, 830
Main Street, Honolulu, HI 96818. RCIA (Rite of
Christian Initiation for Adults) is a commitment of
26 Sundays ending on Easter Sunday, April 5,
2015. Please feel free to contact Coach Kirk at 223
-0457, Cami at 721-2307 and/or email us
at: camikjmj@gmail.com should you have any
questions. We are always here to accompany you

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.
Mass of Thanksgiving for the Enshrinement of
the Remains of St. Marianne Cope, OSF
By Bishop Larry Silva

Mana is the Hawaiian word for a spiritual power, an aura
possessed by a person or place that can be almost palpable
to others. Although it is a word with great meaning in the
Hawaiian culture, the concept is shared by other cultures,
indeed by the Catholic Church. Anyone who has been to
the Kalaupapa Peninsula on the island of Molokai, where
St. Marianne and St. Damien devoted themselves to the
outcasts and the abandoned, knows that that place has a
very strong mana. Despite all the suffering and chaos that
once characterized the place, one can feel a strong sense
of the holy there. It is quite palpable. It is a power, a
force, a spirit that touches and changes hearts; that heals
and gives courage.

It is the mana of St. Marianne that brings us together to-
day. The mortal remains of this frail creature of God,
made from dust and returning to dust, have an incredible
spirit of their own, an aura that makes us want to be near
them, to be changed by the very odor of holiness that
emanates from them. We want to touch the relics of this
woman who dedicated herself to healing, so that we may
be healed and may be healers. To think of her from afar
and contemplate her goodness is certainly a noble and
enriching experience, but to be in physical proximity to
her iwi, her sacred remains, is to be able to catch her
mana. Her faith in the Lord Jesus can be contagious, and
so we come to enshrine her relics so that all who come
here may catch this faith and spread it to others. We will
venerate her relics forevermore in this sacred temple, so
that we can catch her mana and, like her, have the
strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the
breadth and length and height and depth of the love of
Christ.

This virgin and celibate woman was truly a Mother to the
Outcasts with whom she worked, fruitful in giving and
nurturing life where so many others saw only death. She
willingly fasted with the kind of fasting the Lord wishes,
depriving herself of comforts so that she could release
those bound unjustly and untie the thongs of their
yoke. By willingly imprisoning herself in that desolate
leprosarium of Kalaupapa, she was able to set others free
by her simple acts of kindness and devotion, by her turn-
ing darkness into light, and by turning a parched land into
a watered garden. Among a people who thirsted for the familial
love from which they were yanked because of their disease, she
Her sacred presence here will draw us not only to love
the world and all its people, but to fix our eyes on the
place where she has gone. Her mana, after all, is not
her own creation, but is a gift given her from above,
from the God in whose presence she forever rejoices
as a saint. But since she is in the presence of the God
who so loves the world that he sent his only Son to
untie its yoke to sin and disorder, she cannot be uncar-
ing for those who are below. How can a saint in
heaven rest in peace without an eternal desire to pour
out Christs peace upon the people he so loves; with-
out praying that we all will be wise sheep rather than
foolish goats? How can someone who knows she is
no god herself yet rejoices to share intimately in the
life of the true and living God, not want others to be
filled with the same mana, the same guiding
Spirit? We may for a time think that we can solve all
our own problems, make all our own choices, decide
between life and death by our own wisdom, but we
will soon discover that making ourselves gods ulti-
mately ties us and others up with bonds that are bur-
densome, with yokes that are impossible to bear. So
dear St. Marianne can help us never to lose sight of
heaven and the God of heaven, our destiny and our
guiding star.

Her relics are placed here not so that we can be filled
with some sort of spiritual candy that will sweeten our
hearts for a moment but ultimately bloat us and make
ourselves bigger. No, her mana radiates from these
mortal bones so that the Holy Spirit may penetrate into
our bones and lead us to feed the hungry on our
streets, to welcome the stranger on our borders, to
clothe those who are naked and vulnerable with the
education that will adorn them in the finery of wis-
dom, to free those imprisoned by their own self-
worship. People from every walk of life will come
here not only to catch her spirit, but in this sacred
place to recognize that the hungry we serve, the out-
cast we love, and the captive we set free is none other
than the one who reveals himself in the Breaking of
Bread.

One day these mortal bones will come together, and
rise up, and be united forever with the spirit of St.
Marianne that is already in heaven. And we pray that
her mana will draw us frail mortals as well to open our
eyes to the needs of our brothers and sisters, so that on
that great and terrible day we will not be among the
goats who never thought of others, but among the pre-
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Love Your Stranger As Yourself

Imagine youve discovered the cure for cancer. Just
you. So of course every news agency is begging to meet
with you. On a given Monday evening you agree to a sit-
down with a journalist from the New York Times. Shes
arranged to meet you at, say, the Boathouse restaurant in
San Diego. Or maybe shell meet you at your apartment. It
doesnt matter. It doesnt even matter who she is. She can
be a well-mannered British intern, or instead a fidgety bru-
nette, with thick-rimmed glasses, a gray blazer, and a tart
attitude. What does matter is thatwhatever you say to
her will be published everywhere. It will be printed and
published to the ends of the earth, then frozen in the ar-
chives of the internet forever. She may ask you technical
questions about your lab experiments, or she may grow
poetic and pose questions like, So what does this mean
for us? And all that you say will be heard by all. When
you invite that one person over, youre inviting the world.

If journalism is a modern phenomenon, where words with
one person are published to the world, the exact opposite
is true of Jesus: Whatever you did to the least of these
brothers of mine, you did it to me (Mt 25:40). Instead of
one to many, now we have many to one. Whatever we say
or do to anyone at all, we do to Christ.

In many of her letters, Bl. Teresa of Calcutta would re-
mind her followers, Remember the five fingers. What
she meant by this is explained well by a Dominican priest
of the Irish province. In a memoir he recounts how on
many occasions she asked him to hold his hand, and
touching each finger one-by-one, she said, You did it to
me. This was the secret of her whole spirituality. Its a
simple and sustainable model lifted from the pages of
Scripture, and lived out by perhaps the greatest saint of
This immediately strikes us in two ways: Its beauti-
ful. It also seems entirely too vague and mystical to
apply practically in our lives. Why should I go outside
of my circle of friends and family to love strange and
difficult people? Why does Jesus want to make me
uncomfortable?
Because thats just how it is. Take the Church, for in-
stance. The Church is a rather large and diverse Body
of people, and if we were baptized into it, we must deal
with it.

This is the classic teaching of the Mystical Body. It
simply means that all those baptized into Christ are
connected together in one common life. We asked,
why is it that the way we treat anyone else is also the
way we treat Christ? Because all of us Christians be-
long in some way to Christ now. We have received the
Holy Spirit and now share life together in him. Even
all unbaptized people are called to the Church and
must be shown similar love. The sacrifices I make af-
fect the lives of other people ones I know and ones I
will never meet in this life. The joys I have may be the
fruit of my own good decision making, or they may be
a gift won for me by the sacrifice of another brother or
sister across the world. Thats why praying for each
other never gets old, because we dont do it to just see
quick results or only to beg for miracles. We do it also
to stay connected and help win grace and strength for
each other. The whole image of the Church as a
body is a grasping sort of analogy for a much greater
thing the reality of a network of grace connecting our
lives together!

It may sound like an elaborate fairy tale, but its not. Its
grace. Ask anyone, and they can tell stories of how God
connects our lives together. Heres one from my own life:
Years back my older brother was working a job in Virginia
and got into a late-night car accident. He was cut off by a
drunk driver at high speeds, and hit the median wall. All
passengers walked away without injury. The next day our
elderly neighbor in Ohio called my parents to say shed been
woken up in mid-sleep (about an hour before the accident),
filled with a strong sense that she had to pray for one of the
Danaher boys. So she did. And it worked. What does this
mean? Nothing more than that God includes us in the lives
of those around us. He could easily save us all alone, but He
doesnt want to. Instead, He wants us to pray for one an-
other, to build one another up, to help each other grow.
So the saying remains true: In spending time with anyone at
all your same old parents, or brothers and sisters, or class-
mates, the poor or homeless, the depressed, the lonely, sim-
ply everyone what you say to them, you say to more than
just the whole world. You say it to Christ. And any good act
He receives from us, He in turn can share its merit with oth-