HFC January 11 2015 Bulletin

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
The Baptism of the Lord
Mass Schedule
PASTORS CORNER
Monday-Saturday: 7:15 AM
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 PM
Today we celebrate the Baptism of Jesus Christ by Saint

John the Baptist. Saint John the Apostle, the author of
the last Gospel tells us that Jesus was baptized at
Bethany beyond the Jordan. This place today is at the
southern end of the River Jordan and about eight miles
from the city of Jericho. The Mount of Temptations is
near to this place. The village of Mary, Martha and Lazarus is also called Bethany. This Bethany is on the other
side of the Mount of Olives. I shall explain the significance of the location, in my homily.
Sunday: 8:30 AM, 11:00 AM &

7:00 PM
1st SundaySamoan Mass-4 PM
3rd Sunday-Pohnpeian Mass-4 PM
Confessions Saturday:
4:004:45 PM
and after daily Masses
First Friday of the Month
Benediction
2015
THE YEAR
OF GRACE:
CONSECRATED LIFE
Come Follow me.
Matthew 4:19
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Holyfamilyhonolulu.org
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Catholictv.com
In our First Reading, we hear about the plan of God to

bring about justice and usher in a time of peace. God
promised to put His Spirit in the One He had chosen to
accomplish this task.
In the Second Reading, Saint Luke the author of the
ACTS of the APOSTLES sates that God anointed Him,
with the Holy Spirit. This is why when we baptize, we
baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit. It is a Trinitarian event.
Our Gospel this Year is from Mark. But every Gospel
speaks of Gods Beloved Son and the presence of the
Spirit.
For us Catholic Christians, the Spirit came down on Pentecost, fifty days after Jesus rose from the Dead. I shall
explain this too in my homily, so we can appreciate the
Biblical basis for our Catholic traditions. Fr Sebastian
YOU ARE MY BELOVED SON
St. Hilary
This staunch defender of the divinity of Christ was a gentle and courteous man, devoted to writing some of the greatest theology on the Trinity, and was like his Master in being labeled a disturber of the peace. In a very troubled period in the Church, his holiness was lived out in both scholarship and controversy. He was bishop of Poitiers in
France. Raised a pagan, he was converted to Christianity when he met his God of nature in the Scriptures. His wife
was still living when he was chosen, against his will, to be the bishop of Poitiers in France. He was soon taken up
with battling what became the scourge of the fourth century, Arianism, which denied the divinity of Christ. The heresy spread rapidly. St. Jerome said The world groaned and marveled to find that it was Arian. When Emperor Constantius ordered all the bishops of the West to sign a condemnation of Athanasius, the great defender of the faith in
the East, Hilary refused and was banished from France to far off Phrygia (in modern-day Turkey). Eventually he was
called the Athanasius of the West. While writing in exile, he was invited by some semi-Arians (hoping for reconciliation) to a council the emperor called to counteract the Council of Nicea. But Hilary predictably defended the
Church, and when he sought public debate with the heretical bishop who had exiled him, the Arians, dreading the
meeting and its outcome, pleaded with the emperor to send this troublemaker back home. Hilary was welcomed by
his people.
Mark Your Calendar

Jan. 19-Monday-Holiday
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan. 23-Friday-St. Marianne Cope
Jan. 25-Catholic School Week
12/31/ 14 1/1/2015, COLLECTION

12/31/2014 7 PM
01/01/2015 8.30 AM
11.00 AM
TOTAL
$971.25
$1,302.00
$921.76
$3,195.01
Our Weekly Offerings

January 4, 2014
Thank you for your generous
contribution for the past weekend.
5:00 PM
8:30 AM
11:00 AM
7:00 PM
TOTAL
$872.85
$1,828.00
$1,099.53
$1,727.68
$5,528.06
PRIESTS RETREAT
The Priests of the Diocese will be making
their Annual Retreat from the night of January 11 till the afternoon of January 16.
Please pray for them, that they may be truly
renewed with the spirit of Christ. There will
be no Masses during the week days.
HFCA/ELC Classes have commenced. If

you have children to be enrolled for the Academic year 2015-2016 please contact the
HFCA Office 423-9611.
TTHE POPES VISIT TO THE PHILIPPINES. Our Pope Francis will be visiting
the Philippines from January 15 till the
19th. Many of us have Filipino roots. Let us
pray for the successful reawakening and rekindling of the Faith not only in the Philippines, but throughout the whole world, that
is now being torn apart by extremists and
terrorists; and by atheists and ultra liberals,
who make man and freedom from religion, their goal in life. They also do not believe in life death. Let us pray for mankind
to recognize Gods PLAN
GRAND TOTAL $8,723. 07

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
Above: Christmas Mass memories. Altar Servers processing to the altar and Fr. Sebastian celebrating
Mass at the beautifully decorated altar. Mahalo to all the choirs and their melodic voices.
Left: The Holy Family Catholic Academy band performing during their Christmas Pageant. On the
right: Talented Samoan dancers performing during their Alofama le Faaaloalo Christmas Mass.
CATHECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCHWhat is prayer?
CCC 2559 Prayer is the raising of ones mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from
God.1 But when we pray, do we speak from the height of our pride and will, or out of the depths of a
humble and contrite heart?2 He who humbles himself will be exalted;3 humility is the foundation of prayer,
Only when we humbly acknowledge that we do not know how to pray as we ought,4 are we ready to receive freely the gift of prayer. Man is a beggar before God.5
NEW PARISHIONERS: Newcomers are encouraged to register with the parish and are welcome to participate in all parish activities and ministries. Registration forms are available in the back of the Church.
Five Ways to Have the Best Year

Fr. Ed Broom, OMV
This New Year will be the best of Years and this all depends on us
and most important Gods amazing grace! Hope, trust, joy, confidence,
peace and happiness should be sentiments that simply overflow in the
heart of a true follower of Jesus. Jesus Birthday must be a source of
the greatest joy and happiness. The reason for this most joyful of Seasons is the Person of Jesus the Lord. He came to save us from sin, sadness, the slavery of the devil, the fiery pit of hell and to bring us life
and life in abundance. Jesus life, death, and Resurrection burst open
the gates of Heaven; eternal salvation is ours if Jesus becomes the
center of our lives.
As we enter into the threshold of the New Year why not make concrete
and practical proposals that are not mere whimsical desires that will
dissipate like smoke or be blown by the wind. Rather may these proposals be a solid foundation on which we can construct an edifice of
true holiness that will change and orient the rest of our lives and culminate in everlasting happiness in Heaven, our eternal goal and destiny!
Therefore our over-all proposal for the New Year will be to live out the
grace and fruit of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius with reference to the center of the Exercisesthe Person of Our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. This year we will beg for the grace and strive for intimate knowledge of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, so as to love
Him more ardently and to follow Him more closely. This grace will
necessarily overflow in my relationship to others in a desire to make
Jesus known and loved and followed. The end result in my person will
be the words of the Apostle Saint Paul: It is no longer I who live, but
it is Christ who lives in me. I will aim at becoming a living reflection
of Jesus, my Lord, God, Savior and Friend.
What then are ways that we can come to this deep, dynamic and fascinating relationship with Jesus the Lord? Why not read, meditate, pray
over and try to assimilate these clear and concrete points for reflection!
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1. No to sin. By making a firm and determined commitment to say

No to sin as arch-enemy number one we are really saying Yes
to Friendship with Jesus the Lord. That means that every time a
temptation comes my way and I willfully reject it then what I am
really saying by rejecting this temptation is Yes to the love of
Jesus. How pleased Jesus really is when we reject forcefully temptation and even from the outset!
2. Gospels. How fortunate we are to be living in these present
days that we have access to the Word of God, the Bible and the
heart of the Bible the four GospelsMatthew, Mark, Luke, and
John. Times past few people knew how to read and Bibles were
few and far between. Not so today! Our challenge comes in another
subtle but dangerous mannertoo many distractions in modern
life! These distractions can push aside the Person of Jesus
Christ. We fall into the trap of saying: I have no time to read and
meditate upon the Word of God. In reality, it is not a lack of time
but a question of priorities. Our God is a jealous lover and will not
take second place to any person, place or thing. The great Bible
scholar Saint Jerome reminds us: Ignorance of Sacred Scripture is
ignorance of Christ. In sum let us find a time, a place and good
will to meditate upon the Word of God, preferably the Gospels every day as a New Years proposal.
3. Friendship. The fervent and frequent meditation of the Word of
God, the Gospel and life of Jesus the Lord should gradually transform our lives. We will come to realize in a very deep manner that
we are not alone, never alone, but always present to a Friend; this
Friend is the best of all FriendsOur Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ! During the course of the day and your daily walk, stop at
times to enter into friendly conversation with Jesus. He is never
even for an instant too busy to enter into conversation with you.
We tend to be too busy for Him, but He is never too busy for us!
The beauty of our Friendship with Jesus is that He is always
knocking at the door of our hearts and we simply have to open up
and He will come in to dine with us and we with Him. We all
know from experience with true friends that we must expend time,
energy, good will towards those friends we love most. At times we
fail our best friends and they at times fail us. Not so with Jesus; He
is faithful in all times, especially in those critical moments when
we need Him most!
4. Share the Pearl of Infinite Price. Saint Andrew, the brother of
Simon Peter, can serve as a model to imitate in this respect: share
your Friendship with Jesus with others. Andrew met Jesus and he
was so impressed by the Person of Jesus that he could not keep it to
himself. He ran to tell his brother Peter, then Nathanael, and then
even the Greeks about this treasure, this pearl of infinite price
Friendship with Jesus. Now it is your turn! A sure way to grow in
ones faith is to share the faith with others.
5. Our Lady, Jesus, and Us. Pope Saint John Paul II in his Apostolic letter The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Rosary invites us to
a transforming experience. It is this: to meditate and contemplate
the mysteries of the Rosary. However, the grace we want to beg for
is to contemplate the Face of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
through both the eyes and the Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
There was nobody on earth that knew Jesus, loved Jesus or followed Jesus more closely than His Mother, the Blessed Virgin
Mary.

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Holy Family Catholic Church

830 Main Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818

Today we celebrate the Baptism of Jesus Christ by Saint

Sunday: 8:30 AM, 11:00 AM &

January 11, 2015

In our First Reading, we hear about the plan of God to

YOU ARE MY BELOVED SON

Mark Your Calendar

12/31/ 14 1/1/2015, COLLECTION

Our Weekly Offerings

HFCA/ELC Classes have commenced. If

GRAND TOTAL $8,723. 07

Five Ways to Have the Best Year

1. No to sin. By making a firm and determined commitment to say

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