One Catholic Ohana
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.
Second Annual Easter Feast Day
It’s time again for family fun, food, games, prizes, and Kona’s best outdoor party! Remember the rock-climbing, balloon-bursting, water-sliding, horse-riding, face-painting, water-dunking fun? It’s back on Sunday, April 25th from 10am-2pm at Hale Halawai. Invite your friends and neighbors and get some Facebook-worthy photos. Do you have any goodies to contribute as prizes to delight the kids? Please contact AnnMarie (AM) Muramoto: 896-0274.
Infant Baptism Session in April
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 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 from their priest stating they attended the class sent to the parish office, along with the Baptism form and baby’s Birth Certificate. Questions? Call Susan at the office.
Ministers Needed for Sunday 11am/4pm Masses
We have one person who answered our plea for help—thank you! However, there are still not enough people to cover the Eucharistic Ministers for the 11am or 4pm Masses, or an alternate Sacristan for the 4pm Mass. Won’t you please help? In order to give a break to those who already serve in those ministries, we would need at least three more Eucharistic Ministers to step forward, and at least one more Sacristan to give the current Sacristan a break every other week.
Please pray about this and consider offering your service to your parish. The season of Lent would be a good time to offer a few extra minutes on Sundays to help be a part of the Mass. Instructions and training will be included. Thank you for your prayerful consideration.
Beginning and End—“Faith is the beginning and the end is love.” —St. Ambrose
Swing for St. Michael
St. Michael’s Easter Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, April 10th. Start time is at 7:30am at the Kona Country Club (Mountain Course). The entry fee is $125 per person, which includes golf, lunch, and some prizes. The proceeds from this tournament will go towards our Building Fund. At the same time, we hope this event will foster the ohana spirit between our parishioners and the Kona community as a whole.
We invite golfers of our parish, as well as your golf buddies, to join the tournament. We also seek parishioners who can donate prizes or solicit donations from establishments for hole sponsorships and prizes. We will need volunteers on the day of the tournament to handle registration, set-up, witnesses for possible hole-in-one plays, etc. Entry forms and volunteer sign-up sheets are available after all the Masses April 4th. For information: Peter Callahan-315-7609, Lito Ilagan-322-4969, Scott Unger-960-5324, Joann Ahlswede-433-8334 or AnnMarie Muramoto-896-0274.
First Holy Communion Preparation Schedule
~ Please attend the One ‘Ohana Class on Sunday, April 11th as part of preparation for First Eucharist.
April 4th: Easter – No class
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
The Easter Octave: Sun April 4th - Sun April 11
Eastertime lasts fifty days: seven weeks of seven days (seven equals Biblical perfection) plus one day: perfection plus! Like an eight-day Jewish wedding, or a child who can’t bear to let go of Christmas, birthdays, and school vacation, the Church celebrates the Easter Octave: “the marriage of heaven and earth,” as the Vigil calls Jesus’ resurrection; our new members’ baptismal rebirth; our renewal of baptismal vows; our hearts’ “divine vacation” (Latin vacare, “to be empty”), new-found time and space for love of God and neighbor.
Make home an Easter garden! Adorn the dining table with a pillar candle (your “Paschal Candle”), a bowl full of water (ideally, from the parish’s baptismal font), a vase of flowers or bowl of sprouting grain with Easter eggs. Even non-singers can handle the three-fold Gospel Alleluia! Let that be your grace before meals, perhaps with a prayer recalling Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35): “Be known to us, Risen Lord Jesus, as You were to the first disciples, in Your word, in the breaking of bread, and in everyone we meet.” —Peter Scagnelli, © Copyright, J.S. Paluch Co.
There will be no meeting this week only (Monday, April 5th). The next meeting will be on Monday, April 12th from 12:45-3:45pm in Immaculate Conception Hall.
There will be a Youth Group meeting on Thursday, April 8th from 6-8pm in Immaculate Conception Hall.
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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“Thanks be to God, who in His generosity has mercifully enriched us with His gifts.”—St. Meinrad
Reflecting on the Gospel
Even on this day when the Gospel announces the Risen Lord, we feel the contradictions that the resurrection mystery arouses seeing and believing on the one hand, misunderstanding and confusion on the other. This mystery defies all human understanding. These Easter stories tell us that the resurrection isn’t something we understand but something we believe and live.
We might take our clue to entering into the mystery from the Second Reading (from 1 Corinthians). Lent has been the time when we cleared out the old yeast (of “malice and wickedness”) “so that [we] may become a fresh batch of dough.” Like Christ, our “Paschal Lamb [who] has been sacrificed,” we, too, must be willing to give ourselves up in the self-sacrifice “of sincerity and truth.” Inasmuch as we are the dough, we must be willing to allow others to feast on us. When Paul invites the Corinthians, “let us celebrate the feast,” it is truly a startling invitation: as Jesus gave His body on the cross and gives His Body and Blood to us as nourishment, so must we do the same for others. The only way to open ourselves to the new life that God promises through the resurrection of Jesus Christ is to open ourselves to the needs of others in self-giving. If we try to understand this resurrection mystery we will miss it. The Readings today invite us to live the mystery by self-sacrifice; in this way God gives us the new life that Jesus’ resurrection offers.
The Gospel identifies three characters: Mary of Magdala, Peter, and the “disciple whom Jesus loved.” By not being named, John can function symbolically all of us are the “disciple whom Jesus loved.” Instead of trying to understand we simply “run” to the mystery and embrace it so that we, like John, can enter into it and see and believe. In John’s Gospel seeing and believing aren’t mental exercises but actions that express one’s inner disposition. Our belief in the resurrection is a matter of a willingness to embrace self-sacrifice, allowing others to “feast” on us.
Even on this Easter day when we rejoice in the risen life of Jesus, we are reminded that resurrection has its cost: self-emptying for the sake of others. The paradox of Christianity is that dying to self isn’t something to avoid, but it is the way we remove the stone that blocks our own hearts from receiving new life. We have the next fifty days of Easter to help us grasp in our hearts and daily living that when we reach out to others we are actually living Jesus’ risen life. We need only take the time to contemplate this mystery and recognize the good with which God blesses us. We need to see beyond the obvious—an empty tomb and the demands of self-emptying—to the glory that God has bestowed through Christ Jesus.
The alleluia that bursts forth with the news of resurrection captures a heartfelt cry that we be willing to identify ourselves with the dying and rising Christ. Let the feast begin! —Living Liturgy™ 2010, © 2009 by Order of St. Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
Homily Points
- Adults often run with purpose: they jog for exercise, run when they see a toddler about to wander onto a busy street, run down a trauma center hall toward a loved one. In the Gospel Peter and John ran with a purpose, too: to see the empty tomb for themselves.
- Belief in the resurrection, however, is not a short run to an immediate object. Rather, coming to faith in the resurrection is the journey of a lifetime, a lifetime peering not into empty tombs but at the good works of those who are fully alive through the power of the resurrection. We can never completely understand the resurrection, but we can live it.
- So, on this Easter Sunday, we must run with a purpose: to encounter the Risen Lord in one another. How do we encounter this Risen Lord today? His presence is manifested through us in our manner of doing good works: forgiving one another, caring for those in need, being a healing presence for those troubled, encouraging people toward new purpose of life, working for justice and peace. Our purpose: not just to believe in the resurrection, but to be it. —Living Liturgy 2010, © 2009 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
We Remember You, O Risen Lord
We remember You, O Risen Lord,
New Covenant at the feast of the cross.
Your resurrection dresses the table
For the bread of heaven
And the cup of salvation.
Blessed are You!
—From “Come, Lord Jesus” by Lucien Deiss, CSSp, copyright © 1976, 1981, Lucien Deiss. Published by World Library Publications, p. 163.
Stewardship Report: Week of March 27th-28th
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# of Attendees |
Total Contributions |
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St. Michael’s |
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Saturday 5pm |
199 |
$1,332.00 |
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Sunday 7am |
325 |
$2,268.00 |
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Sunday 9am |
386 |
$2,337.00 |
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Sunday 11am |
198 |
$1,095.00 |
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Sunday 4pm |
169 |
$869.00 |
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Sunday 6pm |
435 |
$675.00 |
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Immaculate Conception |
51 |
$414.00 |
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Holy Rosary |
58 |
$417.00 |
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St. Paul’s |
14 |
$115.00 |
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Building Fund |
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$1,258.00 |
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Totals = |
1,835 |
$10,780.00 |
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