Thanks to everyone who helped last Sunday at the IHS Breakfast Serving.
Thank you to everyone who helped serve at the Mexican fiesta at the Lighthouse Homeless Shelter this last Sunday. With our sombreros, t-shirts, and ono authentic Mexican food and music, a great time was had by all. We had enough food left to serve to the church members, which gave us another great opportunity for fellowship with our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. For the second month in a row the salad was a big hit. Mahalo to all the ladies that come to the church at 4:30 pm and help prepare it. The kids enjoyed the dare of trying all the different Hot Sauces and chilies that were on the condiment table. Una vez más, muchas gracias y Dios los bendiga a todos.
BIBLE STUDY &
Why is it we get a lot of people signing up for the Lighthouse Homeless Shelter, but hardly anyone signs up for the IHS Breakfast serving?
There are three things to cover today. First the invitation to the Bishop’s “thank you” for those who participated in the “With Grateful Hearts” campaign is still scheduled for June 29th. However, the venue has changed. It will not be at Our Lady of Sorrows as originally planned, but at St. Elizabeth in Aiea, beginning at 6:30 pm.
Everything now depends on man: immense power of destruction is given into his hand, and the question is whether he can resist the will to use it, and can temper his will with the spirit of love and wisdom. He will hardly be capable of doing so on his own unaided resources. He needs the help of an “advocate” in heaven…. The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands.
The Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe represents the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent, her long flowing garments held up by the arms of an angel; her eyes are looking down with an expression of compassion and humility, apparently at someone on a lower level. She is standing in a glowing halo as though before the sun. There are stars on her mantle and a moon at her feet. This subservient positioning has been interpreted as showing the Aztecs that the sun, the moon, and the stars are not gods to be worshipped. Her dress is that of a Middle Eastern maiden at the time of Christ as can be seen even today in the women inhabiting that region.
June 20, 2010
Father Paul received this nice card from the Mary Jane Program, thanking him for our contributions. Thanks again to everyone who helped make this gift from Resurrection of the Lord Parish possible.
He, who is born not from human stock, or human desire or human will, but from God himself, one day took to himself everything that was under his footstool and he left with his inheritance, his title of Son, and the ransom price. He left for a far country…the faraway land…where he became as human beings are and emptied himself. His own people did not accept him and his first bed was a bed of straw! Like a root in arid ground, he grew up before us, he was despised, the lowest of men, before whom one covers his face. Very soon, he came to know exile, hostility, loneliness… After having given away everything in a life of bounty, his worth, his peace, his light, his truth, his life … all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom and the hidden mystery kept secret for endless ages; after having lost himself among the lost children of the house of Israel, spending his time with the sick (and not with the well-to-do), with the sinners (and not with the just), and even with the prostitutes to whom he promised entrance into the Kingdom of his Father; after been treated as a glutton and a drunkard, as a friend of tax collectors and sinners, as a Samaritan, a possessed, a blasphemer; after having offered everything, even his body and his blood, after having felt deeply in himself sadness, anguish, and a troubled soul; after having gone to the bottom of despair, with which he voluntarily dressed himself as being abandoned by his Father far away from the source of living water, he cried out from the cross on which he was nailed: “I am thirsty.” He was laid to rest in the dust and shadow of death. And there, on the third day, he rose up from the depths of hell to where he had descended, burdened with the crimes of us all, he bore our sins, our sorrows he carried. Standing straight, he cried out: “Yes, I am ascending to my Father, and your Father, to my God, and your God.” And he reascended to heaven. Then in the silence, looking at his Son and all his children, since his Son had become all in all, the Father said to his servants, “Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet; let us eat and celebrate! Because my children who, as you know, were dead have returned to life; they were lost and have been found again! My prodigal Son has brought them all back.” They all began to have a feast dressed in their long robes, washed white in the blood of the Lamb.
This Sunday at the 7:30 am Mass we were blessed with the presence of Reverend Mother Ma. Trinidad P. Bunac, cnht of the Carmelite Nuns of the Holy Trinity in the Philippines. The Reverend Mother is the guest of Linda Guting. Reverend Mother overseas two orphanages in the Philippines. Welcome to Hawaii and to Resurrection of the Lord Parish Reverend Mother.
Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 6:00 am. We meet a t the ROL office at 6:00am and depart for the homeless shelters downtown. We are usually back at ROL by 8:00am. We serve at both the men's and women and children's homeless shelters. For more information contact Matt: 497-8249 The signup sheet will be posted on the bulletin board in the worship area outside the parish kitchen.
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Jesus remarks that nothing can remain hidden or secret. We can try to hide things from others, from ourselves, and from God. How tempting to shut our eyes from the consequences of our sinful ways and bad habits, even when we know what those consequences are, and how tempting to hide them from others and even from God. But, nonetheless, everything is known to God who sees all.
Pericles said in 430 B.C., “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Like it or not, everything that happens in Washington D.C. or here at our own Capitol affects us—It may be directly in our pocketbook; it may be our social mores. Right now we are fighting for the very basic foundation of our society. Can we keep the traditional family intact? Governor Lingle will be gone for two weeks. Her office will continue to take phone calls and other commentary from us. Please do not let up with your messages expressing concern over HB 444. Again, the governor’s phone number is: 586-0034; her e-mail address is: governor.lingle@hawaii.gov.
Journal: How did you live out last week’s Gospel message? What was tough? What was rewarding?
Hawaii Catholic Charities Mary Jane Program
Bob Mace, Gaylene Colon, and Joyce Urehara went to the Mary Jane Program House today and presented them with the funds we raised in our pre Mother's Day sale. We also gave them $100 worth of diapers. We were given a tour of the house and met some of the girls and their babies that are staying there. Thank you again to all of you who gave your time, money and love for this good and blessed cause.
2010 ROL Graduates: We will be honoring all of you at all Masses on June 12-13. We ask all of you who graduated from a high school, collage and university or a vocational and technical school this May/June or will be graduating this coming December, to please provide your name and chool on the list out on the lanai.
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Journal: How did you live out last week’s Gospel message? What was tough? What was rewarding?
