Lighthouse Dinner Serving for Sunday, August 29th

Lighthouse Homeless Dinner Serving for August 29th

“Give us this day our daily bread”

Menu: In keeping with the prayer and theme, “Give us this day our daily bread” we will accept food donations after all three Masses the weekend of Aug 28th/29th on a table set up on the lanai. Whatever we receive at that time will be served at the Lighthouse Homeless Shelter on that Sunday evening. Whatever is left at the end of the day will be donated to either IHS, Lighthouse, or anyone in need so that whatever food we receive that day, will be given away that day. You can donate anything, meats, fresh fruit or vegetables, bread, canned goods, deserts, anything.

Preparation: If you wish to help in the preparation of the meal, come to the parish between 4 pm and 5:30 pm on the evening of Sunday, August 29th and help us prepare it. Since we don’t know what we will be receiving until that day, it should be quit an adventure.

Serving and transporting: If you wish to help transport the meal to the Lighthouse Homeless Shelter in Waipahu and serve it, be at the parish at 5:30 pm on the same evening.

It’s that simple. Through the generosity and service of the parish members of Resurrection of the Lord, our Lord will provide the daily meal for our brothers and sisters in need in our community.

If you have any questions, contact Bob Mace at matthew25@clearwire.net. Thank you and God bless

ROL Donation Page to Mercy Corps for Pakistan Flood Relief

You may have heard about the deadly floods in Pakistan that have affected 20 million people.

Mercy Corps has staff on the ground working to provide clean water to tens of thousands of people, and staple foods and clean-up tools to hundreds of affected families.

Please help me raise money to help Mercy Corps aid families affected by the flooding. Thank you and God bless

Resurrection of the Lord's Fundraising Page for Pakistan Flooding

From the desk of Father Paul, August 15, 2010

Today (August 15th) is the feast of the Assumption of Mary. This is a particularly Catholic Doctrine based on what the Scriptures tell us about Mary. It simply states that when Mary died, she was taken, body and soul, into heaven. In other words, her body never faced decay like ours will. The Christian doctrine about resurrection of the body is that our bodies will rejoin our souls at the end of time. Mary, just as she was preserved from original sin at her conception (Immaculate Conception) in her mother’s womb, so too was her body preserved from corruption at her death.
The main Scriptural verse that the doctrine of the Assumption is based on is the same verse the Church uses for the Immaculate Conception: “Hail Mary, full of grace! The Lord is with you! (Lk. 1:28). More modern translations replace the word “grace” with “O highly favored one”. Unfortunately this phrase does not have the same impact as the word “grace”. The original Greeks use the word “kecharitomene” (translated as “grace”) which means so much more than “O highly favored one”. It implies and conveys permanency; hence Mary was full of grace, or complete in grace at any given time throughout her life. In declaring the Assumption as a doctrine, the Church applies kecharitomene to her entire life – from conception to natural death. No sin ever touched her and therefore she was assumed into heaven, body and soul, at her death. Happy feast day! Mary, pray for us!

Register to Vote - Faithful Citizenship from Mary B

Please take a moment this weekend to register to vote if you haven't already. You must be registered before the 17th of this month in order to vote in the September primary. You can still register after that but will only be eligible for the general election in November. A table will be set up on the lanai after all Masses.

This is an election that you won't want to miss. There are society-changing issues up for grabs. The candidates for governor differ widely on their views on civil unions (same-sex marriage.) With one candidate for sure, we know we are headed for another fight. He says, without a doubt, that he is in favor of same-sex marriage. Without mentioning names, this candidate is back in Hawaii after 20 years of work in Washington. He says we in Hawaii are tired of the "old guard" and are crying for "change." He is that fresh face!

This week we learned that the repairs to the Honouliuli Sewage Treatment Plant will require increases of 3% for each of the next 20-25 years. The rail system is projected to cost 5.3 billion, and they've given up calling it a solution to our traffic problem. It's now a way to kick-start our construction industry. Just by way of personal note, we were recently in downtown Chicago where they have the steel-on-steel el train. If you are having a conversation nearby when the train arrives, you will not hear a thing! I feel sorry for people who live near the rail if the proposed system is built.

But, let us not despair. As Winston Churchill said, "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Gotta go boot up my hard drive! Aloha---- Mary B

Volunteers Needed for the St. Damien Catholic Worker Newspaper

Hello All,

My name is Matthew Flynn--we may or may not have met over the past months. I am writing to you because at some point you expressed interest in our work to or worked with someone in our group, the St. Damien Catholic Worker, which is starting a Catholic Worker community here in Honolulu. We are planning on starting a newspaper and need your help. Specifically, we need people to write articles, help edit and/or put together the newspaper, aid in distributing, contribute money for the publishing costs (what they will be we do not yet know, but every little bit helps), and, of course, above all else, pray for us. Anyone who is interested in helping is most welcome, and, since no one in our group has much experience with newspapers, anyone with experience would be of great assistance. We are hoping to have a meeting in the next couple of weeks and will set a time and date soon, so please let me know if you are interested by replying to this e-mail address and let us know what days, evenings, mornings, or general periods of time would work best for you--we will try to accommodate everyone as best we can. Thank you for your help and prayers.

God bless,
Matthew Flynn and the St. Damien Catholic Worker

St. Damien House Email: stdamienhouse@gmail.com

Hello everyone,

Thank you so much for all your help in the back to school supplies drive. Through our joint effort and determination we collected a total of 81 boxes. All of them was shipped the following day, Monday to Molokai. Carissa please extend my deepest appreciation to all the youth of your parish for answering the call to service.

To all of you may God continue to bless you abundantly with all the work that you do to serve His people.

Aloha Ke Akua

Tess - OLPH

Confirmation I and II: August 1, 2010: The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Read the Gospel: Lk 12:32-48

Journal: How did you live out last week’s Gospel message? What was tough? What was rewarding?

Many years ago, in a Confirmation class, a teenager asked about “the end of the world” and how some Christians were convinced that the end was coming soon. The discussion centered on concerns about who Jesus would take with him, would they not be chosen to go with our Lord. A few of them were even worried about it. That saddened me.
There’s a lot of talk out there, all the time, about the world’s end. Some Christian books predict exactly how and when it will happen. Some people even use fear about the world’s end and God’s judgment to motivate people to follow Jesus.
Luke wrote this week’s Gospel for early Christians who expected Jesus to return fairly soon. He urges Christians to be prepared, but he is also skeptical of people who claim to know when or how he’s coming.
That’s good advice for us. We don’t know how the world will end. People who claim to find details about it in the Scriptures usually are misreading the Bible. We need to steer clear of people who use fear tactics to spread the Gospel. Our God motivates through love, not fear, always reminding us that we’re loved despite our sins. So don’t worry about whether the world might end before you’re “good enough” in God’s eyes.
It’s our job to wait, not worry. We wait by praying and worshiping. We wait by doing our best and acknowledging our sins. We wait by serving the poor. We wait by opening up to Christians we trust. When you wait in these ways, you’ll be surprised. Suddenly you’ll realize God’s grace and peace is with you—and that our Lord has arrived!

Journal: Can you remember a time when you were suddenly surprised because you actually felt like God was present with you? What was the situation? Be specific.

From the desk of Father Paul, August 8, 2010

Last week, we received a check from the "With Grateful Hearts Campaign" for $26,611.41. This represents 25% of the pledge monies that have been sent in so far. That amount totaled $106,446.00. We will continue to receive a quarterly check from "Grateful Hearts" amounting to 25% of the monies sent in since the last check was sent.
Just a reminder, once our stated goal of $345,000.00 is reached, the checks after that will cover 50% of the monies sent in; and when, and if, we reach a point where we have paid 150% of the stated goal, the checks will cover 80% of everything collected. So I encourage you to pay off your pledges and "Mahalo" to all who worked so hard and who are fulfilling their pledges.

Faithful Citizenship, August 8, 2010

The election season is heating up. We will be making choices both on a local as well as a national level. Will we be voting as Catholic Christians? Pope Benedict XVI said in one of his encyclicals, “charity must animate the entire lives of the lay faithful and therefore also their political activity, lived as ‘social charity.’ OK, so he doesn’t talk like we do, but you get the point!
We are challenged to be guided as voters more by our moral convictions than by our attachment to a political party or interest group. Catholics have always been asked to place the highest level of importance on human life whether that concerns the unborn, care of the less fortunate, or issues regarding euthanasia or the aging. As concerned citizens we are also aware that every person needs food, shelter, health care, education, and meaningful work. Just as we vote against issues that negatively affect human life, we must look for candidates who support the just treatment of those less fortunate than ourselves.
As we begin to break apart the political rhetoric, we can use the seven key themes provided by the Council of Bishops: 1) The right to life and dignity of the human person. Human life is sacred. 2) Call to family, community, and participation. The family, based on marriage between a man and a woman, is the fundamental unit of society. 3) Rights and responsibilities. Every human being has a right to life and a corresponding responsibility to the larger society. 4) Option for the poor and vulnerable. A moral test for society is how we treat the weakest among us. 5) Dignity of work and the rights of workers. 6) Solidarity. We are one family, whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological differences. 7) Caring for God’s creation. We are called to be careful stewards of God’s creation. Register to vote, and then begin your homework!
Gotta go boot up my hard drive! Aloha----- Mary B

August 1st, 2010 at ROL

A Request for Help for Moloka'i from St. John's Hui O Laulima Ministry

I just received a request from Aunty Jan (Maunaloa) last evening for some childrens clothes and food items...We were able to satisfy the request for clothes for the elementary school children (we had 7 boxes of childrens clothes in our locker), but need some assistance in obtaining food supplies for the food bank at Maunaloa...Aunty Jan requested mostly protein foods (spam, vienna sausage, tuna, salmon, corned beef, etc...), breakfast items and condiments (oil, mayonaise, mustard, catsup, etc...)...I was wondering if you could put out the word at your Parish for some of these items...We will collect food at ourParish at the Masses on 31 July/1 August and send the items on the barge on 5 August.

What ever food we can collect during the week and at next week's Masses, will be delivered to St. Johns in time for the barge shipment on August 5.

Mahalo and God bless

Confirmation I and II: August 1, 2010: The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Read the Gospel: Lk 12:13-21

Journal: How did you live out last week’s Gospel message? What was tough? What was rewarding?

Several years ago, there were 9 of us from my workplace who volunteered to cook and serve lunch on one Saturday a month. We kept this up for almost 3 years. I remember that during one of our first few Saturdays, maybe our second or third time there, we were to make hot dogs with rice. We found dozens of hot dogs in their large refrigerator. I did notice that there were about 2 small packages of the wieners that were of a different brand from the other packages. Believing that the Mission’s homeless guests would be hungry, I made the decision to cook all of the hot dogs. Needless to say, all the food was eaten up and gone in about 10 minutes before the door closed.
Another guest, Alan, arrived just before the lunch hour ended. He came up to me, smiling, and introduced himself and said that he was not only a guest there, but that he did little things around the mission to help upkeep the place such as cleaning the bathrooms and sweeping around. He had just come from his very part-time janitorial job. He asked me to heat up a few of his hot dogs that they allowed him to keep in the refrigerator. Embarrassed, I realized that the hot dogs in the different packaging were Alan’s. I quickly apologized and offered to replace them. He laughed at my mistake and said, “Don’t worry about it. As long as all the people ate, that’s all I care about.”
Alan was the exact opposite of the man in Jesus’ parable this week. This Gospel is important for Americans, especially. Our culture pushes us to buy nonstop and do whatever we can to get more money and more stuff for ourselves. Some people joke that those who die with the most toys wins. That’s an easy trap to fall into, but Winston Churchill once said something like “you make a living with what you get, but you make a life with what you give.” Churchill would have agreed with others who quip that those who die with the most toys just die. A “more for me” attitude can take over your life and kill relationships. This week’s Gospel condemns greed not because greedy people go to hell but because greedy people construct their own hell on earth.
Greed traps people in hell by keeping them from the best part of life, that which matters to God—sacrifice for others; service to the poor; and relationships based on character, not appearance. You build a life—and find happiness—by using your talents for others and putting their needs first.
I still forget that sometimes. That’s why I’m so grateful that God sends people like Alan to remind me.

Journal: When have you seen greed hurt people? Has it ever hurt you? How? What happened? Be specific.

From the desk of Father Paul

We have all heard the word "fundamentalism" as it applies to Christian Churches, but what is it? Fundamentalism is not necessarily a Church in itself (like the Catholic Church or the Lutheran Church), but is more like a movement. It first appeared in the 18th century and has died out and re-surfaced about 30-40 years ago.
Their attitude is one of purity in religion, that is, nothing but the Bible. Perhaps the doctrine that really singles them out as Fundamentalists is their belief in salvation. In regard to Jesus, they do see Him as the Son of God, but they believe that He was actually punished by God for our sins, In other words, when He died on the cross, it was not just a matter of taking upon Himself our sins, but He was actually punished for them by God and therefore, once one accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior, he/she no longer has to worry about punishment for sins committed; the moment this commitment is made, that person is assured of heaven, he/ she will not go to hell. Without that instant, he would be doomed. This leads to a "me and God" attitude with the exclusion of everyone else (Jesus is "my" Lord and Savior). There is no central authority, no Priesthood, no Sacraments and no "Church" (in the sense of "God's people"). Their individual community is important to them and their life is centered upon it, but that is as far as it goes. There is no idea of all Christians being a part of the 'Body of Christ' or `Church'; the emphasis is on "me and God".

Mortgage Burning Party

Saturday, August 28. 2010
Open House - 4:00 to 5:00 pm
Mass - 5:15 pm
Group Photo on Hill - following Mass
Dinner - to follow
Mortgage Burning Ceremony
Dinner cost:
Adults - $5
Kids (ages 7 & under) - $3
Potluck dessert signup begins July 1st.
Ticket Sales - July 31 to August 22
(Tickets will not be sold at the event.)

Lighthouse Homeless Dinner Serving for August 29th

Lighthouse Homeless Dinner Serving for August 29th

“Give us this day our daily bread”

Menu: In keeping with the prayer and theme, “Give us this day our daily bread” we will accept food donations after all three Masses the weekend of Aug 28th/29th on a table set up on the lanai. Whatever we receive at that time will be served at the Lighthouse Homeless Shelter on that Sunday evening. Whatever is left at the end of the day will be donated to either IHS, Lighthouse, or anyone in need so that whatever food we receive that day, will be given away that day. You can donate anything, meats, fresh fruit or vegetables, bread, canned goods, deserts, anything.

Preparation: If you wish to help in the preparation of the meal, come to the parish between 4 pm and 5:30 pm on the evening of Sunday, August 29th and help us prepare it. Since we don’t know what we will be receiving until that day, it should be quit an adventure.

Serving and transporting: If you wish to help transport the meal to the Lighthouse Homeless Shelter in Waipahu and serve it, be at the parish at 5:30 pm on the same evening.

It’s that simple. Through the generosity and service of the parish members of Resurrection of the Lord, our Lord will provide the daily meal for our brothers and sisters in need in our community.

If you have any questions, contact Bob Mace at matthew25@clearwire.net. Thank you and God bless

Confirmation I and II: July 25, 2010: The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Read the Gospel: Lk 11:1-13

Journal: How did you live out last week’s Gospel message? What was tough? What was rewarding?

I remember receiving a prayer request a few years ago from one of my old high school classmates. She had e-mailed my whole graduating class, asking that we all pray for the recovery of another classmate who had just been diagnosed with cancer. I know that, for at least 2 months thereafter, my prayers always included this classmate and his family. He recovered dramatically. About a year later, I received yet another prayer request for another classmate fighting cancer. And I prayed. She died from the disease within a year.
So why did God answer one prayer and not the other? Or, if God answered both prayers, why the different outcome?
This week’s Gospel will help you to understand. Jesus says God doesn’t always answer our prayers by giving us what we want. First, Jesus compares God to a person who gives his friend what he needs. Then he says God will answer our prayers by giving us the Holy Spirit.
What do you expect from prayer? Most of us pray for things we want, but God often gives us something we need—the courage and commitment to do God’s will in tough times. You might want a good grade, but what you need are better study habits. So the answer to your prayer might be a teacher challenging you to work harder. You might pray for God to spare a loved one from an illness. God might answer by strengthening you with the Spirit so you can comfort your sick loved one. You might want a better life for the poor. And God might answer your prayer by calling your attention to an opportunity to serve the needy in your community.
Sure, our prayers might work miracles for others. But more often our prayers work miracles within us. Here’s a challenge. Keep track of your prayers in a journal, and also keep track of possible changes you see in yourself or your life. Talk with your priest, parents or close friend about your search for answers to prayer. See if God makes changes in the world or in you.

Journal: Can you remember a time you were inspired to help someone after praying for him or her? Reflect on this. How did it play out? How did God answer your prayer?

ROL Youth Ministry's 2010 Lock-In Information

Friday, August 6 - Saturday, August 7
6:000 pm - 9:00 am
At Resurrection of the Lord Church


Open to youth 7th - 12th grade


Come and deepen your faith with our God, with yourself, and with each other and how you apply it toward the life and world we live in.

ADULT FAITH FORMATION

In the ADULT FAITH FORMATION OFFICE you can: Borrow books and videos. Get Bibles and Bible Tabs. Inquire about of request classes that interest you. Do a prayer request. Find a finger rosary or scapular, etc. More to come - Check out the GLASS BULLETIN BOARD outside for current updates.

BIBLE STUDY SERIES & SPEAKERS

COMING SOON:

"In Search of the Lost Ark"
a 2 session journey

And for the brave
an architectual challenge!

Curious? Tune in next Sunday for details

Session 1: Wed, Aug. 4th
Session 2: Wed, Aug. 11th

ALL ARE WELCOME!

IHS Breakfast Serving

We serve breakfast at the two IHS Homeless Shelters downtown on the fourth Sunday of every month. Volunteers are always welcomed. This is a great way to fulfill our Lord's request in Matthew 25, to serve the least among us. The sign up sheet is posted on the bulletin board, in the worship area, outside the parish kitchen, well in advance of the serving day. Come join us.

The Youth Ministry in Action

Collecting school supplies and selling ono burgers to buy more school supplies for the island of Moloka'i.