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
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time August 24, 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

In our Readings this week-end, we will be reminded of
Gods plan of choosing Leaders, according to His Heart,
who will guide the people of God.

In our fist Reading from the prophet Isaiah, God takes
the drastic action of removing Shebna by force because
he was not faithful to his duties and dishonest.

Saint Paul asserts to the Romans that God is great and
knows everything. He governs well all the time. He does
not have counselors. He is all wisdom and power. His
authority in inscrutable. He is faithful and just always.

In the Gospel, Jesus empowers Simon, the son of Jonah,
with the keys of the Kingdom. He names him Peter,
which means Rock. He was going build His Church
upon Peter, the Rock.

Today is the Fourth Sunday of the month of August. Our
lesson is clear. We must respect and accept authority. No
family, no Society, no Nation, no Church can function
properly and maintain unity without somebody holding
the ultimate key to govern with justice and power.

The turmoil and chaos that is taking place in many of the
Arab Nations is symptomatic of people not having good
and just Leaders. Even in Democratic nations, we have
leaders who for the sake of cheap political gains, are un-
dermining the very principles of equality and justice
with lies and hypocritical manipulations of the law. Let
us pray for those in authority, that they may govern with
wisdom and integrity. Fr. Sebastian
YOU ARE PETER
Martyrdom of John the Baptist

The drunken oath of a king with a shallow sense of honor, a seductive dance and the hateful heart of a queen
combined to bring about the martyrdom of John the Baptist. The greatest of prophets suffered the fate of so many
Old Testament prophets before him: rejection and martyrdom. The voice crying in the desert did not hesitate to
accuse the guilty, did not hesitate to speak the truth. But why? What possesses a man that he would give up his
very life? This great religious reformer was sent by God to prepare the people for the Messiah. His vocation was
one of selfless giving. The only power that he claimed was the Spirit of Yahweh. I am baptizing you with water,
for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will
baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire (Matthew 3:11). Scripture tells us that many people followed John look-
ing to him for hope, perhaps in anticipation of some great messianic power. John never allowed himself the false
honor of receiving these people for his own glory. He knew his calling was one of preparation. When the time
came, he led his disciples to Jesus: The next day John was there again with two of his disciples, and as he
watched Jesus walk by, he said, Behold, the Lamb of God. The two disciples heard what he said and followed
Jesus (John 1:35-37). It is John the Baptist who has pointed the way to Christ. Johns life and death were a giving
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Our Weekly Offerings
August 17, 2014

5:00 PM $ 984.29
8:30 AM $ 1,841.00
11:00 AM $1,111.25
7:00 PM $1,578.65

TOTAL $5,515.19

RCIA Course will start on this Sunday Au-
gust 23 at 5 PM. We welcome those who
have decided to become Catholic Christians
and those who are preparing to receive one
or more of the Sacraments as Adults.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASSES
WILL BEGIN ON SEPTEMBER 7, imme-
diately after the 8.30 Mass

HAWAII BLOOD BANK will be at our
Church premises from 7.30 AM till 12 noon
on September 7. Please donate Blood and
help save lives. Thank you.

We rejoice with the Korean members of our
Parish for the 124 HOLY MARTYRS OF
KOREA, who have been beatified by Pope
Francis during His recent visit to Korea.

THE PASTORAL COUNCIL will meet at
6 PM on Thursday, August 28. All the
members of the Parish Council and Finance
Committee and Leaders of various Organi-
zations of the Parish are encouraged to at-
tend. Thank you. Fr Sebastian
Mark Your Calendar

Hospitality Ministry September 7

The next Hospitality Ministry is scheduled for Sun-
day September 7th, after the 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Masses. Your donation of pastries, cookies, cup-
cakes, or other refreshments to share with fellow
parishioners will be greatly appreciated. If you can
assist with this ministry or have any questions,
please contact Chet Malins at 456-3933 or email:
malinsc001@hawaii.rr.com.

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults)
classes begins this Sunday, August 24, 2014 from 5-
6:30 pm. Please meet at the Church.

Please feel free to contact Kirk at 223-0457, Cami at
721-2307 and/or email us at: camikjmj@gmail.com
should you have any questions. God bless 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.
WHY WE MUST PRAY

Why do people not pray enough? The answer is partly
because they do not want to make the effort to begin, and
partly because they do not know how to go on once they
have begun. A lot of this difficulty would be cleared up if
people would only understand that prayer comes from
God, is kept going by God, and finds its way back to God
by its own power. All we have to do is to lend ourselves
to the process as generously as we can, and not put any
obstacles in the way.

Our Lord is the light of the world, and by His light we are
shown how to start and how to go on. The best way to
think of it is to look upon our Lords prayer as an all-
powerful dynamo that sends out spiritual strength day and
night, unceasingly. From this dynamo our souls are
charged, and when the batteries have got-ten run down,
we come again and again, every time we pray, to be re-
charged. Without prayer we are in darkness, but in Gods
light we see light.

Our Lord has said that we have not chosen Him but that
He has chosen us. It is the same in this matter of prayer.
We are not so holy or so clever that we can make prayer.
Prayer is a grace. Prayer is so spiritual that it has to be
made by God. God brings our prayer out of us by pouring
His prayer in. We are just the bellows: His is the breath of
life. When our Lord speaks of the Spirit breath-ing and
the Light shining, He is speaking of His life in us.
If we share our Lords life, we must also share His prayer.
This is the wonderful thing about being a member of His
Church that we are part of His Body and part of the
service He offers to the Fa-ther. He draws our service out
of us by establishing Himself in our souls. We have the
infinite merits of His life, death, and Resurrec-tion to call
upon at every moment of our lives. We cannot please God
more than by calling upon them in the particular service
of prayer.
Or you could put it this way. If you love someone very
much, what is it that pleases you most about that person?
You will surely answer, Being loved back. It is know-
ing that the other person feels as you do; it is seeing in
another the same thing that is terribly important to you.
Now, God is love. What He wants to see in you is the
love He has put there. And He wants to see it expressed
He wants it to show. And that is why He wants you to
Perhaps you think of prayer as wanting something
from God when you pray. Up to a point, this is right:
you want mercy, strength to resist temptation, answers
to particular petitions, graces of one sort or another.
But it would be more true to say that God wants some-
thing out of you when you pray. What He wants out of
you is a generous response to the prayer of His own,
which, as we have already seen, He has put there.
He who has created all things, who owns heaven and
earth, wants something that you alone among all the
millions of human beings who have been born into this
world can give. He wants your own, particular, per-
sonal, direct, here-and-now service. No-body else can
give it instead of you: it is yours alone to be given to
Him alone. Your service of prayer is seen by God as a
single thing by itself. You can either give it or refuse
it.
By giving it, you give the best that is in you be-
cause it is His own love that you are returning to Him
and by refusing it, you waste the greatest chance
that God can offer you. When you pray, you are using
your human powers to their highest possible limit
in fact, you are using them beyond their highest possi-
ble limit be-cause in prayer they are being carried
along by grace and when you have decided to give
up prayer, you have thrown away the one really solid
support that you can depend upon in this life.

Our prayer is spiritual (or it would not be prayer at
all), but it is also bound up with these fallen natures of
ours, which we cannot es-cape. For as long as we live
on this earth, we shall have to be con-tent with a
weighted prayer, a prayer that we can never quite han-
dle as we would like, a gritty and earthy prayer that
has to be constantly lifted up and sent on its way more
directly toward God.
But however weighted down our prayer may be, it is at
least a prayer. It is an effort, and has made a start. If
we can honestly say we are trying, we can just as hon-
estly say we are praying. So long as I am really trying
to please God in my prayer (or in anything else, for
that matter), I am pleasing Him. All He asks is that I
should try to serve Him. The moment I try, I am in
fact succeeding. I do not have to feel that I am doing it
well, and that my prayer is pleasing God, because feel-
ings are likely to be quite wrong about the good-ness
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How to Receive Christ With Love

In Holy Communion, we touch and taste our Lord and
our God. A very significant sentence of St. Augustine, in
which he records Christs words to him, defines the chief
effect of eating the Bread of Angels: Thou shalt not
change me into thine own substance, as thou changest the
food of thy flesh, but thou shalt be changed into
mine.

There is not, and there never can be, a closer union.
The reality of Christs Presence is a fact founded on His
infallible word and almighty power. But bewildering is
our perplexity when we try to ascertain the mode of His
eucharistic indwelling. The nearer He approaches to us,
the more incomprehensible He becomes; the greater our
effort to understand, the more profound our obscurity.
When our minds strive to progress beyond the limits
marked by faith, they are baffled and confounded. The
divine brilliance of light surrounding our guest impairs the
souls vision.

As their Creator, God abides in creatures. Man cannot be inde-
pendent of God. For the creature to attain both his natural and
supernatural ends, the Creator must dwell in him. Even irra-
tional creatures fall under this essential law of cre-ation. God is
everywhere: by His being or essence, because He is the cause of
all being, all existence; and by His knowledge, because all
things are naked and open to His eyes; by His power, because
all things are subject to Him. In Him we live, and move, and
have our being.

But the Incarnation inaugurates an entirely new mode of the
Divine Presence. Through this mystery, man becomes one body
with Christ in the embrace of a common nature. Holy Scripture
beautifully unfolds the eternal import of this prodigy of divine
love: God so loved the world as to give His only-begotten Son;
that whosoever believeth in Him may not per-ish, but may have
life everlasting. For God sent not His Son into the world to
judge the world, but that the world may be saved by Him.
In this wholly new manner of the Divine Presence,
how low Christ descends to exalt the creature! St.
Pauls words to the Philippians on this subject are sub-
lime in their simplicity: Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus: who being in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, be-
ing made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as
a man. He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto
death, even to the death of the Cross.

As an earthly king, realizing that he is Gods represen-
tative, and having at heart therefore the dearest inter-
ests of all but especially of the poorest of subjects
as such a one conceals his royal raiment beneath
attire as shabby as theirs, in order to be more accessi-
ble as he distributes his gifts to them, so the King of
kings wraps in fallen nature the eternal glory of His di-
vinity, to raise man in new bonds of love to a higher
life, to give him the gift greater than which God Him-
self cannot give.

So, too, the words of Christ: If anyone love me, he
will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and
we will come to him, and will make our abode with
him put the soul into a relationship with God far
closer than that by which the Cre-ator is everywhere in
His creation. God dwells in man in a spe-cial way, it is
true, because man, being rational, is the only creature
who can know and love the Creator. But the Divine
Presence connoted by the Incarnation differs essen-
tially from its consequences. In this instance, Christ is
the almsgiver of Heavens largess, revealing Himself
under conditions entirely new, and in a manner that,
until the fullness of time had come, could not be real-
ized.
By this mystery, mans sin was forgiven, the super-
natural life of his soul restored, and his nature justified
and elevated to the most loving companionship with
God. The creature was endowed with the capacity for
growth into the likeness of his Savior so that, by the
acquisition of His virtues, the mind that is in Christ
should also be the mind that is in him.

Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the
world. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was
thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and
you took me in; naked, and you covered me; sick, and
you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.
Then shall the just answer Him, saying: Lord, when
did we see Thee hungry and fed Thee; thirsty and gave
Thee drink? And when did we see Thee a stranger and
took Thee in? Or naked and covered Thee? Or when