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Holy Trinity Catholic Church
A Stewardship Parish
April 14, 2019
Palm Sunday, of the Lord’s Passion
Pastor: Fr. Michel Dalton, OFM Capuchin
Deacons: Steve Kula and Fernando Ona
Masses: Saturday: 5 pm; Sunday: 7, 9 & 11 am; Weekdays: 5 pm
Reconciliation (Confession): Saturday: 3:45 - 4:15 or by appointment
Our vision: To be a welcoming parish committed to serving others.
Our mission: To make Christ known to the world through Word, Sacrament, Prayer and Service
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH CALENDAR FOR APRIL 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
14 15 16 17 18 92 20
PALM SUNDAY 5:00 pm Mass 5:00 pm Mass 5:00 pm Mass HOLY GOOD FRIDAY HOLY
THURSDAY SATURDAY
Mass 7, 9, 11 6:30 Choir 7:00 pm Church Office
Charismatic No 5:00 Mass CLOSED No Mass or
10:00 am Prayer Group Confession
Eucharist and 7:00 pm No Mass
Confirmation Service No Stations No 7:30 pm
Classes Soup EASTER VIGIL
10:00 am 3 pm Service
Confirmation
Class for High 7 pm Service
Schoolers
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
5:00 pm 5:00 pm 5:00 pm 5:00 pm 5:00 pm 3:45 pm
Eucharistic Eucharistic Eucharistic Eucharistic Eucharistic Reconciliation
Service – No Service – No Service – No Service – No Service – No
Mass Mass Mass Mass Mass 5:00 pm Mass
EASTER 6:30 pm Cancer 6:30 Choir 7:00 pm 6:30 Choir 6:30 pm
SUNDAY Support Group Charismatic NeoCat Mass
Prayer Group
Mass 7, 9, 11
7:30 pm
No Classes Healing Mass
Scripture Readings
Readings for Sunday April 14, 2019
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
1st Reading Is 50:4-7
2nd Reading Phil 2:6-11
Gospel Luke 22:14-23
Readings for Sunday April 21, 2019
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
1st Reading Acts 10:34a
2nd Reading Col 3:1-4
Gospel Jn 20:1-9
Holy Trinity Church Contact Information
5919 Kalanianaole Highway, Honolulu, Hawaii 96821
E-Mail: holytrinity@rcchawaii.org
Website: holytrinitychurchhi.org
QR Code Telephone (808) 396-0551
“Online Giving Emergency Telephone: (808) 772-2422
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord.
Branches of palms or olive trees are ancient symbols of victory, hope, as well as new life. Our procession from
the Gym to the Church symbolically represents Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem overflowed with praise and
excitement, as they, and now we, wave these triumphant branches and proclaim our blessings. Yet in a few days
they, and we, will cry out, ”Crucify Him!” The crowds change of heart illustrates the problem of holding God to
our expectations. I wonder if we too sometimes go through the motions of publicly demonstrating our faith and
somehow fall short of practicing what we preach.
The crowd, that day, expected a liberating, powerful, earthly ruler. Repeatedly Jesus has told them that His
Kingdom was unlike any earthly one. They wanted freedom from their Roman occupiers and instead He
promised freedom from their sins and human death, through resurrection. Jesus gives them the ultimate sign by
taking up His Cross and now inviting them the do likewise when the time and situation presents itself to them.
They failed to see that through His death and resurrection He indeed was being a liberator but not from those
oppressing Romans! It was in this lack of understanding that the crowd’s mood swiftly changes to anger and the
palms branches of victory become whips of anger and disappointment. As we begin Holy Week let our prayers,
celebrations, and festivities lead us to a closer relationship with Our Lord who suffered and died for our freedom
from sin and death. Keep this week holy and you will not regret it, but spiritually benefit from it and all that
takes place.
Our ancient celebration of the church should be solemn and should begin at church and continue at home. Take
some blessed palms home and display them where they will be a constant reminder of Jesus as our savior and
liberator. Each time you see these palms perhaps take a moment to recall the Hosanna’s that we proclaimed as
well as the cry to crucify Him that we chanted. If you live alone maybe reread the Passion narrative from your
Bible, pausing to take in the beauty of what may seem to be horrific if you forget how the story ends...with
resurrection. If you know someone who was not able to attend our Palm Sunday liturgy, consider bringing them
some blessed palms on our behalf. We celebrated the beginning of Holy Week may we return to continue with
Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter-Vigil Sunday.
Just an FYI. Please turn in your Rice Bowl at the Holy Thursday Mass at 7:00 pm. Or feel free to drop by the
church office any time to leave your rice bowl with any staff member.
OR…….if you would like to convert your rice bowl contents into the form of a check (which would make the
counters very happy) you are welcome to deposit it in to any Mass Collection Basket between now and Holy
Thursday. Simply make out the check to CRS (Catholic Relief Service).
Either way, we sincerely appreciate your participation and attention to
this collection and please know that the thousands of people, including
children, all over the world send their thanks and appreciation.
Cottage Thrift Shop
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
EASTER SALE THIS WEEK
PLEASE……………
Easter Week Hours
Thursday 9:00 am—2:00 pm We need a bit of help setting up chairs for our
Easter Services. If anyone is willing to assist
Closed Good Friday and Holy Saturday
us on Saturday morning April 20th around
Questions? Call 396-0678 10:00 am for maybe half an hour, we could use
your help simply setting up extra chairs in the
church.
And then on Sunday April 21st after the 11:00
am mass we could use a few hands to put them
away.
If you are willing and able to assist, we would
Ladies, if you have them, wear them. certainly appreciate your assistance.
Get out those beautiful Easter hats Mahalo
and wear them to Mass on Easter Sunday.
In your Easter bonnet, with all
the frills upon it, You'll be the
grandest lady in the Easter
parade. I'll be all in clover and
when they look you over, I'll
be the proudest fellow in the
Easter parade.
Stewardship Corner Lesson 146
Stewardship at Holy Trinity Catholic Church
The Hour Has Come
“When the hour has come.” (Luke 22:14)
Today, we parade into church waving palm branches, celebrating Jesus’ triumphant entry to Jerusalem; only to
hear the passion of the Lord proclaimed in the Gospel. All of us have all been betrayed; a smile, followed by a
callous remark? Been abandoned in tough times, no one to turn to? The brunt of a joke? We’re not alone; Jesus
was betrayed too. While we might get angry, seek to get even; Jesus said “Father, forgive them…” As we listen
to the Passion of the Lord, let’s listen with a merciful heart; to share this mercy with others and strive to be loyal
to those who are betrayed. Jesus, thank you for your gifts, time, talent, treasure.
“You Can’t Out Do God’s Generosity!”
Summary of Weekly Offerings April 6 and 7, 2019
Offerings $10,069.00 MMR* $3,311.00
Candles $360.45 Thrift Shop $1,334.80
Catholic Relief Service $150.00 TOTAL $15,225.25
Major Maintenance and Repair
April 15 Monday Holy Week Mass at 5pm
April 16 Tuesday Holy Week Mass at 5pm
April 17 Wednesday Holy Week Mass at 5pm
April 18 Thursday Holy Thursday Mass at 7pm. No 5pm Mass
April 19 Friday Good Friday Service at 3pm and 7pm. No 5pm Mass.
April 20 Saturday Holy Saturday Easter Vigil at 7:30 pm.
No Confessions or 5pm Mass
April 21 Sunday Easter Sunday Mass at 7, 9 and 11
The Pontifical Good Friday Collection
Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical God Friday Collection, which
helps Christians in the Holy Land.
Your support helps the church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools and offer
religious education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps to preserve the
sacred shrines.
The wars, unrest and instability have been especially hard on Christians. In these time of
crisis, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection provides humanitarian aid to refugees.
When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you become an instrument of
peach and join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the church in the Holy
Land.
Saint Bernadette Soubirous – April 16
(January 7, 1844 – April 16, 1879
Bernadette Soubirous was born in 1844, the first child of an extremely poor miller
in the town of Lourdes in southern France. The family was living in the basement of
a dilapidated building when on February 11, 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary
appeared to Bernadette in a cave above the banks of the Gave River near Lourdes.
Bernadette, 14 years old, was known as a virtuous girl though a dull student who
had not even made her first Holy Communion. In poor health, she had suffered
from asthma from an early age.
There were 18 appearances in all, the final one occurring on the feast of Our Lady
of Mt. Carmel, July 16. Although Bernadette’s initial reports provoked skepticism,
her daily visions of “the Lady” brought great crowds of the curious. The Lady,
Bernadette explained, had instructed her to have a chapel built on the spot of the
visions. There, the people were to come to wash in and drink of the water of the
spring that had welled up from the very spot where Bernadette had been instructed
to dig.
According to Bernadette, the Lady of her visions was a girl of 16 or 17 who wore a
white robe with a blue sash. Yellow roses covered her feet, a large rosary was on
her right arm. In the vision on March 25 she told Bernadette, “I am the Immaculate
Conception.” It was only when the words were explained to her that Bernadette
came to realize who the Lady was.
Few visions have ever undergone the scrutiny that these appearances of the
Immaculate Virgin were subject to. Lourdes became one of the most popular
Marian shrines in the world, attracting millions of visitors. Miracles were reported
at the shrine and in the waters of the spring. After thorough investigation, Church
authorities confirmed the authenticity of the apparitions in 1862.
During her life, Bernadette suffered much. She was
hounded by the public as well as by civic officials
until at last she was protected in a convent of nuns.
Five years later, she petitioned to enter the Sisters
of Notre Dame of Nevers. After a period of illness
she was able to make the journey from Lourdes and enter the novitiate. But
within four months of her arrival she was given the last rites of the Church and
allowed to profess her vows. She recovered enough to become infirmarian and
then sacristan, but chronic health problems persisted. She died on April 16,
1879, at the age of 35.
Bernadette Soubirous was canonized in 1933.
Millions of people have come to the spring Bernadette uncovered for healing of
body and spirit, but she found no relief from ill health there. Bernadette moved
through life, guided only by blind faith in things she did not understand—as we
all must do from time to time.
“When battered by life's storms, or immersed in a dense fog of
suffering and uncertainty, we may feel alone and unequipped to
handle the circumstances. Yet with words that echo through
thousands of years into the corners of our hearts, the Lord says to
us, ‘Do not fear: I am with you’
Isaiah 41:10
Health, Comfort and Healing Eternal Rest
John Baricuatro Jr. Vincent Bradley
Morris Campos Fr Don Cavey
Ralph Caracciolo Virginia Chong
Katherine Caracciolo Danny Colton
Alexander Chun David Craven
Lei’la Chong Montoya Christopher Delgado
Mary Louise Sandla Richard Yoshimura
Iwalani Kamahele-Stone Don Young
Please advise the Parish Office when it is no longer necessary or appropriate
to keep names on the list, so we may use the space for future entries
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