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Saint Joseph
Church Calendar
August 14 -August 20
14 Sunday
Sunday Masses:
7:00 am Mass
- Fr. Ferdie
9:00 am Mass
- Fr. Lito
11:45 am Mass
Fr. Lito
6:00 pm Mass
- Fr. Ferdie
15 Monday
Daily Mass:
6:00 am Mass
- Fr. Lito
12:15 pm Mass
- Fr. Ferdie
16 Tuesday
6:00 am Mass
- Fr. Ferdie
12:15 pm Mass
- Fr. Lito
17 WEDNESDAY
6:00 am Mass
- Fr. Ferdie
12:15 pm Mass
- Fr.Lito
18 Thursday
6:00 am Mass
- Fr. Lito
12:15 pm Mass
- Fr.Lito
19 Friday
6:00 am Mass
- Fr. Ferdie
Hawaii Statehood Day
20 Saturday
Masses:
7:00 am Mass
- Fr. Ferdie
5:00 pm Mass
- Fr. Lito
CONFESSION:
10:00 am
"No sin or crime is greater than God's mercy. The sacrifice of the Cross reveals that Christ's greatest desire is to forgive those with a repentant heart."
USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities "Death Penalty: Catholic Q&A"
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time -2022
“I have come to set the earth on fire.”
For every person, there is one thing that can captivate their hearts and mind. For some, it will be wealth, for another it can be beauty, for another fame, or still for others anger and revenge. For the Church hopefully it is the upcoming Synod of Synodality. Any one of these can set one’s heart on fire. What is setting your hearts on fire.
For us Christians, I pray that it is the Word of God that stirs the fire with in us. A fire that not only warms the heart with great sentimentality but more as a raging blaze that purifies it from indifference and languor and consumes the heart with great passion. This we have seen in the examples of those passionate lover of Christ who have dedicated themselves to his mission and the establishing of God’s Kingdom like St. Damien of Molokai who made it his choice to dedicate his life serving the lepers of Molokai.
To be consumed by that fire of the Gospel is to challenge what the world offers and stood as a radical witness to what Christ proclaimed. It involves trusting God with our whole life.
ADORATION
of the
BLESSED SACRAMENT
Come Pray
the Liturgy of the Hours
Join us daily in the morning immediately following the Morning Mass and in the evenings: Weekdays & Sundays at 4:00 pm Saturdays at 3:00 pm
Mother of Perpetual Help Prayer Group
Novena devotions to resume Tuesday, at St. Joseph Church; 6:00p.m. (evening).
Come join us every Tuesday praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Rosary, Consecration and Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
Rejoice Always, Pray without ceasing, Give Thanks in all circumstances. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Prayer to St. Joseph
Written by Pope Francis
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust;
with you Christ became man.
Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father, and guide us in the path of life.
Obtain for us grace, mercy, and courage, and defend us from every evil.
Amen.
A PRAYER FOR PEACE
by Pope Francis
Lord God of peace, hear our Prayer!
We have tried so many times and over so many years
to resolve our confilcts by our own powers and by the force of our arms.
How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced?
How much blood has been shed?
How many lives have been shattered?
How many hopes have been buried?
But our efforts have been in vain.
Now, Lord come to our aid!
Grant us peace, teach us peace;
guide our steps in the way of peace.
Open our eyes and our hearts,
and give us the courage to say:"Never again war!""With war everything is lost".
Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace.
Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters.
Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace;
enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister.
Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens
who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness.
Keep alive within us the flame of hope,
so that with patience and preserverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation.
In this way may peace triumph at last,
and may the words "division" "hatred" and "war" be banished from the heart of every man and woman.
Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands.
Renew our hearts and minds.
so that the word which always brings us together will be "brother," and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam!
Amen.
Prayer for the
COVID-19 CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC
Written by Bishop Larry Silva
Dear God of all the living, you sent your Son Jesus to heal us from illness and sin.
We turn to his healing power in this time of anxiety over the pandemic of this potentially deadly virus.
St. Damien and St. Marianne Cope dedicated their lives to the service of those who had an infectious disease. St. Marianne Cope said, "I am not afraid of any disease," because she was confident in your power to save. At the same time, she took prudent precautions of hygiene to assure that she and her Sisters would not be infected.
Let us learn from this example to put our trust in you to save us from the ravages of disease and to take prudent measures to prevent its spread. Guide us to know when to isolate ourselves from the possibility of infection, but never let anyone be left without the care and concern of others in the community.
As our Diocese of Honolulu has been dedicated to the Divine Mercy,
we pray with confidence,
Jesus, I trust in you. Saint Damien, pray for us!Saint Marianne, pray for us! Amen.