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NEW ONLINE GIVING PORTAL ACTIVE
MANAGE YOUR GIVING ONLINE
St. Joseph Church is excited to announce that our new online portal is up and can be view by accessing the parish website.
For those of you who have used the WeShare portal, please go to our VANCO site and set up a new user account with them. And for those of you who have considered online giving yet never tried...now’s the time!
Thank you for your support of our parish!

Gifts help support the diocesan mission, parishes, pastors, schools, service agencies, and communities.
Envelopes are avaiable in the Church or donate online.
All gifts are important and appreciated.

Saint Joseph
Church Calendar
May 22-28
22 Sunday
Sunday Masses:
7:00 am Mass
- Fr. Lito
w/Dcn. David
9:00 am Mass
- Fr. Lito
w/ Dcn. David
11:45 am Mass
- Fr. Lito
6:00 pm Mass
- Fr. Lito
23 Monday
6:00 am Mass
- Fr. Jong
12:15 pm Mass
- Fr. Lito
24 Tuesday
6:00 am Mass
- Fr. Jong
12:15 pm Mass
-Fr. Jong
25 WEDNESDAY
6:00 am Mass
- Fr. Jong
12:15 pm Mass
-Fr. Lito
9:30 am - Funeral Mass
+R. Corpuz -Fr. Lito
26 Thursday
6:00 am Mass
-Fr. Lito
12:15 pm Mass
-Fr. Lito
9:30 am - Funeral Mass
+P. Bronco -Fr. Lito
Burial to follow
27 Friday
6:00 am Mass
-Fr. Lito
12:15 pm Mass
-Fr. Lito
4:00 pm Baccalaureate Mass
-Fr. Lito
28 Saturday
Masses:
7:00 am Mass
- Fr. Jong
5:00 pm Mass
- Fr.Lito w/ Dcn. David
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"
6th Sunday of Easter – 2022 ©
“If anyone loves me,
he will keep my word.”
How time flies. We are already on the Sixth Sunday of Easter. And our Gospel begins with a very assuring reminder: “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word.” Once again, we are reminded of what it means to love. Love entails a commitment otherwise it will be just lip service. Keeping God’s Word is the sign of our true love for God. And we know how powerful God’s Word is. He created the whole universe with His Word. And more so, Jesus is the “Word made flesh,” so to keep God’s Word is to keep and live with Jesus in our hearts.
Jesus promises to dwell in the heart of the disciple. And if that is not enough, He also assures them that the Father will send the Holy Spirit to be their guide. What a gift, Jesus is giving His disciples – and that includes us. And another important gift of Jesus to us is His life-giving word. Hopefully like Mary we have chosen to ponder on them in our hearts.
Similarly, Words are very important in our lives. Not only to do we communicate with each other through words but they also have power in them. As the saying goes, words can kill but they can also be a source of life. How have we use the God-given gift of word to witness to His love and bring our world closer to His kingdom
Please plan to join us on
Saturday, May 28
for the
May floral offering and crowning of Mary
at the 7 am Mass.


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.