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
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) June 22, 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

This week-end, we celebrate the Body and Blood of
Christ. Popularly it was known as Corpus Christi Sun-
day. All the Sundays of the month of June have been
dedicated to various Feasts that are special to the Catho-
lic Faith. Next Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of Saints
Peter and Paul.

In our First Reading, we listen to Moses exhorting the
people of Israel to remember how they were fed in the
desert with manna or bread from Heaven. Manna liter-
ally means what is this ?

In our Second Reading Saint Paul writing to the Corin-
thians explains to them that just as a loaf of bread is
made with many grains of wheat, we the followers of
Christ, must be one in body.

The Gospel from Saint John explains clearly what the
Eucharist is about, and what we are to believe in cele-
brating the Eucharist. For many Christians, it is only a
memorial. But for us Catholics it is the Living Bread
come down from Heaven. Many disciples of Jesus left
Him, when He explained to them that whoever ate the
Bread( His Flesh), would live forever.

Once again, let us try and understand the importance of
reverence at all times in the Church. The Tabernacle
contains the Body of Christ. Christ is truly present in the
form of Bread. Also, when we approach the Altar for
Communion, let us dress and let our demeanor be con-
sistent with our belief and respect for Christ. Fr Seb

I AM THE LIVING BREAD
Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
Jesus called John the greatest of all those who had preceded him: I tell you, among those born of women, no one is
greater than John.... But John would have agreed completely with what Jesus added: Yet the least in the kingdom
of God is greater than he (Luke 7:28). John spent his time in the desert, an ascetic. He began to announce the com-
ing of the Kingdom, and to call everyone to a fundamental reformation of life. His purpose was to prepare the way
for Jesus. His Baptism, he said, was for repentance. But One would come who would baptize with the Holy Spirit and
fire. John is not worthy even to carry his sandals. His attitude toward Jesus was: He must increase; I must de-
crease (John 3:30). The greatness of John, his pivotal place in the history of salvation, is seen in the great emphasis
Luke gives to the announcement of his birth and the event itselfboth made prominently parallel to the same occur-
rences in the life of Jesus. John attracted countless people (all Judea) to the banks of the Jordan, and it occurred to
some people that he might be the Messiah. But he constantly deferred to Jesus, even to sending away some of his fol-
lowers to become the first disciples of Jesus. COMMENT: John challenges us Christians to the fundamental attitude of Christian-
itytotal dependence on the Father, in Christ. Except for the Mother of God, no one had a higher function in the unfolding of salvation. Yet
the least in the kingdom, Jesus said, is greater than he, for the pure gift that the Father gives. The attractiveness as well as the austerity of John,
his fierce courage in denouncing evilall stem from his fundamental and total placing of his life within the will of God.
Church Bulletin: EditorJoe Padron, Phone 423-2439. Bulletin deadline is Tuesday 12:00 noon. Please
email notice and picture if applicable to pad.ronjoe@gmail.com
Our Weekly Offerings
June 15, 2014
Thank you for your generous
contribution for the past weekend.








We thank Father Joe Carroll for his ser-
vices to our Parish during the absence of Fa-
ther Sebastian. Father Sebastian will return
this week and will be with us during the
weekend.

Samoan Halleluiah Night.
The Samoan Halleluiah night will be next
Saturday June 28th after the 5 PM Mass. All
are welcome to watch and enjoy a wonderful
tribute to our Risen Lord.

Parish Picnic.
Please sign up this week-end or the next
week-end and make our Annual Picnic a
success by your presence and by your con-
tribution.

Father Nutan Minj from Louisiana who
was here last week, wishes to thank the Par-
ish for the second collection for the success
of his fellow missionaries and their activi-
ties. God bless all those Parishioners who
contributed to his appeal for help.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR

HOLY FAMILY PARISH PICNIC

Mark your calendars! The 3rd annual Parish
Picnic will be held on the Church and School
Grounds on Saturday July 5 from 10:00 a.m. to
2:00 p.m. Plan now to come for a few hours of
food, fun, and fellowship.

To ensure its success, please stop by after Mass
on June 21/22 and June 28/29 to sign up to
bring various food or pot luck items and to vol-
unteer to help set up and clean up. If you have
questions, contact Chet Malins at 456-3933 or
email: malinsc001@hawaii.rr.com
Feast of Corpus Christi

The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of
Christ), also known as Corpus Domini, is a Latin
Rite liturgical solemnity celebrating the tradition and
belief in the body and blood of Jesus Christ and
his Real Presence in the Eucharist. It emphasizes the
joy of the institution of the Eucharist, which was ob-
served on Holy Thursday in the somber atmosphere of
the nearness of Good Friday.
In the present Roman Missal, the feast is designated
the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of
Ch r i s t . I t i s a l s o c e l e b r a t e d i n
some Anglican, Lutheran, and Old Catholic
Churches that hold similar beliefs regarding the Real
Presence.
The feast is liturgically celebrated on the Thursday af-
ter Trinity Sunday or, "where the Solemnity of the Most
Holy Body and Blood of Christ is not a holy day of obliga-
tion, it is assigned to the Sunday after the Most Holy Trin-
ity as its proper day".
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At the end of Holy Mass, there is
often a procession of the Blessed Sacrament, generally dis-
played in a monstrance. The procession is followed
byBenediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

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.
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the
Blessed Virgin Mary
(June 28th)
In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII
put the whole world under the special protection of
our Savior's Mother by consecrating it to her Im-
maculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the
future the whole Church should celebrate the feast of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is not a new de-
votion. In the seventeenth century, St. John Eudes
preached it together with that of the Sacred Heart; in
the nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius IX allowed
several churches to celebrate a feast of the Pure Heart
of Mary. Pius XII instituted today's feast of the Im-
maculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as
to obtain by her intercession "peace among nations,
freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners,
the love of purity and the practice of virtue" (Decree
of May 4, 1944). The attention of Christians was
early attracted by the love and virtues of the Heart of
Mary. The Gospel itself invited this attention with
exquisite discretion and delicacy. What was first excited
was compassion for the Virgin Mother. It was, so to speak,
at the foot of the Cross that the Christian heart first made
the acquaintance of the Heart of Mary. Simeon's prophecy
paved the way and furnished the devotion with one of its
favourite formulae and most popular representations: the
heart pierced with a sword. But Mary was not merely pas-
sive at the foot of the Cross; "she cooperated through char-
ity", as St. Augustine says, "in the work of our redemp-
tion".
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The Charity of Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the
virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
Therefore, it is a habit that can and should be ac-
quired. Cheerfulness is perhaps best represented in
the word affability. St. Thomas Aquinas

places affa-
bility under the general heading of the cardinal virtue
of justice, the virtue that prompts us to give to others
what is their due under any sense of duty or obliga-
tion. You are obliged to help and not hinder others
around you in the world on their way toward Heaven.
Not only are you to help the needy by your alms, and
the erring by your advice, but you are also to help all
whom you know or meet by your kindliness, pleasant
-ness, and affability of manner.

Cheerfulness of attitude and manner is a great help to
those who come into contact with you. If you are a
sour, unsociable, gloomy-looking person, you will
make people feel uneasy, and you will in-tensify your
own temptations to give way to sadness. On the other
hand, if you are cheerful, you will lift the spirits of
people, invite their confidence, and increase their
hope of serving God well.

If you consistently present a gloomy attitude toward
life and everybody around you, it may be because
you are suffering from a case of self-pity. You let
your sorrows and misfortunes overwhelm you. Or
you may be prompted by envy to refuse even an ef-
fort
(continuation)
at being cheerful because you are thinking of the
many good things others have that you are de-
nied. Or you may be a victim of your feelings.
Temperamentally you may be inclined toward
sadness, and you take the position that you
should let your temperament rule you.

Cheerfulness is founded on hope

Hope is the virtue by which you keep your eyes
fixed on Heaven as the goal of your life, made
certainly attainable by the merits and promises
and fidelity of Jesus Christ. Since you always
have something wonderful to look forward to,
you are cheerful. Hope is a supernatural virtue
infused at Baptism, but it requires ef-fort and re-
peated actions to become effective.

You cannot be cheerful if you succumb to the
vices opposed to hope, such as despair, which is
a surrender to the thought that Heaven cannot be
attained and that the sufferings of Hell are in-
evitable. St. Thrse of the Child Jesus used to
say, We can never have too much confidence in
the good God. He is so mighty, so merciful.

Fortitude allows you to face the sorrows of life

Fortitude is a basis for cheerfulness. Fortitude
induces you to face the inevitable sorrows of life
and, above all, death itself, in the service of God
with courage and patience. You will look to the
suf-ferings of Christ for inspiration. You will
look to the happiness of Heaven with a heart full
of hope, and you will count even the greatest suf-
ferings as a small price to pay for that reward.
There-fore, try to overcome cowardice, self-pity,
and lack of confidence in the goodness of God
faults that prevent you from being cheerful. As a
result of these faults, you may find yourself con-
stantly grumbling against God and everybody
around you because of the sufferings you have to
endure. Do not take yourself too seriously. You
have to learn not to be dismayed at making mis-
takes. No human being can avoid failures. The
important thing is not to let your mistakes and
failures gnaw away at you. Regret is an appalling
waste of energy. You cannot build on it.