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St. Jude Catholic Church 92-455 Makakilo Drive, Kapolei, HI 96707 Phone: (808) 672-8669 Fax: (808) 672-3779 www.stjudehawaii.org September 19, 2010 Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time No. 37 Fr.

John Mbinda Parochial Vicar John Coughlin Permanent Deacon Ed Vargas Permanent Deacon PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday 9:00a to 5:00p Closed on weekends and Federal & State holidays MASS SCHEDULE

month during the 5:00p Mass Marriage: Please call the parish office six months prior to wedding date. Anointing of the Sick: In case of emergency, call 672-8669 Ext.

1 St. Jude Catholic Church Makakilo Drive, Kapolei, HI Phone: (808) Fax: (808) September 19, 2010 Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time No. 37 Fr. Joseph Diaz Administrator Msgr. John Mbinda Parochial Vicar John Coughlin Permanent Deacon Ed Vargas Permanent Deacon PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday 9:00a to 5:00p Closed on weekends and Federal & State holidays MASS SCHEDULE Saturdays: 5:00p Sundays: 7:00a, 9:00a, 11:00a, & 5:00p Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 8:00a Wednesdays: 7:00p First Fridays: 7:00p Holy Days: 8:00a & 7:00p SACRAMENTS Baptism: Last Saturday & Sunday of each month during the 5:00p Mass Marriage: Please call the parish office six months prior to wedding date. Anointing of the Sick: In case of emergency, call Ext. 3 Reconciliation (Confession): Saturdays at 4:00p or by appointment. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (September - May) Grades K-8: Sundays 12:30p RCIA for Children: Sundays 12:30p RCIA: Thursdays 7:00p Confirmation 1: Mondays 6:00p Confirmation 2: Mondays 7:45p Adult Bible Study: Mondays 7:00p ST. JUDE YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY adopting the SHWAY model of life Youth Choir: Tuesdays 5:00p YA Community: Fridays 7:00p Youth Community: Saturdays 6:00p Registration for Religious Education Classes for RCIA begins on Thursday, September 23 at 7pm. Please bring the orange folder you picked up in the back of the Church. If you do not have a folder we will provide one for you on Thursday. Please call the office for details. REMINDER: The Diocese of Honolulu requires two (2) years preparation for First Communion. Your child must have been enrolled in grade one in a parish or Catholic school religious education program in a order for them to receive First Communion on May 7, 2011 at St. Jude. If they did not attend a grade one religion class they will go into a pre-first Communion preparation class with Mrs. Deguzman and receive their First Communion in May, Please call the office if you have any questions. All the parishes in the Diocese of Honolulu will comply to this mandate. Registration forms are being accepted on Sundays between 12:30pm-1:30pm. ST. JUDE MISSION STATEMENT We, the community of St. Jude, commit ourselves to Jesus Christ our Savior, His teachings and the Tradition of the Roman Catholic Church. With the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we embrace and nurture our culturally diverse community through worship, evangelization, renewal and service. Page

2 PARISH ADMINISTRATION Administrator - Rev. Joseph Diaz Parochial Vicar - Msgr. John Mbinda Permanent Deacon - Deacon John Coughlin Administrative Assistant - Caren Sue Argenzia Parish Secretary - Grace Balderas Director of Religious Education - Bonnie Boquer Coordinator of Youth & Young Adult Ministries - Keith Febrero Ministry Coordinator - Tony Boquer Chief Accountant - Lucy Pascual Sacristan - Alfred Simbahon, Sr. Building Committee - William Aiu Finance Committee - Kalani Frank SUPPORT STAFF Janitorial - Mary Lou Anacan, Ferdinand & Mary Jean Reglos Landscaping - Ferdinand Reglos & Peter Penascosas PASTORAL COUNCIL Mike Brown, Tony Boquer, Ray Datzman, Socorro DeGuzman, Steve Fredette, Daryl Huff, Tere Hunt, Mike Leskovec, Homer Rabara PARISH MINISTRY CONTACTS Ministry Coordinator - Tony Boquer Liturgical Altar Servers - Keahi Teson & Grace Balderas Eucharistic Ministry - Connie Cruz Lectors/Proclaimers - Connie Cadiz Liturgical Environment - Germaine Meyers Music Coordinator - Jovina Canopin Religious Education Baptism Prep - Mike & Michelle Brown Children s Liturgy - Flo Garza Confirmation - Bonnie Boquer RCIA - Tony & Bonnie Boquer Social Ministries Food Pantry - Carolyn Won Outreach/Hospitality - Judy Datzman Ushers - Sonny Aquino Widows - Rose Lastimado Bereavement Ministry - Gerry Kimokeo Parish Vocation Team - Estrella Estillore Page 2

Readings for the week of: September 20-26, 2010 09/20 Monday: St. Andrew Kim Taegon and Paul Chong and their Companions Prv 3:27-34; Ps 15:2-4b,5; Lk 8:16-18 09/21 Tuesday: ST.

Pio of Pietrelcina Eccl 1:2-11; Ps 90:3-6,12-14,17bc; Lk 9:7-9 09/24 Friday: Eccl 3:1-11; Ps 144:1b,2abc,3-4; Lk 9:18-22 09/25 Saturday: Eccl 11:9-12:8; Ps 90:3-6,12-14,17; Lk 9:43b-45 Today s

3 Readings for the week of: September 20-26, /20 Monday: St. Andrew Kim Taegon and Paul Chong and their Companions Prv 3:27-34; Ps 15:2-4b,5; Lk 8: /21 Tuesday: ST. MATTHEW, APOSTLE Eph 4:1-7,11-13; Ps 19:2-5; Mt 9: /22 Wednesday: Prv 30:5-9; Ps 119:29,72,89,101,104,163; Lk 9:1-6 09/23 Thursday: St. Pio of Pietrelcina Eccl 1:2-11; Ps 90:3-6,12-14,17bc; Lk 9:7-9 09/24 Friday: Eccl 3:1-11; Ps 144:1b,2abc,3-4; Lk 9: /25 Saturday: Eccl 11:9-12:8; Ps 90:3-6,12-14,17; Lk 9:43b-45 Today s Readings: 1st Reading: Am 8:4-7 2nd Reading: 1 Tm 2:1-8 Responsorial: Ps 113:1-2,4-8 Gospel: Lk 16:1-13 or 16: /26 THE TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Am 6:1a,4-7; Ps 146:7-10; 1 Tm 6:11-16; Lk 16:19-31 ST. JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH BUDGET July 1, 2010 June 30, 2011 General Operating Fund July 1, 2010 June 30, 2011 $ 624, Weekly Goal $ 12, Week of 09/11 & 09/12/2010 $ 9, Year to date Budget $ 132, Year to date receipts $ 111, Difference $ (20,046.98) Building Fund Mortgage Balance 04/30/2010 Adjusted $ 230, Week of 09/11 & 09/12/2010 $ Year to date received $ 12, Pray for Comfort & Healing Kathy Monare, Janet Bamford, Lee Van Dickson, Donald Harlor, and Kepa Matanane Pray for Repose of Soul Norman Brunell & Gilbert Serania Natural Family Planning Support We have a Certified Billings Ovulation Method Teacher available to our community. It s free and includes materials and 3-5 sessions. Please contact Teresa Fredericks, RN at or by teresamarie@hawaiiantel.net. CLUBS/ORGANIZATIONS Filipino Catholic Club - Judy Datzman Knights of Columbus # Stephen Fredette St. Jude Cursillo Prayer Group - Fred Cruz St. Jude Golf Club - Ed Campos St. Jude Quilt Club - Genera Buza Campos Page 3

I would like to invite high school and college students to submit to me essays and poems about why abortion is wrong and how adoption is a better alternative to abortion.

4 SAVE THE UNBORN! We all started life in the womb! Dear St. Jude Ohana, This month, I will feature several articles from the Priests for Life website as well as winning essays and poems written by high school students. I would like to invite high school and college students to submit to me essays and poems about why abortion is wrong and how adoption is a better alternative to abortion. your essays and poems to: respectlife20@yahoo.com God Bless. Merci Valdez High School Winner True to Life by Katherine Bugos, Lebanon, Oregon The little girl stood on the sidewalk holding tightly to her mother's hand. Her mother was talking to a group of people standing on the sidewalk holding large white posters. Her mother wasn't very happy and little Emily wondered what was going on. Why were the people standing on the sidewalk? Why was her mother angry at them? Emily tried to sound out the words on the posters. The first word she did not understand but the other two words made her eyes grow wide with wonder:" Kills Children". She wanted to ask her mother what the first word, A-b-o-r-t-i-o-n, meant but she dare not interrupt. What could be so horrible as to kill children and why was her mother defending something that kills children? The questions flooded the little girl's innocent mind. Little Emily did not understand the adult conversation going on above her but she caught bits and pieces of it. Her mother was saying things like "It's my choice" and "It's a free country!" Emily's little ears picked out the word `fetus' several times. That was a word she knew. She remembered the time a lady came to her school with small, rubbery models of babies at different stages growing in their mommies' tummy. The lady had let Emily hold the lifelike babies, but when Emily told her mom about it, she got mad. Her mom told her it was not right to call it a baby and the lady was wrong for doing so. She told Emily that the right word was `fetus'. Emily was bewildered at her mother's exasperation but she complied nevertheless. Now, standing on the sidewalk in the cold wind with her mother's defiant voice above, Emily wondered what the rubbery models had to do with all of this. Emily, in her innocence, was too young to grasp the significance of the conversation. She was too young to know that 4,000 babies are torn from their mother's tummy each day. She was unaware that a-b-o-r-t-i-o-n spells MURDER. She knew nothing of the lies and evils of the abortion industry that had consumed America since the legalization of abortion, and that her mother was only one of the many victims of these lies. Emily's mother, too, was unaware of this. When she was still young, Emily's mother had been taught the code words of the abortion industry. Raised in an abortion-minded society, she had become seeped in the untruths of choice, women's rights, and tolerance of evil. Like so many other Americans, the lies held Emily's mother in darkness, closing her mind to the light of truth. To the pro-life warrior who accepts the challenge of standing up for life even in the face of opposition, it seems a hopeless task. It seems that for every one step forward, we take two steps back and we never seem to make any progress. It seems as though the hearts and minds of men and women like Emily's mother are immovable mountains that will never budge. But it is at times like these that we must remember that faith moves the immovable. We must remember that the greatest ally one can have is truth; and truth is what... Page 4 (Continued on next page )

5 (Continued from previous page ).we've got. Who else is so fortunate as to be assured of ultimate victory, aside from those who stand in defense of truth? It's easy to get discouraged but we must never give up. The babies who will die today have never died before. Every day of legalized abortion is a new cause for sorrow. We still have a chance to make a difference and reach out to the babies and mothers who are still in danger. And while, for the time being, Emily's mother might not change her views, an indelible impression had been left in the memory of young Emily of a sign that reads: "Abortion Kills Children". Someday she may see the truth in the testimony and take her place in the pro-life movement. Be that as it may, we must be careful not to measure truth by our amount of success. Even if we never convince another person of the truth we treasure, even if we never pass another piece of pro -life legislation, even if all our attempts fail... the truth will not change. One can only pray for the strength to be the last one standing for life if it would ever come to that. As Pope Liberius said in 355 AD "My standing alone doesn't make the truth a whit weaker. "No matter what new code words the abortionists and feminists come up with we will fight to expose them to the truth, for we are fighting for life. The truth will set us free and America will, once again, be a free country. We will be the voice of those who never got a chance to speak. Notice that the last letters of the word "American" spell "I CAN". WE CAN and will speak the truth that will uncover the evil of abortion! GIVE ALOHA Foodland s Annual Community Matching Gifts Program It s that time of year again! The St. Jude Parish Outreach Ministry is participating in the Give Aloha program. From September 1st through the 30th, you are invited to make donations of up to a cumulative total of $249 per person to our Outreach Ministry. Foodland and the Western Union Federation will donate $325,000 in matching funds to the Give Aloha Program. Shop at any Foodland or Sack N Save on the island. At checkout, present your Maika i Card and inform the cashier that you would like to make a donation to the St. Jude Outreach Ministry. The five digit code is If you do not have a Maika i Card, you can request for one at checkout. The amount you have donated and the organization name will appear on your receipt. Donations must be made payable to Foodland or Sack N Save. Note: 1. Your name will not be released to us. So if you would like us to know of your donation, please stop by or call the parish office so we can properly acknowledge your gift. 2. Your contribution is tax deductible to the full extent of the law. Please save your receipts for tax purposes since it will be the only record you will have of your donation. 3. Visit the Foodland in Ewa and see our St. Jude Catholic Church banner! *Matching gifts are calculated after the end of the program. Organizations will receive 100% of all customer donations given to their organization, plus their % of Foodland and the Western Union Foundation s $325,000 matching gift. The portion of the matching gift that each organization will receive will be based on the total dollar amount of customer donations designated to that organization as a % of all customer donations received for all organizations. Page 5

St. Jude Youth and Young Adult Ministry Thoughts Adopting the model SHWAY life On the 2010 Movie: The Last Exorcism? by Sean Murata Recently, a film came out entitled The Last Exorcism.

6 St. Jude Youth and Young Adult Ministry Thoughts Adopting the model SHWAY life On the 2010 Movie: The Last Exorcism? by Sean Murata Recently, a film came out entitled The Last Exorcism. While I have not gone to see it, I have read reviews. From what I understand it involves a charlatan of a southern preacher who goes about performing fake exorcisms, and (in his travels) may have actually stumbled upon someone who is genuinely possessed. As Catholics, we have to remember that films dealing with demonic possession like this one, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and The Exorcist (the original one) offer us a glimpse of things that are in fact very real, and the viewing of these films requires a certain maturity of faith, given these things are not to be taken lightly. The truth of the matter is that while we may rarely hear about such things in mass, the Devil is a very real being who seeks to corrupt and destroy us through any means possible. Anyone doubting this need only look to 1 Peter 5:8 where we are warned to discipline yourself [... as] like a roaring lion you adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour. However, while it is important that we, as Catholics recognize this, it is even more important that we realize that above all our attention should be fixed on Christ. It is God alone we serve and God alone we should fear. Testament to Christ s overwhelming power over evil has been demonstrated in scripture. Luke 8:26-39 tells of one instance where the demon in a possessed man begged Jesus not to torment him even as Jesus simply approached the man. What s more is that Christ s power has also been demonstrated through the lives of the saints. One remarkable example of this is Saint Louis De Montfort s account of how Saint Dominic asked those around a man possessed with 15,000 demons to pray the rosary, and each Hail Mary cast out 1,000 demons from the man s body. As followers of Christ, we are all called to imitate Him, and our best defense against such things is to put our faith and trust in Him alone, live out the gospel message, and to continue to receive His grace through the sacraments. -Sean Murata has been member in SHWAY since he was a junior in high-school. He is currently a leader of SHWAY and an English Teacher at Waipahu Intermediate School. Page 6

*Note regarding Mass Intention requests: Requested dates and times are not guaranteed. If the requested date is unavailable, your Mass intention will be said during the next available Mass.

Mass Intentions for the Week of 09/20/2010 Monday, September 20th 8:00a The Huff Family Wednesday, September 22nd 7:00p Juanita Simbahon Saturday, September 25th 5:00p The People of St.

7 *Note regarding Mass Intention requests: Requested dates and times are not guaranteed. If the requested date is unavailable, your Mass intention will be said during the next available Mass. Request for dates which fall on a Solemnity (ex: Pentecost, Most Holy Trinity, etc.), will be said at the next available Mass. Mass Intentions for the Week of 09/20/2010 Monday, September 20th 8:00a The Huff Family Wednesday, September 22nd 7:00p Juanita Simbahon Saturday, September 25th 5:00p The People of St. Jude Mon 09/20 8:00a Mass 6:00p Confirmation 1 7:45p Confirmation 2 Tue 09/21 8:00a Mass 11:00a Funeral Mass - Terrence Reyes 3:30p Food Pantry 5:00p Youth Choir Practice 7:00p Combined Choir Practice Building Committee Sunday, September 26th 7:00a Norma Estiamba David Rennie 9:00a Robert Kaneshi The Mayrena Family Rolly Prado 11:00a The People of St. Jude 5:00p The People of St. Jude St. Jude Parish Blood Drive Saturday, October 9, :00am - 12:00pm in the Multi-Purpose Room Please consider donating blood to support our community. More than 200 pints of blood are need everyday to maintain an adequate blood supply for Hawaii s blood needs. We need blood donors! Please see the volunteers at the church portico to sign up. They will be available after all the weekend Masses from September 11/12 - October 2/3. For more information or to sign up over the phone, please call Dr. Reyes at or Marcie Cabico at Visit our website: Wed 09/22 10:00a Catholic Charities 6:00p Holy Hour Children s Liturgy Meeting 6:45p Novena to OLPH 7:00p Mass Thu Fri Sat Sun Page 8 09/23 8:00a Mass 9:00a Sr. Exercise 3:30p Food Pantry 7:00p 5pm Choir Practice RCIA 09/24 8:00a Mass 6:00p Environment 7:00p Young Adult Community 09/25 4:00p Confessions 4:45p Novena to St. Jude 5:00p Mass/Baptism 6:00p Youth Community 09/26 26TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:00a Mass 9:00a Mass 11:00a Mass 12:30p RE Classes 5:00p Mass/Baptism *Our calendar is subject to change without notice.

St. Jude Catholic Church

St. Jude Catholic Church PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday 9:00a to 5:00p Closed on weekends and Federal & State holidays MASS SCHEDULE Saturdays: 5:00p Sundays: 7:00a, 9:00a, 11:00a, & 5:00p Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 8:00a Wednesdays: