e-newsletter Tuesday, 3rd Week of Lent (V: 13) March 29, 2011

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1 Diocese of Honolulu e-newsletter Tuesday, 3rd Week of Lent (V: 13) March 29, 2011 Do not let us be put to shame, but deal with us in your kindness and great mercy. Deliver us by your wonders, and bring glory to your name, O Lord (Daniel 3:42-43) [All articles and pictures may be copied and used in parish/school bulletins and newsletters.] In this Issue: New Events/Announcements ALERT: United Parcel Service Contains Trojan Threat Holy Father s Prayer Intentions for April 2011 Rev. Michael Dalton Appointed Vicar Forane of Leeward Oahu CRS Ready to Respond to Devastation in Japan Administrative Professionals Day is Wed. April 27, 2011 Catholic Charities Hawaii s Latest Hope Line is Online! I Saw it in the enews and Read it in the Herald Previous Events/Announcements Superintendent of Schools Applicant Deadline April 1, 2011 Congratulations to Fr. Melchor Castañeda, SSS Activities of Christopher Fishkin and Michael Bein Fr. Manuel Hewe to lead Official Pilgrimage to Ireland Financial Solutions Project Update Life Issues Forum: A Grisly Business Word of Life Intercessions for Life - April 3 & 10, 2011 New Members needed for Bishop s Diocesan Pastoral Council Holy Trinity sponsors Living in Love Weekend April Key Dates for our Priests Key Dates for our Permanent Deacons ephotos 1

2 ALERT: United Parcel Service Contains Trojan Threat From Elina Simon, Executive Assistant to the Vicar General Attention all Chancery, SSDC, Parish and other users - Several people here at the Chancery have received a bogus United Parcel Service containing a Trojan horse computer threat. If you receive this , do not attempt to open the or the attachment. If by mistake you happen to open the and a program pops up that begins scanning your computer, shut down immediately in order to keep damage to a minimum. Contact Diane Lamosao at or dlamosao@rcchawaii.org for immediate assistance. Holy Father s Prayer Intentions for April 2011 From The Vatican General Intention: That the Church may offer new generations, through the believable proclamation of the Gospel, ever-new reasons of life and hope. Missionary Intention: That missionaries, with the proclamation of the Gospel and their witness of life, may bring Christ to all those who do not yet know Him. Rev. Michael Dalton Appointed Vicar Forane of Leeward Oahu From The Office of the Bishop Bishop Larry Silva has appointed Reverend Michael Dalton, OFM, Cap., Pastor for Immaculate Conception, Ewa, as Vicar Forane of Leeward Oahu. Effective immediately, the position extends until June 2012 when the new vicars forane are chosen. Fr. Dalton steps in to replace Fr. Scott Bush who is on sabbatical for health reasons. The Diocese of Honolulu is very thankful of Fr. Dalton for taking on this added responsibility in light of an already busy parish schedule. We thank him for his generosity and assure him of our prayers. Please extend your cooperation and support to Fr. Dalton as he assumes the role of Vicar Forane of Leeward Oahu. 2

3 CRS Ready to Respond to Devastation in Japan Catholic Relief Services is working with Caritas International and others to find pathways to bring aid to the many thousands stricken by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan. The people of Japan who suffered this tragedy are our brothers and sisters, Sean Callahan, vice president of overseas operations said. Though it is too early to know the exact details of how we will help, we know that it is our mission to aid them in this time of need. As our mission is to serve the world s most poor and vulnerable people, CRS does not normally have a program in Japan. But, just as we did after the Kobe Earthquake in 1995, we will find appropriate partners for the expression of generosity by Catholics in the United States and others of goodwill. CRS has determined there was minimal damage from the tsunami in countries where we have programs such as the Philippines and Indonesia, said Callahan. Our focus now is on the people of Japan. A woman weeps while sitting amid destruction in Natori, Japan, March 13. (CNS photo/asahi Shimbun/Reuters) Caritas Japan has indicated that for now it will not be involved in immediate relief work, a huge operation run by the Japanese Army, but will focus on long-term recovery. In a statement, Caritas Japan noted that the damage is not only physical but also psychological. We will accompany people who lost their beloved, who lost everything and may stay at temporary shelter, and who have no one to rely on, the statement said. The president of Caritas Japan, Bishop Isao Kikuchi SVD says, We have received so many s from all continents, filled with words of compassion and prayer. We are very grateful for this solidarity. We believe that aid activity is needed, but prayer is also important in such a situation. CRS is accepting donations and will assist Caritas Japan with financial resources as well as with expertise if requested. You may go to for information on how to donate. 3

4 Administrative Professionals Day is Wed. April 27, 2011 Submitted by Dara Perreira, Human Resources Director 4

5 Catholic Charities Hawaii s Latest Hope Line is Online! Submitted by Celeste Imamura, Catholic Charities Hawai i Get updated on Catholic Charities Hawai i happenings by reading the latest Hope Line. Click here to read it today! I Saw it in the enews and Read it in the Herald From Elina Simon, Executive Assistant to the Vicar General Diocesan Road Map to the Future: Help for Improving Building Maintenance written by Lisa Dahm, contributor and former reporter and photographer for the Hawaii Catholic Herald, is featured in the March 18, 2011 issue of the Hawaii Catholic Herald. Visit the link below to read about the three things a parish needs to complete a building project correctly. px For a copy of the Hawaii Catholic Herald call or herald@rcchawaii.org and ask about the "Pass it On" Policy which allows you to share an issue of the Hawaii Catholic Herald with a friend. Herald staff will send your friend a free copy. If you give your copy away, the Herald will send you another one while supplies last. 5

6 Previous Events/Announcements Superintendent of Schools Applicant Deadline April 1, 2011 From Bro. William J. Campbell, S.M., Ed. D., Associate Executive Director NCEA The Diocese of Honolulu is currently seeking a Superintendent of Schools. There are 36 Catholic schools in Hawaii providing education from the pre-kindergarten level through post-graduate levels. Schools can be found on Kauai and Oahu, Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii. The Superintendent of Schools is the educational leader & chief administrator of Catholic schools and serves as the delegate of the Diocesan Bishop in all school matters, providing the leadership necessary for the successful attainment of Diocesan school goals. View the full list of qualifications at: Qualified and interested applicants need to submit ( ONLY) a resume, and cover letter (references can be sent at a later date) by April 1, 2011 to: William J. Yacullo/Trinity Executive Partnership Two Westbook Corporate Center Suite 100 Westchester, IL PH: wyacullo@aol.com Congratulations to Fr. Melchor Castañeda, SSS From Bishop Larry Silva Congratulations and prayers to Father Melchor O. Castañeda, SSS, who will be ordained a priest in the Philippines on March 26, Brother Choi worked for a number of years at Star of the Sea Parish in Honolulu as a Religious Brother before deciding to study of the priesthood. Activities of Christopher Fishkin and Michael Bein From the Office of the Bishop The Diocese of Honolulu has learned that there may be misunderstandings concerning the activities of two men in Hawaii, Christopher Fishkin and Michael Bein. Neither individual is or ever has been an agent, employee or representative of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu or the Roman Catholic Church In The State Of Hawaii. 6

7 The Diocese has not authorized and does not condone the use of ostensibly religious or clerical garb, titles or other emblems of a consecrated life by either of these men. Their activities are entirely independent of the Diocese. Clergy of the Diocese are instructed that they shall not allow either of the individuals to participate in any public ministries or activities of the Diocese or any parish. Fr. Manuel Hewe to lead Official Pilgrimage to Ireland From Bishop Larry Silva We have been on an important journey together. Witness to Jesus: A Road Map for Our Mission is helping us to organize, become more efficient, and deepen our faith as Catholic followers of the Lord Jesus. As we implement our local plan, the Universal Church is preparing to mark an important moment as well the 50 th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, Soon to be Blessed Pope Paul II, called Vatican II, The greatest religious event of the Twentieth Century. I want us to mark the moment by saying YES to Pope Benedict XVI s invitation to the 50 th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, Ireland! Our Official Pilgrimage for the Diocese of Honolulu will be led by Father Manuel Hewe, Vicar for Clergy, June 7-18, For an information booklet, contact Darlene Cachola, ph or dcachola@rcchawaii.org. Financial Solutions Project Update From Diocesan Finance Office Thank you to everyone for your feedback on the proposed Parish & School Chart of Accounts (COA). We have incorporated your feedback into the final draft COA, which is now available for download from the catholichawaii.org website at: Please note you must be logged into catholichawaii.org to download the materials. We are also working on the training schedule for the new QuickBooks solution and Accounting Manual. The person responsible for generating your books and records is 7

8 required to attend this training. Training will be held in Honolulu in early June. The Diocesan Finance Office will contact Parishes & Schools on the neighbor islands regarding travel arrangements. Please save the following dates for training: Schools: June 6 7 Parishes: June 8 9 If you have any questions, feel free to financeoffice@rcchawaii.org or call the Finance Office and Michael Griffith ( ), Marvin Choy ( ), Diane Lamosao ( ), or Lisa Sakamoto ( ) will be happy to assist you. Life Issues Forum: A Grisly Business From Paulette Vernay, Respect Life Office LIFE ISSUES FORUM A Grisly Business by Tom Grenchik A priest friend of mine has been known to say, abortion is nothing more than violence masquerading as compassion. Planned Parenthood, the nation s largest abortion provider, tries hard to keep public focus on their compassionate services to women and not on the grisly reality that they put to death over 300,000 defenseless children, year in and year out. As much as abortion advocates struggle to hide that violence from the public view, nothing can hide the ongoing revelations of botched abortions and wanton injuries and deaths of mothers undergoing abortions coming from many abortion clinics around the country. The news of Dr. Gosnell s chamber of horrors abortion factory in Philadelphia was the most dramatic example of the depravity to which a person might sink when he makes his living by killing children. Abortion makes fast money with little-to-no government regulation. Gosnell has been charged with eight counts of murder and several staffers at his abortion center have been charged with assisting in botched abortions, practicing medicine without a license or covering up the actions of those who did. The counts include grisly infanticides of babies whose premature births were induced so they could be killed in the minutes following their births. This kind of horrific news seems to be helping Americans wake up to the extent of the carnage: over 50 million children dead, and over five million of them at the hands of Planned Parenthood staff. Every abortion whether in a filthy slaughterhouse or in a clean and bright abortuary still destroys a precious little boy or girl. And their mothers have died from abortions done at Planned Parenthood centers as well from California to Massachusetts and states in between. The abortion industry takes in over a billion dollars a year, so why does its flagship, Planned Parenthood, require $360 million a year in taxpayer funding? Planned Parenthood will argue that those federal dollars go to other expenses like salaries, rent or other programs, but this certainly frees other monies to be spent on promoting and performing abortions. 8

9 As Congress has been debating ways to cut back on the budget, pro-life members have proposed cutting all funding for Planned Parenthood and its 102 affiliates all around the country. But Senate Leader Harry Reid has now threatened that the Senate will not tolerate any defunding of Planned Parenthood. If Congress is really concerned about compassionate care for women, it should redirect funds now provided to organizations that perform and promote abortion, and instead respond to the basic needs of the poor. Whether at a shoddy abortion business in Philadelphia or the corporate empire of Planned Parenthood, abortion is truly nothing more than violence masquerading as compassion. And cutting programs for the poor, while giving hundreds of millions of federal dollars to an organization dedicated to eliminating the children of the poor, is simply one of the most appalling aspects of this tragic masquerade. Tom Grenchik is Executive Director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Go to to learn more about the bishops pro-life activities. Word of Life Intercessions for Life - April 3 & 10, 2011 From Deacon Walter Yoshimitsu, Chancellor April 3 rd FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT For all persons with serious disabilities and for their families: that our parish and all Christians throughout the world will be generous in helping to care for their needs; We pray to the Lord: Bulletin Brief: We know from science that the moment of conception is a moment unlike any other. An amazing event takes place at the moment of conception. The union at the moment of conception constitutes an absolutely new and utterly exceptional moment of creation, the moment when a new, unrepeatable and irreplaceable human being comes to exist. This new human being has emerged, a vulnerable and unique self-directing self that never before was. It needs nothing but a safe place the mother s womb to grow and develop. After the moment of conception, this new human life will go through many stages and phases, none of which are as monumental as the one it has just emerged from: the moment of conception, the moment in which it began to exist. The science speaks for itself. The light of reason is clear. 9

10 ~Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, Homily, National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Jan. 24, 2011 April 10th FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT For those mourning the death of a loved one: that God s promise of eternal life for those who believe in him will ease the pain of their loss; We pray to the Lord: Bulletin Brief: A couple of weeks ago I went for my physical, and was in the X-ray room. There, as clear as day, was the dramatic warning: X-rays can be dangerous to your unborn baby. Let the technician know if you are pregnant. We all know it, don t we? We re not talking about a fetus, a mass of cells, but a baby. The X-ray technicians know it; the obstetricians who show the sonogram to a mom know it; even the teenage mom on a recent MTV program sympathetic to abortion knew it when she pointed to a little baby and whispered, Don t tell me that little baby is just an it. ~ Most Rev. Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York and USCCB President, Speech at the Fourth Annual Respect Life Week, Yonkers, NY, Jan. 9, 2011 New Members needed for Bishop s Diocesan Pastoral Council Submitted by Sharon Chiarucci, Director, Office for Parish Resources Bishop Larry Silva is seeking four individuals for the Diocesan Pastoral Council to represent the following: East Honolulu Vicariate West Honolulu Vicariate Women s Religious Communities Priests-at-large The Council assists the Bishop in listening to our parishes, clergy and men and women religious and making recommendations to him about pastoral priorities for the diocese. Some experience in parish or religious community leadership, a positive attitude toward the Church and its members and the ability to listen to and discuss different opinions are among the requirements for membership. Members must also be active practicing Catholics, willing to study the needs of our parishes, diocese and religious communities and able to make a three year commitment to the Bishop beginning this July. If you are interested or would like more information about the role of this Council, please see your pastor for a copy of the guidelines and an application. Nomination forms are also available from the Leadership Association of Religious Congregation (LARC) and from the 10

11 Office of Clergy. The guidelines and nomination form are also available on the web at (under Consultative Bodies ). Applications are due to the Office of the Bishop by April 20. Please give this your prayerful consideration. For more information contact Sharon Chiarucci, or Holy Trinity sponsors Living in Love Weekend April Submitted by Ed and Betty Coda, Presenters Often we say that we want to live our lives as Jesus would want us to. Sometimes we hear about Pope John Paul II s Theology of the Body and wonder how to incorporate his divine plan for couples into our everyday lives. Some days we feel like we want to love our spouse and make him or her feel loved and special. But it can be such a mystery to know and be able to actually make this real for us with our busy lives. A Living in Love Weekend will be presented by the best-selling authors of Passionate Parent Passionate Couple, Ed and Betty Coda, at Holy Trinity Parish on April 16 and 17. After they experienced this mini-retreat, they learned ways to solve this mystery for their own marriage and now they want to share this good news with others. Please join them. See the website for more information and to register or call From Fr. Khanh Hoang, Vicar for Clergy Key Dates for our Priests: May 2-6, 2011: Monday 3p.m. Friday 12p.m. Turtle Bay Resort. Annual Convocation: Mandatory. August 4, 2011: Thursday 10a.m. 2p.m. Priests Gathering. Place is yet to be determined. August 17-18, 2011: Wednesday 8a.m. Thursday 1p.m. St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Orientation for International Priests (first session). 11

12 October 10-14, 2011: Monday 8a.m. Friday 1p.m. St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Orientation for International Priests and Religious (second session). December 30, 2011: Friday 6p.m. Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. Priesthood Ordination of Rev. Mr. Anthony Rapozo. January 8-13, 2012: Sunday 8p.m. Friday St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Priests Retreat. Fr. Dennis D. McManus will direct the retreat. Fr. McManus is the theologian of the Archdiocese of New York. May 7-11, 2012: Monday 3p.m. Friday 12p.m. Turtle Bay Resort. Annual Convocation: Mandatory. May 13-17, 2013: Monday 3p.m. Friday 12p.m. Place is not yet determined. Annual Convocation: Mandatory. Available Spiritual Directors for Priests and Deacons: Roland Bunda, SM rolbunda@aol.com John Chandler, SJ frjohn@newmanhawaii.org John Klobuka, SM - john.klobuka@chaminade.edu Paul Minchak, OFM Cap. plminchak@aol.com Michael Owens - mjo57lbe@mac.com Russell Roide, SJ - frruss@newmanhawaii.org Ken Templin, SM ktemplin@netserve05.chaminade.edu Paul Zaconne, SS.CC. pczac@aol.com Gus Coe autin.j.coe@us.army.mil Br. John Campbell, SM jhpcsm@gmail.com Fr. Thomas McDermott, OP, STD is the Assistant Professor of Spiritual Theology and the Director of Spiritual Formation at Kendrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Fr. McDermott is interested in doing parish supply work for 4 to 5 weeks during the summer of He can be reached at (314) Fr. John Dear, SJ is a 49 year old Jesuit priest in good standing. Fr. Dear gives talks and retreats and writes books. He is currently living in New Mexico and is willing to offer a few weeks a year for fill in. If you can use his service please contact Fr. Dear through this address: johndearsj@msn.com. Fr. Joseph Sullivan is a 58 yr old priest in good standing with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane WA. Fr. Joe is pastor of five parishes one of which is a Native American tribe and works with their spirituality in the Catholic Church. He is currently living in Newport WA and is willing to offer a few weeks a year for fill in. If you can use his service please contact Fr. Joe through this address: materdei@catholic.org. ***The Upper Room Crisis Hotline is to provide 24/7/365 telephone hotline services for Roman Catholic priests, deacons and vowed religious brothers. The services provided are counseling, information and referral, suicide prevention/crisis intervention, and reassurance calls to the elderly *** 12

13 Key Dates for our Permanent Deacons: July 15 17, 2011: Friday Sunday. Malia Puka O Kalani, Hilo. Annual Summer Gathering. December 30, 2011: Friday 6p.m. Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. Priesthood Ordination of Rev. Mr. Anthony Rapozo. ephotos: Submitted by Lisa Gomes, Director, Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry March 26, 2011: Christ has No Body but Ours was the theme for this past weekend s Big Island Youth Day. Youth from the island of Hawaii participated in Catholic Relief Services Food Fast (24-hours food fast) and had the opportunity to hear and visit with Thomas Awaipo (CRS guest speaker pictured immediately above at center). Mass was celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva. 13

14 e-newsletter is published every Tuesday for the benefit of the parish and diocesan communities of the Diocese of Honolulu. Article submissions are due no later than Monday, 10:00 a.m. For article guidelines and submissions, please contact Elina Simon ). 14