STEWARDSHIP: What to do With a Windfall? from St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Parish Newsletter — Feb-Mar 2023 by Catholic Stewardship Consultants A businessman sells some property for a nice profit. A woman retires from a 20-year career at age 43. A high school student discovers he has an exceptional talent for playing the piano. What do they have in common? Each person has recently received a windfall — an unusually large gain of money, time, or […]
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Advocates for Annulment Process Pope Francis has streamlined the process to petition for a declaration of nullity to make the process shorter. He also eliminated the mandatory fee. For assistance in petitioning, the following persons are Advocates for St. Michael’s: Deacon Sándor Hernández Morales, Meali’inani Duarte-Morales, Rosana Knudson, and Judy Glickstein. Call the office at (808) 326-7771 to leave a message for one of them to call you. Spam Emails Posing as Our Clergy are Fake SPAM emails are being sent as […]
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Rachel’s Vineyard Weekend Retreat April 28-30 Healing the Pain of Abortion . . . One Weekend at a Time. Singles, couples, siblings, parents & grandparents, even former abortion industry workers have come to Rachel’s Vineyard to find peace and inner healing. Retreats are held for 3 days/2 nights at a private Retreat Center. Registration fee is $175 and covers meals, refreshments, materials and accommodations. Weekend Retreat: April 28-30 & October 13-15, 2023 For more info, […]
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Monthly Food Pantry & Diaper Ministry Drive May 26 The monthly parish food & diaper drive will be held on Monday, May 26 from 9-10am at Immaculate Conception Church Parking Lot. Thank you for your continued support of this much needed ministry. You are helping to feed over one thousand people every month. Items most needed are Tuna and Canned Vegetables. Our Amazon Wish List QR code is not currently working but we actively working to […]
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Prepare for Next Week’s Scripture Readings 1st Reading/Primera Lectura: Proverbs (Proverbios) 8:22-31 Psalm/Salmo: 104(103):1,24,29-30,31,34 2nd Reading/Segunda Lectura: Romans (Romanos) 5:1-5 Gospel/Evangelio: John (Juan) 16:12-15 Faith Formation News Classes for Grades K-5 & Youth Ministry on Summer Break Have a great summer! During the break, please join our Children’s Rosary Club after the 9am Mass on the last Sunday of each month. They will pray one decade of the rosary at the grotto. —Margaret Essex, Cathecist & […]
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For more upcoming events, please visit our events calendar by clicking here. Women’s Retreat on June 7 – CANCELLED Please note that the Women’s Retreat scheduled for June 7 has been cancelled. We will publish the new date as soon as it is established. Our Lady of Lourdes Holy Ghost Feast Bazaar June 8 Please support Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Honoka’a with their annual fundraiser on Sunday, June 8. Holy Mass begins at 8:30am followed […]
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By Deacon Sándor Hernández Morales This year on the Solemnity of The Body and Blood of the Lord, Corpus Christi Sunday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) launched a National Eucharistic Revival with a myriad of Eucharistic processions and adoration throughout the country. The revival is composed of three phases — a year of Diocesan Renewal, a year of Parish Renewal, and a National Eucharistic Congress that will complete the renewal in 2024. […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the 2022 book, Stewardship Starts at Home: Using God’s Gifts To Grow As Disciples Of Christ In Our Domestic Church, written by stewardship expert/retreat leader Lisa McArdle and published by Catholic Stewardship Consultants. This excerpt is reprinted with permission from CSC. There are Four Pillars of a Stewardship Parish — Prayer, Hospitality, Formation, and Service. The third pillar — Formation — teaches us to know and love […]
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As explained in 1918 by Fr. Romano Guardini in his seminal book, The Spirit of the Liturgy, the Church “desires, as a rule, that spiritual life should be impregnated with the wholesome salt of genuine and lofty culture.” At St. Michael, our hula ministry practices the Native Hawaiian tradition of prayer and worship through the sacred gestures of hula. “We recognize and understand the duality of being a cultural practitioner of hula and of our […]
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What makes being Catholic, well, “Catholic”? Things like the Mass, the Rosary and the Seven Sacraments come to mind. But there is also an element of Church teaching that’s often overlooked and sometimes misunderstood — Catholic Social Teaching. Catholic Social Teaching guides Catholics on how to apply the faith to all aspects of life, and lays the framework for the Church’s teachings on the dignity and sacredness of human life. Catholic Social Teaching can be […]
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