Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord April 8 & 9, 2017

Parish Facility Use Schedule

Monday, April 10 9:00am Margarita Abanto Funeral Church 11:00am Abanto Funeral Mass Church 6:00-8:30pm Spirit & Grace Choir Church 7:00-9:00pm Knights of Columbus Center Tuesday, April 11 8:00am-2:00pm Ragasa Amado Funeral PC 8:30am Ragasa AmadoFuneral Church 11:00am Amado Funeral Mass Church 6:00-9:00pm RCIA Center 7:00-9:00pm Samoan Choir Church Wednesday, April 12 8:15am School Mass Church 8:30-11:30am Outreach Center 5:30-6:30pm Youth & YA Choir Mtg. Rm 7:00pm Easter Vigil Rehearsal Church 7:00-9:00pm Youth & Family Ministry Mtg Rm Thursday, April 13 Holy Thursday 7:00pm Mass Church 7:00pm Young Adult Ministry Center Friday, April 14 Good Friday Office Closed 1/2 day 12:00pm Stations of the Cross Church 3:00pm Service Church 7:00pm Service Church Saturday, April 15 Easter Vigil –No Confessions 9:30am-12:00pm Samoan Choir PC2 7:00pm Easter Vigil Mass Church Sunday, April 16 Easter Sunday 6:30am Mass Church 8:30am Mass Church 11:00am Mass Church 5:00pm Mass Church

Mass Intentions

Saturday, April 8 7:00am: For the eternal repose of the souls of Andy Scott Vea Pecpec & Orlando Vea Pecpec, Joseph & Mary Moja

5:00pm: Blessings & healing for Layne Luke, Blessings, good health and thanksgiving for Richard & Elaine Okamoto, Healing for Lily Tabije, Francis Palmyra, Bar-bara Ortiz For the eternal repose of the souls of Meliton Gamayo, Lucena Afan Mondala,irgina E, Julian, Rupert Pocok, Fr. Jack Niland, William Shiraki, Audry Wong

Sunday, April 9 6:30am: For the parishioners of Our Lady of Good Counsel

8:30am: Special intentions & blessings for Rock Garcia, Birthday blessings for Nora Ponce, Blessings, healing, & thanksgiving for Don & Rose Domondon. For the eternal repose of the souls of Alfred Asuncion, Carmen Espiritu-Igawa, George Traven, Calvin Chow

11:00am: Birthday blessings for Ruskin & Vencia Cristobal For the eternal repose of the souls of Andy Scott Vea Pecpec, Orlando Vea Pecpec, Ramon Padilla, Jr.

5:00pm: 50th Wedding Anniversary blessings for Paul & Percy Tamayo, Blessings & healing for Araceli Vil-lareal,,Blessings & good health for Josefa & Apolinar Her-reira For the eternal repose of the souls of Florencia Consola-tion, Simplicio Cortez, Aurea Romero Vinluan, Pete Brio-nes

Monday, April 10 Special intentions & blessings for Rocky Garcia, Blessings & healing for Paul & Imelda Vernon, For the eternal repose of the souls of Andy Scott Vea Pecpec, Orlando Vea Pecpec, Pacuala Gonzales, All Souls, Larry Pastor, Jr.

Tuesday, April 11 Special intentions & blessings for Rocky Garcia, Blessings & healing for Paul & Amanda Vernon For the eternal repose of the souls of Andy Scott Vea Pecpec, Orlando Vea Pecpec, Larry Pastor, Jr.

Wednesday, April 12 Blessings & healing for Paul & Imelda Vernon For the eternal repose of the soul of Corazon DeFrancia, Andy Scott Vea Pecpec, Orlando Vea Pecpec, Larry Pas-tor, Jr.

Thursday, Apri1 13 - Holy Thursday

Friday, April 14 - Good Friday

Pope’s Universal Intention For April, 2017

Young People: That young people may respond generously to their vocations and seriously consider offering themselves to God in the priesthood or consecrated life.

Encounter Lent Encounter our Neighbors

We encounter Jesus this week in Jerusalem, a community he knew well. We prayerfully enter into our own communities

too, encountering those who are hungry and thirstt,y, and others who need our help. How does our Lenten journey mo-

tivate us to serve those we meet in our daily lives? Visit crsricebowl.org for more.

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord April 8 & 9, 2017

Isaiah 50:4-7 The Suffering Servant speaks to the weary.

Psalm 22 “My God, my God, why have you abandoned Me?”

Philippians 2:6-11 Jesus emptied himself, and accepted death on a Cross.

Matthew 26:14-27:66 or 27:11-54 The came to a place called Golgotha and Crucified Jesus there.

The glorious entrance into Jerusalem that we just experienced in our procession finds an echo in the centurion’s word near the end of our Passion proclamation today: “Truly, this was the Son of God!” In between, we will hear proclaimed Isaiah’s

prophetic description of the Suffering Servant, St. Paul’s great hymn of praise, and the dramatic unfolding of the Passion according to Saint Matthew. Let us take time to

absorb it all, reflecting on the very great love of God for us, revealed in the man who was truly the Son of God.

Next Week’s readings: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118; Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8; John 20:1-9 or Matthew28:1-10 (#41) or in the afternoon Luke 24:13-35 (#46)

Stewardship Report You can gift wrap your tithe in a personalized envelope!

Please contact our Parish Office for details.

General Operating Fund July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017 $ 780,000.00 Weekly goal $ 15,000.00 Collection for: April 1 & 2, 2017 $ 15,744.76 Tithing from Collection Envelopes $ 11,270.35 Loose Collections: $ 3,548.41 Online Giving: March 27-31, 2017 $ 996.00 Bank Adjustment $ (70.00) Year to date budget: $ 600,000.00 Year to date receipts: $ 616,332.88 Difference: $ 16,332.88

# of Tithing Envelopes Received: 252

Building Fund Building Fund Balance $ 506,569.47 Collection for: April 1 & 2, 2017 $ 1,002.00 Online Giving: March 27-31, 2017 $ 122.00 Phase III Construction Goal: $ 3,000,000.00 Amount to Goal: $ (2,493,430.53) Church Maintenance Fund Current Church Maintenance Balance $ 176,751.06 Collection for: April 1 & 2, 2017 $ 65.00 Online Giving: March 27-31, 2017 $ 142.00 Second Collections: OLGC School $ 65.00 Catholic Relief Services $ 50.00

Thank you for your generosity! - Fr. Pascual

A FINANCIAL GUIDE FOR TITHERS

For those striving to tithe, the following guide will be helpful

ANNUAL WEEKLY MONTHLY QUARTERLY ANNUALLY

Income 10% 5% 10% 5% 10% 5% 10% 5%

$10,000 $19.23 $ 9.61 $83.33 $41.66 $250.00 $125.00 $1000.00 $500.00

$15,000 $28,84 $14.42 $125.00 $62.50 $375.00 $187.50 $1500.00 $750.00

$20,000 $38.46 $19.23 $166.66 $83.33 $500.00 $250.00 $2000.00 $1000.00

$25,000 $48.07 $24.03 $208.33 $104.16 $625.00 $312.50 $2500.00 $1250.00

$30,000 $57.69 $28.84 $250.00 $125.00 $750.00 $375.00 $3,000.00 $1500.00

$40,000 $76.92 $38.46 $333.33 $166.66 $1000.00 $500.00 $4000.00 $2000.00

$50,000 $96.15 $48.07 $416.66 $208.33 $1250.00 $625.00 $5000.00 $2500.00

$60,000 $115.38 $57.69 $500.00 $250.00 $1500.00 $750.00 $6000.00 $3000.00

$70,000 $134.62 $67.31 $583.33 $291.66 $1750.00 $875.00 $7000.00 $3500.00

$80,000 $153.85 $76.92 $666.67 $333,33 $2000.00 $1000.00 $8000.00 $4000.00

$90,000 $173.08 $86.54 $750.00 $375.00 $2250.00 $1125.00 $9000.00 $4500.00

$100,000 $192.31 $96.15 $833.33 $416.66 $2500,00 $1250.00 $10000.00 $5000.00

$125,000 $240.38 $120.19 $1041.67 $520.33 $3125.00 $1562.00 $12500.00 $6250.00

You can now make your donations to Our Lady of Good Counsel Church electronically!

Please go to: www.olgcchurch.org and click the “Online Giving”

button to get started or you may use our new QR code! For those of you who do not

have access to a computer, you may pick-up an authorization

form at the parish office or call us at 455-3012.

The Pontifical Good Friday Collection

Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, which helps

Christians in the Hoy Land.

Your support helps the church minister to parishes, provide Catholic schools and offer religious

education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps to preserve the sacred shrines.

The wars, unrest and instability have been especially

hard on Christians. In these tines of crisis, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection provides

humanitarian aid to refugees.

When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you become an instrument of peace and join with Catholics around the world in solidarity

with the Church in the Holy Land.

PLEASE BE GENEROUS!

For more information about Christians in the Holy Land, visit: www.myfranciscan.org/good-friday

Catholic Relief Services to Highlight Chuuk

As a part of their “CRS Rice Bowl” campaign, Catho-lic Relief Services (CRS) will be highlighting the peo-ple of Chuuk who currently live in the USA. As a part of this campaign, our Young Adult Ministry and the

Hawaii Chuukese community will be hosting an event after the 11am Mass on Sunday, April 9 in the Parish

Pastoral Center. A video which documents an ongoing project in Pahoa, called, “ONE OHANA: Food & Housing for All” has been produced by Bernadette

Baraquio for the Office of Social Ministry and is being shared nation-wide. We will be viewing this short doc-umentary and the Hawaii Chuukese Community will

be sharing other aspects of their culture as well as some samples of breadfruit dishes! Please join us in

our efforts to strengthen our Parish Ohana through this sharing of culture and community!

To view the video and for more information, please visit: www.officeforsocialministry.org.

The great paradox of Christianity is that a death is the remedy for Death. It was in losing his life that Christ brought us new

life.

However, Jesus’ death doesn’t mean that we escape the Cross. Jesus didn’t suffer and die so that we would not have to suffer and die. He died on the Cross so that He could transform the

inevitability of death and suffering.

Jesus embrace Death and Death could not hold him. Jesus embraced the Cross so that our own crosses can be changed - from instruments of death into healing tools that bring forth life. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “Whoever does

not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.”

Could Jesus speak any more plainly about not eliminating suffering from our lives? No. Jesus didn’t come to abolish the

cross but to transform the crosses our lives bring us.

Suffering is inevitable. We will all suffer. We will all die. But at the heart of all this suffering and death is a wonderful truth. By Jesus’ death on the Cross, we are freed. What was

once our doom is now our salvation.

Living Catholic in the 808: Getting into the Rice Bowl Habit

By: Kristina M. DeNeve Evangelization Coordinator

Diocese of Honolulu

On APRIL 23, 2006, Bishop Larry Silva consecrated the

Diocese of Honolulu to The Divine Mercy.

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY

Jesus requested to St. Faustina Kowalska that the first Sunday after Easter be celebrated with great solemnity as the “Feast of Mercy“, also known as “Divine Mercy Sunday“. Je-sus said to St. Faustina, “I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. The very depths of My tender mercy are open on that day. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon souls who will approach the font of My Mercy.” “The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion (on DM Sun-day) shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment … Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scar-let.” I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish.”

DEATH ANNIVERSARIES

April 12 Lucio Bicera Brioso 1973 Florencio Morgia 1980 Diametina Hagerty 1981 Mary Ludwig 2001 Ernest Pada 2009 Maraie Asuncion Manaois 2012 April 13 Carter Charles Cobb, Sr. 1962 Edward Komoho Boner, Sr. 1975 Akira Nakata 1983 Rosario “Benny” Benieta 1990 Henry Vencio Rosario 1990 Ramon Mirras Padilla, Jr. 1997 Arleen Delanora Wilcoz 2006 Starlyn Marvalee Wong 2011 April 14 Kimberly Ann Mclean 1976 William Buckle 1981 Burl Anthony Tabbal 1983 Marian Young Puana 2008 Josephine Aloya 2013 Wilbert Aranaydo 2013 James Walter Texeira, Sr. 2014

April 8

Baron Hoopii Makanui 1974 Audrey Takahashi Mirands 1983 Frank Igno 1986 Emily Stevens 1986 Solomon Kaeo 1991 Dean Cabagbag 2001 Salome Cadiente 2002 Anastacio Diama Gilaga 2009 Constancio Sausa 2010 Rumelia Flores Velasco 2013 April 9 Louis Martin Rego 1967 Fichita Bossy 1991 Marie Stella Conner 1991 Flor Teano 1993 Myrna Valdez Sugawa 2012 April 10 Jacinto Delarna 1994 Barbara Sumida 1996 Bernard Whity DeCambra 2000 Teofisto Tobasa 2000 April 11 Aquilino Bacos 1969 Dawnyn Lei Santa Ana 1979 Benjamin Degracia Doles 1986 Wayne Bautista Aquino 1998 Florida Nabua Ganaden 2014