St. Joseph Church, Makawao Centennial Celebration

Our church, St. Joseph Church, Makawao celebrated its 100th year of existence last June 26, 2011. This church was built in 1911 by the Portugeese people that settled in the upcountry area of Maui. And until today, this is still a gathering place that unite the people of Makawao to celebrate the Eucharist.

During the centennial celebration, some priests and religious who were assigned in the community were invited to join in commemorating and celebrating the history of the church. It was an inspiring moment for everybody to reminisce the past, and be inspired by the bright promise of the present and tomorrow for all the faithful . After the Mass, the people gathered at Hannibal Tavares for the Centennial Lua. The food was Ono! But what made this celebration meaningful was the Happiness that each family brings for our dear church...

EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION

O Blessed Host, in golden chalice enclosed for me, That through the vast wilderness of exile I may pass - pure, immaculate, undefiled; Oh, grant that through the power of Your love this might come to be. O Blessed Host, take up Your dwelling within my soul, O Thou my heart's purest love! With Your brilliance the darkness dispel. Refuse not Your grace to a humble heart. O Blessed Host, enchantment of all heaven, Though Your beauty be veiled And captured in a crumb of bread, Strong faith tears away that veil. - from the Diary of Saint Sr. Faustina (Kowalska) of the Blessed Sacrament, titled Divine Mercy In My Soul .

Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. (Although known most widely in its abbreviated form above, the entire prayer reads as follows...) Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

Commitment

Monday of the 15th week - (Matthew 10:34-11:1) The La Salette cemetery, located in our Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Cavite, is not only a place of our dead brothers in the community. But, it is also a place of prayer and meditation. It is a place of our faithful missionaries who sacrifice their lives to tireleslly make the message of our Lady know to all the world. It is a place where we are reminded of our destiny after we are done with the vineyard of the Lord. And it is, above all, it is a place of God who lavishly shared with us His divine love. Whenever I visit the Shrine, I always stop by the cemetery to say a prayer for those lying in rest there. And what inspire me to stay and reflect in that place is the presence of our American La Salette priests and brothers. These missionaries made a solemn commitment to stay and die in the Philippines --their place of mission, after they decided to leave everything behind, their families and country, for the sake of the kingdom

PRAYERS of the HEART

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