Raj R. & Renu R., Eric M. & Katy M., Deiter H., Sofia, Dorie & Agenhart, Wayne, Heather, John, Todd, Tom, Kate, MTT, Larry T, Peggy, Kitten, Lee & Lucille D, Lance M, Ann C, Maxine, Vai E, Lorraine M., Dave K., Cynthia, Joyce, Sandee.
AND all who struggle with illness and/or hardship.
Please contact the HNC office with any prayer requests
hncparish@gmail.com
We are posting a brief day by day meditation from Forward Movement. It's a great way to start your morning! Just click on the website icon above.
I had been preaching from our lectionary for years - decades even - before I noticed something about the Gospel readings for Lent in this Lectionary year, Year A. With the exception of the First Sunday of Lent, they are all from the Gospel of John, and they are VERY long!
They are also amazing stories that are unique to John’s Gospel and bring very different perspectives to Jesus and his ministry. They are stories of Jesus revealing himself as the Christ to people we would not expect, people who are transformed by those revelations, who carry the good news of the Gospel into the rest of their lives - probably.
The first is Nicodemus, the Pharisee who comes to Jesus at night so that his colleagues would not know. He continues as a secret disciple in the Sanhedrin. Next is the Samaritan woman Jesus talks with by the well. As the story unfolds, we see her freed from the shame and marginalization she must have experienced in her community, respected as a disciple by Jesus, and empowered to share the Gospel with her neighbors. The third story is the healing of the man born blind who is transformed from being a beggar at the Temple gate to being able to stand up to the temple authorities even at the cost of being cast out of the Temple.
This Sunday, we will hear the story of the raising of Lazarus, but contained in that story is the encounter Jesus has with Martha in which she confronts him for not coming soon enough to heal Lazarus and then, in her conversation with Jesus, recognizes and acknowledges that he is the Christ.
As I share these stories with the people of Calvary Church in Kaneohe, I prepare them for the long stories, ask that they put themselves in the stories, and relax - sit down if they need to. In order to appreciate the transformational power of these encounters Jesus had, we need to read and hear the whole stories.
I’m glad the lectionary offers us these stories this year, and I hope that they will inspire us to be willing to see and hear how Christ is revealed to unlikely people in unexpected ways and that we may be empowered by their example to stand in the truth of the Love of God.
I pray that you will have a blessed Holy Week and Easter season.
Kahu Alison
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Holy Week Schedule
Palm Sunday (Family Sunday) April 2 at 9am
Maundy Thursday April 6 at 6pm
Good Friday April 7 at 7pm
(at Calvary by the Sea, 5339 Kalaniana'ole Hwy)
Easter Day April 9 at 9am
With treats and an Egg Hunt after service
(children should bring their own basket/bag for the hunt)
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Ola I Ka Wai – Water Is Life: The Red Hill Crisis Threatens Pristine Water Source
March 20, 2023
Creation Care
By the Rev. Jenn Latham, in conversation with the Rev. Kaleo Patterson
Calling all Young Alumni from Holy Nativity School.
To celebrate Holy Nativity Churchʻs 75th Anniversary, we invite all HNS Young Alumni, from grade 6 through current seniors, to join us for a Young Alumni Open Gym night on
April 1st from 4-7 pm.
Come gather with your friends from HNS to play games in the gym and on Osco Field, do arts and crafts or board games in Glantz Hall, and to share in a meal.
Spread the word to your friends from HNS. Help us welcome our 6G newest alumni and celebrate with them as they prepare to graduate this May.
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EARTH DAY APRIL 22nd
Mālama Maunalua Saturday April 22:
Our next Holy Nativity volunteer day with Mālama Maunalua is planned to celebrate Earth Day.
Join the church, school, thrift shop, and community center communities to volunteer a few hours cleaning out invasive algae from Maunalua Bay.