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Service Participants:
Click HERE to view the names and assignments for this Sunday and all the other Sundays of this month.
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Clergy:
Rector:
The Rev. Libby Berman
hncrector@gmail.com
The Rev. Jennifer Latham
The Rev. Robert Steele
The Rev. Bill Heran
The Vestry
Sr. Warden: Tusi Mayer
Jr. Warden: Austin Nakoa
Treasurer: Stephanie Ching
Members at Large:
Kim Garner, Ginnie Long, Catherine Nurmi, Justin Donahue, Jennifer Stikeleather, Dan Muenzer, Adrienne Fung
Office Hours: M-Th 9-12
(808) 373-2131
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In our parish, we pray for:
Lisa M, Barbara A,
David M, Luci , Sheri G,
Becky H, Brian S, Heather, Wayne, Todd, Tom, Ann, Sandee, Doris, Linda, Esther, Antone, Betty, Bobby, Gregg, David, John, Eliane, Lorraine M, Margot, Peggy Ann F, Bill, Madeleine, and
Steven S.
AND all who struggle with illness and/or hardship.
Please contact the HNC office with any prayer requests
hncparish@gmail.com or call (808) 373-2131
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Holy Nativity Thrift Shop
(808) 373-3744
Wednesdays:
9a-1p
Closed Fridays
Saturdays:
9a-1p
Click here to visit the Thrift Shop webpage
For donations, please donate during store hours, and please do not leave items outside the gate after hours. Mahalo!
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PALM SUNDAY
Family Sunday
Holy Eucharist
April 13, 2025 at 9:00am
Service begins on the lanai with the blessing of palms and procession into the church.
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To join our Zoom service(s) online, Click HERE
Or Dial-in by phone at one of these numbers:
+1 253 215 8782
Meeting ID: 537 938 292 (No Password)
Click HERE for Sunday Bulletin
Click HERE for FAMILY Sunday Bulletin
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Maundy Thursday (April 17)
7pm service at Kahala Methodist Church
1350 Hunakai St., Kahala 96816
We will join our ecumenical partners
Calvary-by-the-Sea Lutheran, Hawaii Kai UCC, and
Kilohana, and Kahala Methodist Churches.
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Good Friday (April 18)
Vigil in the Nave (6am-11am AND 12noon-6pm)*
Family-friendly “Stations of the Cross” service
at 11am.
Traditional Good Friday service at 6pm.
*We invite individuals and families to keep vigil with the reserved sacrament on the most solemn
day of the church year.
Sign up for any 30-minute or one-hour time-slot by contacting Athena DeRasmo in the church office at hncparish@gmail.com or 808 373-2131
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Easter Vigil – the first light of Easter
(Saturday, April 19)
6pm service at the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew. If you would like to carpool to the service,
please contact Athena DeRasmo in the church office at hncparish@gmai.com or 808 373-2131
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Easter Sunday (April 20)
Festive Eucharist with sermon and special music
at 9am.
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A Moment to Decide
A message from Rev. Alison
A hymn from my youth has been running around in my head these past weeks, “Once to Every Man(sic) and Nation.”
Here is a link.
https://youtu.be/t_WItoVqR4w?si=DrEBQnuzIQnW83TO
As a cradle Episcopalian of a certain age, I grew up with the 1940 Hymnal. During the liturgical renewal times of the 1970’s, it was replaced by the 1980 Hymnal which we still use in the Episcopal Church along with various supplemental hymnals.
A committee developed the 1980 Hymnal and added new hymns. They also eliminated old ones including “Once…” They had reasons for that which made sense at the time - sort of -, but I still
miss it.
On my departure from the CES churches on the Windward side last February, friends from
St. Matthew’s gave me a 1940 Hymnal which reunited me with that hymn, and as I’ve sung and listened to it again, I believe it speaks to our times in ways it did not 50 years ago.
I looked up the author, James Russell Lowell. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell
The lyrics of the hymn are parts of a poem he wrote in 1845, “The Present Crisis.” He was an American Abolitionist, and the evil he was warning of in the poem was the admission of Texas to the Union as a state. That meant the addition of a huge slave state to the nation, and perhaps he saw that it would force a choice upon the country, would we be slave or free. As we know now that choice led to the Civil War. Arguably that choice has not yet been fully resolved, and it fuels our
current crisis.
As we come to the end of Lent and move into Holy Week, we will also be facing choices large and small about how we conduct ourselves as citizens of the United States. Which side are we on? What are the duties of this generation?
The 1980 Hymnal committee did not want to believe there could be such stark choices between good and evil, truth and lies, light and darkness. I did not want to believe that either. I see that sometimes that is the case.
Jesus made his choice ultimately in the Garden of Gethsemane. What choice will we make?
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“I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink.” Matthew 23:35
Are you interested in helping Holy Nativity Church set up a table and offer cold water to those who will gather on April 19 for the Hands Off protest at the capital building in downtown Honolulu?
If so, please contact Rev. Jenn revjenn.hnc@gmail.com for more information.
More details will be shared in next week's
Banyan Tree.
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Creation Care Formation Class
(week six)
THIS Sunday, after coffee hour, in Monteiro chapel.
This week's topic: "A Better World is Possible: Communities Organizing for Change”
Guiding Scripture: Mark 16:15, 20 (NRSV)
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.” And they went out and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it.”
Please watch these films if you can before Sunday. In total about 23 minutes.
(8 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFDKl6mnEgc
(15 min)
https://vimeo.com/115070233
As always, please come even if you are not able to read or watch before class. We will summarize the materials and then start our discussion.
The more the merrier!
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact Rev. Jenn at revjenn.hnc@gmail.com.
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Potluck Palooza!
We need folks to bake, bring or buy goodies (sweet OR savory) for our Palm Sunday table and our Easter Sunday table.
Whatever you can share is
very much appreciated!
Also, don't forget the Easter egg hunt for the kids, after service on Easter Sunday -- and please bring a basket, pail or bag for your child to use during the hunt.
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Breaking Bread
(Pizza Church)
will meet Sunday,
April 27th
at 5:00p
Please RSVP HERE
To make sure we get enough pizza!
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Holy Nativity wishes to announce the passing of our dear friend, Marjorie Grune, on March 28th at the age of 94.
May her memory be a blessing.
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Marjorie's obituary is posted on the bulletin board outside the nave.
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REMINDERS
It's Easter Lily Time!
Last week for orders! Please order your Easter Lilies, and make your dedications.
Forms are outside the nave or in the office.
You may also call in your order.
(808) 373-2131
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Book Series w/ Rev. Alison Dingley
"How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith"
by Mariann Edgar Budd, Episcopal Bishop of Washington D.C.
Meetings are: May 11, 18, 25
Copies of Bishop Budd's book are available in the office for $15.00
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Join us for Palm-Cross Making Sat. 4/12 at 9am
Materials & instruction provided.
All are welcome!
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