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ST. CATHERINE PARISH MISSION STATEMENT
We of St. Catherine Parish, a believing and loving people, united in the baptism of Jesus Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit, in our efforts to create community based on His love will;
Reach out to God’s community using the wealth of spiritual, human and material gifts entrusted to us for the common good:
Promote the Christian education of our children;
Celebrate our faith through fellowship, ministry, worship and sacrament;
Grow in our understanding and love of the Word of God and the Teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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St. Catherine Church + St. Sylvester Church + St. William Church
5021-A Kawaihau Road Kapaa, Hawaii 96746 Phone Number: (808)822-7900 Fax: (808)822-3014 Email:office@kauaistcatherine.org
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THERE'S GOT TO BE MORE THAN THIS!
Easter repudiates so powerfully what Thomas Hobbes declared in his book Leviathan. This pessimistic modern philosopher asserted that life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. " Easter proves that life, with all it's lights and shadows, is insanely amazing. And it is worth living.
Like Hobbes, many people in our day and age have a problem with transcendence or anything transcendent like the Lord's resurrection. It is so easy to be lulled into the assumption that this life is all we've got; that this life is all there is and it doesn't get better than this.
Easter busts the thinking that death says the last word. We believe the witness of the apostles that the Risen Lord appeared to them bodily. They have proclaimed that the Crucified One is dead no longer. He is alive! He ate and prayed with them again. Their experience of the Risen Lord is the original Easter message. It is the origin of our faith!
Therefore, Easter could only be meaningful to us if we have a deep and personal relationship with the Risen Jesus. All human beings who are in a meaningful relationship have inside them this universal and ontological imprint that life must go on even after death. It cannot stop. Life must go on. There is more than meets the eye. There is more than the life here on earth. There is more than all the wonderful things and experiences we have in this life. There is more than the grandest things we have accomplished in this life. Our God is a God of life not death. There's got to be more than this!
Have a blessed Easter!
Fr. Ramelo Somera Asministrator |
