St. Joseph Catholic Church
Served by the Blessed Sacrament Congregation!
Served by the Blessed Sacrament Congregation!
With St. Joseph
as our patron
we offer our gift of self
for the greater glory
of God.
St. Joseph Church
Mission Statement
excerpt
Aloha E Komo Mai!
Whether you are visiting or just moved to Hilo, our St. Joseph family welcomes and invites you to join with us and together grow our faith in God.
Refer below for Mass, Confession, and Prayer Times.
Saturday
7:00 am
Vigil
5:00 pm
Sunday
7:00 am, 9:00 am
11:45 am, 6:00 pm
Weekdays
M- F:
6:00 am
& 12:15 pm
Legal Holidays
7:00 am
Saturdays
10:00 am - 11:00 am
or by appointment
*Please note: Confession schedule does not apply during some liturgical seasons.
Sunday Eucharistic Adoration of the
Blessed Sacrament
Please plan to join us
November 9 at 10:30 am
at St. Joseph Church, Hilo
Join us daily in the
Mornings:
Immediately following
the 6:00 am Morning Mass.
Afternoons:
Weekdays & Sundays
at 4:00 pm
Saturdays
at 3:00 pm
Come join our Novena devotions Tuesday, at St. Joseph Church 6:00p.m. (evening)
Come join us every Tuesday praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Rosary, Consecration and Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
All Souls’ Day - 2025
This Sunday, as we celebrate All Souls’ Day, we pause in silence and prayer, remembering our faithful departed – our parents, siblings, friends, and all who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith. It is not meant to be a day of despair, but a day of hopeful remembrance. We come before the Lord to thank Him for the gift of love that endures beyond the grave.
As the Book of Wisdom tells us: “The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them.” Our hearts may grieve, but our faith assures us that those we love are safe in God’s hands.
To the world, death seems like the end, but for believers, death is a door that opens to the eternity that God has prepared for those who trusted in Him. As Jesus assured us in the Gospel: “This is the will of the one who sent me, that I should lose nothing of what He gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day.” Such is the anchor of our hope. Death does not have the final word; the love of God has!
All Souls’ Day also reminds us that God never forgets. When we scribble a name on our All Souls envelope, light a candle, or whisper a prayer for the departed, we are echoing what is already in the heart of God. Each soul is precious to Him — even the ones the world has forgotten. No life is wasted, no tear unnoticed, no love unrecorded. As Isaiah says, “Can a mother forget her child? Even if she could, I will not forget you.” Our God is a God of remembrance — and His remembering is redemption.
“Eternal light shine upon our faithful departed, O Lord, and may they rest in peace.”
All Souls’ Day envelopes are now available at all entrances of the Church.
Please feel free to take one, fill out the names of your loved ones and drop into the collection basket the next time you come along with your donation. Envelopes will be collected and placed in the front of the altar like last year.
The Book of Remembrance has also been placed in the Sacred Heart alcove. Empty sheets are available for you to take and fill in and then place them back in the Book.
New to the parish or need to update your registration download our
SJ Registration Form print, fill-out and return. Mahalo!
Arrangements for Mass Intentions need to be done through the front office. We want to ensure that we are listing your prayer requests exactly as you would like it. Mahalo!
(Infants to children 7 years of age)
Welina ‘oe! Welcome Families!
Congratulations on the birth of your child and your decision to have your child baptized in the Catholic Church. We welcome you and your child as well as your godparents to our parish. Please call the rectory office to sign up for the next Baptism Preparation Class.
(808) 935-1465.
Marriage Matters
–because in their union spouses find meaning for their lives.
“Through this union they experience the meaning of their oneness and attain to it with growing perfection day by day.”
Second Vatican Council
Gaudium et Spes (Joy and Hope, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World), 48
Pope Leo XIV asks everyone to pray the rosary for peace.
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Father in heaven, may the faith you have given us in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom.
May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.
May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole Cosmos in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth,
when, with the powers of Evil vanquished, your glory will shine eternally.
May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope,
a yearning for the treasures of heaven. May that same grace spread the joy and peace of our Redeemer throughout the earth. To you our God, eternally blessed, be glory and praise for ever.
Amen.
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“Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces
of God’s creation,
made in his own image, destined to live forever, and deserving of the utmost
reverence and respect.”
USCCB Respect Life flyer quoting Pope Francis’“Day for Life Greeting”
© 2013 Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
“When we meet Jesus in the Eucharist, this encounter has the power to change us.
The Eucharist has the power to transform the depths of our hearts and the heart of our culture.
United to the power of his Eucharistic Presence, may we work to ensure that each person has life—and has it in abundance.”
USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities Respect Life Reflection:
“I Came So That They Might Have Life”
“Through the Incarnation and birth of Christ,
God reveals to us the dignity of all human life.
Human life, as a gift of God, is sacred and inviolable.
The Son of God has united himself with every human being and desires for us to share eternal life
with him…
Each of us is made in the image and likeness of God, and we reflect his glory in the world.”
USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
“The Gospel of Life: A Brief Summary”
“Lord, I am not worthy to have you under my roof but only say the word and I shall be healed.”
Those who receive Communion may receive either in the hand or on the tongue, and the decision should be that of the individual receiving, not of the person distributing Communion.
If Communion is received in the hand, the hands should first of all be clean. If one is right handed the left hand should rest upon the right. The host will then be laid in the palm of the left hand and then taken by the right hand to the mouth. If one is left-handed this is reversed. It is not appropriate to reach out with the fingers and take the host from the person distributing.
