St Francis Xavier Chapel "Maryknoll" Japanese Catholic Center, 222 S. Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Formerly known as "Maryknoll"
Mission Statement
We of Saint Francis Xavier Chapel, as members of the Body of Christ, are called to announce in word and in deed the Good News of the Lord Jesus, through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
We recognize our community's call to holiness based on mutuality, reciprocity, and interdependence and its ministry focusing on Japanese Catholics while also welcoming all in our greater community.
Fr. Doan Hoang's Message for the May 18, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters,
The today's gospel brings us back to the last supper. Jesus was at the table with the twelve. In the beginning of the text, the number was reduced to eleven when Judas left in the dark of the night to make his last arrangements for having Jesus arrested, detained ad killed. At the moment Judas left, Jesus started to speak about glory and glorification, about love and loving one another.
In that scene, when Jesus said to his disciples, "I love you," the cross had been included and already shaped in his mind. Jesus had known the price he had to pay for loving his followers and through them, all humanity. Also, when Jesus said that we should love one another as he loved us, that love, too, would be shaped by cross and paid a price.
Didn't Jesus say that the proof of love is to be willing to lay down one's life for other? Because of this we often refuse to love. We do not help, because we do not want to be involved, or to be hindered. We refuse the possible and unavoidable tears and pain. We say that if you are too good, you are crazy! We say there is a limit to everything. While we are rationalizing, we refuse the risks, the costs. We refuse to love as Jesus has loved us, because we have not dared to take risks and pay the costs!
It is in this way that Jesus' love for us is his glory. Jesus' love for us took all the risks involved, and its price was very dear: blood, sweat, tears, pain and death. Soon all the pain would be over, the price would be paid. It was his love that remained, just as our love will remain in the world to come where there will be no tears, no pain and no death anymore. All that will disappear and we in our lives will remain together with Jesus, the One Glorified.
Fr. Doan
親愛なる兄弟姉妹の皆様、
今日の福音は私たちを最後の晩餐に連れ戻します。イエスは十二人でテーブルにいました。朗読の冒頭で数が11に減らされたのは、ユダが、その夜遅くにイエスを逮捕させ、殺害された彼の取り決めを作って、去っていきました。彼が去った瞬間に、イエスは栄光と栄誉について、愛について、そして互いを愛することについて語り始めました。
その場面で、イエスが弟子たちに、「私はあなたを愛している」と言われたとき、十字架は含まれ、すでに彼の頭の中で形作られていました。イエスは弟子たち、またその人たちを通して人間全員を愛するために支払わなければならない代価を知っていました。また、イエスが私たちを愛しているように、私たちは互いに愛し合うべきだと言われたとき、その愛もまた十字架によって形作られて代価を払われるでしょう。
イエスは、愛の証は自分の命を他の人のために捨てることだとは言っていませんでしたか。このため、私たちは愛を拒むことがよくあります。関与したくない、あるいは妨げたくないので、私たちは助けません。私たちは起こりうる避けられない涙と痛みを拒否します。私達はある者が良すぎるならば、その人は狂っていると言います！私たちはすべてに限界があると言います。合理化する一方で、私達は危険や代価を拒みます。私たちはイエスが愛してくださったような愛を拒みます。
このように、私たちに対するイエスの愛こそが栄光です。私たちへのイエスの愛はすべての危険を伴いました。そしてその代価は非常に高いものでした：血、汗、涙、痛みと死。やがてすべての苦痛が終わり、代金が支払われるでしょう。私たちの愛が涙、痛み、そして死がなくなるところに来るのは、彼の愛でした。いつかすべての苦しみが消え、私たちは栄光の中にある復活された主キリストと共に生きるでしょう。
ドアン神父
in-church masses Schedule
Sunday: 8:30 am. Japanese Mass
10:00 am. English Mass
Saturday: 5:00 pm English Vigil Mass
Weekday Masses are on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 12:05 pm.
Weekday Masses are subject to change due to funerals or illness.
Sorry, we will not have the First Saturday Devotion for the Month of May. We will resume in June
First Saturday Devotion: 9:00 am, Mass followed by Rosary and Divine Mercy.
COVID, Cold and Allergies:
- If you are not feeling well, please stay home and get well; you are in our prayers.
- Hand Sanitizers are available for you to use.
- Masks are optional.
Donations
Thank you for your continued support! We are grateful to all who donate to SFXCJCC. We are open for weekend and weekday Masses. And are slowly opening our facility to our ministries and groups.
We are still in need of your financial help! Would you please continue making your Sunday Collection contributions or donating to St Francis Xavier Chapel?
You can mail checks to the office:
SFXCJCC
222 S Hewitt Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Thank you!
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