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 August 10, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters,
Nowadays some say that they have seen dangers everywhere: international conflicts, national difficulties, political turmoil, muggers around the corners of our very own street and squares. Almost every week, there are newly shooting and killing attacks, earthquakes, disasters, detentions strikes, almost every day, new conflicts seem to break out: violence all over.
Even if we aren’t involved in all this, each of us is hit. We all are paying the price. Even the most common staple foods are priced beyond reach of the masses, taxed as they are to pay for the armaments they say we need.
In all this, through all this, the good news of the gospel remains: “there is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased the Father to give you the Kingdom.” A promise, nothing more, is the only thing we seem to have, nothing else! Is that sufficient to assist us to survive, to help us hang on, to make us motivate enough to continue?
For Abraham it was, as you heard in the second reading of today. Because of such promise, Abraham left the town in which he was living. Because of such a promise, he started to live as a normal in a tent, always in his way, looking toward a city founded, designed, and built by God. He never saw that city. He never arrived at it. His whole life was full of complications, and he had very good reason to doubt.
Hadn’t he been promised a descendants as numerous as the stars? And yet almost up to the moment of his death, he had no child from Sarah, and when he finally had his child, he was asked to sacrifice it to God. Abraham is a good example of what a promise can do in the life of human being.
Aren’t we in the same situation? Have we anything that’s more than just a promise? Yes, we have. We are further. We are nearer. We have a tangible model. We have the fulfillment within us. Let’s take a look around us when we are joining celebrations of Breaking of Bread at the same community church. We can see our best friends, our friends and also the people who dislike us or we don’t like them by political points of view, or racist, and/or religious liberal and conservative. But we are all to join in the same table of the Lord and to share one Bread of Life. And we all here the Lord’s promise, “There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has please the Father to give you the Kingdom!”
親愛なる兄弟姉妹の皆様、
今日では、どこかで危険に直面していると言う人もいます。国家の困難、政治的混乱、国際紛争、私たちの街や広場の角を曲がる強盗。ほぼ毎週、新たな銃撃と殺人の攻撃、地震、災害、拘留のストライキがあり、ほぼ毎日、新たな紛争が発生しているようです。
このすべてに関与していなくても、私たち一人一人が打撃を受けます。私たち全員が代価を払っています。最も一般的な主食でさえ、大衆の手が届かない価格で販売されており、彼らが必要とする軍備を支払うために課税されます。
このすべてにおいて、福音の良い知らせは残っています。「恐れる必要はありません。小さな信者たちよ、父があなたがたに王国を与えてくれたことを喜ばせているからです」。私たちが持っているように約束するもの、他に何もない！それは私たちが生き続くのを助け、私たちがしっかりとつかむのを助け、続けるのに動機付けをするのが十分ですか？
アブラハムにとっては、今日の第二朗読で聞いたとおりでした。そのような約束のために、アブラハムが自分の住んでいた町を去りました。そのような約束のために、彼はいつも神様によって設立され、設計され、建設された都市に目を向け、テントの中でいつものように生き始めました。彼はその街を見たことがなく、またそれに到達しませんでした。彼の生涯は合併症に満ちていて、疑うべき非常に正当な理由がありました。
彼は星と同じ数の子孫を約束されていなかったのですか？しかし、彼の死の瞬間までは、妻サラには子供がいませんでした。ついに子供ができたとき、彼はそれを神に捧げるように頼まれました。アブラハムは、約束が人間の生活の中でできることの良い例です。
私たちも同じ状況にありませんか？単なる約束以上のものはありますか？はい、あります。さらに近くて進んでいます。具体的なモデルがあります。私たちは自分の中に充実感を持っています。同じコミュニティ教会でパンを割るお祝いに参加するとき、私たちの周りを見てみましょう。私たちは親友、友人、や、また政治的観点、人種差別主義者、および/または宗教的自由主義者や保守派の人々によってそして私たちを嫌っている人々を見ることができます。しかし、私たちは皆、主の同じ食卓に加わり、人生のパンを共有しなければなりません。そして、ここにいる私たちは皆、主の約束、「恐れる必要はありません。小さな人々よ、父があなたがたに王国を与えてくれるからです！」
ドアン神父
in-church masses Schedule
Sunday, June 29th:
Come meet your fellow parishioners at our quarterly bilingual Mass at 10 a.m. (Japanese and English) Sorry, we will not have 8:30 am Mass. The Japanese and English bilingual Mass is held on the 5th Sunday of the month.
Sunday: 8:30 am. Japanese Mass
10:00 am. English Mass
Saturday: 5:00 pm English Vigil Mass
Sorry, we will not have weekday Masses from Monday, July 28th to Friday, August 1st, and from Monday, August 4th to Friday, August 8th
Weekday Masses are on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 12:05 pm.
Weekday Masses are subject to change due to funerals or illness.
First Saturday Devotion: 9:00 a.m., Mass followed by Rosary and Divine Mercy. Confessions are available after the Mass. Sorry, we will not have Mass on for the First Saturday Devotion on August 2nd at 9am but will meet for 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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