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 Pentecost Sunday, june 14, 2026
Dear brothers and sisters,
The gospel of Mathew is often called of our mission no gospel is so outspoken about what we should do as his. The disciples were to send out not because Jesus wanted them to be rich. On the contrary, he told them: “Give without charge,” because we all received without being charged. They were sent out not because Jesus wanted them to profit from this world as much as possible. On the contrary, he told them not to take anything with them. They were sent out not because Jesus wanted them to rule the world, but to serve it.
He sent them out because he felt sorry for the crowds, who were (and are) without help and lost, sick and diseased, harassed and dejected, terrified and frustrated. He sent them out, and he gave them power to cast out unclean spirits and to cure, in that order: First, cast out, and second, cure.
He did not ask them to organize a social-assistance organization to cure the sickness, hunger, thirst, diseases, and the other miseries caused by the gap between the rich and the poor. He asked them first to reorganize all of society by chasing from it the evil of that gap. He wanted a society in which there are no masters and no servants, a society in which all use their talents to the full in view of that society, and in which all receive all they need, without having ask for it, He wanted a society in which the human family is sitting around one table, and there is no first one, no second one, and no third one. A society in which the youngest, the child, is the center of all human interest.
He did not ask them to only organize a hospital service curing the effect of mal-nutrition, and tuberculosis. He asked the first of all to organize things in such a way that the evil spirit of irrational greed would be chased off. He did not ask them to organize a clinic to heal venereal diseases, gonorrhea, and syphilis. He asked them to cast out the promiscuity that causes those evil ills.
He not only told them what to do, but also told them where to start. He said, “Don’t go to Samaria now; that will come later. Do not go to non-Jewish countries, do not go to Greece, do not go to Rome.” He told them: “Start at home, start among your own people. They are in need, they are harassed, they are dejected, they are oppressed, they do not know where turn next. Start with them, casting out and curing.” Then he added that he would be with them to the ends of the earth, and to the end of the age, casting out evil and sin and also curing their effects.
Let us meditate that nowadays Jesus has sent us, as his disciples out in the same mission. How could we take it for ourselves and work on it?
親愛なる兄弟姉妹の皆様、
マタイによる福音書は、しばしば私たちの宣教の福音書と呼ばれます。私たちが何をすべきかについて、これほど率直に語っている福音書は他にありません。弟子たちが遣わされたのは、イエスが彼らに富を得てほしかったからではありません。それどころか、イエスは彼らにこう言われました。「無償で与えなさい」。なぜなら、私たちも皆、無償で受けたからです。弟子たちが遣わされたのは、イエスが彼らにこの世からできるだけ多くの利益を得てほしかったからでもありません。それどころか、イエスは彼らに何も持たずにいくよう命じられました。弟子たちが遣わされたのは、イエスが彼らに世界を支配してほしいと願ったからではなく、世界に奉仕してほしいと願ったからです。
イエスが彼らを遣わしたのは、助けもなく迷い、病に苦しみ、苛まれ、落胆し、恐怖と挫折に苛まれている（そして今もそうである）群衆を憐れんだからです。イエスは彼らを遣わし、汚れた霊を追い出し、病を癒す力を与えました。その順序は、まず追い出し、次に癒すというものでした。
彼は、貧富の格差によって引き起こされる病気、飢え、渇き、その他の苦難を癒やすために、社会福祉団体を組織するよう彼らに求めたのではない。彼はまず、その格差という悪を社会から一掃することで、社会全体を再構築するよう求めたのである。彼が望んだのは、主人も使用人もいない社会、その社会のために誰もが才能を最大限に発揮し、求めずとも必要なものをすべて受け取れる社会であった。人類という家族が一つの食卓を囲み、第一の者も、第二の者も、第三の者も存在しない社会。最も年少者である子どもが、すべての人間の関心の中心となる社会であった。
彼は、単に栄養失調や結核の後遺症を治療する病院サービスを組織するよう求めたのではない。何よりもまず、理不尽な貪欲という悪霊を追い払うような仕組みを構築するよう求めたのだ。彼は、性病や淋病、梅毒を治療する診療所を組織するよう求めたのではない。そうした病の根源となる放縦を根絶するよう求めたのである。
彼は彼らに何をすべきかを教えただけでなく、どこから始めるべきかも教えた。「今はサマリアへ行ってはならない。それは後回しにせよ。異邦人の国へ行ってはならない。ギリシャへも、ローマへも行ってはならない」と彼は言った。そしてこう告げました。「まず自分の家から始めなさい。自分の民の中から始めなさい。彼らは困窮し、迫害され、落胆し、抑圧され、次にどこへ頼ればよいのか分からないでいる。彼らから始め、悪霊を追い出し、病を癒やしなさい。」そして、地の果てまで、世の終わりまで、彼らと共にいて、悪と罪を追い出し、その影響も癒やすと付け加えました。
今日、イエスが私たちを弟子として、同じ使命を帯びて遣わしてくださったことを深く考えよう。私たちはこれをどのように受け止め、実践していけばよいのだろうか。
in-church masses Schedule
Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Japanese Mass
10:00 a.m. English Mass
Saturday: 5:00 p.m. English Vigil Mass/
***IMPORTANT***
On Sunday, May 31st, and Sunday, June 14th, we will only have one bilingual (Japanese/English) Mass.
The 8:30 am Japanese Mass will be canceled on Sunday, May 31st, and Sunday, June 14th, only
Weekday Masses are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 12:05 p.m.
Weekday Masses are subject to change due to funerals or illness.
First Saturday Devotion:
First Saturday Devotion is on the first Saturday of each month, at 9:00 a.m. Mass followed by Rosary and Divine Mercy. Confessions are available after the Mass.
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?
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SFXCJCC
222 S Hewitt Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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