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 Assension Sunday, May 17, 2026
Dear brothers and sisters,
While the disciples of Jesus looked up, they lost their head (leader), and their heads, too. He became smaller and smaller. A cloud intervened, and he was gone! He had promised them the new heaven and new earth, a Kingdom to come, and he off went. They were dazzled. They remained looking. They were paralyzed, petrified on the spot.
Two angels had to appear to get them on the move. They stumbled down the mountain and found the way to Jerusalem, They, beginning of the church, the beginning of Christ’s body, with the worldwide mission, looked themselves up in an upper room. Upper rooms are always safer than ground-floor ones, and they didn’t know what to do. They had lost their head. Their head was in the clouds.
You know how a man with his head in the clouds reacts. He sits down on the chairs that are not there, and he hurts himself. He waits for buses that do not arrive. He makes a sandwich and eats his paper napkins. He wets a stamp to put on his letter, then he sticks it on the table.
A man with his head in the clouds is useless, hopeless. His body tumbles along, falls, gets lost! Those disciples, the church with its head in the clouds at the right hand of the Father, did not know what to do!
There were no signals, no communications, so they sat down and waited behind locked doors until the signals suddenly came through again and contact was restored. Restored to the extant that there were sparkles everywhere light, fire, noise, breath, wind, storm, enthusiasm, and Spirit, his Spirit. They rose, and they entered into the life of this world.
親愛なる兄弟姉妹の皆様、
イエスの弟子たちは空を見上げているうちに、彼らの「頭」（指導者）を失い、自分たちの「頭」までも失ってしまいました。イエスの姿はどんどん小さくなっていきました。雲が立ち込め、イエスは姿を消してしまったのです！イエスは彼らに新しい天と新しい地、来るべき御国を約束しておきながら、そのまま去ってしまわれたのです。弟子たちは目を奪われ、ただ見入っていました。彼らはその場に立ち尽くし、身動きが取れなくなっていました。
彼らを動かし始めるには、二人の天使が現れる必要がありました。彼らはよろめきながら山を下り、エルサレムへの道を見つけました。世界的な使命を帯びた教会の始まり、キリストの体の始まりである彼らは、二階の部屋に集まっていました。二階の部屋は一階の部屋より常に安全ですが、彼らは何をすべきかわかりませんでした。彼らは頭（指導者）を失っていたのです。彼らの頭は雲の中にあったのです。
空想にふけっている人がどう振る舞うか、ご存じでしょう。彼は存在しない椅子に座って、体を痛めてしまいます。来ないバスを待ち続けます。サンドイッチを作っては、紙ナプキンを食べてしまいます。手紙に貼る切手に水を付けては、それをテーブルに貼り付けてしまうのです。
空想にふけっている男は役に立たず、救いようがない。その体はよろめき、転び、道に迷ってしまうのだ！あの弟子たち、父の右手にいる空想にふけっている教会は、どうすればよいのか分からなかったのだ！
信号も通信も途絶えていたため、彼らはドアに鍵をかけて座り込み、信号が突然再び届き、連絡が回復するのを待った。回復したとは、至る所にきらめき――光、炎、音、息吹、風、嵐、熱意、そして霊、彼の霊――が満ち溢れるほどに、という意味だった。彼らは立ち上がり、この世の生活へと踏み出した。
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/
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?
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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