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 November 9, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters,
Jesus had overcome the temptations so common and normal in the world. He had shown himself in the brightness of our real human possibilities, the possibility of a change, of a Passover, of a new human life.
So, that morning, he entered the temple, the center of their old religious life! A temple of stones, gold and silver, a temple of a sacrificed animals, of dying bullocks, of butchered pigeons, a temple against which the prophets had shouting in the name of God: “The Lord says, “Do you think that I like all those sacrifices you keep offering to me? I have more than enough of the sheep you burn as sacrifices. When you lift your hands in prayers, I won’t look at you. No matter how much you pray. I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood. Wash yourself clean. Stop all evil that I see you doing. Yes, stop evil, and learn to do right. See that justice is done. Help those who are oppressed. Give orphans their right and defend widows.”
He had told them that I had come to fulfill the prophecies. If so, didn’t he have to stop the temple services? Yes, that’s what he did! That morning, it was not only the question of chasing away the bankers and merchants. It was not only a question of letting those animals and birds loose. It was not only a question of silver and gold.
What he did went much deeper, was more fundamental. What he did was to stop the temple service that had outlived its aim and was no longer faithful to its vocation. Those presences must have known this. That’s why they asked: “What sign can you shown us authorizing you to do these things?” It was as if they had expected this end any day, but who was he to terminate it all?
He did not give them the sign they asked for. However, he had shown them “his own sign” already: The old temple service had been stopped by him, and the new temple had been announced. The one in which God is with the orphans and widows, with the sinners and the sick, forming through Christ, the One Body: God’s temple with us.
親愛なる兄弟姉妹の皆様、
イエスはこの世で非常に一般的で普通の誘惑を克服しました。彼は本当の人間の可能性、変化の可能性、新しい人生の過ぎ越しの可能性を示しました。
その朝、彼は昔の宗教的生活の中心である神殿に入ったのです！石、金、銀の神殿、いけにえの動物の神殿、死にゆく雄牛たち、屠られた鳩の神殿、預言者たちが神の名によって叫んだその神殿： 主は言います。「あなたがたが絶えずささげるいけにえを、わたしが喜んでいると思うのか？私こそ、その犠牲として燃やす羊の数以上を持っている。私は祈りの途中で、そのあなたの伸ばしている手を見ません。あなたの手が血に覆われているので、どんなに祈っても私は聞き入れません。きれいに洗ってください。私があなたにしているすべての悪をやめるように。そうだ、悪をやめ、正しいことを学んで行おう。正義が実行されるようにしなさい。抑圧された人々を助けてください。孤児たちに権利を与え、未亡人を守る。」
彼は預言者たちに預言を果たしにきたと告げました。もしそうなら、神殿の儀式をやめなければならないようになったのではありませんか？そう言うことをなさったのです。その朝、銀行家や商人を追い払うのは問題ではありませんでした。それらの動物や鳥類を放つという問題だけではありませんでした。それは銀と金の問題だけでもありませんでした。
彼はもっと深く、より根本的なものでした。彼がしたことは、その目的を失ってしまった奉仕を止めることであり、神殿の正しい奉仕を忠実に回復するためでした。その者たちはそれを知っているに違いなかったのです。そういうわけで、「あなたがこのようなことをするからには、どんなしるしを私たちに見せてくれるのですか。」と彼らが尋ねたのは、いつかそれらの神殿への奉仕義務が終わりになるのを期待していたかもしれないだろうか。まるで彼らはこの結末をいつの日か予期していたかのようだったが、一体誰がそれを終わらせられるというのか？
イエスは彼らが求めたしるしを与えなかったが、「彼ら自身のしるし」を示して与えました。イエスはそんな古い神殿の奉仕を止めて、新しい神殿を告げられました。神は孤児と未亡人と一緒におられ、また罪人と病人とも一緒におられ、キリストを通して成り立っているもの、一つの身体：これこそ、わたしと共にいる神の神殿です。
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
Sorry, No Mass on Monday, November. 10th and Tuesday, November 11th for Veterans Day
PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DAYS FOR WEEKDAY MASSES
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: 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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Get Involved
Are you passionate about what we're doing? Let us know! We are always looking for volunteers to help us make our vision a reality. We'll help you find a way to volunteer that best suits you. We're excited to have you join the team!
Thank you!
Whether you help through monetary donations, volunteering your time, or spreading our mission through word-of-mouth, thank you. We couldn't accomplish our goals without the help of supporters like you. .