Daily Lectionary Readings
“For since the creation of the world, his invisible things are clearly seen. They are perceived through created things, even his everlasting power and divinity.”
When our Lord was calling His first disciples, they asked Jesus where He was staying, “Come and see” (John 1:39) was the Master's reply, and that is our reply to the whole world. Come and see!
The Maui mission parish seeks to spread the good news of God's love to all. We are committed to placing Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, first and foremost in our lives. We are firmly rooted in the teaching of Holy Scripture and the unchanging Christian witness of the early church.
We are a Christian mission parish on the island of Maui. We are a community following a traditional expression of Christian faith and worship as practiced over millennia by the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. Maui is a unique location for a mission parish as it is at the nexus of visiting Christians and people of good will from all around the world. Maui is also a unique place for a mission parish because the communities of people that make this Island their home, as residents of Hawaii, are dedicated to a life filled with the aloha spirit.
We seek to grow in holiness through lives of repentance, forgiveness, mercy, compassion and faithful prayer.
Service Schedule
Currently, we celebrate and worship the Lord with bi-weekly prayer services (either Vespers or Matins and Typika services) and with an Eucharistic Divine Liturgy service twice a month, usually the second and fourth Saturdays. Whether you live on the Island of Maui or are just visiting the Island for a short time, whether you are already a Christian or just someone who is seeking to experience the original practice of the early Christian church in paradise, we welcome you to join us and participate in our celebrations.
Immediately following our services, we host an Aloha fellowship hour for the purpose of fostering community within our parish and welcoming visitors. So, if you attend a service, please feel free to join us afterwards for aloha hour and bring a dish to share with the mission parish.
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
January 18th-25th, 2025
“Do you believe this?”
(John 11:26)
For this year, 2025, the prayers and reflections for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity were prepared by the brothers and sisters of the monastic community of Bose in northern Italy. This year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the first Christian Ecumenical Council, held in Nicaea, near Constantinople in 325 AD. This commemoration provides a unique opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the common faith of Christians, as expressed in the Creed formulated during this Council; a faith that remains alive and fruitful in our days. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2025 offers an invitation to draw on this shared heritage and to enter more deeply into the faith that unites all Christians.
The Council of Nicaea
Convoked by the Emperor Constantine, the Council of Nicaea was attended, according to tradition, by 318 Fathers, mostly from the East. The Church, having just emerged from hiding and persecution, was beginning to experience how difficult it was to share the same faith in the different cultural and political contexts of the time. Agreement on the text of the Creed was a matter of defining the essential common foundations on which to build local communities that recognised each other as sister churches, each respecting the diversity of the other.
Disagreements had arisen among Christians in the previous decades, which sometimes degenerated into serious conflicts. These disputes were on matters as diverse as: the nature of Christ in relation to the Father; the question of a single date to celebrate Easter and its relationship with the Jewish Passover; opposition to theological opinions considered heretical; and how to re-integrate believers who had abandoned the faith during the persecutions in earlier years.
The approved text of the Creed used the first-person plural, “We believe...”. This form emphasised the expression of a common belonging. The Creed was divided into three parts dedicated to the three persons of the Trinity, followed by a conclusion condemning affirmations that were considered heretical. The text of this Creed was revised and expanded at the Council of Constantinople in 381 AD, where the condemnations were removed. This is the form of the profession of faith that Christian churches today recognise as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, often referred to simply as the Nicene Creed.
From 325 to 2025
Although the Council of Nicaea decreed how the date of Easter should be calculated, subsequent divergences of interpretation led to the feast frequently being marked on different dates in East and West. Though we are still awaiting the day when we will again have a common celebration of Easter yearly, by happy coincidence, in this anniversary year of 2025, this great feast will be celebrated on the same date by the Eastern and Western churches.
The meaning of the saving events which all Christians will celebrate on Easter Sunday, 20 April 2025, has not changed with the passage of seventeen centuries. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an opportunity for Christians to explore afresh this living heritage and re-appropriate it in ways that are in keeping with contemporary cultures, which are even more diverse today than those of the Christian world at the time of the Council of Nicaea. Living the apostolic faith together today does not imply re-opening the theological controversies of that time, which have continued down the centuries, but rather a prayerful rereading of the scriptural foundations and ecclesial experiences that led to that Council and its decisions.
World Council of Churches Resources
Download the sequential hymnal for the upcoming service from the Daily Sequential Hymnal webpage.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 — Maximus the Confessor; Martyr Neophytos
Christian Unity Prayer Service 6:00pm
Aloha hour is held after the service. Feel free to bring a dish to share with everyone!
Upcoming Meetings
The Living Orthodox Hymnology fellowship is open to all parishioners and catechumens interested in studying and participating in the living tradition of chanting the hymns of the Greek Orthodox Church of America.
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Thursday, January 23, 2024
Living Orthodox Hymnology fellowship, 6:30pm
The Living the Holy Scriptures fellowship is open to all parishioners and catechumens interested in studying the Holy Scriptures.
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3rd Saturday, January 18, 2025
Living the Holy Scriptures fellowship, 1:30pm
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1st Saturday, February 01, 2025
Living the Holy Scriptures fellowship, 1:30pm
Contact the church at (617)-838-7904 for more information.
Upcoming Services
Download each sequential hymnal for any upcoming services from the Daily Sequential Hymnal webpage when they are available.
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4th Saturday, January 25, 2025 — Gregory the Theologian; Archbishop of Constantinople
Liturgy 10:30am
Saint Theresa Church, Main Sanctuary
25 West Lipoa Street, Kihei -
2nd Saturday, February 08, 2025 — Theodore the General; Zachariah the Prophet
Matins 9:30am | Liturgy with the Presanctified Gifts 10:30am
Saint Theresa Church, St. Cecilia Room
25 West Lipoa Street, Kihei
Aloha hour is held after the services. Feel free to bring a dish to share with everyone!
Planned Services for 2024
For more information on the Maui Mission's planned services see the Service Schedule.
Wisdom's Invitation
Wisdom built her house,
And she supported it with seven pillars.
She offered her sacrifices;
She mixed her wine in a bowl
And prepared her table.
She sent her servants,
Inviting people to the bowl with a lofty proclamation, saying,
“He who is without discernment,
Let him turn aside to me;”
And to those in need of discernment, she says,
“Come, eat my bread
And drink the wine I mixed for you;
Forsake lack of discernment, and you shall live;
Seek discernment so you may live,
And keep straight your understanding with knowledge.”
