Temple Calendar 2020 FEBRUARY 2020 13 10:00am Shinkokai 16 9:30am Sunday service 18 Hanamatsuri meeting/Shingon 22 8:00am LHM Mini Bazaar 23 cancel Sunday service 23 1:00pm BWA Conference meeting/khm MARCH 2020 01 9:30am Sunday svc 01 10:30am Board meeting 5-7 Rev BSC Ryukoku Sem 07 HNL BWA Federation mtg 08 9:30am Ohigan/Rev Umitani 08 1:00pm VIDSTA mtg/khm 12 10:00am Shinkokai 15 9:30am Monthly Memorial svc 22 9:30am DS svc 22 1:00pm MUBWA Representative mtg 29 cancel Sunday svc April svc: 4/5 Hanamatsuri, 4/12 cancel, 4/19 Mem, 4/26 Eshinni Monthly Mem: 4/19, ?May, ?June, ?July 4/18 tba MUBWA Spring Asmb, whm 4/11 LHM Spring Bazaar (ticket sale) 4/5 Hanamatsuri (shingon) 5/17 Fujimatsuri, mhm June – Kamehameha Day Parade 6/20 LHM Summer Mini Bazaar 8/7,8/8 LHM OBON 10/24 LHM Autum Mini Bazaar 9/10-12,2021 – Lay Conv (Maui/lhm) 2022 – BWA State Conf (Maui/khm) 2023 – BWA World Conv (May, Japan) Please call Lahaina Hongwanji for more information (808) 661-0640 Services • REGULAR SUNDAY SERVICES: Sunday services are scheduled the first four weeks of the month, unless cancelled and announced in the monthly newsletter. Service begins at 9:30 a.m. Duration of service is approximately one hour. • MONTHLY MEMORIAL SERVICES: One Sunday each month will be designated as a time when families and friends of the deceased will have the opportunity to observe the passing of a loved one who passed away in that particular month. Instead of a "public" family service, families observing "special memorial anniversaries" are encouraged to arrange for a private home or temple service with the resident minister. • ANNUAL EVENTS and OBSERVANCES: (See calendar for dates) January• New Year’s Eve Service (Dec. 31st … Jan. 1st) • New Year’s Party and Installation of Kyodan officers & Buddhist Women’s Association (Fujinkai) officers and General Membership meeting • HOONKO SERVICE, 3rd Sunday (memorial honoring Shinran Shonin) • Monthly Memorial Service - as scheduled. • Shinkokai Service – 2nd Thursday February • Honpa Hongwanji State Legislative Assembly (Giseikai) • Monthly Memorial Service, as scheduled. • Shinkokai Service – 2nd Thursday March • SPRING OHIGAN SERVICE (annual celebration of spring equinox) • Annual Bazaar • Monthly Memorial Service • Shinkokai Service – 2nd Thursday April • HANAMATSURI SERVICE, 1st Sunday. (commemorates birth of Shakyamuni Buddha) • BWA’s ESHINNI/KAKUSHINNI DAY SERVICE (in honor of wife & daughter of Shinran) • Monthly Memorial Service • Shinkokai Service – 2nd Thursday May • GOTAN-E SERVICE, 1st Sunday (commemorates birth of Shinran Shonin) • Monthly Memorial Service • Shinkokai Service – 2nd Thursday June • Mid-year Temple Cleanup and Omigaki (polishing of brass religious articles) • Annual Obon Service and Festival, 2 nights. (sometimes in July or August, contingent on schedule rotation with Maui Buddhist temples) • HATSUBON coincides with Obon (1st obon following death of a family member) • Shinkokai Service – 2nd Thursday July • Monthly Memorial Service • Shinkokai Service – 2nd Thursday August • Monthly Memorial Service • Shinkokai Service – 2nd Thursday September • AUTUMN OHIGAN SERVICE (annual celebration of autumn equinox) . Monthly Memorial Service • PEACE DAY OBSERVANCE - as scheduled (September 21) • Shinkokai Service – 2nd Thursday October • Monthly Memorial Service • Shinkokai – 2nd Thursday November • EITAIKYO (Sangha Memorial) SERVICE, 4th Sunday (to honor those in whose memory special donations were made to the Eitaikyo fund, the purpose of which is to ensure perpetuation of the temple) • Annual visitations to hospital, Hale Makua, etc. • Monthly Memorial Service • Shinkokai Service - 2nd Thursday December • BODHI DAY SERVICE, 1st Sunday (to celebrate the enlightenment of Shakyamuni Buddha) • BWA (Fujinkai) Memorial (for BWA members who passed away during the year) • Year-end Cleanup and Omigaki OTHER AVAILABLE SERVICES (officiated by Resident Minister) Columbarium (Nokotsudo) Funeral Services Home & Hospital visitations Infant’s Initiatory Rites Memorial Services Weddings