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