Temple Calendar 2017
JULY 2017
01 8:00pm Lahaina Jodo Obon
02 9:30am Sunday svc
09 9:30am Monthly Mem svc
12 7:00pm Kyodan mtg
13 6:00pm WM Cemetery Bon svc
16 9:30am Sunday svc
17 7:00pm BSC Seminar at KHM
23 9:30am Sunday svc
30 cancel Sunday svc
30 7:00am LHM Workday
AUG 2017
01 7:00pm LHM Obon Practice
06 7:00am LHM Obon Setup
06 Cancel Sunday svc
08 7:00pm LHM Obon Practice
11,12 6:00pm LHM Hatsubon Svc
11,12 7:30pm LHM Obon Dance
13 7:00am Obon Cleanup
13 cancel Sunday svc
20 cancel Sunday svc
27 8:30am VIDSTA Kickoff Picnic/Jodo
28 7:00pm Maui Hong Council mtg/whm
Mem Svc: 9/3 (aug/sep), 10/8, 11/5 ,12/10
Other 2017:
……. LHM Hospital Visitation
……. LHM Seminar(whm/mar, mhm/nov)
Sep 6,7 Gomonshu visit(9/6 11-2)
Sep 8-10 Lay Conv/oahu
Oct 7 Fed BWA
Oct 29 MUBWA Rep (1p, M)
Oct 14 LHM Fall Bazaar
Nov 4 MUBWA Fall Asmb
Nov 11 MHM Seminar/Haneda
2018….. LHM NY Party/Installation
2018….. LHM Spring Bazaar
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 – as scheduled.
February
• Honpa Hongwanji State Legislative Assembly (Giseikai)
• Monthly Memorial Service, as scheduled.
• Shinkokai Service – as scheduled.
March
• SPRING OHIGAN SERVICE (annual celebration of spring equinox)
• Annual Bazaar
• Monthly Memorial Service
• Shinkokai Service – as scheduled.
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 – as scheduled.
May
• GOTAN-E SERVICE, 1st Sunday (commemorates birth of Shinran Shonin)
• Monthly Memorial Service
• Shinkokai Service – as scheduled.
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 – as scheduled.
July
• Monthly Memorial Service
• Shinkokai Service – as scheduled.
August
• Monthly Memorial Service
• Shinkokai Service – as scheduled.
September
• AUTUMN OHIGAN SERVICE (annual celebration of autumn equinox)
. Monthly Memorial Service
• PEACE DAY OBSERVANCE - as scheduled.
• Shinkokai Service – as scheduled.
October
• Monthly Memorial Service
• Shinkokai – as scheduled.
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 - as scheduled.
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