Temple Calendar 2023
MAY 2023
02 cancel Kyodan mtg, SH
07 cancel Sunday svc
10-13 Japan Joint Celebration/World BWA Conv
14 cancel Sunday svc
19 7:30am West Maui Cemetery Cleanup
21 9:30am Monthly Memorial svc
24 cancel Newsletter
27 Parking/Waiola 200th celebration
28 9:30am Fujimatsuri (all Hongwanji temples)
30 7:00pm Shingon Bon Dance Practice
JUNE 2023
03 6:30pm Lahaina Shingon OBon
04 KHM Rev. to KHM
11 9:30am Sunday svc/Kyodan mtg
18 9:30am Monthly Memorial/Fathers’ Day svc
25 9:30am Sunday svc (Jr. YBA Conv)
JULY 2023
01 6:30pm Lahaina Jodo Mission OBon Service/Dance (8pm)
02 cancel Sunday svc (KHM)
06 5:00pm West Maui Cemetery Svc
09 9:30am Monthly Memorial Service
14,15 KHM KHM Obon
16 9:30am Sunday svc
21,22 MHM MHM Obon
23 9:30am Sunday svc
28,29 WHM WHM Obon
SERVICES: 8/6 cancel svc/Obon Decoration, 8/11 &12 LHM Obon, 8/13 cancel svc/Obon cleanup, 8/20 Memorial, 8/27 Sunday svc
May 10,11,12,2023 – BWA World Conv (Kyoto, Japan)/May 7-22
May 27, 2023 – Parking, Waiola 200th Celebration
August 11,12, 2023 – LHM Obon
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