St Francis Xavier Chapel "Maryknoll" Japanese Catholic Center, 222 S. Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Formerly known as "Maryknoll"
Mission Statement
We of Saint Francis Xavier Chapel, as members of the Body of Christ, are called to announce in word and in deed the Good News of the Lord Jesus, through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
We recognize our community's call to holiness based on mutuality, reciprocity, and interdependence and its ministry focusing on Japanese Catholics while also welcoming all in our greater community.
Fr. Doan Hoang's Message for Sunday, july 19. 2026
Dear brothers and sisters,
The disciples around Jesus thought they knew all about good and evil, blessings and curses, virtue and vice, wheat and weeds, but as far as we know, not even one of them was a farmer. Most of them were fishermen who pulled in their nets and immediately sorted their catch. The good-fishes, marketable ones; go here, and the bad ones, the poisonous ones, go there!
“Lord,” they said, “Can’t you destroy evil? Can’t you do away with the bad once for all, like we do on the beach. So only goodness and sweetness are left?”
He said, “You can’t do that. You can’t use fishermen’s tactics in the fields of this world. If you did that, if you tried to separate the good and the bad like that, you would spoil it all. The two are closely intertwined in their roots that pulling up one means pulling up the other. Let them both grow, trusting in God. Didn’t the Father sow the seed that is good? Was it not the evil who sowed the seed that is bad? Goodness will win; light will conquer darkness. Don’t be afraid!”
Today again, people seem to be like those fishermen of the old who say: “Can’t we throw the good ones here, and the bad ones there?” They forgot that as in the field of God’s salvation goodness and badness, justice and injustice, blessing and curse are so radically intertwined in us as persons that rooting up one makes the rest fall.
He said, “Don’t do that. Let them both grow, but do take care that goodness wins. I am all for that until the end.”
親愛なる兄弟姉妹の皆さん、
イエスの周りにいた弟子たちは、善と悪、祝福と呪い、美徳と悪徳、麦と雑草について、すべてを知っているつもりでした。しかし、私たちの知る限り、彼らの中に農夫は一人もいませんでした。彼らのほとんどは漁師で、網を引き上げるとすぐに獲物を仕分けしていました。「良い魚、つまり売れるものはこっちへ、悪い魚、つまり毒のあるものはあっちへ！」
「主よ」と彼らは言いました。「悪を滅ぼすことはできないのですか？ 私たちが浜辺でするように、悪いものを一度に根絶やしにして、善と甘美さだけを残すことはできないのですか？」
イエスは言われました。「それはできない。この世の畑で漁師の手法を使うことはできない。もしそうしたら、もしそのように善と悪を分けようとしたら、すべてを台無しにしてしまうだろう。その根は深く絡み合っており、一方を引き抜けばもう一方も引き抜くことになるのだ。神を信頼して、両方を育てなさい。良い種を蒔いたのは父ではないか？ 悪い種を蒔いたのは悪者ではないか？ 善は勝つ。光は闇に打ち勝つ。恐れるな！」
今日でも、人々はまるで昔あの漁師たちのように、「良いものはここに、悪いものはあそこに投げ捨ててしまえないか」と言っているかのようです。彼らは、神の救いの領域において、善と悪、正義と不正義、祝福と呪いが、私たち人間の中でこれほど根本的に絡み合っており、一方を根こそぎにしようとすれば、残りのものもすべて崩れてしまうということを忘れてしまっているのです。
主はこう言われた。「そうしてはならない。両方とも育てなさい。ただし、善が勝つように気をつけなさい。私は最後まで、そのことを全面的に支持する。」
in-church masses Schedule
Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Japanese Mass
10:00 a.m. English Mass
Saturday: 5:00 p.m. English Vigil Mass/
Weekday Masses are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 12:05 p.m.
Weekday Masses are subject to change due to funerals or illness.
First Saturday Devotion:
First Saturday Devotion is on the first Saturday of each month, at 9:00 a.m. Mass followed by Rosary and Divine Mercy. Confessions are available after the Mass.
Donations
Thank you for your continued support! We are grateful to all who donate to SFXCJCC. We are open for weekend and weekday Masses. And are slowly opening our facility to our ministries and groups.
We are still in need of your financial help! Would you please continue making your Sunday Collection contributions or donating to St Francis Xavier Chapel?
You can mail checks to the office:
SFXCJCC
222 S Hewitt Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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