Temple Calendar 2022 ...Resuming in-person services and activies as of June 5. Events and Services may be cancelled at any time. Please call 808-661-0640 to confirm... JULY 2022 16 LHM Nishime sale; tickets 17 9:30am Sunday svc 23 6/7pm Makawao Hongwanji Obon 24 9:30am Sunday svc -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt AUGUST 2022 02 cancel LHM Obon practice 05,06 cancel Wailuku Hongwanji Obon 07 cancel LHM Obon decorations 09 cancel LHM Obon practice 12,13 6:00pm Lahaina Hongwanji Hatsubon Svc Obon Dance and concessions cancelled 14 cancel LHM Obon cleanup 21 9:30am Memorial svc 22 7:00pm Maui Hongwanji Council mtg 28 9:30am Sunday svc 11 Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt 25 Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt SEPTEMBER 2022 04 9:30am Memorial svc 11 tba Sunday svc 16,17 State Hongwanji Lay Conv 18 9:30am Ohigan/Peace Day svc 21 PEACE DAY 25 tba Sunday svc. -- RUMMAGE -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt OCTOBER 2022 02 tba Sunday svc 09 9:30am Memorial svc 16 cancel Sunday svc (MHM Anniv) -- MUBWA Fall General Assembly 23 9:30am Sunday svc -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt NOVEMBER 2022 06 9:30am Memorial svc 13 9:30am Sunday svc 20 9:30am Etaikyo svc 21 7:00pm Maui Council mtg 27 9:30am Sunday svc -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt DECEMBER 2022 04 9:30am Bodhi Day svc 11 9:30am Sunday svc 18 9:30am BWA Hoonko/Memorial svc 25 cancel Sunday svc 31 9:00pm New Year’s Eve svc -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt -- Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt May 10,11,12,2023 – BWA World Conv (Kyoto, Japan)/May 7-21 Please call Lahaina Hongwanji for 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) • February • Honpa Hongwanji State Legislative Assembly (Giseikai) • March • SPRING OHIGAN SERVICE (annual celebration of spring equinox) • Spring Bazaar • April • HANAMATSURI SERVICE, 1st Sunday. (commemorates birth of Shakyamuni Buddha) • BWA’s ESHINNI/KAKUSHINNI DAY SERVICE (in honor of wife & daughter of Shinran) • May • GOTAN-E SERVICE, 1st Sunday (commemorates birth of Shinran Shonin) • 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) • July • August • LHM O Bon Festival & Hatsubon September • AUTUMN OHIGAN SERVICE (annual celebration of autumn equinox) • PEACE DAY OBSERVANCE - as scheduled (September 21) October 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. 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