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... FEBRUARY 2023 05 KHM Rev to KHM 12 9:30am Sunday svc 09 hnl Board of Directors mtg 10,11 hnl Giseikai 12 9:30am Sunday svc 19 9:30am Monthly Memorial svc 26 9:30am Sunday svc 09 Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt 23 Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt MARCH 2023 05 KHM Rev to KHM 12 9:30am Monthly Memorial svc 12 whm MUBWA Rep mtg 19 9:30am Spring Higan svc 25 ?TBD LHM SPRING BAZAAR 26 cancel Sunday svc/ after Bazaar 09 Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt 23 Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt APRIL 2023 01 whm MUBWA Spring Luncheon 02 KHM Rev to KHM 09 9:30am Monthly Memorial svc 16 9:30am Sunday svc 21 facility Social Hall use 23 9:30am Eshinni Day svc 30 cancel Sunday svc (5th Sunday) 13 Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt 27 Lahaina Jodo Farmers’ Mkt MAY 2023 SERVICES: 5/7 cancel, 5/14 cancel, 5/21 monthly memorial, 5/28 Fujimatsuri May 10,11,12,2023 – BWA World Conv (Kyoto, Japan)/May 7-22 May 28, 2023 – FUJIMATSURI at LHM August 11,12, 2023 – LHM Obon 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