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MARCH 2015
NEWS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ST. LOUIS COUNCIL
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(Apologies for not sending this last week; my internet was out.)
(It did appear as an insert in the St. Louis Church Bulletin March 7-8)
The highlight of February was the annual
special olympics type activity that the knights held at the GDC gymnasium
for the developmentally disabled children and adults of the Rehabilitation
Center (formerly Guiding Hand School).
It consisted mainly of basketball free throws. Each of the approximately 50 participants
received a t-shirt and a medal as a prize.
Jim Ryan, a past Grand Knight, has been coordinating the event for many
years.
The Lenten Friday Fish Fry. The knights and many others are doing their
part in organizing, buying the food, cooking, washing dishes, and cleaning
up. It all helps to bring the parish
together as workers and/or diners. At
the same time the Fish Fry is a great ecumenical outreach to the community. People of all faiths come for delicious food
and great fellowship. Join them. Let them meet the wonderful people of our
parish.
March Activities and Announcements
1. K
of C Benefit Breakfast -
Sunday March 8 after the 8 am and 10 am Masses (2nd Sunday of each month) for St. Louis K of C Council
Charities. It will be great fellowship and delicious food with a lot of
love added to it to strengthen our parish community. Bring your family
and friends. Every breakfast benefits
one of the Knights of Columbus charities or scholarships for deserving students
of the parish. The December Breakfast
raised $300 for the March for Life Pilgrimage January 21-22.
We need help to setup and prepare the food at 7 am, washing
dishes, and cleaning up after each of the two breakfasts. Our response for the last breakfast was
better, but we still need all the help we can get especially before the 8 am
Mass.
2. Eucharistic Adoration
- Sunday March 8 after the 10 am Mass. The Exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament will conclude with Vespers at 4 pm. It would be great to have a Knights of
Columbus Honor Guard there. Brother
knight, if you come for adoration, please kneel/sit in the front row for as
long as you desire, be it only 15 minutes or more. You don’t have to be in regalia. Bruce Davison usually occupies the first row
on the right for most of the time, including the all-nighters. You can do spiritual reading; converse with
the Lord; and share your innermost thoughts and concerns with Him. One simple person said: “I look at Him and He
looks at me”…….i.e., listening to His inspiration. In medieval times squires would keep all-night
prayer vigils before the tabernacle in preparation for being dubbed as new
knights the following morning. The
knights of old would protect their kings; today we protect Christ the King in
the Blessed Sacrament with our lives if necessary. After all, more than once in modern times has
the Eucharist been desecrated as a group of radical gays did a couple of years ago in St. Patrick's Cathedral New York City.
3. 1st Degree Initiation
- Sunday March 15 for new knights in Churchtown is a very impressive ceremony. All men of the parish who are faithful
practicing Catholics are invited to join the Knights of Columbus. There’s great fellowship and many
opportunities to serve God and His people.
Men, make a difference for the Church, the Parish, and the Community and
grow spiritually too; join the Knights of Columbus. Furthermore, it has a life insurance program
which rates with the most financially solid insurance companies in the
world. Besides giving generous rebates,
the profits don’t go to the stockholders, but to Knights of Columbus charities.
Contact Grand Knight Mike Haas at
740-645-1646.
4. 2nd & 3rd Degree
Initiation – Sunday March 22 in Marietta for active members of the Council. Advance in your knowledge of the Knights of
Columbus and strengthen your commitment. Contact Grand Knight Mike Haas at
740-645-1646.
5. Monthly Business Dinner Meeting - Monday
March 23 at 6:30 pm. We have great
fellowship at dinner and the input of every knight is most valuable at the
meeting as we make decisions about future activities. Our Council is as strong as each knight makes
it. We will pray the rosary before the
meeting inside the church at 5:45 pm. We
cannot be an effective Council without the Lord’s help and guidance.
6. Knights of Columbus Fifth Sunday Mass – Sunday
March 29 at 10 am. The 4th
Degree knights will process in full regalia and make the Mass more beautiful
and impressive than it already is. The
knights will do it all; Fr. Tom is also a knight. Since it is Palm Sunday the 4th
degree knights will meet at the church at 9:15 am and join the ecumenical
celebration in the Gallipolis City Park by 9:30 am. Let’s all show up in force.
7. Super Cash BONANZA Raffle Tickets
– $108,000 in Prizes; 1ST Prize $49,680. $5.00
per chance may be purchased from any knight.
Better than the lottery. The
St. Louis Council has a good chance of receiving $4.60 from each ticket if
turned in by April 1. That money will be used for scholarships for
the students of our parish.
8. The Knights continue to sponsor and lead the
rosary 25 to 30 minutes before the Masses of the first
Saturday and first Sunday
of the month. For March it’s Sunday March 1 and Saturday March 7. The next one will be the week-end of April
4-5.
9. Prayers Needed. John
Payne is done with his radiation and quimo for cancer. He continues to attend the meetings and
cook for our breakfasts, fish fries, and dinners. Oscar Bastiani is
recovering from neck/back surgeries. Now
he comes to Mass on Saturday evenings, attends our meetings, and collects money
for the breakfasts and fish fries. They both attended our Men’s Conference.
These guys are unsinkable; nothing keeps them down. Please continue to keep our brother knights
in your prayers. Sadly, three
brother knights have seen their families break up. Pray for reconciliation & more stable
marriages in our parish.
Knight Family Notes.
On March 8 Naomi Sebastian, recipient of the 2013 $250 Knights of Columbus
scholarship and a sophomore nursing major and member of the swim team at the
Franciscan University of Steubenville, will be leaving for a week long mission
trip to Haiti. She will be working in an
orphanage run by the “Movin’ With the Spirit” apostolate
and has been raising money for the trip.
That includes $1000 as a donation from each student to finance a new
building for the orphanage. Please
pray for the people of Haiti, the orphans and their orphanage as well as for
the safety of Naomi and her fellow students. While college students live it up in Florida
during their Spring Break, many Franciscan University of Steubenville students
go on mission trips. Franciscan
University is one of the few Catholic colleges that are truly Christ centered
and take very seriously its original mission…….to form its students to change
the world for Christ and His people. Give
us news of your family.
The
strength of our Council depends so much on you.......your participation, your
volunteering your time and effort to serve God and His people. Thank you
for all of your help.
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Lord, help the Knights of
Columbus be a force
for the renewal of the parish and ourselves too.
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