Knights of Columbus Newsletter Christopher Columbus Council 1414

1306 27th St Columbus Indiana, 47201

812-379-9353

November 2017 Monthly Publication Vol. 2017 Issue 11

ROSARY INTENTIONS

...”To everything there is a season , and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

“A Time to Remember”… All Living and Deceased Members of Christopher Columbus Council 1414 and their families, all persons in vocations, and fallen away Catholics.

“A Time to Heal”... Rick Louden, Gay Weimer, Matt Louden, Fr Clem Davis, Zeke Sandlin, Virginia Jacobs, Gary Hilber, Carl Eddy, Chris Block, Sharon Klingler, Dick Witkem-per, Kathy Davis Shanks, Deacon Bill Jones, Marianne Hude-cek, Dave Streit, Marty Grossman, Deborah Riga, Nydia Spen-cer, Emanuele Rossittis, Carolyn Ziegler, Martha Lancaster, Jesus Ramos, Biddle family, Pfeiffer Family, Karwacki family, Morales family, Stewart family

“A Time to Die”... All dearly departed Brother Knights. Let perpetual light shine upon them.

COUNCIL OFFICERS

Chaplain: Fr James Brockmeier District Deputy: Dan Megel Grand Knight: Dave Breeden Deputy Grand Knight: Mike Padilla Chancellor: Bob Weimer Advocate: Kevin Morr is Warden: Dallas Klingler Treasurer: Dave Wildemann Financial Secretary: John Harmon Recording Secretary: Rick Weafer Inside Guard: Car l Weichman Outside Guard: Gerald Klingler Trustees: Greg Scherschel, Tom LaBarbera, David Rayburn

MEETING AT ST B’S NOV 6 Our next Council Meeting will be on Monday, Nov 6, 7 pm in Meeting Room #3, St B’s church basement. Members are en-couraged to attend Mass at 6 pm prior to the meeting.

THANKS! GRAZIE! SALAMAT! Thanks to everyone :

Who helped hand out rose applique stickers after all Mass-es on Sept 30/Oct 1. We raised a record amount to benefit our pro-life work. Thanks!

Who volunteered and helped serve at the KofC’s beer tent during the Ethnic Expo. Good weather and fantastic effort made the event a great success. Your contribution of time and presence are very much appreciated!

MASS FOR DECEASED MEMBERS NOV 5

The Mass for deceased Council 1414 members will be on Sun-day November 5 at the 8 am Mass. The plaque containing names of deceased members will be processed at the beginning of Mass and available to view after Mass. Fr Clem has given permission to have Council members (including 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree) participate in the entrance procession. Please wear your Council shirts and join us on this day.

FAMILY MOVIE KNIGHT NOV 10 The Knights of Columbus and the 8th Grade Class of St Bar-tholomew Catholic School are jointly sponsoring a Family Movie Knight on Friday, Nov 10 beginning at 7 PM. Help is needed for set-up and tear down. Please contact David Ray-burn at 812-764-4326 if you can help. See also the attached flier at the end of this newsletter.

SPAGHETTI AND SANTA The annual Spaghetti and Santa dinner will be held on Satur-day, December 9th in the parish hall after the 5 pm Mass. Vol-unteer helpers are needed. Please contact Bob Weimer at bob-weimer@gmail.com if you can help with this event.

SEMINARIAN Please continue to pray for our sponsored seminarian, Tim Decrane. If you want to provide support or have prayer re-quests, he can be contacted by email at: tdecrane@stbparish.net

CHILI COOK-OFF Save the date! The annual KofC Chili Cook-off is on January 13, 2018. We need competing cooks! Please call David Ray-burn at 812-764-4326 if you can participate. This event is jointly sponsored by the ProLife Ministry to help raise funds for our youths’ trip to the March for Life in Washington DC.

KNIGHT’S CORNER This month, we re-run our feature on our Deputy Grand Knight Mike Padilla.

This article first ran in 2014 while he was serving as Advocate

Why did I become a Knight? My Dad was a Knight in the Philippines. I respected and admired how he lived his life and so I want-ed to emulate his principles, his goodness and his love of God. That's my motivation to become a Knight. I went to the KofC office 16 years ago and volunteered to become a

member. A few years after I joined, I took my 4th degree oath. As a Knight, I have participated in the Bingo activities, have at-tended a few 4th degree meetings/events, supported a few KofC fundraising events, and have represented the chapter in the 2013 State conference in Indy. Lourdes and I (with lots of help from the Pro Life Ministry and the Boy Scouts) coordinated the annual Good Friday fish fry when it was still held in the council hall. As an elected KofC Advocate, I have been attending the planning and general council meetings in the past year on the 3rd and 1st Mondays, respectively, of each month. I also volun-teered to publish the monthly newsletter of the Council. We have gone electronic on the newsletter for several months now. Lourdes and I have been the Pro-Life chair couple for the Council since we were drafted by Harold (Neville) more than a decade ago. In all these activities, all I can think of is how I could certainly do more for the Council. Lourdes and I have been involved with parish activities that are tightly knit with the Knights. As a ProLife Ministry member and Gabriel project local leader, Lourdes has always collaborated with the Knights directly or indirectly for years. As WW Marriage Encounter presenting team, Lourdes and I are again hoping to closely col-laborate with the Knights as we work together on strengthening marriage and family. Mikey, our oldest, then 23 years old, has also joined the Knights Council at DePauw (Greencastle) following my foot-steps, I hope. (Since this writing, Daniel, our youngest, has also joined the Knights Council at Notre Dame.) I have always been drawn deeply to the KofC from childhood. The Knights of Columbus, its organization and its founding principles are in line with what I have always believed in as a Catholic. Our es-sence of Charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriotism is second to none. Our organization has been true to these principles by what we do, locally, nationally and globally. And we have nev-er swayed with the changing times. Indeed, we are matched in stability only by the Catholic Church, which we so emulate. I'm proud to be a Knight and am joyful to join brother Knights in our quest to help our fellow men to be holy in Christ through Mary.

VOLUNTEERING CORNER by WFS John Harmon

#2 - OPPORTUNITIES Last month's newsletter explained some of the basic op-portunities to volunteer for events or programs. This month, we'll add to the list:

-- Attend the visitation or the funeral Mass for de-ceased Knights or their spouse.

-- Join the Council 1414 team that is entrusted with making sure the St. Bartholomew grounds are properly secured each night.

-- Support parish devotions, special programs, Bi-ble studies, Stations of the Cross.

-- Support initiatives promulgated by Supreme, such as assisting persecuted Christians in Iraq, contrib-uting to financial aid to hurricane victims along the Gulf Coast and participating in elements of the ongoing pro-gram, “Building the Domestic Church While Strengthen-ing Our Parish.” NEXT MONTH: Sign up for one of our major events. Take your pick.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1All Saints Day

2 All Souls Day

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DOOR CHECK:

5 Mass for Deceased Members DOOR CHECK:

6 7 PM Council Meeting

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8 9 10

Family Movie Knight

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DOOR CHECK:

12 DOOR CHECK:

13 6:30 PM Fourth

Degree meeting

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DOOR CHECK:

19 DOOR CHECK:

20 7 PM Planning Mtg

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25 DOOR CHECK:

26 DOOR CHECK:

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November 2017

Volunteer for door check duty dur-ing this month’s Council meeting or email bobweimer@gmail.com with

the day(s) you are available to check the St B campus doors.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Plan ahead to participate at our monthly events: November—Mass for Deceased KofC Members December—Spaghetti with Santa, Santa Crawl

January—Chili Cook-off February—Knights Ball

March—St Patrick’s Day, Fish Fry April—St B’s PTO Auction

May—Mother’s Day, Recruitment Table June—Elections, Father’s Day Cookout

July—Parish Pool Party August —Hog Roast, Recruitment Table

September—St B’s Fall Festival, Golf Outing October—One Rose One Life, Ethnic Expo, 40DFL

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS INSURANCE AGENT Our Field Agent for Knights of Columbus insurance is

Matt “Ernie” Ernstes. He can be reached at: PHONE: 1-765-760-8913 E-MAIL:

Matt.ernstes@kofc.org MAIL: Ernie Ernstes, Field Agent Knights of Columbus

7740 Bolero Dr. Camby, IN. 46113

Building the Domestic Church Prayers, Devotions and Activities for Families

During his visit to the Philippines, Pope Francis cited the need for “holy and loving families to protect the beauty and truth of the family in God’s plan and to be an example for other families” (Pope Francis, Address to Families at the Mall of Asia Are-na). Building the Domestic Church is one concrete way that the Knights of Columbus, in solidarity with Pope Francis, can offer “holy and loving families” for the Church’s mission of evangelization in our time. We encourage our brother Knights, together with their families, to avail of this program with the goal of strengthening and building holy families. Each month, we will provide monthly themes, meditations, projects and Scripture verses that can help you place God and the faith at the center of your lives. By doing so, you can teach your children the importance of humbly looking to God for assistance in all things. The program is designed to be flexible to meet the continuously changing needs of your family, so you can begin during any month of the year. Some families may wish to set aside a space in their home as a prayer corner. Others may wish to come together at the dinner table or another common family area. Whichever method your family chooses, we encourage you to set aside a regular time on each Sunday of the month to consider together the month’s meditation and Scripture passage. Children should also be encouraged to actively participate in these devotions, whether by reading a section of the mediation or Scripture verse, or by adding their own personal intentions to the regular prayers. Older children may wish to be even more involved. Discuss with them in further depth the Church’s teachings on marriage and the family, or encourage them to share their own questions on the monthly mediations and prayers.

The Communion of Saints By virtue of baptism and the sacramental graces of marriage, the Christian family is built into a communion of saints. Holiness is a gift given to every

baptized Christian that becomes a joyful task for the whole of life.

NOVEMBER

Family Project

Select a few saints and learn about their time period and culture and why they are invoked for specific causes or intentions. Include a dish from their culture during one of your meals. Also, consider making a pilgrimage to a sacred place dedicated to a saint.

Scripture Reading

- Psalm 98: 1-6

A prayer to welcome God’s rule over the earth

Sing a new song to the LORD,

for he has done marvelous deeds. His right hand and holy arm

have won the victory.

The LORD has made his victory known;

has revealed his triumph

in the sight of the nations,

He has remembered his mercy and faithfulness

toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen

the victory of our God.

Shout with joy to the LORD, all the earth;

break into song; sing praise. Sing praise to the LORD with the lyre,

with the lyre and melodious song.

Meditations From Pope Benedict XVI’s General Audience, April 13, 2011

Holiness, the fullness of Christian life, does not consist in carrying out extraordinary enterprises but in being united with Christ, in living his mysteries, in making our own his example, his thoughts, his behavior. The measure of holiness stems from the stature that Christ achieves in us, in as much as with the power of the Holy Spirit, we model our whole life on his. … What is the soul of holiness? … What is the essential? The essential means never leaving a Sunday without an encounter with the Risen Christ in the Eucharist; this is not an additional burden but is light for the whole week. It means never beginning and never ending a day without at least a brief contact with God. And, on the path of our life it means following the “signposts” that God has communicated to us in the Ten Com-mandments, interpreted with Christ, which are merely the explanation of what love is in specific situations. … We might ask ourselves: can we, with our limitations, with our weaknesses, aim so high? During the Liturgi-cal Year, the Church invites us to commemorate a host of saints, the ones, that is, who lived charity to the full, who knew how to love and follow Christ in their daily lives. They tell us that it is possible for everyone to take this road. … I would like to ask all to open themselves to the action of the Holy Spirit, who transforms our life, to be, we too, as small pieces in the great mosaic of holiness that God continues to create in history, so that the face of Christ may shine out in the fullness of its splendor. Let us not be afraid to aim high, for God’s heights.

What is holiness?

How can we live holiness in the family? How do we love God in the ordinary circumstances of life?

How do the saints help us live out holiness?

A Family Prayer Composed by Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William Lori

Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of our family. Enlighten our hearts and minds that we may live more fully this vocation of love. In our daily life and work, may we reflect the self-giving love which you, O Father, eternally show with your Son and the Holy Spirit. Let your love be evident in the peace that reigns in our home and in the faith we profess and live. May our family always be a place of generosity, understanding, forgiveness and joy. Kindly give us the wisdom and courage to be wit-nesses to your eternal design for the family; and grant that the Holy Family of Nazareth may always guide our path to holiness as a family. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.