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Grand Knight’s Message

WGK Martin Perez

My dear Brothers:

Let me begin by stating how

humbled and honored I am to

have been selected to serve

our St. Bernadette Council as

Grand Knight for Columbian

year 2019-2020. I look

forward to building upon our

past successes as we work

together to serve and grow

with our parish community.

We all have many

opportunities to make a

difference in our parish

community by engaging and

supporting our Faith in Action

programs. I would strongly

encourage each knight to take

an active role in one of the

programs (Faith, Family,

Community and Life) for

which you have a passion.

Each of you brings unique

skills and experiences, which

make a positive contribution

to our community. There are

many ways to contribute, so

please consider volunteering

to be a Program chairman,

Director, or an active

participant. I can speak from experience when I say that

you truly get back more than you contribute. It should

be a goal of each member to attend a minimum of one

meeting per quarter (all would be great) and to

participate in at least one program this year. Proudly

wear your badge to mass each week.

While the Knights of Columbus do some fundraising,

we are first and foremost a Catholic service organization

that Pope St. John Paul II referred to famously as “the

strong right arm of the Church.” Our members and their

families are active in numerous liturgical ministries and

other groups within the St. Bernadette community. It

should be our goal to have every man in our Parish

community become a member of the Knights of

Columbus. We owe it to them to explain the benefits

and joy they are missing out on by not becoming a

member of our wonderful Council. I would ask each of

you to make an effort to recruit a Catholic gentleman to

join our great organization.

We recently embarked upon a journey to revamp our

Knights of Columbus communication vehicles. We are

finishing work on a new website, which will be easier to

use and will better reflect the many activities in which

we are engaged. We hope that it will attract new

members and provide them with a vehicle to educate

themselves about our council and its many programs. It

will be a multiphase rollout, which will add capabilities

we have not been able to add in the past. The first

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Inside this issue:

Grand Knights’ Report 1

Knight of the Month 2

Birthdays 2

New Officers 2

Saint of the Month 3

Food for the Poor 4

Pictures 5-6

Bishop takes action 9

Illinois Abortion Law 10

No body parts for

research 12

Calendars 16

Good of the Order

Prayer List 17

Contacts 17

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

18

Safe Environment 19

Le Chevalier

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July 2019 Bruce Anderson Larry Bramanti Dan Conway Angelo De Nitto Oscar Gerardo Ted Hinderman Thomas Horst Glenn Imber August Locallo Peter Milota Jr. Timothy Pizzitola J Richard Stravolo Timothy White

SK William Torresala

Knight of the Month

June 2019

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Saint of the Month St. Gertrude the Great

(1256 AD – 1302 AD) Saint Gertrude’s Story

Gertrude, a Benedictine nun in Helfta, Saxony, was one of the great mystics of the 13th century. Together with her friend and teacher St. Mechtild, she practiced a spirituality called "nuptial mysticism," that is, she came to see herself as the bride of Christ. Her spiritual life was a deeply personal union with Jesus and his Sacred Heart, leading her into the very life of the Trinity. She was raised in the Cistercian abbey of Helfta from age five. She was known to be very intelligent and gentle in nature. When she became too fond of her studies in philosophy, she received a vision of Christ which converted her to study the bible and the works of the Church Fathers. Her writings were greatly praised by St. Teresa and St. Francis de Sales and continue to be read today. St. Gertrude had a special devotion to the Sacred Heart and encouraged others in this practice.

But this was no individualistic piety. Gertrude lived the rhythm of the liturgy, where she found Christ. In the liturgy and in Scripture, she found the themes and images to enrich and express her piety. There was no clash between her personal prayer life and the liturgy.

Comment: Gertrude's life is another reminder that the heart of the Christian life is prayer: private and liturgical, ordinary or mystical, always personal.

Quote: "Lord, you have granted me your secret friendship by opening the sacred ark of your divinity, your deified heart, to me in so many ways as to be the source of all my happiness; sometimes imparting it freely, sometimes as a special mark of our mutual friendship. You have so often melted my soul with your loving caresses that, if I did not know the abyss of your overflowing condescension, I should be amazed were I told that even your Blessed Mother had been chosen to receive such extraordinary marks of tenderness and affection" (Adapted from The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude).

St. Gertrude the Great, ora pro nobis!

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Food for the Poor Project Hello, and good week to all our volunteers,

I want to thank all our volunteers for spreading love through their thoughts and prayers and

action in the works that they take each time they volunteer. Action is way of reaching out in love to help, support, and encourage the homeless at St Vincent De Paul Becker House. St Mother Theresa advised others ''Spread love wherever you go; let no one ever come to you without being happier.'' Thank you all for spreading your love to our homeless brothers and sisters. We are an example of prayer in action as we reach to others in love. Have a good week everyone.

Food for the Poor Project Chairperson and Committee,

Santo Graziano, cell: 602-321-1673

Larry Brainard Robert and Jackie Franciosi Mike and Susan Dalton

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,

peace,

patience, kindness, generosity,

faithfulness, gentleness, self-

control.”

Gal 5:22-23

Wishing you a blessed and fruitful Pentecost.

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Pictures for you—

Figure 2: Fr. Ed bids SK Jerry Wood farewell with a well-placed "holy punch" at his Farewell Reception.

Photo: Wm. Torresala

Figure 4: Fr Ed, always positive, greets parishioners at his Farewell Reception. Photo: J. Wood

Figure 1: 4th Degree Sir Knights serve for the last time in the “old” Regalia at Fr. Kline’s Installation Mass. Photo: Janet Bleichroth

Figure 4: Fr. Ed, always positive, at his Farewell Reception. Photo: J. Wood

Figure 3: Fr. Kline, St. Bernadette's new Pastor, together with Fr. Felt, St. Bernadette's founding Pastor. Fr. Felt celebrates his 50-Year Jubilee as a Priest this year. Photo: Janet Bleichroth

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Figure 5: Fr Kline and the Color Corps. Photo: Janet Bleichroth

Figure 7: Sir Knights lead the Recessional. Below: SKs Figure 8: Bishop Olmsted blesses the parishioner in with the Bishop. Photo: Janet Bleichroth the Recessional. Photo: Janet Bleichroth. Below: Fr. Felt with the SKs.

Figure 6: Fr Ed and SK William Torresala at the Farewell Reception. Photo: J. Wood

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Monthly Pancake Breakfast

Third Sunday of every month between September and May $5.00 Family: $15.00

Join us in the Parish Hall!

Pancakes, Scrambled Eggs, and Sausage! No pancake breakfasts

during the summer. They will resume on

September 15th

Grotto on the Campus of Mt. St. John, Bergamo, Beavercreek, Ohio

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Henry Hyde died in 2007. But his legacy lives on. Some estimates suggest his simple amendment has saved two million children from abortion. Hyde’s most famous quotation has also endured. "When the time comes as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God and a terror will rip through your soul like nothing you can imagine. "But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there will be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. "They will say to God, ‘Spare him because he loved us,’ and God will look at you and say not, ‘Did you succeed?’ but ‘Did you try?’”

Note: The Hyde Amendment was supported by Congress on

the June21, 2019 vote.

Grand Knight’s Message, Continued from Page 1

phase will roll out in July 2019. If you have any pictures

or content you would like to add, please send them to

[email protected]. With our recent investment in

the Church hymnals, we plan to submit our “Knights

Corner” for inclusion in the Church’s weekly bulletin.

Finally, we are planning to create a Twitter feed,

Instagram, and a Facebook presence in future phases. If

you have an interest in helping this effort, please

contact Trevor Mahan or Ed Dunai.

We have many upcoming activities including the Ice

Cream Social and Installations of Officers, to name a

couple. Please plan to participate with your family and

friends. It will be a great way to kick off our new

fraternal year and show our Parish we make a

difference.

I welcome your input and suggestions, please take time

to help us make our council the best experience each of

us should have. Finally, I would be remiss in not

Thanking Dick Welp for his year of selfless service to our

Council as our Grand Knight. He led our council to a very

successful year and had many accomplishments we can

be proud of. Dick is an inspiration to me and valued role

model. Thank You Dick Welp for your leadership.

Please pray for me as I hope that God will provide me

with the insight and knowledge to serve you in the

manner you deserve. God Bless you All.

Vivat Jesus

Martin Perez, Grand Knight

Save the dates,

Brother!

August 17th, Right after the 5:00

Mass, Installation of Officers

followed by dinner and

Presentation of Awards

August 24th, right after the 5:00

mass, the annual Ice Cream Social

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Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, June 6, 2019

(LifeSiteNews) ― The bishop of Springfield in Illinois has barred pro-abortion legislators from receiving the sacrament of Holy Communion.

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki has ruled that state legislators who are working to pass Illinois’ new abortion bill may not present themselves for communion in his diocese and that priests are expressly forbidden from giving the Eucharist to both the Senate president and the speaker of the House.

“In accord with canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law … Illinois Senate President John Cullerton and Speaker of the House Michael J. Madigan, who facilitated the passage of the Act Concerning Abortion of 2017 (House Bill 40) as well as the Reproductive Health Act of 2019 (Senate Bill 25), are not to be admitted to Holy Communion in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois because they have obstinately persisted in promoting the abominable crime and very grave sin of abortion as evidenced by the influence they exerted in their leadership roles and their repeated votes and obdurate public support for abortion rights over an extended period of time,” Paprocki wrote in a statement dated June 2, 2019. of the House.

“These persons may be readmitted to Holy

Communion only after they have truly repented

these grave sins and furthermore have made

suitable reparation for damages and scandal, or at

least have seriously promised to do so, as

determined in my judgment or in the judgment of

their diocesan bishop in consultation with me or

my successor,” he continued.

Although they are not named, Paprocki included

other pro-abortion state politicians in his interdict,

saying, “I declare that Catholic legislators of the

Illinois General Assembly who have cooperated in

evil and committed grave sin by voting for any

legislation that promotes abortion are not to

present themselves to receive Holy Communion

without first being reconciled to Christ and the

Church in accord with canon 916 of the Code of

Canon Law.”

Last Friday, the Illinois legislature sent Senate Bill

25, known as the Reproductive Health Act, to the

governor for approval. Blatantly pro-abortion,

Senate Bill 25 seeks to protect the “fundamental

rights of individuals to make autonomous decisions

about one’s own reproductive health.” It passed in

the Senate by a 34-20 vote.

Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker has vowed to sign the

bill, which asserts that the “fertilized egg, embryo,

or fetus does not have independent rights.” The

new law will go into effect immediately upon

signature.

According to the Thomas More Society, the new Illinois Reproductive Health Act will allow abortions for any reason throughout all nine months of pregnancy; eliminate restrictions regarding where abortions may be performed; allow non-physicians to perform abortions; undermine and threaten institutional and individual rights of conscience; jeopardize any meaningful regulation of abortion facilities; require private health insurance policies to include coverage for all abortions, with no exemptions, even for churches and other religious organizations; eliminate any requirement to investigate fetal deaths or maternal deaths resulting from abortion; repeal a law prohibiting “kickbacks” for abortion referrals; repeal the Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995, which has been responsible for a more than 55-percent reduction in abortions among Illinois

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minors since 2012; and force parents to pay for their minor children’s abortions.

Paprocki issued a press release on May 28 in which he asserted that the proposed legislation is evil.

“I condemn the gravely immoral action of the Illinois House of Representatives in passing Senate Bill 25, labeled with a highly misleading title as the ‘Reproductive Health Act,’ purporting to declare abortion a fundamental right,” he wrote.

The bishop released a subsequent press release, dated June 6, justifying his decision:

The Eucharist is the most sacred aspect of our Catholic faith. As sacred Scripture warns, “Whoever eats unworthily of the bread and drinks from the Lord’s cup makes himself guilty of profaning the body and of the blood of the Lord.” To support legislation that treats babies in the womb like property, allowing for their destruction for any reason at any time, is evil. It’s my hope and prayer these lawmakers reconcile themselves to the Church so they can receive Communion.

Paprocki, himself a canon lawyer, consulted with other canon lawyers throughout North America before issuing his decree, according to the June 6 press release.

“In issuing this decree, I anticipate that some will point out the Church’s own failings with regard to the abuse of children,” Paprocki said. “The same justifiable anger we feel toward the abuse of innocent children, however, should prompt an outcry of resistance against legalizing the murder of innocent children.”

In 2018, Bishop Paprocki barred Illinois senator

Dick Durbin from Holy Communion because of

Durbin’s vote against legislation that would have

protected children from abortion after 20 weeks

gestation.

Dorothy Cummings McLean

Illinois Governor J.B.

Pritzker Signs Bill

Legalizing Abortions Up

to Birth STATE MICAIAH BILGER JUN 12, 2019

As the mainstream news media focuses on

condemning pro-life efforts in Alabama, Georgia

and Missouri, Democratic leaders in other states are

quietly pushing through radical pro-abortion bills

that expand the legalized killing of unborn babies.

On Wednesday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a

law allowing abortions for any reason up to birth

and forcing every state insurance plan to cover

them. He follows the governor of Vermont, who

made his state the latest to legalize abortions up to

birth when he signed its radical bill yesterday.

Pritzker has bragged that the law will make Illinois

the most “progressive” state on abortion, WGN-TV

News 9 reports.

The law, which state lawmakers quickly rammed

through over Memorial Day weekend, would

legalize abortions for any reason up to birth in

Illinois. It would erase criminal penalties for

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performing abortions and allow non-doctors to do

them. The legislation also would repeal the partial-

birth abortion ban, abortion clinic regulations and

conscience protections for medical workers.

Additionally, it would force all health insurance

plans to cover abortions, with no exceptions for

religious or moral objections.

As the mainstream news media focuses on

condemning pro-life efforts in Alabama, Georgia

and Missouri, Democratic leaders in other states are

quietly pushing through radical pro-abortion bills

that expand the legalized killing of unborn babies.

On Wednesday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a

law allowing abortions for any reason up to birth

and forcing every state insurance plan to cover

them. He follows the governor of Vermont, who

made his state the latest to legalize abortions up to

birth when he signed its radical bill yesterday.

Pritzker has bragged that the law will make Illinois

the most “progressive” state on abortion, WGN-TV

News 9 reports.

The law, which state lawmakers quickly rammed

through over Memorial Day weekend, would

legalize abortions for any reason up to birth in

Illinois. It would erase criminal penalties for

performing abortions and allow non-doctors to do

them. The legislation also would repeal the partial-

birth abortion ban, abortion clinic regulations and

conscience protections for medical workers.

Additionally, it would force all health insurance

plans to cover abortions, with no exceptions for

religious or moral objections.

The legislation prompted massive protests earlier

this year. In March, so many pro-life advocates

filled the state capitol to rally against the bill that

police had to close the building due to

overcrowding. Afterward, lawmakers did not move

the bill forward for months.

But over Memorial Day weekend, pro-lifers learned

that pro-abortion Democrats planned to push

through the bill before the end of the legislative

session. Late on May 31, they passed it and sent it

to the governor for final approval.

The Thomas More Society described the bill as “the

most radical piece of abortion legislation that has

ever been introduced in Illinois.” It would create a

“fundamental right” to abortion and prevent the

state from interfering in any way with the killing of

unborn babies. In addition, it would require every

health insurance plan to cover abortions, including

late-term abortions, without any exemptions for

people with religious or moral objections.

“While a growing number of states are working to

advance popular pro-life laws, Illinois is trying to

outdo New York’s abortion extremism – and

unborn children and their mothers will pay the

price,” said SBA List’s National Campaign Chair

Jill Stanek, an Illinois native, a former nurse who

witnessed babies being born alive and left to die in

Chicago.

Stanek told LifeNews: “The bill Illinois lawmakers

passed is so radical, they even went out of their way

to repeal the state’s ban on barbaric partial-birth

abortions. Americans of every political persuasion

are appalled by these attempts to expand abortion

on demand through the moment of birth and even

infanticide, and that in turn is driving pro-life

momentum around the country. There is no pride or

glory in being the most extreme pro-abortion state

in the nation.”

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Last week, Catholic Bishop Thomas Paprocki of

Springfield instructed priests in his diocese to refuse

communion to politicians who voted for the bill

until they confess and repent.

But Illinois is not alone. Earlier this week, Vermont

Gov. Phil Scott signed a similar law allowing

abortions for basically any reason up to birth in his

state, and Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed a law

allowing nurses to abort unborn babies. In January,

New York lawmakers prompted national outrage

after they passed a bill removing basically all

restrictions on abortion in their state.

Polls indicate that most Americans oppose such

laws. According to a national poll by Marist

University, three in four Americans (75 percent) say

abortion should be limited to – at most – the first

three months of pregnancy. This includes most

Republicans (92 percent), Independents (78 percent)

and a majority of Democrats (60 percent). It also

includes more than six in 10 (61 percent) who

identify as “pro-choice” on abortion.

A May 2018 Gallup poll found that 53 percent of

Americans oppose all or most abortions.

Action: Call the governor’s Springfield office at

217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831. Call his Chicago

office at 312-814-2121.

President Trump Cancels $2 Million Contract to Purchase Body Parts of Aborted Babies for Research NATIONAL STEVEN

ERTELT

President Donald Trump has canceled another

contract to purchase the body parts of aborted

babies for research.

The Trump administration has heard the concerns of

pro-life organizations and pro-life Americans upset

by the news that the FDA and NIH had purchased

the body parts of aborted babies for research and

this is the second time a federal contract has been

scrubbed.

Details uncovered by CNS News in 2018 shed light

on an NIH contract with University of California

San Francisco, which provides money for fetal body

parts to conduct experiments involving “humanized

mice.”

Aborted baby body parts used in the experiments

were taken from healthy, potentially viable unborn

babies. According to the report, the aborted babies

were 18 to 24 weeks gestation from “women with

normal pregnancies before elective termination for

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non-medical reasons.” Another article indicated

aborted babies’ livers and thymuses also were used.

They were between 20 weeks and 24 weeks

gestation.

But the Daily Caller reports today that President

Trump has cancelled the contract:

President Donald Trump is canceling a contract that

provides government funding to the University of

California, San Francisco for research that issues

fetal tissue harvested from elective abortions.

The Trump administration first focused its sights on

the contract this past September, with the National

Institute of Health (NIH) warning UCSF that its $2

million annual contract for fetal tissue research

would be curtailed to 90 days and possibly canceled

altogether.

Senior administration officials told The Daily Caller

that the contract will be officially terminated

Wednesday.

The cancelation stems from a 9-month U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

review of all research involving fetal tissue from

elective abortions that found serious issues with

UCSF’s research, including a lack of consent forms.

HHS will also install ethics boards overseeing all

extramural research involving fetal tissue.

An official explained to the Caller that the move is

part of “a consistent charge to take a pro-life

perspective on all policies.”

The official argued that scientists have been

claiming for 26 years that fetal tissue research

would lead to significant medical breakthroughs,

and yet “there have been exactly zero miracle

cures.”

Leading pro-life groups were delighted by the news.

Dr. David Prentice, vice president and research

director at Charlotte Lozier Institute, told LifeNews

“Today’s move demonstrates NIH’s investment in

scientifically-proven methods for research: adult

stem cells, iPS cells, organoids, humanized mice

constructed using postnatally sourced cells and

improved non-human cell lines—just to name a

few. All of these have been used in the production

of treatments, vaccines and medicines currently on

the market; the key is that our government will now

invest in effective research methods that do not rely

on the destruction of human life.”

Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Policy Advisor for The

Catholic Association, added, “Experimentation

using the liver, lungs, hearts, skulls or any other

body part of an aborted baby is morally corrupt.

Taxpayers have been forced to fund inhumane

procedures conducted by corporations looking to

make a buck. President Trump made the moral and

ethical call to end taxpayer funding of this

gruesome experimentation.”

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins

told LifeNews: “This is yet another step by the

Trump administration in the march to restore the

sanctity of all human life in America. This decision

is one based upon the desire of this administration

to use taxpayer dollars in the pursuit of science that

is both ethical and effective.”

“The fact is aborted fetal tissue hasn’t been used to

create the cure of a single disease. However, tax

dollars have been contributing to an industry that

fosters the trafficking of body parts from aborted

babies. There is absolutely no reason to use these

grisly remains when ethical and effective

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alternatives exist including human umbilical cord

blood stem cells and adult peripheral blood stem

cells,” he said.

“This is a major pro-life victory and we thank

President Trump for taking decisive action. It is

outrageous and disgusting that we have been

complicit, through our taxpayer dollars, in the

experimentation using baby body parts. NIH has

spent $120 million a year on grisly, unethical

experiments involving the hearts, livers, bones, and

brains harvested from babies too young and

vulnerable to speak for themselves,” said SBA List

President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “President Trump

knows we can do better as a nation and we are

encouraged to see NIH Director Francis Collins

carry out the President’s pro-life commitment.

Taxpayer funding is better spent promoting

alternatives that are already being used in the

production of treatments, vaccines and medicines

and to expand approaches that do not depend on the

destruction of unborn children often through late-

term abortion.”

This is the second time the Trump administration

has cancelled a contract to purchase aborted baby

parts.

Last August, shocking revelations indicated the

Food and Drug Administration signed a new

contract to acquire body parts from aborted babies

to be transplanted into so-called humanized mice.

The grisly experiments allow mice to have a

functioning human immune system for research

purposes.

By September, the Trump administration had

canceled the contract with Advanced Bioscience

Resources, a company that buys and sells aborted

baby parts from Planned Parenthood and other

abortion businesses.

When Planned Parenthood was exposed selling

aborted baby parts for such research, videos

recorded a conversation between Melissa Farrell,

Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf

Coast, and two CMP actors posing as

representatives of an organ procurement company.

That conversation focused on potential

compensation to Planned Parenthood in exchange

for fetal remains.

Farrell made it clear that Planned Parenthood had

been involved in the selling of aborted baby parts

for some time and was very familiar with the use of

fetal remains in the production of humanized mice.

She discussed how the Houston affiliate for which

she worked was “resistant” to recent efforts by

Planned Parenthood Federation of America to

standardize fetal tissue sales throughout the

participating affiliates because “we’ve been doing

our own thing for a long time.”

She emphasized repeatedly that she creates a

written line-item budget for compensation that

effectively conceals the fact that the money

received from fetal remains is actually a financial

benefit to the company above and beyond hard

costs.

In addition, she noted that they are able to alter

abortion procedures to make sure they have baby

parts to sell.

“And we have had studies in which the company,

and or in this case, investigator, has a specific need

for certain portions of the parts of conception and

we base that into our contract and our protocol that

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we follow this, so we deviate from our standard in

order to do that,” Farrell said, (emphasis added).

Yet Farrell acknowledged that it was illegal for

them to alter the timing or manner of the procedure

for the purpose of ensuring organs were fit for use

by researchers.

In the lengthy video, Farrell is seen looking over her

e-mail when she finds a message from an immune-

biology laboratory that was requesting fetal tissue to

create humanized mice.

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Good of the Order Prayer List—June 2019 Brothers, please join us as we pray for the following Knights and their families:

Barbara Day

SK Virgil Grzywa.

Deacon Jim Hostutler

Jack and Mary Jo Lichtenberg

Rosie Pate

Sergio Romero, SK Gene Arvizu’s cousin, who’s suffering from cancer.

Deacon Ray Rooker

Sean Sega, a colleague of Dennis Logue, passed away.

Kathy Tellis

SK William Torresala

Maryann Yench

For the Pope, every Priest and Deacon and all the clergy.

For the safety and good health of all our military, police, and fire fighters.

For the good health of all Knights and their families and our own Knights who continue to find the strength to keep coming out to do God’s will.

Officers, Directors, and Program Chairmen—2018-19

Officers: Committee Chairmen:

Grand Knight SK Martin Perez 602-418-6511 1st

Degree Team SK Dan Conway 480-686-9256

Chaplain Fr. Don Kline 480-905-0221 Blood Drive Dennis Logue 602-595-1460

D. Grand Knight SK Michael Dill 760-213-3737 Oktoberfest SK Gene Arvizu 480-776-4794

Chancellor Dennis Logue 602-595-1460 Social Committee (Volunteer needed)

Financial Sec. SK Michael Smalley 602-799-2256 Italian Dinner SK William Torresala 404-668-9399

Treasurer SK Richard Welp 602-826-1241 Food for the Poor SK Santo Granziano 602-321-1673

Recorder SK Frank Scarpone 480-540-8460 Tootsie Roll Drive SK Vince Cefalu 602-350-9106

Advocate SK Daniel Conway 410-686-9256 Rosary Sunday Chair needed

Warden SK Vince Cefalu 602-350-9106 Free Throw Contest Dennis Logue 602-595-1460

Outside Guard Ronald Angelo 480-322-2035 Le Chevalier Graphic Design SK Don Tellis

Inside Guard Conrad Franks 623-628-6392 Fr. Pete Memorial Golf Tournament SK Lou DeLuco,

3yr Trustee SK Gene Arvizu 480-776-4794 SK Richard Welp

2yr Trustee SK Jerry Wood 602-568-2779

1yr Trustee SK William Torresala 404-668-9399 Webmaster: SK Edward Dunai

Editor SK Jerry Wood

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel

The Story of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Hermits lived on Mount Carmel near the Fountain of Elijah in northern Israel in the 12th century. They had a chapel dedicated to Our Lady. By the 13th century they became known as “Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.” They soon celebrated a special Mass and Office in honor of Mary. In 1726, it became a celebration of the universal Church under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. For centuries the Carmelites have seen themselves as specially related to Mary. Their great saints and theologians have promoted devotion to her and often championed the mystery of her Immaculate Conception.

Saint Teresa of Avila called Carmel “the Order of the Virgin.” Saint John of the Cross credited Mary with saving him from drowning as a child, leading him to Carmel, and helping him escape from prison. Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus believed that Mary cured her from illness. On her First Communion day, Thérèse dedicated her life to Mary. During the last days of her life she frequently spoke of Mary.

There is a tradition—which may not be historical—that Mary appeared to Saint Simon Stock, a leader of the Carmelites, and gave him a scapular, telling him to promote devotion to it. The scapular is a modified version of Mary’s own garment. It symbolizes her special protection and calls the wearers to consecrate themselves to her in a special way. The scapular reminds us of the gospel call to prayer and penance—a call that Mary models in a splendid way.

Reflection The Carmelites were known from early on as “Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.” The title suggests that they saw Mary not only as “mother,” but also as “sister.” The word sister is a reminder that Mary is very close to us. She is the daughter of God and therefore can help us be authentic daughters and sons of God. She also can help us grow in appreciation of being sisters and brothers to one another. She leads us to a new realization that all human beings belong to the family of God. When such a conviction

grows, there is hope that the human race can find its way to peace.

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