St. Clare's Breakfast/Membership Drive March 10-11

Hot on the heels of the overnight adoration, we have our Membership Drive and Breakfast.  Please contact Ted Seeber, seebert42@gmail.com , to volunteer for any of the three standard shifts:  6pm-8pm Saturday night, 7am-10:00am Sunday, or 10am-2pm Sunday. 

For the membership drive, we also have 6pm-6:10pm, 9:30-9:40 AM, and 11:45-11:55am slots that need filling to cover the church entrances. 

We have Sisters in the Spirit and the Confirmation students helping us with the breakfast, so Knights can go greet at Mass.

Safe Havens Training

The newest revision to Called to Protect is open to all in the Archdiocese of Portland.  The certificate you earn taking the test at the end of the video is necessary for working at any event with children; but this year, I have to say that the training is exceptionally good.  It's provided by Covenant Eyes, and while it does contain a mild advertisement for their services, the training itself is free, as is the tracking of your training.

1. Go to http://cmgparent.org
2. Click on "Start Learning"
3. Register a personal account, choosing Archdiocese of Portland In Oregon, then choosing your parish.
4. View the 18 minute training video.
5. Complete the quiz (button at the bottom of the training video screen)
6. Print out or save certificate.

My brothers, we have two events where children will be present coming up, the St. Patrick's Day Informational Social and the April Fools/Easter Egg Hunt at St. Clare's.  Let us complete this training for our families, for our children, for our grandchildren.  And who knows, you might learn something you did not know.

Ted Seeber
1 Year Trustee and Acting GK

Less than a year after her husband

From our parent council 3591:

Brothers

Just a reminder that Bebianne Schekla's Rosary is tonight at 7 pm at Young's Funeral Home and her funeral will be Saturday 2/24 at 11 am.  Any Brothers that can attend is greatly encouraged.

VIVAT JESUS!

Steve Root

Financial Secretary 

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Those of you who had your degrees "In the Old Style" will remember her husband Kenny, who also passed away this year, as the SM in the Third Degree, a role they tell me he played for 30 years.

40 Cans for Lent is on!

Please remember to give 40 items (not necessarily cans) to your parish's SVDP, per person in your family this Lent.  Doing so attracts money from Supreme that we use to give to our local SVDP chapters.  Encourage everybody you know to do so, this drive is not limited to Knights.

MEETING POSTPONED

Due to the National Weather Service declaring a Winter Weather Travel Advisory for Portland, OR, we will be rescheduling this meeting for a later date.

MEETING AGENDA
February 20, 2018
ST. CLARE OFFICE

Fireside Room

• 7:00pm Opening Prayer  Our Father, Roll Call, Reading of Previous Minutes
• 7:05pm Grand Knight’s remarks Acting GK and 1 year Trustee Ted will lay out a new vision for the futue
• 7:10pm Treasurer’s & FS Report
• 7:15pm For the Good of the Order
• 7:30pm Committees
  • Breakfasts - Report of last weekend and Upcoming
  • Membership drives, Initiation Scheduling, and Followup assignments
• 7:50 pm New Business
  • Easter egg hunt on April Fools- what can we do to surprise the kids?
• 8:00 pm District Deputy/State Officers
• 8:10pm Sick or in Distress – Hail Mary
• 8:15pm Closing Prayer – Fatima Prayer Cards

Call for Agenda Items: Meeting February 20th, 7pm

If we get any recruits from the SJF membership drive, we might meet a half hour early to do a "video" style Initiation Degree. 

Topics already being considered:

• Breakfasts- St. Clare upcoming March 11, SJF recap from February 18th.  
• Membership Drives- SJF February 17th-18th results, planning for March 10-11 at St. Clare's.
• How do we regain our council and grow?

Please forward any other items to seebert42@gmail.com  .  A reminder post and full agenda will be sent out Monday, February 19th.

Four opportunities to grow and share in our faith February 17-18

Four good events you might want to consider joining us in on February 17-18.

1. St. Clare's Lenten Parish Reflection- Saturday Feb. 17th  at 9:30 to 12:30 at St. Clare's for a Lenten recollection by Fr. Jon Buffington. (Light refreshments will be served). The Lenten reflection focuses on "How do we walk not only with Jesus but also become more like Him, so that when people around us experience us, they may know that they have been touched by hope, healed and consoled by the mercy and compassion of God". 
2. St. Francis in Sherwood, at 1:30 on Saturday Feb 17, is offering 2nd and 3rd degree.  If you are not already a 3rd Degree Member, consider going and contact Ted Seeber if you are (seebert42@gmail.com or 503-318-1508)
3. St. John Fisher KofC Mebership Drive at the Saturday 4:30pm Mass, Sunday 9:00am , 11:00am Mass, 5:30pm Mass.  Contact Phil Jarvis to volunteer (pdjarvis1@comcast.net)
4. Work the Breakfast at St. John Fisher Sunday 9am-12:30pm!  Contact Mike Devlin to volunteer (mdevprop@hotmail.com)
   
   A busy weekend indeed, but remember Rule #2 for Catholic Knights from Erasmus of Rottendam:
   Rule 2 is: Act on your faith; make it a living witness to others.

The Vocation That Belongs to us

Over the weekend, Archbishop Chaput gave a talk at an Into The Breach Men's Conference.  In it, he had a suggestion for rules for being better Christian men- rules that he himself had cribbed from Erasmus of Rottendam's "The Manual of a Christian Knight" written more than 500 years ago.  From Archbishop Chaput's talk, as related in Crisis Magazine:

To put it another way: The “new knighthood” St. Bernard once praised never really disappears. It’s new and renewed in every generation of faithful Catholic men. And brothers, that means us. It’s a vocation that belongs to us, and nobody else. The rules of our order—all 22 of them—were written down 500 years ago by the great Catholic humanist, Erasmus of Rotterdam, in his book, The Manual of a Christian Knight. It’s a dense text for the modern reader, but here’s the substance of what he says:
Rule 1: Deepen and increase your faith.
Rule 2: Act on your faith; make it a living witness to others.
Rule 3: Analyze and understand your fears; don’t be ruled by them.
Rule 4: Make Jesus Christ the only guide and the only goal of your life.
Rule 5: Turn away from material things; don’t be owned by them.
Rule 6: Train your mind to distinguish the true nature of good and evil.
Rule 7: Never let any failure or setback turn you away from God.
Rule 8: Face temptation guided by God, not by worry or excuses.
Rule 9: Always be ready for attacks from those who fear the Gospel and resent the good.
Rule 10: Always be prepared for temptation. And do what you can to avoid it.
Rule 11: Be alert to two special dangers: moral cowardice and personal pride.
Rule 12: Face your weaknesses and turn them into strengths.
Rule 13: Treat each battle as if it were your last.
Rule 14: A life of virtue has no room for vice; the little vices we tolerate become the most deadly.
Rule 15: Every important decision has alternatives; think them through clearly and honestly in the light of what’s right.
Rule 16: Never, ever give up or give in on any matter of moral substance.
Rule 17: Always have a plan of action. Battles are often won or lost before they begin.
Rule 18: Always think through, in advance, the consequences of your choices and actions.
Rule 19: Do nothing—in public or private—that the people you love would not hold in esteem.
Rule 20: Virtue is its own reward; it needs no applause.
Rule 21: Life is demanding and brief; make it count.
Rule 22: Admit and repent your wrongs, never lose hope, encourage your brothers, and then begin again.