Be a Knight to Your Lady Fundraiser

As you know, my wife (your Grand Knight) has recently changed from doing daycare for a living to selling jewelry. She has graciously agreed to do a "virtual party" for Valentines Day with a portion of the proceeds going to our Charity account.
 To shop for your Lady, Go to this link. Party closes February 3rd, 2020, so that we have time to get the gifts shipped to us and wrapped for you for Valentine's Day.

Fr. Eric's homily on vocations

Missed one. At 6am, in the dark of the morning just as the sun was coming up, we had a Latin Extraordinary Form Mass in almost total darkness. Here is Fr. Eric's homily from that Mass.


Click here to listen

Archbishop Sample's talk to the Holy League Men's Conference from December

In the order originally planned, here's Archbishop Sample on Personal Prayer. Click through to listen to link.


Archbishop Sample, on Personal Prayer

A fundraiser: Be A Knight to your Lady for Valentine's Day

As you know, my wife (your Grand Knight) has recently changed from doing daycare for a living to selling jewelry. She has graciously agreed to do a "virtual party" for Valentines Day with a portion of the proceeds going to our Charity account.
 To shop for your Lady, Go to this link. Party closes February 3rd, 2020, so that we have time to get the gifts shipped to us and wrapped for you for Valentine's Day.

Holy League Men's Conference Mission Statement

I've had the files for a half a week, and wes trying to put them on our blog. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. Instead I'm putting links to the content here.
We have been asked as a council to try to find a venue for this for December 2021. 625 men attended this past December at St. Stephens, it was an entirely inadequate venue. Next year it goes back down to Salem at St. Joseph's. But what we really need is a church able to handle over 1000 men, and have a separate place to feed them.
I suspect St. Clare's in a pinch, or St. John Fisher with the new parish hall, can do this.
Holy League Mission Statement

Future posts will continue the talks in the original scheduled order, as opposed to the order we ended up hearing them when Archbishop Sample was late coming back from a funeral.

9daysforlife.com

Goto 9daysforlife.com for the novena for life.

Oregon March for Life (Saturday)

Annual March for Life is in Salem

January 25th 2:15 PM

State Capitol in Salem

For more information:

Proposed Resolution to forward to State Committee on Resolutions

Resolution to allow Lecturers to use lessons from previous Degree Scripts

Whereas The new Exemplification of Charity, Unity, and Fraternity confers all the honors of the first three degrees upon new members, and

Whereas A council using the new Exemplification of Charity, Unity, and Fraternity will have some business meetings which consist only of 3rd Degree Knights in Good Standing, and

Whereas The Lesson of the Skull, The Lesson of the Compass of Virtue, The Lesson of the Rainbow and Cross, and the Examination of Faith are no longer in the Exemplification of Charity, Unity and Fraternity, and

Whereas These Lessons contain information profitable to the Brothers, Therefore

Be it resolved That duly appointed Lecturers may, with permission of their Grand Knight, and at his discretion, adapt elements from the Lesson of the Skull, the Lesson of the Compass of Virtue, the Lesson of the Rainbow and Cross, and the Examination of Faith for use in the Good of the Order, with the limitation that no such adaptation exceed 10 minutes in length, with appropriate oath to the the excerpt taken, and as copyright holders of the degrees, that this resolution be forwarded on to Supreme for ultimate approval or rejection.

Reminder- get in your form 1728A by either e-mail or in person

Supreme and your Council Leadership want to know what you AND YOUR FAMILY do for the community!  There's a new form to fill out, called the Individual Fraternal Survey Worksheet.  We need these returned, by e-mail or on paper, by the Tuesday January 21 meeting so that we can compile the answers onto our council report by January 31st.

We have numbers for anything that was a true Council Event.  But you do much more as a Knight.  Inspired by your Knighthood, you gather friends and family into a variety of charitable causes.    You give money, you visit the sick, you serve at Mass in various forms of ministries.  You are the backbone of the church- what Matthew Kelly calls the 7.5% who do 90% of the work.  This is the time to brag about that!  Doing so helps our order keep our tax exempt status as a 501c8 organization.

Remember, not just you, but hours done by wives and children also count under the new form.

Click here to go to the PDF form that you can print out, or fill out online.  Some browsers are incapable of filling it out online, but you can always print it out and bring it to our next meeting on Tuesday, January 21st at 7pm.

New Multi-Degree announced

We will discuss this at the meeting, but go to this link for a sneak preview, along with an explanation of why the degrees are changing.  Biggest change- no more secrecy in our NEW ceremonials, this will be able to be done after Mass with families in attendance.

Next Meeting January 21, 2020, 7pm St. Clare Fireside room

MEETING Agenda
January 21, 2020
St. Clare Fireside room
We're going to try using Logmein's Join.Me app for teleconferencing this meeting.  If you cannot attend in person for any reason, use this meeting link, or call one of the numbers in the other blog post with this meeting ID:  381-451-621 #

Please bring your form 1728A if you have not turned it in through e-mail.
PDF can be found here (link in blog post version of the agenda)

• 6:30 pm Ted will open the chamber and start the Join.Me meeting software
• 7:00pm Opening Prayer  Our Father, Roll Call, Reading of Previous Minutes 
• 7:05pm GK’s/Pastoral Council Member remarks- passdowns from District 3/21 Winter Meeting
• 7:10pm Treasurer’s / FS Report 
• 7:15 For the good of the Order
• 7:30 pm Committees
• Breakfasts - St Clare Dates
• March 1
• June 7
• Breakfast, St. John Fisher
• February 9 - need more people to step up
• 7:45 pm New Business 
• New year, new degrees 
• Old Degrees venue change- possibly last chance to see, though with two excellent teams, they're planning on making them still available for a year.
• GK overbooked for February Meeting
• Possible chance to host Holy League Men's Conference in December 2021
• Ted Seeber Resolution Proposal

• 8:00 pm District Deputy/State Officers
• 8:05 pm Sick or in Distress - Hail Mary
• 8:10 pm In Keeping with Resolution Passed at State Convention, Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• Immediately following the meeting, if any strangers show up we will be holding an initiation degree.  If not, we will be showing the full 40 minute MultiDegree video.

To dial in by phone:

United States - Boston, MA+1.857.444.6500

United States - Camden, DE+1.302.202.5900

United States - Denver, CO+1.720.650.5050

United States - Los Angeles, CA+1.213.226.1066

United States - New York, NY+1.646.307.1990

United States - Salt Lake City, UT+1.801.448.0006

United States - San Francisco, CA+1.415.594.5500

United States - Seattle, WA+1.206.636.0011

United States - Tampa, FL+1.813.769.0500

United States - Washington, DC+1.202.602.1295

We will be trying this at our next meeting, Tuesday November 19 at 7:00pm.  I will open the chat room at 6:30.  The meeting id for Tuesday's meeting is Conference ID:

381-451-621 # or http://join.me/seebert42

Feburary Knighthood Degree changed venue

From the State Deputy:
Worthy Grand Knights,

This is to inform you that the Formation and Knighthood Degrees that have annually taken place at St. Francis Church in Sherwood during February have been moved this year and will now be hosted by St. Peter Council #6602 at  St. Peter Catholic Church in Newberg. Information pertaining to the new location is as follows:

Location: St. Peter Parish Center, 2315 N. Main St., Newberg, OR 97132

Date: Saturday, February 15, 2020

Times: Registration: 8:30 to 9:20AM. Formation Degree 9:30AM, Knighthood Degree 11:00AM

The State website has been updated to reflect this change.

Vivat Jesus,

Ron Boyce

Knights of Columbus

Oregon State Deputy

PO Box 23093

Tigard, OR 97281

Cell #503-730-1986

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Given the upcoming change in degrees, this may be among one of the last chances to watch the best degree team in the business.  And as the new degree will be a combined multi-degree, I urge any member who is only a 1st or 2nd Degree member to attend this degree day!

Potential scam floating around

As some of you are aware, your Grand Knight is on the Beaverton Draft Board.  We're all well past draft age; however there is a new scam you should share with friends and family, and so I have decided to repost this letter I just got from the National Director of the Selective Service Administration:

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January 10, 2020

Greetings State Directors and Local Board Members:

I hope this message finds you well and on your way to a superb New Year. The year 2020 is beginning with an influx of current events that have captivated our attention as a nation and impacted our Agency. I’d like to bring you up to date about some of the ways this has affected us.

As you are likely aware, last Friday morning, January 3^rd, the Selective Service IT team notified us about a surge in website activity. Our social media team verified that there was a high volume of twitter traffic resulting from false allegations that a Draft had begun or was imminent. We immediately posted statements on social media platforms that the Agency was conducting business as usual and that any resumption of a Draft can only occur when Congress passes and the President signs legislation initiating a Draft. Never-the-less, our website did receive a surge of hits while IT was in the process of making standard upgrades. This caused the Agency to scale back and meter on the amount of simultaneous website visits it could process. This slowed processing, but prevented an actual website crash.  This was an unfortunate “perfect storm” of events but we’re now operating normally. We just wanted you to understand what happened.

This week, a series of fraudulent text messages are being circulated throughout the country informing individuals they have been selected for a military draft. This also resulted in a flurry of inquiries from the public and the media. The Department of Homeland Security is investigating the origin of these messages.

Finally, there has been chatter about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the Selective Service. The Higher Education Act requires that men to be registered with Selective Service to receive Federal student aid. FAFSA forms provide men a quick and easy method to register, comply with the law, and secure access to all the benefits linked to registration. We have experienced a number of social media posts suggesting that the FAFSA form contains deceptively fine print to trick registering men with Selective Service. That is completely untrue and mean spirited.

These examples of misinformation have generated increased public and media interest in the Selective Service, registration and related issues. I am providing this update so that you are aware of the high volume of misinformation being promulgated and in many cases the misunderstanding it generates. The silver lining of all this activity and interest in our Agency is that it allows us the opportunity to remind men how important the agency is to our nation’s readiness and how important it is that men register at SSS.gov. Should you be contacted by the media about any of these issues, please direct all inquiries to the SSS National Headquarters public affairs office at 703-605-4093 or 703-605-4103.

Again, Thank you for your service to our country, this Agency, and the mission.

Sincerely,

Don Benton

Director

Reitterating- Monthly pro-life rosaries and adoration

St. Clare's is at 2:30 on First Saturdays- exposition at 2:30, Chaplet of Divine Mercy at 3pm, followed by a pro-life Rosary in reparation for sexual sins, and at 3:45 Benediction by Deacon Bill.

St John Fisher is 7:00pm on First Tuesdays, and is a similar program of adoration, pro-life Rosary, and music by our Financial Secretary Phil who is a very accomplished piano player.

If you can fit either or both of these into your schedule, we highly recommend your participation.  Both are scarcely attended. 

Monthly Eucharistic Adoration and Pro-life Rosary

Just a reminder, brothers, that our council sponsors an Adoration and Pro-life Rosary service at St. John Fischer church on the first Tuesday of each month at 7pm.  Brother Knight Paul Pompili officiates with piano accompaniment provided by our worthy Financial Secretary, Phil Jarvis.  In Paul’s absence, Brother Deacon Scott presides.  Our service last evening was sparsely attended.  Please mark your calendar and plan to attend our next service on Tuesday February 4^th.  Better still, set a recurring calendar entry for the first Tuesday of each month and invite family and friends to attend.  All are welcome.

If you have a recruit, here's a discount code for e-membership

Happy New Year!

 

This morning, an email went out from the Supreme Home Office to all prospective members for a New Year’s discount code for e-members.  By using the code, NEWYEAR2020, any member that signs up will receive 50% off of membership ($15).  This promo will continue until January 15^th at Midnight EST.

  

Please pass this to all of your councils!  Thank you!

 

Vivat Jesus,

 

Ron Boyce

Knights of Columbus

Oregon State Deputy

PO Box 23093

Tigard, OR 97281

Cell #503-730-1986

 

One Member, Per Council, Per Month

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