St. Clare's hosting Warm Springs Tribal Emergency Collection

Those of you who get St. Clare's bulletin read today of the dire situation on the Warm Springs Reservation.  Their town water system is down to one pump, and due to some breaks in the line, unsafe river water is leaking into the system.  They barely have enough water to flush toilets, and sometimes not even that.

Worse yet, due to a Covid-19 outbreak, the entire tribe is on lockdown.


A St. Clare School Teacher who is also a Cherokee tribe member far from home is working with the tribal Elders and the Mt. Hood Cherokee council to try to help.

Needed donations are:
1.  Drinking water- distilled jugs or cases of bottles

2.  Canned soup (not the condensed kind you need to add water to)

3.  Travel sized liquid soap, shampoo, hand sanitizer

They're going to make donation easy.  Put your donation in your trunk, and drive to the St. Clare's School Parking Lot on Thursday, August 13 between 10am-1pm.  Just drive up, open your trunk or hand your keys to a volunteer, they'll unload you with proper social distancing and you'll be on your way.

Update - Essay Contest Recognition

It is truly a pleasure to be able to send this list of Youth Activities Winners. Extra exciting is that the Third Place Winner for the Essay Contest, Gabriella Armagno, was also one of our winners from St. Clare!

ESSAY Winners:

1. Sarah McGuire, 16088 NW Graf St., Portland, OR 97229, Council #12656

2. John Naval, 13050 SW Carr St., Beaverton, OR 97008, Council #14802

3. Gabriella Armagno, 19354 Lorna Ln., Lake Oswego, OR 97035, Council #15485

4. Kennedy Averill, 8883 SW Firview Pl., Beaverton, OR 97007, Council #6266

POSTER Winners:

1. Tyler Myatt, 17749 Deer Park Lp., Baker City, OR 97814, Council #849

2. Conner Norton, 50309 Osborn Rd., Baker City, OR 97814, Council #849

3. Bella Maldonado, Council #15773

4. Trinity Barker, Council #1261

Normally they would have handed a check for $50.00 to each of the winners at State Convention 2020...or at the Summer Meeting, which was rescheduled twice. They will try and have them presented at their Parish Mass.

Free Online New Membership Special - Limited Time Offer

My Brother Knights,

Knights of Columbus everywhere were thrilled to learn that our beloved founder will be beatified and officially declared Blessed later this year.

In recognition of this historic event, I am pleased to announce that the Supreme Council will be making a special membership offer in honor of our founder.

SPECIAL LIMITED TIME MEMBERSHIP PROMOTIONAL OFFER:

For a 2-week period commencing Wednesday, July 22 and continuing through 11:59 p.m. ET on August 5th, new members are being offered FREE ONLINE MEMBERSHIP for their first year. The Supreme Council will pay the first-year dues for every man who joins online between now and August 5. Prospects simply need to visit kofc.org/joinus and enter the code MCGIVNEY2020 to take advantage of this special offer.

Father McGivney was faced with a pandemic in the 1880s, as we are today. And in the face of that pandemic, he persevered in his efforts to evangelize those in his community, to form his parishioners in their Catholic faith, and to grow the Knights of Columbus. As his spiritual heirs, we can do nothing less.

Our pastors need the Knights of Columbus. Our fellow parishioners need the Knights of Columbus. Those impacted by COVID-19 need the Knights of Columbus. Just as holy founder surely would, let us resolve to Leave No Neighbor Behind, and to offer every Catholic man the opportunity to join the Order that he founded some 138 years ago.

Vivat Jesus!

Fraternally,

Mark McMullen 

Senior Vice President

Membership and Marketing

July 21, 2020 K of C Virtual Meeting

Meeting began at 7 p.m.:

GK Marc Gregoire offered the opening prayer
and the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag,
The roll call of officers was skipped.
A reading of our last meeting's meeting was approved.

At 7:05 p.m. GK Marc Gregoire opened the Installation of new officers
with a prayer highlighted our mission to assist the parish and be
charitable to those in need.

At 7:15 p.m. the GK, Marc Gregoire, outlined the direction in which he wanted to lead
and discussed the Service Programs.

Because of the Covid-19 virus we aren't going forward with the (1) Squire Program or
(2) the Sports program.  However a new Liason Committee was formed:
Marc Gregoire will be the liason for St. Elizabeth of Hungary parish; Gene Andres will be the Liason - with assistant Mike Devlin - at St. John Fisher Parish, and Ted Seeber will be the Liason - with  assistant Mike O'Phalan - at St. Clare parish.

At 7:20 p.m., Michael O'Phalan gave an excellent talk for For The Good Of The Order.
He elaborated that God, the Creator, loves everyone, and 'that we all learn
valuable lessons when we wander away from God's teachings'.

At 7:30 p.m.,   Treasurer Report

Phil Jarvis reported no significant change, and reported we got a new member,
Louis Jagucki, who increased our membership tp 29 members.
Treasurer, Mike Devlin, concurred, and said we had a $ 983.69 balance in our checking account.


At 7:35 p.m.,  Service Committee Reports

Breakfast fund raisers are not possible because of Covid-19.
Trying to register to get blue bags for the bottle drop program.
James M. Morgan reported his contact plans for August 2020
RE: No Neighbor Left Behind program.
Note:  Committees will report to Gene Andres, the Program Director, and he
will report their information to the Grand Knight to streamline communications

At 7:51 p.m., New Business

The GK asked us to brain-storm ways to generate funds during this Covid-19 virus.
We will discuss our council's fund raising need(s) at our next meeting.

 Our State Secretary, Brother Dan Boone,  Installed the newly elected officers.
He stressed that our job was to strengthen the Parish and family life and serve as a model
for Catholic Life by holding ourselves to a higher standard.
The GK, Marc Gregoire  offered a closing prayer after the installation.

Dan Boone informed us that the State Supreme had suspended Per Capita Dues, but would accept voluntary Paid Culture Fees.

At 8 p.m.  Prayers were offered by:

James M. Morgan for front line medical staff & covid-19 patients
Phil Jarvis for Karen
Mike O'Phalan for people in hospice care and nurseries and their families.

In closing, the Grand Knight thanked Ted Seeber for starting Council 15485, and for
serving as the council's grand knight many times.  Brother Ted Seeber is an outstanding Catholic and
Knights of Columbus officer. 

Our meeting was closed in prayer.

Help Requested - St. Francis of Assisi Church

Brother Knights,

Fr, George, Deacon Greg and your State Deputy have requested help on Saturday August 1st from 9am to 12pm moving pews & the alter.  

If you have ever been to St. Francis of Assisi in SE PDX you will notice the alter and pews are not located in the right direction. Since Fr. George has taken over he has made some incredibly positive moves at St. Francis. He has decided now is the time to bring the pews and alter to their original locations. They have asked for help because they need the man power. If you can assist, also please bring if you have a cordless power screw guns to anchor the pews. The screws have already been taken out so that is one step done.

Please contact Ron Boyce (rboyce4539@aol.com or 503-730-1986) directly to let know know if you can help.

Location:

St. Francis of Assisi

1131 SE Oak St, 

Portland, OR 97214

Update - Vice Supreme Master Jesse Villarreal

Here is the email Brother Jesse sent out about his latest status.

TO ALL MY BROTHER KNIGHTS,

from the latest member that joined the Order to the highest ranking officer of the State and Province.

The response for Prayer Requests during my "cage fight" three round bout with this little unexpected detour has been more than just overwhelming.  I do and have believed in PRAYER POWER but this time when I really thought I needed help was so effective that it makes me an even stronger believer.

The reaching out arms for Prayer Requests stretched so far that someone from the Vatican called me saying Pope Francis wanted to know who I was?  All kidding aside, my deepest and most sincere appreciation to each and everyone of you will always be present in my heart.

May God and Father Michael McGivney bless you and your families.

My condition is now on the mending side and am anxiously looking forward to getting back in touch with all you, my brothers, either by air-stream or in person as in the old fashion way.

Please stay active, stay healthy and by all means KEEP PRAYING.  Father McGivney pray for us.  Our Lady of Guadalupe pray for us.

VIVAT JESUS.

Jesse C. Villarreal

Vice Supreme Master

Council Meeting Tues July 21st 7pm (Online)

Hello Fellow Knights,

Please join us this Tuesday, July 21st at 7pm for our next online Council #15485 meeting. We will be installing our new Officers!

Here is the Agenda to download along with our new closing prayer. 

Ted will open the chat room at 6:45pm. Please join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone:

http://join.me/seebert42

To dial in by phone:

United States - San Francisco, CA+1.415.594.5500

United States - Seattle, WA+1.206.636.0011

Access Code = 381-451-621#

See you all this Tuesday.

Reminder - Next Online Council Meeting This Week

A gentle reminder that our next Council meeting is this Tuesday, July 21 starting at 7pm. It will be held online. Agenda and connection instructions will be sent out before the meeting.

Please join us as we will be conducting Installation of our New Officers.

Vice Supreme Master Jesse Villarreal

For those who know Jesse, a Knights Knight, prayers please. Here is the email we received about his status.

My Brothers,

I got this forward late last night.  Sorry if I double-up, please pray twice.

I have just received word from our Archbishop Blanchet Province Vice Supreme Master Jesse Villarreal that he is in the Emergency Room at Meridian Park.

From Jesse “Doctor is trying to stop the spread of infection going into my blood stream. 

Jesse had a procedure on July 10th and has been having complications since, please pray for a fast recovery for our Worthy Vice Supreme Master.

Please copy responses to Jesse at his email (jcv1936@canby.com).

Chuck Davlin

St. Elizabeth of Hungary - Assistance Requested

I had the privilege of meeting Fr. Joseph Nguyen (socially distant) today. He is the new pastor at my parish of St. Elizabeth. There was a group of parishioners helping him get the living space in order today.

Father says that he will take whatever help anyone can offer. He said to stop by anytime time Saturday or Sunday. Best case scenario would be everything is done and you can just say hi. I will be stopping by tomorrow for a bit to give some assistance. If anyone needs for information, please contact Elizabeth at St. Elizabeth Hungary or myself.

In addition, we briefly chatted about the KoC and hope to continue the dialog in more depth after he is settled in.

more on helping the new priest at St Elizabeth's

From: <ed@stelizabethportland.net>
Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 7:48 PM

Father says that he will take whatever help you nice folks can offer. You can come anytime tomorrow or over the weekend. 

Priest Requests help with some labor

As was reported on this blog earlier, St. Elizabeth of Hungary is getting a new priest.  We've had a request come through our chaplain from Jason Kidd for help.

I wanted to reach out to see if you could invite some of the St C’s Knights to consider lending a hand at St. Elizabeth of Hungary’s priest rectory. 

Fr. Joseph Nguyen has been named the new pastor at the parish and the rectory is in dire need of updating, including new flooring.  

They are hoping to get some help this week from 4 or 5 guys for a few hours to tear out the old carpet, before the contractor comes in to paint and such.  Elizabeth is the parish staff organizing.  

Could you possibly share this invite with the Knights? 

Thanks for all St. Clare’s is doing for the mission!

In HIM,

-Jason Kidd

Update:  Jason says that Elizabeth at St. Elizabeth Hungary is organizing this.  Please click this link to respond.