Our Lady of Guadalupe Silver Rose

Brother Knights,

 

The Silver Rose is coming this weekend to council 1623 McMinnville, and will be on display at their Saturday evening mass. All are welcome to attend. St James is located at 1145 SE 1st, McMinnville. Mass times Saturday are 5:00 (English) and 7:00 (Spanish).

Afterwards the Rose will be taken to Canby, to St Patricks', where you can view it, and attend mass.

St. Patricks' is at 498 NW 9th Ave, Canby Mass times include 8:30 (English), 10:30 (English & live stream), and 12:30 (Spanish and live stream).

Don't miss this opportunity to see the Silver Rose. For more information and Silver Rose schedule please email 

Jesse Villarreal 

Vice Supreme Master

Silver Rose Chairman

VSM@kofc-wa.org

K of C Council 15485 Virtual Meeting July 20, 2021 / Recorder James M. Morgan

7 pm     Call to Order

• Warden's Membership Check / waived
• Prayer:  Our Father
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Roll Call of Officers
• Readings of Minutes was approved

7:05 pm  G.K. is absent.  Gene Andres shared the following

• The 6/20/2021 Exemplification Service was a success.
• Chris Seeber joined our council.
• The Columbia Award Application was submitted.
• We need to plan our next Fraternal Year's activities.
• On 7/1/2021 we helped move furniture for Mary Bunday: St. Vincent De Paul
• Introduced training Programs for the next year.

7:15 pm     Treasurer's Report for July 2021 / Mike Devlin

Beginning Checking Balance              $1,547.19

Add:  Income from Dues                            90.00

Less: Ted Seeber reimbursal                     235.40

Current checking account balance   $1,401.79

Outstanding checks: $100.00 & $350.00

Mount Angel Floor Donations

Unity Savings                                         $543.65

Charity Savings                                         10.67

   

7:20 pm     Financial Secretary Report / Phil Jarvis

• All of the dues have been paid.
• You can make direct donations to the State's Green Sheet State Charity Fund.  See blog for additional information.
• The Michael McGivney 365 Club Fund is open to donors:  See blog for additional information.'s 
• The Columbia Report, the Officer's Report & the Audit Report are either prepared or are being prepared by Phil Jarvis.

7:30 pm   Parish & School Updates

1. St. Clare Parish & School          Ted Seeber & Mike O'Phelan   Discussed a possible picnic in September 2021.
2. St. Elizabeth of Hungary            Marc Gregoire vacationing
3. St. John Fisher                            Gene Andres & Mike Devlin  Nothing to report

Faith Director                Don Mey   absent

  

Community Director     Michael Chou   Nothing new to report

Life Director                  Ted Seeber       Nothing new to report on Life.

Family Director              Ted Seeber       Nothing new to report on special needs adaptive mass.

Membership Director     Ted Seeber       My son, Christopher Seeber, is our newest member.

Retention Chairman       Mike O'Phelan  100% of all dues have been collected.

7:40 pm   K of C Business

        No Neighbor Left Behind:    James M. Morgan contacted all of our members: everyone is okay.

7:50 p.m    We discussed the third chapter of I Heard God Laugh

• We discussed if you could ask God for 1 thing what would you ask for.
• Mike O'Phelan discussed the importance of spontaneous prayer: and he introduced the Thomas Merton prayer; "God I don't know where you're going to lead me, but stay with me."
• We discussed ways to improve our days.   

8:20 pm      As of yet, we don't have a State District Deputy.

8:25 pm   Prayer for the sick and those in distress

• Bless Michael Chau's grandmother
• Bless Paul Pompili's brother and his family
• God bless Les McMillan
• God Bless Donald Cooper, Brian LuLay & Mark Tobin
• God bless the work of the council and its members and grant eternal peace to the souls of departed members.

Closing Prayer:  Prayer for the Canonization of Fr. Michael J. McGivney.

Fraternal Training Webinar

 Here is the information regarding the Fraternal Training Webinar mentioned during our meeting this evening.  Please consider attending.  Register

Contact me if you have a problem registering. 

gene.andres@comcast.net

Fraternal Training Webinar

Fraternal Year 21-22: What Officers Need to Know

Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 5:00 PDT

Worthy Brother Knight,   Are you a district or council leader this fraternal year? Then this webinar is for you!   Learn about essential tools and resources to lead your district or council to new heights this year. Additionally, we will discuss:   ·     Changes to Officers Online ·     Criteria for district and council awards ·     Celebrating Blessed Michael McGivney's first feast day   Every fraternal leader should attend this critical webinar. And if you can't join us live, sign up to watch on demand.   Register Now   Fraternally,   Thomas McCaffrey Vice President, Fraternal Operations Knights of Columbus 1 Columbus Plaza New Haven, CT 06510 203-752-4078       CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message and any attachments may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information and is intended only for the use of the addressee or addressees named above for its intended purpose. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, this message constitutes notice that any review, retransmission, distribution, copying or other use or taking any action in reliance on the information in this message and its attachments, is prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message and its attachments from your system without keeping a copy. Unless expressly stated in this e-mail, nothing in this message may be construed as a digital or electronic signature. Thank you.

State Charities Green Sheet for all members

Following is an email to Worthy Financial Secretaries from our Worthy State Charity President, Ron Boyce.  Phil has ask me to post it here.  I'm sure he will be addressing this at our meeting on Tuesday.  

Please let me know if  you have any problem opening the documents Ron attached.

Gene

gene.andres@comcast.net

Letter 1: KofC Members           Letter 2: Friends of the KofC

Subject: State Charities Green Sheet for all members

 Worthy Financial Secretaries,

 I have attached the famous State Charities Green Sheet.  Please pass this on to all your Council member and Catholic Business owners who wish to have a tax write off since the State Charities is a 501-3C Non-Profit. If you could also include this in your next council Dues notice either mailed or emailed. The money that is collected goes to Charities through out the State of Oregon. Thanks

Vivat Jesus,

 

Ron Boyce

Immediate Past State Deputy & Charity President

503-730-1986

Council Meeting Tues July 20th 7pm (Online Tuesday)

 Hello Brother Knights,

 Please join us next Tuesday, July 20^th at 7pm for our next online Council #15485 meeting.

Our Worthy Grand Knight, Marc Grégoire, is traveling and will not be available for this meeting.  I, along with the help of Ted Seeber and hopefully all of you attending, will preside.

 Marc has kindly provided a copy of the agenda for me to modify and post.  Follow this Link to view and/or print a copy.

Some Meeting Highlights:

* Discussion on Part 3 of the book I Heard God Laugh (Part 3 Info Link)

Ted has arranged the online platform for the meeting and will provide technical support.  We will open the chat room at 6:50pm. Please join the meeting from your computer, tablet or phone.

 MEETING LINK

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84616704305

Meeting ID: 846 1670 4305
One tap mobile
+13462487799,,84616704305# US (Houston)
+16699009128,,84616704305# US (San Jose)

Dial by your location
        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
Meeting ID: 846 1670 4305
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbBclUKMKQ

 

Request from our new Supreme Knight ( add your name to USCCB petition on the Hyde Amendment )

 

Sign the Petition. Urge Congress to Protect Life.

Dear Brother Knight: Your immediate action is necessary to protect taxpayer funding from being used to pay for abortion. Over the last few weeks, the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has considered legislation to fund the U.S. government without the long-standing, bi-partisan provisions that prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortion. Next week, the same committee is scheduled (as soon as Monday) to eliminate the popular Hyde Amendment.  First introduced in 1976 by our brother Knight, the late U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, this important provision has saved the lives of more than 2.4 million children. I urge you to take action today and sign this petition sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops asking Congress to preserve these long-standing provisions and to protect human life. Our 2021 Knights of Columbus/Marist Polling found that 58% of Americans oppose the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortion.  Sign the USCCB petition today to remind Congress that Americans do not want their taxpayer dollars to be used to take innocent, unborn life. Thank you for all you do to promote a culture of life! Fraternally, Patrick E. Kelly Supreme Knight

Sign the Petition

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Note from your pro-life chairman:  This isn't as good as I would have hoped.  There are two steps.  The first step, at the top before anything else is explained for some reason, you sign up name and e-mail for notifications on this subject.  This act, also adds your name to the petition.

You will then get an e-mail and a chance to send a more personalized e-mail to our congresscritters- All of which are pro-choice, but I did get a nice letter back from Sen. Jeff M. thanking me for letting him know and then telling me we're on opposite sides of the issue and he has a totally different take.  The local Rep, Suzanne B. also wrote me a glowing letter praising the power of abortion to change the lives of the poor (yes, certainly not letting the next generation be born, changes lives, sometimes for short term gain but long term pain).

I also added the following to my prewritten letters from the USCCB:

In Oregon, as I'm sure you are aware, our dear governor already embezzles money from the schools budget, laundered through the insurance premiums of teachers, to fund abortions, so there is no real need for the federal government to do so.

I felt adding that sentence, made the point that Oregon already goes against the wishes of many voters on this subject.  Money intended for schools is collected on your property taxes.  A small portion of that is paid to teachers- and their insurance premiums are taxed to provide the "benefit" of killing between 6000 to 9000 children a year in the State of Oregon.  A very convoluted scheme indeed.  Talk about REMOTE material cooperation. 

I Heard God Laugh - Part 3 (Preparation for Next KofC Meeting July 20th)

Hello Knights,

We have had terrific discussions at the last KofC meetings on the book I Heard God Laugh, Parts 1 & 2. This book is a guide to help us encounter God in a powerful way and to help us start a habit of daily prayer.

We will be continuing our discussion at our next meeting (Tuesday July 20th) with Part 3 - Life's Essential Habit. For those that do not have the book, you can click HERE and download a scanned PDF of Part 3.

Here are some possible discussion questions that have been recommended for you to think on as you read the second part:

Question 1: Questions play an important role in our spiritual journey. If you could ask God for one thing right now, what would it be?

Question 2: Matthew says, “The Prayer Process requires no mentor, no guide, and no instructions.” Have you tried praying with it by now. How did it go?

Question 3: How do your best days start? What are the habits you have created that if you don’t do, the day just doesn’t go as smoothly? How could your morning routine become better?

Question 4: If you had to pick three words to describe God in this moment what would they be?