Audrey's Essay published in Archdiocese Happenings Newsletter

 Also, Archbishop Sample standing up for the truth in a world that no longer values it.

A very good issue of Happenings is live at this link to the archdiocese website.

Edith Luther move is on hold

More info when it is rescheduled. 

Child Protection Training

 

If you get an e-mail that starts like this picture above (click through to the blog to see the picture), please follow the directions in the e-mail.  It's because you've been named to an officer position that requires Child Protection Training and/or a background check.

Meeting Notes June 20, 2023

Meeting Notes 6-20-2023

·        7:00 pm - Call to Order

•         Warden’s Membership Check

•         Prayer - Our Father

•         Pledge of Allegiance

•         Roll Call of Officers

        GK- Excused

    DGK- Excused

    Chan- Excused

 Recorder- Present

Warden - Present

FS- Present

Treasurer- Present

Advocate- Present

Inside Guard - Excused

Outside Guard- Present

One Year Trustee- Present

Two Year Trustee- Excused

Three Year Trustee- Excused

Chaplain - Excused 

Lecturer- Excused

6 Officers/ one member

•         Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (March)

·        7:10 pm - GK’s Remarks (Erik Riechers)

•         Member Challenge

•         Blog / Calendar / Volunteer Opportunities

·        7:15 pm - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)

•         Fraternity $3011.30 +532.75 +372 -$500 Seminarian -$500 HFCC-$500 MCEC -$500 St Andrew Nativity=$1916.05 

•         Charity$5.71

•         Unity-$544

·        7:20 pm - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers) -
140 plates served at St. Clares

        45 plates served at St John Fisher

·        7:25 pm - Committees

•           Parish / School Updates

-         St. John Fisher (Mike Devlin) School's out for summer- Rose Garden won 1st prize in a Rose Festival Event

•         Community Director (Michael Chau)

•         Family Director (Ted Seeber)

•         Membership Director (Dan Riechers/Ted Seeber)

•         Retention Chairman (Richard Digregorio)

·        7:35 pm - For the Good of the Order (Mike O’Phelan)

·        7:45 pm - KofC Business

•         No Neighbor Left Behind Phone Calls (Richard Digregorio)

•         Junque & Jewels, St. Clare volunteers needed, June 17th to June 25th.

-         See SC website for details and specific needs.

•         Volunteers needed to help move Edith Luther from SW to NE. Currently residing in Brookdale Assisted Living. See blog posting dated June 9th. Contact Deacon Bill @ dcmbill@saintclarechurch.org

•         Holy Family Catholic Clinic and Mother & Child Education Center, $500 each, donations delivered in person.

•         Mount Angel Seminarian and St. Andrew Nativity School, $500 each, donations mailed.

·        8:15 pm - New Business

•         New Member Scott Pauline.  Exemplification tentatively Scheduled June 24

•         Open Discussion

·        8:25pm - Sick or in Distress – Hail Mary

Bonnie Owens, Michael Chau, Paul Pompili, 

•        God bless the work of the council and its members and grant eternal peace to the souls of departed members.

·        8:30pm - Closing Prayer – Prayer for the Canonization of Father Michael J. McGivney

 

Meeting John Clare Council #15485; Tuesday, June 20th, 2023

Meeting John Clare Council #15485; Tuesday, June 20th, 2023

Hybrid Meeting (Online and In-person)

Hello Brother Knights,

Please join us Tuesday, June 20th, at 7pm for our next Council #15485 meeting. We will meet in-person at the St. Clare Parish Hall/Cafeteria or join Online via ZOOM invitation. Doors open at 6:30 PM.

Please check our blog calendar and recent posts for volunteer opportunities. 

Here is the AGENDA to download.

For Online:

The Online link will open at 6:50pm. Please join the meeting from your computer, tablet or phone.

MEETING LINK for Zoom App/website, or see below for audio call in instructions

April 18th, 2023 06:30 PM

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87338834174

Meeting ID: 873 3883 4174

Litany of the Sacred Heart

Dear Brother Knight,
On Friday, June 16, Catholics around the world will celebrate God’s love for us on the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is a day to honor Christ’s humble gift of his very self, offered out of deep and abiding love for all of humanity.
This Friday, however, is also the day the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team has chosen to celebrate a group of men who masquerade as Catholic nuns and mock the Virgin Mary, consecrated women, and Jesus Christ himself, through their shocking displays and vulgar behavior. As noted by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), the decision of the Dodgers is “not just offensive and painful to Christians everywhere; it is blasphemy.”
In response, the USCCB has called on Catholics to pray the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 16 “as an act of reparation for the blasphemies against our Lord we see in our culture today.”
The Knights of Columbus urges its members to respond to the call of our bishops and make a stand for respect, decency and our Catholic faith. Through prayer and by making reparation, we’ll draw ever closer to Christ’s Sacred Heart, which Pope Francis has said is “the source of love and peace.”

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Pray this Litany on June 16  

Lord, have mercy	Lord, have mercy
Christ, have mercy	Christ, have mercy
Lord, have mercy	Lord, have mercy
God our Father in heaven	have mercy on us
God the Son, Redeemer of the world	have mercy on us
God the Holy Spirit	have mercy on us
Holy Trinity, one God	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, Son of the eternal Father	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, one with the eternal Word	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, infinite in majesty	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, holy temple of God	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, tabernacle of the Most High	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, house of God and gate of heaven	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, aflame with love for us	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, source of justice and love	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, well-spring of all virtue	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, worthy of all praise	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, treasure-house of wisdom and knowledge	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, in whom there dwells the fullness of God	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father is well pleased	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, from whose fullness we have all received	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, desire of the eternal hills	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, patient and full of mercy	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, generous to all who turn to you	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, fountain of life and holiness	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, atonement for our sins	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, overwhelmed with insults	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, broken for our sins	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, obedient even to death	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, pierced by a lance	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, victim of our sins	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, salvation of all who trust in you	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, hope of all who die in you	have mercy on us
Heart of Jesus, delight of all the saints	have mercy on us
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world	have mercy on us
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world	have mercy on us
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world	have mercy on us
Jesus, gentle and humble of heart.	Touch our hearts and make them like your own.

Let us pray.

Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that we, who glory in the Heart of your beloved Son
and recall the wonders of his love for us,
may be made worthy to receive
an overflowing measure of grace
from that fount of heavenly gifts.
Through Christ our Lord.
R/. Amen.

Another Successful Breakfast

Gross $333.22

Expenses $115.97

Net $217.25

Pretty good for light crowds- only served 45 breakfasts.  That is average giving of $7.40 a breakfast, and it only cost us $2.57 a plate.  Plenty of spare pancakes went to St Vincent De Paul.

Here are some pictures from the Breakfast:

Meet our new general agent

Lake Oswego council is holding a Fraternal Benefits night.  Cicero and his wife are moving to Vancouver from Hawaii.

Gentlemen,

 

Please let me know if you will attend our General Agent Cicero Seisdedos Fraternal Benefit Presentation this Monday, June 12 (7-8 pm) in the OLL Parish Hall.

 

I ask because it's mission critical that we get at least 14 members attending this presentation as part of our efforts to achieve Star Council this fraternal year.

 

Thanks very much and hope you can make it Monday!

 

Brian 

cell: 503-887-7185

St. Clare Junque and Jewels Sale Volunteer links

 Volunteers Needed June 16 - June 26! Sign up to help using one of the options below: 

 Click https://stclarepdx.ivolunteer.com/jj_2023 

 Go to www.saintclarechurch.org > Quick Links

Moving Help Needed

I am hoping that a few members of the K of C can help a woman who currently is residing at Brookvale Assisted Living to her home.

Her moving date is possibly Thursday June 29th, but there are options for the Friday or Saturday. She needs to be out by the end of June. Her name is Edith Luther and her room # is 325. 

Brookdale is located at 11552 SW Lesser Road - parking is scarce and there is only one elevator in the building.

She has one mattress - which is big and bulky and heavy, one bed frame that she claims is not heavy, one TV, one night stand, small dressed (about 3 foot by 4 foot), one lamp, and a few boxes. 

Her home address is 2122 NE 116th Ave. off of San Rafael St. 97220.

A van or larger pickup truck would be great or If need be, I will rent a U Haul van, but I would appreciate some members to give a hand loading and unloading.

To volunteer and co-ordinate, email Deacon Bill at dcnbill@saintclarechurch.org

Volunteers needed for the SJF Breakfast June 11

Hot on the heels of a very successful breakfast, let's do it again!  We're looking for volunteers for the June 11 breakfast at St John Fisher!  

Email Mike Devlin to volunteer.

A Very Successful Breakfast

 Despite being a bit shorthanded, the breakfast was very successful.  Some raw numbers:
$730  Gross

$221 expenses - $198 n Ken Paulsen's shopping, Ted and Christopher bought the milk for $23

$509 profit.

140 plates served, with an average of $5.22/plate donation, $1.57 in expenses per plate.

Without our normal people doing milk and OJ and coffee, we only just barely got drinks out in time, but a BIG thank you to James Michael Morgan, Gene and Cathy Andres, Shannon and Ted Seeber, and Don Mey on setup Saturday, which was accomplished before 7pm.   To Ken Paulsen for shopping, as usual, though we did use Christopher's employee discount to get a better price, we discovered a sale at Safeway that was better for the Chocolate Milk, so Ted and Shannon hit both. 

On Sunday, Ted  started making coffee early, and Gene showed up early to start sausages and getting ready.  James Michael Morgan and Don Mey also came in early to work, Scott Young and our Egg Man Mike O'Phelan came in to do their thing.  James Morgan, John Creegan and Gene Andres were the face of the first shift on the serving line, Dan and Erik Reichers were at the money table.  Paul Pompili was on dishes as Don Mey came in and out doing double duty for Admin council while still in his KofC apron to advertise the breakfast.

The Children's choir came in hungry.  We ran through the blueberry pancakes, chocolate milk, and even hot chocolate quite quickly.  Kids even came up for seconds and thirds on eggs and sausage!

Rich came at 10:30 to replace James, Mike Devlin came in to finish dishes.  Christopher even showed up at the end to sweep.  We left the place as clean as we could.  

District Deputy passdowns

 If you do not have or didn’t know, the Oregon KofC is using a new web address.

Please distribute this to your council members.

 

For new or continuing Officers, the State Web Master would like New and correct photos and contact information.

 

Please see that this is done as soon as possible, like yesterday.

 

https://oregonkofc.org/

 

Eucharistic procession at the Cathedral on the Feast of Corpus Christi

St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

 

 

Brothers All,  Once again, there will be a Eucharistic procession at the Cathedral on the Feast of Corpus Christi.

That will be Sunday, June 11th, immediately following the 11 AM Mass.  We will once again be taking the Blessed Sacrament into the streets of Portland.

 

Knights are needed to assist with traffic control and be watchful as we process. 

 

Please let me know if you can assist with this special and significant event.   Contact me, and I will forward your numbers to Ray Prom, State Deputy Oregon Knights of Columbus.

 

Please bring your families and inform your council and parish so they can participate in this as well.

Thank you.

 

 

Saint Mary's Cathedral Of The Immaculate Conception (1716 NW Davis St, Portland, OR  97209)

 

(if you don't feel you can participate in that 2nd one, join us at St Clare's for the Adoration going on at the same time- Deacon Bill)