From Council 3179 in Gresham

 Day of Recollection for Catholic Men

St. Henry's Church , Gresham | November 4

The Knights of Columbus – Council 3179 invites all Catholic men to a day of recollection on Saturday, November 4th, in the Madonna Center of St. Henry Catholic Church, 346 NW First St in Gresham. Fr. Chuck Wood and Fr. Niall O’Riordan will give presentations on the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist as well as the meaning and beauty of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Admission is free! Please RSVP by Monday, October 30th to Jerry McAfee at 503-260-8995 or gpmcafee@comcast.net.

Thanks to All

 Thanks to all who helped make our breakfast at St. John Fisher this past Sunday a success.  As I passed through the dining area yesterday, I received a number of compliments on the quality of our breakfast. I also noticed, especially after the 11am Mass, people who were obviously first-time participants.  They needed direction to the kitchen.  I believe the word will get around as to how good our breakfasts are, and we will have even greater success in the future.   Also, when I returned the key to the SJF office this morning, the Business Manager commented on how nice the hall and kitchen looked this morning and what a great job we did on clean-up after the breakfast.

Thanks again.

Another Successfull Breakfast

Gross $412

Expenses $170.55

Net $241.45

Pancake Breakfast Sunday Oct. 22nd

Volunteers are needed for the pancake breakfast we are hosting in the Corrado Family Center at St. John Fisher Church on Sunday October 22nd.  The doors will be open at 7AM to start the coffee, set up the tables and begin the prep work for the breakfast.  Cooking will begin around 9AM.  Meals will be served after the 9AM and 11AM Masses.  Help will also be needed to clean and set up the dining area between the Masses and for a complete clean up after the final serving.  We should finish by 2PM.  Please join us any time you can this Sunday.   

A brother lost

Charter member of Council 15485, Denny Codd, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 12. His funeral Mass will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 11am. May he rest in peace.  

Let's get as many Knights to his funeral as possible.

Join us, Fridays, in Prayer for Peace at St. John Fisher Church

Beginning this Friday and every Friday evening at 7pm, we will have a Peace Hour to pray for peace in the Holy Land, the Ukraine, and everywhere there is violence and war. This will be an hour of quiet prayer, perhaps with some guided prayers. Fr. Richard invites all parishioners, neighbors and friends to come and pray. 

copied, with permission, from the SJF bulletin

Meeting notes 10-17-2023

October 17th, 2023

7:00 pm - Call to Order

• Prayer - Our Father
• Pledge of Allegiance

7:05 pm - Warden’s Membership

• Roll Call of Officers
• 13 officers, 16 total members present
  
  
  
  
  
  

7:10 pm - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (September)

7:15 pm - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey)

• Check blog get new guys to go through the safe environment training.
• Next Breakfast- for Sunday October 22. 
• Thank you to Anastasia Paulsen and Jazlyn Moulton for help with breakfast.  Biggest breakfast ever- ran out of eggs, ran out of sausage, ran out of blueberry pancakes.

7:20 pm - District Deputy Remarks (Mark Larson)

• Wear your shirts, wear your badges, wear your pins.  Recruit, Recruit, Recruit!
• Print your calendar and post it!  It's a great way to recruit.  Pass the calendars around!  Figure out how to print google calendar.

7:25 pm - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)

• Checking, $2796.75, Unity, $544.19, Charity $5.71. Report accepted

7:30 pm - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)

• Cute story about boys at breakfast stealing sugar packets (what they don't know is we're still on our 1st box of sugar packets- purchased in 2011, likely before they were born).  Advocate to deliver check to St Joseph's in Salem.  Coats for kids have gone out.  Received a letter with enclosed portraits.  Report Accepted

7:35 pm - Membership Reports

• Membership Director (Dan Riechers) 
• Good and bad- Eric Burrel, Charter GK of Rose of Lima Council, will join when he returns from his mother's stroke.  Paul R. is flying to Europe.  Andy is moving slowly, we will probably get him. Membership is going in a good direction.
  Will talk to Fr. Don about an after mass announcement.
  Report Accepted
• Retention Chairman (Richard Digregorio)
• No Neighbor Left Behind Phone Calls (Richard Digregorio)

7:40 pm - Programs

• Program Director - (Gene Andres)

7:45 pm - Committees

• Parish / School Updates
• St. Clare (Don Mey)
• St. Clare- 2nd Grade and above do Mass on Thursdays- but the only people who see it are weekday mass participants.  We have a once a month family mass- from here on out a class will be responsible as readers, greeters, servers and 8th graders will be extraordinary ministers.  That will help us with breakfasts greatly.
• St. John Fisher (Mike Devlin)
• St.John Fisher- Breakfast coming!  email Mike Devlin to volunteer.  SJF school mass is 12pm on Wednesdays.  Suggest maybe a 3rd Sunday mass & breakfast in conjunction with the school.  Prayer Service for Peace on Friday, October 20, Gene to post additional detials

7:55 pm - Faith / Community / Family

• Our one vacant director is life- we really need one.
• Job is to keep people aware of events and form committees

8:00 pm - KofC Business

• Audrey has done some Mater Dei interviews
• Pancake Breakfast SJF October 22nd.  Check your calendar, contact Mike Devlin to volunteer
• SC and SJF Coffee & Donuts- we just did it at SJF last Sunday.  Will volunteer again after the 1st of the year.  Need to include Dan!!!!!
• New Pancake Breakfast Dates will be on Calendar
• Shirt Order!  Will be on the blog- will have instructions to return to Dan your order
• Fr. Jom Homeless toiletry bags- donations are now accepted for November distribution.  Boxes needed.  Med size packing boxes work best.  Volunteers check calendar for dates- November 18
• Coats for Kids- not enough money for initial purchase- encourage individual members to donate
• Mike O'Phelan Cor program director.  Still working on making it a part of our ministry.  Talk to Elizabeth Hamilton and Kim Zea
• SJF Wine and Cheese- Parishoners sign up to donate, sometimes organizers donate.  3-4 bottles of wine, water for kids, cheese.  Donation people.  30-45 minutes.  Zero danger of overindulging.  Last Sunday of the month after 5pm Mass.  Maybe quarterly.  Do we have the manpower is the question on the floor.  Quarterly is the proposal due to lack of manpower. 10 Ayes, 4 nays, referred to committee for more information, motion passed.

8:15 pm - KofC New Business

• Venmo discussion.  Check with 3591 on how it is tracked through e-mail.  Will people give less?  Not really- less.  Could also use for other things.
• Discussion on placemats

8:20 pm - For the Good of the Order (Mike O’Phelan)

• Prayer for Peace in Israel and Palestine with crucifix and Star of David (the one from Sojourner's Magazine that was posted to the blog)
• Giving to the State of Oregon 365 fund- think about adding $3.65 to your dues for our fellow Knights.

8:25 pm - Closing Prayers

• Intentions for the Sick and/or in Distress – Hail Mary
• Ted Seeber Long Covid
• People of Israel and Palestine
• Eric Burrel's Mother and famiy
• Paul and Christine Resweber
• John Nguyen, Rest in Peace
• Daniel's sister in Israel, single widow with three kids- under stress but safe
• Scott Pauline's Sister Christine
• God Bless the work of the council and its members and grant eternal peace to the souls of the departed members.
• Prayer for the Canonization of Father Michael J. McGivney.

8:30 pm - Adjournment

Day of Prayer and Fasting for peace in the Middle East

 Dear St. Clare Community,

Pope Francis is asking that tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 17^th be a day of prayer, fasting, and abstinence for peace in the Middle East.  We will open the church from 5-7:00pm that evening for anyone who would like to come for quiet prayer in the church.  You are welcome for as long as you like during that time.  Prayer is a powerful tool, let’s join the multitudes around the world in praying for peace.    

Warm regards,

Fr. Don and Deacon Bill

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In support of this, we ask all Knights to meet *IN THE CHURCH* for a 6pm Rosary with your families.  Our meeting will follow.

Ted Seeber

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And From the Supreme Knight:

Brother Knights,

As we struggle to comprehend the horrific events in the Holy Land, I urge all Knights of Columbus and their families to join me in answering the call of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and our United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to a day of fasting and prayer for peace and reconciliation tomorrow, October 17.

As stated by Cardinal Pizzaballa, “In this time of sorrow and dismay, we do not want to remain helpless. We cannot let death and its sting (1 Cor 15:55) be the only word we hear. That is why we feel the need to pray, to turn our hearts to God the Father.”

Cardinal Pizzaballa’s full statement can be found here: https://www.lpj.org/posts/a-day-of-fasting-and-prayer.html.

Together in prayer, we can beg Christ’s mercy and peace upon all those who are suffering.

Fraternally,

Patrick E. Kelly
Supreme Knight

Meeting October 17, 7:00pm

John Clare Council 15485 Monthly Meeting - Hybrid Meeting (Online and In-person)

Hello Brother Knights,

Please join us Tuesday October 17th, at 7pm for our next John/Clare Council #15485 meeting. We will meet in-person at the St. Clare Parish Hall/cafeteria, or join Online via ZOOM invitation.   Online available starting at 7:00PM.

Please check our blog calendar and recent posts for volunteer opportunities. Pancake Breakfast SJF October 22nd!!

Here is the AGENDA to download.

For Online:

The Online link will open at 6:50pm.  Ted will start the meeting from his phone, the actual meeting may be late due to the prayer service. Please join the meeting from your computer, tablet or phone.

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

October 17th, 2023 6:30 PM Doors Open

Join Zoom Meeting

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

Meeting ID: 873 3883 4174

From Tom Owens, and Sojourner Magazine

A PRAYER FOR PEACE IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

BY ROSE MARIE BERGER

OCT 9, 2023

  

“They will not hurt or destroy
    on all my holy mountain...” —Isaiah 11:9

God of Comfort,
send your Spirit to encompass all those whose lives
are torn apart by violence and death in Israel and Palestine.
You are the Advocate of the oppressed
and the One whose eye is on the sparrow.
Let arms reach out in healing, rather than aggression.
Let hearts mourn rather than militarize.

God of Justice,
give strength to those whose long work for a just peace
might seem fruitless now. Strengthen their resolve.
Do not let them feel alone. Show us how to support their work
and bolster their courage. Guide religious leaders to model
unity and reconciliation across lines of division.
Guide political leaders to listen with their hearts as they seek peace and pursue it.
Help all people choose the rigorous path of just peace and disavow violence.

God of Love,

we lift up Palestine and Israel — its people, its land, its creatures.
War is a monster that consumes everything in its path.
Peace is a gift shared at meals of memory with Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
Let us burn incense, not children. Let us break bread, not bodies.
Let us plant olive groves, not cemeteries.
We beg for love and compassion to prevail
on all your holy mountains.

God of Hope,
we lift up the cities of the region: Gaza City and Tel Aviv,
Ramallah and Ashkelon, Deir El Balah and Sderot,
so long divided, yet so filled with life and creativity.
Come again to breathe peace on your peoples
that all may recognize you.

God of Mercy,
even now work on the hearts of combatants
to choose life over death, reconciliation over retaliation,
restoration over destruction. Help us resist antisemitism in all its forms,
especially in our own churches. All people, Israelis and Palestinians,
deserve to live in peace and unafraid, with a right to determine
their future together.

God of the Nations,
let not one more child or elder be sacrificed on altars of political expediency.
Keep safe all people from unjust leaders who would exploit
vulnerability for their own distorted ends.
Give wise discernment to those making decisions to pursue peace.
Provide them insight into fostering well-being, freedom, and thriving for all.
Teach all of us to resolve injustices with righteousness, not rockets.
Guard our hearts against retaliation, and give us hearts for love alone.

Strengthen our faith in you, O God of All Flesh,
even when we don’t have clear answers,
so that we may still offer ourselves nonviolently
for the cause of peace.

Amen.

 Hello Gentleman, 

I am sorry this took so long but I have a shirt option here for the council if we wanted to order in bulk. I went with the polo because they can be worn to mass but I also included the link to a t-shirt if anyone was interested. I chose this polo becuase it was just about the cheapest one and it has a pocket for our name tags. Both links are included to copy and paste into your browser if there is a problem with the images. 

https://knightsgear.com/collections/polos/products/port-authority-core-classic-pique-pocket-polo

https://knightsgear.com/collections/t-shirts/products/kofc-varsity-crackle-t

An extremely successful breakfast in the books

 Preliminary figures from Erik and Ken this morning were very exciting!

1st shift gross:  $730

2nd shift gross:  $435
Total gross: $1,170

Our wonderful shopper, Ken Paulsen, pulled off a major miracle in this time of inflation, cost of the groceries was only slightly higher than normal for the first breakfast of the season, $231.96.

Which means our net is $938.04!  A new record for breakfast at St. Clare's.

Our photographer Michael Chau borrowed Ted Seeber's video camera, and got some interesting footage as well, click through to the blog to play it!

Breakfast at St Clare's

Contact GK@KOFC15485.ORG to volunteer on Sunday if you have not already talked to Richard or Don.  Remember- many hands make for light work.

Beware email scams

It appears that we are once again getting email scams under the names of our clergy and higher officers.

If you get an email asking for a discrete matter, check the email address.  If it does not match what you know, do not reply.

Of course, our order gives us a few code words we can use for emergency identification in untrusted communications:

Fraternal Greeting: Vivat Jesus!

Watchword of the Order:  Tempus Fugit, Memento Mori

Addressing the person you are communicating with as Worthy Title, such as Worthy Grand Knight, or at least a respectful "My Brothers All".

These should be given *slightly* more credence, but always enlist the help of other council members if there is a need.  Never offer help unilaterally, even if you think you can afford it.