If you would like to learn more about the membership benefits of the Knights of Columbus, this is a live online event at 7pm each Wednesday. Please visit the link below. There is a survey at the end of the presentation. By filling this out, our council gets credit for your attendance. It would also help if you could email Don Mey dmey1951@gmail.com to let me know you attended. Let's get to our 10 members and new members attending a webinar!
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
St. Clare Breakfast Incomming!
April 6, 2025 is our next pancake breakfast at St. Clare's. This is an important one.
As usual, we have our standard volunteer times:
6pm-8pm Saturday: The more hands the better setting tables and Prep
7am-10:15am Sunday: First shift
10:30am-2:30pm: Second shift
Let seebert42@gmail.com know what you can volunteer for- depending on the job, hours may be slightly different, so if you are not an exact fit, go ahead and let us know what you CAN work. And remember, for school parents, volunteering with the Knights counts towards your volunteer hours for your family!
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Soup Supper March 28th- 2nd call, 2 to 3 soups still needed, bread still needed.
As has been mentioned a few times before on the blog, the Knights of Columbus is the sponsor for St. Clare's March 28th Soup Supper. Please let Ted Seeber (seebert42@gmail.com) know if you ware willing to volunteer for this event. It's pretty simple:
5:30pm- Ted will open the Cafeteria for setup. Put out 35 bowls and spoons, set up tables6pm- pray & dinner (Fr. Don should be back by then)
6:30pm Stations of the Cross
7pm- Do dishes and cleanup.
Especially let us know if you're planning on bringing a soup. We need 6 to 8 soups and bread. Dessert OK, but remember since it's Friday, meat-free soups and fish based soups are required.
Especially let us know if you're planning on bringing a soup. We need 6 to 8 soups and bread. Dessert OK, but remember since it's Friday, meat-free soups and fish based soups are required.
Fraternal Benefits tonight (7pm, same time as the digest comes out)
If you would like to learn more about the membership benefits of the Knights of Columbus, this is a live online event at 7pm each Wednesday. Please visit the link below. There is a survey at the end of the presentation. By filling this out, our council gets credit for your attendance. It would also help if you could email Don Mey dmey1951@gmail.com to let me know you attended.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Easter Egg Hunt! Yes, it's still the middle of Lent
We have been asked once again to help with setup for the Easter Egg Hunt at St. Clare's. Mark April 19, Holy Saturday, on your calendar. We will once again be setting up for two zones to keep the little ones from being run over.
Soup Supper March 28th
As has been mentioned a few times before on the blog, the Knights of Columbus is the sponsor for St. Clare's March 28th Soup Supper. Please let Ted Seeber (seebert42@gmail.com) know if you ware willing to volunteer for this event. It's pretty simple:
5:30pm- Ted will open the Cafeteria for setup. Put out 35 bowls and spoons, set up tables
5:30pm- Ted will open the Cafeteria for setup. Put out 35 bowls and spoons, set up tables
6pm- pray & dinner (Fr. Don should be back by then)
6:30pm Stations of the Cross
7pm- Do dishes and cleanup.
Especially let us know if you're planning on bringing a soup. We need 6 to 8 soups and bread. Dessert OK, but remember since it's Friday, meat-free soups and fish based soups are required.
Especially let us know if you're planning on bringing a soup. We need 6 to 8 soups and bread. Dessert OK, but remember since it's Friday, meat-free soups and fish based soups are required.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Archbishop Sample on EWTN
Click on this link to hear Archbishop Sample stand up to Tina Kotek's abortion celebration
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Meeting minutes for March 18,2025
7:00pm - Call to Order
- Warden’s Membership Check
- Prayer – Our Father
- Pledge of Allegiance
7:03pm - Roll Call of Officers
- GK, DGK, 2yt, WAR, IG, OG, Rec. FS, Treas, Chan/Lector-Present
- Adv- excused
- 1yt, 3yt excused
- 12 members Present
7:05pm - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting
Minutes (corrections & additions?)
7:07pm - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey)
- Lenten activities participation SC & SJF
- Fraternal Benefits Training
- SAFE Environment
- Membership Challenge
7:10pm - District Deputy Remarks- N/A
7:15pm - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)
- Fraternity Checking balance $1,425.64
- Unity Savings Account balance $544.53
- Charity Savings Acct. balance $5.71
7:20pm - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)
- Supreme Correspondence
- June 3rd St. Andrew Nativity Open House
- 29 paid 11 yet to collect from.
- Vouchers and Unbound
7:25pm - Membership Reports
- Membership Director (Dan Riechers)
- Retention Chairman (Richard Digregorio)
- No Neighbor Left Behind Phone Calls
7:30pm - Programs
- Program Director - (Gene Andres)
7:35pm - Committees
- Parish / School Updates
- St. Clare (Don Mey)
- St. John Fisher (Mike Devlin)
- Programs:
- Faith
- Community
- Family
- Life
7:40pm - KofC Business
- St. Clare Lenten Soup Supper March 28th
- Details will be posted to the blog (Ted Seeber will have the cafeteria open at 5:30pm)
- Report soups to (seebert42@gmail.com )
- Successful Pancake Breakfast - St. John Fisher
- Next Pancake Breakfast
- St. Clare
- April 6th – Volunteers needed (seebert42@gmail.com )
- June 1st - mark your calendars.
- St. John Fisher
- May 4th - mark your calendars.
- June 8th - mark your calendars.
- St. Thomas More Coffee and Donuts
- Sundays between Masses, need a few volunteers. (Contact; Jonathan.Jungwirth@gmail.com)
- Frarternal Benefits every Wednesday at 7pm online
- Unbound sponsorship completed.
- COR - Update
7:45pm - KofC New Business
- State Convention May 2nd thru 4th, Redmond,
- St. Thomas Catholic Church. State site for Agenda & information.
- Mothers Day - May 11th - Flowers distributed at SC & SJF - any donations, support Mother & Child Education Center. - volunteers needed.
- Blessed Michael McGivney relics came through last week.
8:10 pm - Closing Prayers
- Intentions for the Sick and/or in Distress – Hail Mary
- Shannon Seeber
- Mary Muoth
- Jazlyn's family
- Daniel S Sister in Israel
- 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.
8:15 pm - Adjournment
Monday, March 17, 2025
March Meeting 7pm 3/18/2025
KofC John Clare Council March Hybrid Meeting will be held on Tuesday 3/18/2025 at 7:00 PM. The meeting will be, in-person, at St. Clare Parish Hall, doors open at 6:30 PM., and online via Zoom. See information below.
We have completed our discussion of “Beautiful Eucharist". We are asking for suggestions of a book for our future reviews.
Here is the agenda to download.
The Zoom information to attend online is listed below.
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Saturday, March 15, 2025
Thank you!
A thank you to all who participated in the Stations of the Cross and soup supper at St John Fisher church Friday, March 14th. There were over 50 participants at the Stations of the Cross—the most I have seen at the Stations in my 10 years with the parish. We provided 6 pots of soup and fed 38 people. All the pots were empty at the end of the evening. Again, thanks to all of you who helped make this a successful event for our council.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Love Life Choose Life
Saturday, March 22nd @ 3:00 PM
Attention Brother Knights,
On March 10th, Oregon Governor Kotek signed a proclamation declaring March 10th as the annual "Abortion Provider Appreciation Day".
Declaring an appreciation day for those who murder children in the womb? What can be more disgraceful than this proclamation
the actual killing of these precious children. Brothers, we cannot just stand by on this one. We need to respond! And we need to respond in
numbers. Please join us for a peaceful demonstration at the Oregon State Capitol on March 22nd at 3:00 PM. We will be start
promptly at 3:00 PM by praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet.
Brothers, our State leaders and our community need to see there are citizens in Oregon who do not support this disgrace. We
large turnout. Please invite as many people as possible including your families and offer carpooling for those who need transportation. There
will be pro-life signs but please feel free to bring your own signs.
Event: Protest Abortion Provider Appreciation Day
Loc: Oregon State Capitol, 900 Court St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pray for us
St. Joseph, Pray for us
Blessed Fr. Michael McGivney, Pray for us
Vivat Jesus,
Eric Walter
State Life Program Director
Oregon Knights of Columbus
dominuspictura@gmail.com
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Council Sponsored Stations of the Cross and Soup Supper at SJF Friday March 14th
We are still in need of another pot or two of soup for the soup supper that our council is sponsoring at St. John Fisher Church tomorrow Friday March 14th. Enter through the church. The doors for the church will be open around 5:30. We will set up for the supper in the Corrado Center between 5:45 and 6:00. The Stations of the Cross start at 6:00. The supper will be served after the service. Contact Gene Andres (gene.andres@comcast.net 773-426-4816) with any questions.
Please come (with or without soup) to support our council’s
activity.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Blessed Fr. McGivney Relic Tour is this weekend
Click through to blog to see graphic with churches and times. SD Kenneth Anderson would like to see every Knight take the time to go.
To Protect and Serve
This morning in my spam email, I found out it was time again for Praesidium training. I had apparently missed two previous emails. I encourage our entire council to visit https://www.praesidiumacademy.com/learn and complete this training if you haven't done so recently.
The first part appears to be the same as previous, but there is a Knights specific 2nd part this year.
Our constitutional roll promises have changed and will be printed out and distributed at our meeting on March 18.
You can also download all print material about the Safe Environment Program at this link.
Monday, March 10, 2025
Council Hosting Stations of the Cross at SJF March 14th
Our council will be hosting the Stations of the Cross and a Soup Supper at St John Fisher Church this Friday, March 14th. The Stations will begin at 6:00pm followed by the Soup Supper. The council will provide a simple meal consisting of meatless soups bread and water. Please plan to attend to show the Knights support for our parish. Let Gene Andres (gene.andres@comcast.net - 773-426-4816) know if you plan to bring soup or bread for the meal.
Prayers Needed for Paul Pompili
Paul became ill last night. This morning, he was taken to the Emergency Room and later admitted to the hospital. The doctors believe he is suffering from an infection but haven't been able to determine the source. Please pray for Paul's recovery.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
A Palendromic Profit Breakfast
Gross revenue $503.50
Expenses $198.42
Net $305.08
60 breakfasts served
Thank you to all who worked this breakfast
Friday, February 28, 2025
Breakfast Sunday March 2nd at St John Fisher
Doors will open at 7. Help is needed early to set up the dining area, prepare drinks and fruit cups, creaking eggs etc.. We will be serving breakfast after the 9:00am Mass and after the 11:00am Mass. Clean-up should be completed by 1:30pm. Please come and help where and when you can.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Volunteers needed for SJF Breakfast
Call Mike Devlin to volunteer for the SJF breakfast this Sunday, March 2.
(503) 246-4045
(503) 901-5407
mdevpop@hotmail.com
Monday, February 24, 2025
Prayers for Jazlyn and Dan's family
Jazlyn’s grandmother Lynette passed away yesterday. Would it be possible put her, as well as Jazlyn and her family, and Dan, too, on the blog for prayer?
Erik
Erik
Saturday, February 22, 2025
More info on Sr Guadalupe Move March 8
How grateful we are to you and the other members of the Knights of Columbus for helping us to get Sr. Guadalupe's furniture to Woodburn. Sr Guadalupe's
Nephew, Ruben will drive the U-Haul. The U-Hall will have a ramp.
Our address is: 7885 SW 74th Ave. Portland 97223. If you would be here by 10: 00am on March 8th, that would be great, much appreciated,
Living Room: Two standing lamps, coffee table, console, reclining chair.
Kitchen: Table and four chairs.
Bedroom on right going down the hall: bed frame, spring board, mattress, chest of drawers, aluminum stand.
End bedroom: desk, glass door cabinet.
Laundry room: Washer and dryer.
TV room: Grey recliner, four regular chairs, TV table, book shelves, trays.
Garage: Four medium boxes on the garage floor, three or four smaller boxes on second shelf.
Thank you, God bless each of you and your family
Take care, keep well.
Sr Mary
Friday, February 21, 2025
Moving Party needed March 8
I received a phone call yesterday from a sister at St. Clare following up a conversation I had with her at St. Clare during our last breakfast event asking for our help in moving some belongings into a U Haul truck on Saturday morning, March 8th.
Please post an announcement for volunteers to assist.
Here is my understanding of the scope of the job-
Loading activity only: U Haul will be unloaded by someone else in Woodburn.
Address on SW 74th Avenue in the Garden Home area. (I will ask her for the address).
All belongings are on the main floor, street level.
I am told the belongings will all be boxed up.
There are a clothes washer/dryer machines (need appliance dolly)
Sounds too good to be true.
Thanks,
Mike Devlin
503-901-5407
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Meeting Minutes 2-18-2025
Minutes
NOTE: Ted downloaded the wrong slide deck. If you have Powerpoint and would like to view the correct slide deck, click here. Gene deserves to have his hard work viewed, but more importantly, this slide deck contains information for the Blessed Michael McGivney Relic activities in our area.
7:00pm - Call to Order
Warden’s Membership Check
Prayer – Our Father
Pledge of Allegiance
7:03pm - Roll Call of Officers
- Present: Recorder, DGK, FS, ADV, Chan, Lector, OG, IG, Warden, 2nd Year Trustee, 3rd Year Trustee
- 11 Council members present
7:05pm - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (corrections & additions?)
- accepted
7:07pm - GK’s Remarks (Gene Andres)
Form 1728 Filed
SAFE Environment
Membership Challenge
7:10pm - District Deputy Remarks- Not Present
7:15pm - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)
- Fraternity: $2412.38
- Unity $544.51
- Charity $5.51
- Report Approved
7:20pm - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)
- 24 members paid dues, 16 outstanding
- Report Approved
7:25pm - Membership Reports
- Membership Director (Dan Riechers)
- two potential members at St Clare's
- Retention Chairman (Richard Digregorio)
- No Neighbor Left Behind Phone Calls
- Exodus 90
- Making friends- good Fraternal experience
- Good program about prayer and faith
- Not too late to join - St Rose of Lima
7:30pm - Programs
Program Director - (Gene Andres)
7:35pm - Committees
Parish / School Updates
St. Clare (Ted Seeber)
St. John Fisher (Mike Devlin)
Programs:
Faith
Community
Family
Life
7:40pm - KofC Business
Successful Pancake Breakfast
St. Clare
February 2nd
$698
Next Pancake Breakfast
St. John Fisher
March 2nd – Volunteers needed Contact Mike Devlin
SJF future breakfast dates? (Mike Devlin)
RSVP Donation to seminarian Noah Maffett
Refund Support Vocation Program
Wine and Cheese February 22nd
Thomas More Coffee and Donuts
COR – Update
7:45pm - KofC New Business
- St. Clare Lenten Soup Supper March 28th
- Arrive 5:30 to set up
- Eat at 6
- Stations at 6:30
- SJF Soup Supper?
- Will talk to Fr. Valentine
- Wednesday at 7pm online Fraternal Benefit Event
- Worthy Brother Knights from State Deputy Ken Anderson III,I wanted to double-check and make sure everyone was aware that every Wednesday at 7pm is an online Fraternal Benefit Event put on by our General Agent Cicero Seisdedos.Website is here:
- Blessed Michael McGivney relics coming to Oregon
March 16th, Portland
1716 NW Davis St,
Portland, OR 97209
10:30am – Procession of the Relic & Veneration
11:00am – Holy Mass – Principal Celebrant: Most Rev. Alexander K. Sample
12:00pm – Jubilee Year Plenary Indulgence
12:15pm – Story of Blessed McGivney
12:45pm – Veneration Continues
1:15pm – Retrieve the Relic
St. Anthony Catholic Church – Tigard
9905 SW McKenzie St
Tigard, OR 97223
6:30pm – Procession of the Relic & Veneration
7:00pm – Holy Mass
8:00pm – Story of Blessed McGivney
8:30pm – Veneration Continues
9:00pm – Retrieve the Relic
- Nun needs help with yard work. Mike Devlin
7:55pm - For the Good of the Order (Mike O’Phelan)
- This Sunday's Readings
- Book of Samuel- The anointed ones
- The Gospel of Luke
- Golden Rule from the World's Religions (insert link if I can find it)
- Fr. O'Malley In Texas Story
7:55pm - Closing Prayers
- Intentions for the Sick and/or in Distress – Hail Mary
- James Michael Morgan- in the hospital
- Shannon Seeber
- Pope Francis
- Mary Muoth- grief
- Gene's Aunt passed away 101 years old
- Daniel Salomon's new home (apartment flooded)
- Jazlyn's mother and siblings
- 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.
7:57pm - Adjournment
Monday, February 17, 2025
Council 15485 February Meeting 7:00 PM 2/18/2025
KofC John Clare Council February Hybrid Meeting will be held on Tuesday 2/18/2025 at 7:00 PM. The meeting will be, in-person, at St. Clare Parish Hall, doors open at 6:30 PM., and online via Zoom. See information below.
We have a Pancake Breakfast scheduled for March 2nd at St. John Fisher Church. Please
contact Mike Devlin with your plan to volunteer.
We have
completed our discussion of “Beautiful Eucharist". We are asking for suggestions of a book for
our future reviews.
Here is the agenda to download.
The Zoom information to attend online is
listed below.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81926336107
Meeting ID: 819 2633 6107
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
Help our council! Attend a benefits webinar
Worthy Brother Knights,
I wanted to double-check and make sure everyone was aware that every Wednesday at 7pm is an online Fraternal Benefit Event put on by our General Agent Cicero Seisdedos.
Website is here:
This is a great way to learn more information about the benefits the Knights of Columbus has to offer and will also count towards the Founder's Award. Just make sure to submit the Form 11077 within 7 days of the event as well.
Please share this information with your councils as they might want to attend as well. Reminder that State emails only go as far as GKs and FSs, not to all 9,500 members in the State. So please forward these emails to your council members.
Kenneth J. Anderson
Knights of Columbus
Oregon State Council
State Deputy
(541) 602-0249
"It is an honor to be a Knight!"
Ted,
Begin forwarded message:
Could you post this? This may be the only way we are able to complete Fraternal Benefits requirement. Perhaps someone could call members, not sure Richard should be the one given his struggle with technology.
I am going to try tonight and see if it registers participation. In any case have those who go through the seminar copy you, I, and or Gene. Make sure you advise this is an annual requirement.
Don Mey
434.429.9881
Begin forwarded message:
From: Kenneth Anderson <kennethandersoniii@gmail.com>
Date: February 12, 2025 at 12:20:27 PM PST
To: Kenneth Anderson <kennethandersoniii@gmail.com>
Subject: Weekly Online Fraternal Benefit Events - Wednesdays at 7pm with GA Cicero Seisdedos
Hide quoted textWorthy Brother Knights,I wanted to double-check and make sure everyone was aware that every Wednesday at 7pm is an online Fraternal Benefit Event put on by our General Agent Cicero Seisdedos.Website is here:This is a great way to learn more information about the benefits the Knights of Columbus has to offer and will also count towards the Founder's Award. Just make sure to submit the Form 11077 within 7 days of the event as well.Please share this information with your councils as they might want to attend as well. Reminder that State emails only go as far as GKs and FSs, not to all 9,500 members in the State. So please forward these emails to your council members.--Kenneth J. AndersonKnights of ColumbusOregon State CouncilState Deputy(541) 602-0249"It is an honor to be a
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Blessed Michael McGivney relics are coming to Oregon!
Schedule of Events
Friday March 14th in Medford
Saturday March 15th in Salem
Sunday March 16th at the Cathedral AND St. Anthony's in Tigard
Monday March 17th in Independence
Notes
for Venerators:
-
During
each opportunity for Veneration, a basket will be placed near the relic along
with pens and paper where anyone can bring forth prayer requests and petitions
through his intercession and place them in the basket.
-
A
line will form for Veneration as directed by ushers. Each venerator will get
about 15 seconds to venerate in front of the relic.
-
Anyone
who wishes to touch a religious item (crucifix, Rosary, medal, scapular, etc)
to the relic may do so and that item will become a 3rd Class Relic.
4th Degree Request: Each Mass will have a 4th
Degree Honor Guard. In addition, two 4th
Degree personnel will stand guard by the relic, one on each
side, during Veneration times. All 4th Degree personnel are invited
to attend these events and participate in honor guard activities.
March 14th, Medford
Sacred
Heart Catholic Church
517 W 10th St
Medford, OR 97501
8:00am
– Procession of the Relic & Veneration
8:30am
– Holy Mass
9:00am
– Story of Blessed McGivney
9:30am
– Veneration Continues
10:00am
– Retrieve the Relic
March 15th, Salem
St.
Joseph Catholic Church
721 Chemeketa St NE
Salem, OR 97301
9:30am
– Procession of the Relic & Veneration
10:00am
– Holy Mass
11:00am
– Story of Blessed McGivney
11:30am
– Veneration Continues
Exemplification
Relic will be present for all
Exemplification Activities
1:00pm
– Exemplification of Charity, Unity, and Fraternity
2:00pm
– Exemplification of Patriotism
5:00pm
– Holy Mass
6:00pm
– Patriotic Banquet
March 16th, Portland
1716 NW Davis St,
Portland, OR 97209
10:30am
– Procession of the Relic & Veneration
11:00am – Holy Mass – Principal Celebrant: Most Rev.
Alexander K. Sample
12:00pm
– Jubilee Year Plenary Indulgence
12:15pm
– Story of Blessed McGivney
12:45pm
– Veneration Continues
1:15pm
– Retrieve the Relic
St.
Anthony Catholic Church – Tigard
9905 SW McKenzie St
Tigard, OR 97223
6:30pm
– Procession of the Relic & Veneration
7:00pm
– Holy Mass
8:00pm
– Story of Blessed McGivney
8:30pm
– Veneration Continues
9:00pm
– Retrieve the Relic
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