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Ok, I'm a bit proud of my nephew, who was on The Morning Blend on Mater Dei Radio this morning advertising the upcoming Seminarian Tea.
This entire talk was Extremely Enlightening on the process of discernment and vocation. For tickets to the Annual Seminarian Tea, click this second link
In recent days we've had a large number of potentially new subscribers, potentially new Knights, through our "Sign up through digests" form. I've added you all to blog digests, so if this if your first post you've seen in a digest, Welcome!
As we heard a few weeks ago in our Fraternal Benefits watch party, you have benefits as a Knight that accrue to your wife and children and grandchildren. Sadly, looking at Membership Online with Supreme, some of our contact information has become incorrect over the years. Consider this your chance to let us know who you are and let us know backup contact information for you!
Click on this link to answer an identity Survey Monkey form, let us know your preferred phone and email, and let us know more about your family and parish life, so we can better support the parishes we're supposed to be covering, be it St. Clare's, St. John Fisher, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, or St. Thomas More.
Just a reminder that we are serving a pancake breakfast at St. John Fisher Church this Sunday May 4th. Doors to the Corrado Center will open at 7am.
Help is needed:
·
Early, to set up
the dining area, prepare drinks and fruit cups, cracking eggs etc.
·
Prepare for and
serving breakfast after the 9:00am Mass
·
Clean and reset
the dining area, prepare and serve breakfast after the 11:00am Mass.
·
Clean and restore
the dining area and kitchen to (better than) its previous condition. Clean-up
should be completed by 1:30pm.
Please come and help when
and where you can.
Thank
you and the Knights of Columbus much for the generous donation.
April 22, 2025
7:00pm - Call to Order
7:03pm - Roll Call of Officers
7:05pm - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (corrections
& additions?)
7:07pm - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey)
7:10pm - District Deputy Remarks
7:15pm - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)
7:20pm - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)
7:25pm - Membership Reports
7:30pm - Programs
7:35pm - Committees
7:40pm - KofC Business
7:45pm - KofC New Business
8:00 pm - For the Good of the Order
8:10 pm - Closing Prayers
8:15 pm - Adjournment
Wednesday, April 30th
Honor Guard request: Rosary and Funeral Mass for Fr. David Janes
Please arrive by 10:00 A.M.
Portland Cathedral St Mary’s NE 18th and Couch.
Rosary 10:30 A.M.
Mass: 11:00 A.M.
Fr. David Janes was a friend to many councils and assemblies in Oregon. Please come and show your support.
Please forward this email to all your membership.
Vivat Jesus!
Mark Larson PNF, PGK, FFS, FDD
District Master of the Oregon District,
Blanche Province Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus
districtmaster@
503-528-4695
KofC John Clare Council April Hybrid Meeting will be held on Tuesday 4/22/2025 at 7:00 PM. This is the 4th Tuesday of the month, meeting rescheduled due to scheduling conflicts. The meeting will be, in-person, at St. Clare Parish Hall, doors open at 6:30 PM., and online via Zoom. See the attached agenda .
We are still short of our goal for member participation in the Fraternal Benefits presentations. Ted Seeber will host a Fraternal Benefits viewing on Wednesday 4/23/2025 at 7:00 PM in the music room, adjacent to our usual meeting space, in the St. Clare Parish Hall. This is a great opportunity for our members who may be technically challenge or lacking a functioning computer. I will enter those in attendance into the record on the Grand Knight website.
Upcoming events; State Convention May 2nd thru May 4th & Pancake Breakfast SJF May 4th.
The Zoom information to attend online is listed below.
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Vivat Jesus!
A reminder- we need to get 10 people from our council to attend one of these fraternal benefit nights, which occur 7pm Each Wednesday.
Ted Seeber has organized a watch party for April 23 in the Music Room at St Clare's (just off the place where we hold our breakfasts). Please email seebert42@gmail.com if you'd like to join this option.
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!
Join us
for:
Oregon
March for Life
Salem, OR
| May 17, 2025
Oregon
State Capitol - 900 Court St. NE | Salem, OR
2:15 pm
Pre-Rally Concert
2:30
pm: Rally
👣
March follows
after Rally
KofC John Clare Council April Hybrid Meeting will be held on Tuesday 4/22/2025 at 7:00 PM. This is the 4th Tuesday of the month, meeting rescheduled due to scheduling conflicts. The meeting will be, in-person, at St. Clare Parish Hall, doors open at 6:30 PM., and online via Zoom. See information below. The agenda will be posted on the blog later next week.
We are still short of our goal for member participation in the Fraternal Benefits presentations. Ted Seeber will host a Fraternal Benefits viewing on Wednesday 4/23/2025 at 7:00 PM in the music room, adjacent to our usual meeting space, in the St. Clare Parish Hall. This is a great opportunity for our members who may be technically challenge or lacking a functioning computer. I will enter those in attendance into the record on the Grand Knight website.
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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Want to learn how to pound fenceposts? Ted needs a crew for 4pm Holy Saturday. 20lb fence post hammer and fenceposts and ribbon will be provided. email seebert42@gmail.com
Many hands make quick work...of it all. Should be only 20 minutes or so.
A reminder- we need to get 10 people from our council to attend one of these fraternal benefit nights.
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!
207 breakfasts served
440 sausages, gone, ran out.
Gross Donations: $1197
Estimated expenses: $350
Net Estimated: $847
Thank you to the many volunteers, and two dignitaries, who showed up to work! We also got additional visibility with sending our Membership Director and District Deputy to the new parishioner's meeting.
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!
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!
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 tablesIf 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.
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.
7:00pm - Call to Order
7:03pm - Roll Call of Officers
7:05pm - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting
Minutes (corrections & additions?)
7:07pm - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey)
7:10pm - District Deputy Remarks- N/A
7:15pm - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)
7:20pm - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)
7:25pm - Membership Reports
7:30pm - Programs
7:35pm - Committees
7:40pm - KofC Business
7:45pm - KofC New Business
8:10 pm - Closing Prayers
8:15 pm - Adjournment
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.
Join Zoom Meeting
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
7:05pm - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (corrections & additions?)
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)
7:20pm - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)
7:25pm - Membership Reports
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
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:
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
7:55pm - For the Good of the Order (Mike O’Phelan)
7:55pm - Closing Prayers
7:57pm - Adjournment
