Knights of Columbus
John Clare Council #15485

  Honored Clergy and My Brothers All, I want to invite you to the first gathering in a four-week class on a difficult but deeply important topic: what happens when people begin to lose faith in religion because of the sins, failures, scandals, hypocrisy, or abuses of religious leadership. This first week is working under the title “Black-Pilling Week One—Satanic Masterpiece On Both Sides of the Spectrum.” The title is intentionally stark, because the experience itself can feel stark: a person sees real evil, real betrayal, or real corruption among those who claim to speak for God, and the temptation is to conclude that the whole thing is rotten. Some react by hardening into cynicism. Others react by defending the institution so fiercely that they can no longer hear the wounded. Both responses can pull us away from truth, charity, repentance, and hope.    If you have not watched it yet, the video at https://www.youtube.com/live/DhAZZGECvtc is what led me to tackle th...

Brothers In the Spirit is a new spiritual outreach for Men at St. Clare's and St. John Fisher, an outgrowth of the ACTS retreat and our council's COR program.  We've been meeting in the Clare Room weekly, drop ins and drop outs welcome.  The schedule is Saturday mornings, 9am-10:30am, but we try to have coffee ready and the Mary's Garden door open by 8:45am. David Villigas will not be able to attend many of our sessions in August, and has invited Ted Seeber to lead our discussions.    For Our August small group series, we will be discussing a Crisis Magazine video,  "Deliver Us from Black-Pilling" . Please watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/live/DhAZZGECvtc .  Due to the elephant-in-the-room topic that has attacked the Church for at least the last 30 years, we will also have copies of Bishop Barron’s https://media.wordonfire.org/ebooks/Letter-to-a-Suffering-Church.pdf available as our Knights of Columbus Council purchased several a number of yea...

7:00 PM - Call to Order Prayer – Our Father Pledge of Allegiance 7:05 PM - Roll Call of Officers Grand Knight- Present Financial Secretary- Present Deputy Grand Knight- Excused  Chancellor- Present Recorder- Present Treasurer - Present Advocate- Present Warden- Present Inside Guard- Present Outside Guard - Excused One Year Trustee- Present Two Year Trustee- Present Three Year Trustee- Present 15 Brothers Voting Strength 7:10 PM - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes Minutes accepted Unanimously 7:15 PM - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey) Membership Challenge New Member at SJF, Jack Bakes 1st Quarter Committee Review Membership Challenge 7:20 PM - District Deputy Remarks N/P 7:25 PM - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin) Fraternity Checking balance $3,960.79 Unity Savings Account balance $544.85 Charity Savings Acct. balance $5.71 Report Accepted 7:30 PM - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers) Supreme Assessment & Rivermark Statement Report accepted 7:35 PM - Membership Report...