Knights of Columbus
John Clare Council #15485

For participating in more events than anybody else this year, and for his involvement with Special Olympics, our Knight of the Year is Our Worthy Warden, Michael Chau. Here are a few pictures from the potluck of him receiving his award and jacket. For their great work making our breakfasts better and rescuing the Easter Egg Hunt, the last of which we got an award from Supreme for, and for Judy letting Jim step in to go to the State Convention last year, the Family of the Year is Jim and Judy Van Domelen.

A long time ago, in Ireland, a young child was taped for a TV show retelling the story of John the Baptist. The video is long since lost, only the audio remains- but somebody has created this cute animated short. As our theme for the season at St. Clare's is "As Prophets Have Foretold" and, being Year A in the lectionary, we've been hearing a lot about John the Baptist from St. Matthew, I thought I'd post this early 1960s Irish child's view of the subject.

Catching up on my paperwork, I noticed I never posted this report on the St. John Fisher Atrium Project: Way back on October 26, 2013, Ken Paulsen sent this picture and the following report: Thanks again, Phil Jarvis, Marc Gregoire and Mike Devlin for your hard work and generous charity in the St. John Fisher Atrium project this morning. We were able to wrap things up fairly quickly this morning. Both Jim VanDomelen and Polinus had their hearts in the right place, but were just a little bit too late - but they were ready to help out. We were finishing off the donuts that Fr. Richard provided fairly early this morning after sweeping up our mess. Thanks everyone!

I was doing my duty on my last day as Charter Grand Knight, spreading the love at the Pancake Breakfast, getting some of the older ladies from the 8:30 Mass coffee refills. One of them stopped me and said "You're the one who finally brought the Knights to St. Clare's!" She proceeded to tell me how her father and brother were Grand Knights elsewhere, and how her husband had joined in Newport 50 years ago, and when they moved to St. Clare's in the 1960s, had attempted to start a council but ended up just joining St. Anthony's 3591. She asked me what my secret was- and I told her- merging the two roundtables. A later conversation I had, which I will bring up with my fellow Trustees, is this: Supreme has now lowered the number of Knights needed to start a new council from 30 to 20. This means, with ten good new recruits this year, five from each parish, we will not only give Paul the honor of leading a Star Council for the 2nd year our council is around, but...

On the advice of our DD, Food for Families Chairman, Roundtable Chairman, and Council Chairman; I have in the last 24 hours completed the last of the paperwork. We will have Star Council our first year. Amazing.

The following is Archbishop Emeritus Vlazny's homily from the Opening Mass of the 2013 Convention of the Oregon State Knights of Columbus. His office was kind enough to send me a copy. The only difference I can see from the homily I heard is that Bishop Liam Cary actually did make the opening Mass. Annual Assembly of the Oregon Knights of Columbus Pendleton, Oregon May 3, 2013 In the preface of today’s Mass we pray about today’s apostle saints in these words: “You, Eternal Shepherd, do not desert your flock, but through the blessed apostles watch over and protect it always, so that it may be governed by those you have appointed shepherds to lead it in the name of your son.” This feast of Saints Philip and James comes quickly after our great Easter feast. Your bishops, Archbishop Sample and Bishop Cary, and I have been called upon in God’s providence, to serve as successors to the apostles, to share in the work of the Eternal Shepherd and to guide his flock. You, my broth...

St. Clare's Egg Hunt went pretty well, and was enjoyed greatly by the children. Here's a few pics that I sent to the State Program Director, in hopes of winning an award for our council at the State Convention.

This is the full program photo for Beaverton Hoopstars Special Olympics Basketball, who our council gave money to.

In this time of transition, our Supreme Knight asks for prayer. Prayer for the Church :

A great philosophical discussion on where the sexual revolution in general, and Spirit of Vatican II Catholics in particular, went wrong- written by a now-conservative Catholic who lived through the era. I AM going to be posting things like this to the council blog from time to time, when I see it as useful. Running From Hell: Thoughts on Love and Sin | Crisis Magazine :

On Saturday, February 16, 2013, degrees were held at St. Francis in Sherwood.  Our Lecturer, Mike O'Phelan, received his Third Degree.  Aerton Pereira received his 2nd.  And our new member for our council, Dan Scott of St. John Fisher, received all three of his degrees.

A wonderful interview with our new Archbishop. Interview with the Archbishop

The Knights of Columbus John Clare Council challenges all Catholics in the West Hills/Multnomah Village area to give food to St. John Fisher chapter of St. Vincent De Paul- one can, per family, per day during Lent. Help our council out, e-mail Grand Knight Ted Seeber when you do it! For every 500 pounds of food we collect, for every $500 donated, or every 500 volunteer hours spent, our council gets money back from Supreme through the Food For Families program that we can spend on our charities. You do not have to be a Knight to help with this program- include the whole family! Other opportunities: St. Clare's St. Vincent De Paul would like drivers to help deliver food boxes. Contact Tim Crimmins for more info. Also, a group has formed to do dinners at St. Andre Bessette, the Downtown Chapel. Contact Cindy Hessler for that. Remember- report your hours, report your giving this Lent, and help our council out!

Thank you to all who volunteered to help set up and tear down for the Gumbo Dinner. FS Phil Jarvis, GK Ted Seeber, Lecturer Mike O'Phelan, and Chancellor Marc Gregoire helped with the setup, and GK Ted Seeber, Chancellor Marc Gregoire, John Creegan, and Trustee Ken Paulsen helped with teardown. The families of the GK and Chancellor also helped.