Knights of Columbus
John Clare Council #15485

Our Essay Contest for 2025 is done, and winners have been announced!  Click through to this post to read the winning essays, and to get to the Potluck Survey Link St. Clares: Sam O'Mahoney 94.75 Colette Sangster 88 Maya Jones 86 St. John Fisher: Ady Miller 94.25 Jude Proctor 91.75 Ava Hager 91.25 We hope to hear some great stories about the Popes at the Potluck on December 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM in the St. Clare Parish Hall! Potluck survey, mostly to get expected numbers and detect holes in what people bring, is below. SurveyLink:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q8D7G97

Volunteer opportunities at the end of all three Mass times this coming weekend at St Clare's.  We need 2 volunteers for this Saturday after the 5:00, 1 volunteer for the 8:30 Sunday, and 3 volunteers for the 10:45 on Sunday. Here is a description of expectations and duties; Nov 29/30 is the weekend are having our Parish-wide Giving Tuesday campaign push.  There will be a speaker during the announcements talking about the campaign. We need someone stationed just outside all three church doors, in place before Mass ends and people begin exiting. The volunteer will be standing alongside a large Giving Tuesday poster and also have mailing envelopes - right in the flow of people exiting church. ( On Sundays, we also need one person at coffee & donuts for each Mass.) We hope each person will interact with people about the campaign as they exit the church.  The volunteer would get up right after communion and head to their station, one of the three exit doors of the church ...

Sorry for the late notice, but as we heard last Tuesday, if you have time on Sunday, November 23rd, 9am-2pm in the basement of St Clare's Parish Office will be the packing of boxes for Fr. Jim's toiletries project.

After last night's Fraternal Benefits presentation, I updated the calendar entry for FBN Webinars.  It now shows up every evening at 7pm on the Calendar, with the topics that will be presented weekly.  It's a good way to stay in touch when you have an insurance need. All of our council events show up on our Google Calendar, click on this sentence to access it and add it to the calendars you watch  

7:00 PM - Call to Order Prayer – Our Father Pledge of Allegiance 7:03 PM - Roll Call of Officers GK,  Advocate, Chan, DGK, FS, 1YT, 3YT, Warden, OG, IG, Recorder- Present 2YT, Treasurer- Excused 19 Brothers Present, one Online, for a total of 20 7:05 PM - Fraternal Benefits Presentation Welcome Field Agent Dan McDermott 541-680-9764 dan.mcdermott@kofc.org Anima Christi Prayer Worldview- Tempus Fugit, Memento Mori - Learn to Die to Learn to Live $200 million a year in charity There are small guaranteed whole life insurance plans for burial and final expenses There are term insurance for paying off debt https://kofcpacific.com/?p=OR Your agent is your servant New online webinars will ba posted every night at https://www.kofcpacific.com/fbn $24 million of that $200 million is direct aid to Ukraine- trucks of supplies driven by fellow  Knights from Poland 7:35 PM - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes Approved 7:40 PM - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey) Membership Challen...

The November Hybrid meeting will be held on Tuesday 11/19/2025 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 the attached links below. Following our meeting opening at 7:00 PM, we will have a Fraternal Benefits Presentation from Field Agent, Andres Contreras.  An abbreviated business meeting will follow. FYI We will have a Christmas Pot Luck  Dinner at our December meeting on Tuesday December 16th. Families are invited and as is our tradition, the Essay contest winners and their families will also be invited. Put this on your calendar! Ted will set up a sign up sheet for both attendance (how many) and what you plan to bring. The  agenda  is available via this link. (Agenda is subject to change.) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81926336107 One tap mobile +17193594580,,81926336107# US +12532050468,,81926336107#  US

There are still 6 spots left for the St Clare Acts retreat.  Now open to all men regardless of parish.  To Sign Up for the Saint Clare Acts Retreat November 13-16,  Click through to this link to the parish website . 

216 breakfasts served Gross $1123 Net $941.89 Thank you all.  One of our largest grossing ever  Next Saint Clare's Breakfast Dates are: The Pancake Breakfast dates are set and on St. Clare’s Calendar. The dates are;  March 8th, 2026 April 12th, 2026 June 7th,2026 These dates align with the children’s choir schedule. I also made sure that our Mothers Day Flowers Distribution was also on the calendar, May 10th.  We are also trying to match the following for St. John Fisher 9 am Family Mass Jan 25 (grades 1 +5)_ Feb 22 (grades 2+6) April 26 (grades 3+7)