Knights of Columbus
John Clare Council #15485

September 15, 2026 7:00 PM - Call to Order • Prayer – Our Father • Pledge of Allegiance 7:00 PM - Roll Call of Officers Our Lord Jesus Christ- Present GK-Excused, online Financial Secretary- Present Chaplain- Excused DGK- Running Meeting Chancellor- Excused Recorder- Present Treasurer- Excused Advocate- Excused Warden-Present Inside Guard-Present Outside Guard- Present Three Year Trustee- Excused Two Year Trustee- Excused, online One Year Trustee- Present 14 Brothers Present Voting Strength 7:00 PM - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (corrections & additions?)  Voted and Accepted 7:05 PM - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey) Membership Challenge ACTS Retreat 7:05 PM - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin) Fraternity:  $2582.75 Unity:  $544.89 Charity:  $5.71 Accepted 7:10 PM - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)  Council owes $127 to Supreme Letter from Mother & Child Accepted 7:15 PM - Membership Reports Membership Director (Vacant TBD) Retention Ch...

  Meeting, Tuesday September 15th, 2026.     Agenda   now available. St. Clare Hall, doors open at 6:30 PM. Meeting is in person and/or online via ZOOM, see below. A limited agenda is planned for this meeting.  Following the business portion of our session, we will discuss the  "The Holiness of a Knight" prepared by David Villegas. The presentation has been posted on the blog. Check your calendars, volunteer opportunities with our first  Pancake Breakfast at St. John Fisher on September 27th, followed by our second at St. Clare on Sunday October 4th.  Ted will have the Zoom room open no later than 6:45pm. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81926336107 Meeting ID: 819 2633 6107 +17193594580,,81926336107# US +12532050468,,81926336107# US 

Brothers, there comes a time in the life of every Knight when he must ask himself a question deeper than why he joined, how many meetings he attended, or how much good he accomplished: Am I becoming a holy man? Not an impressive man. Not an important man. Not merely a good Catholic man. A holy man. Because one day, brothers, all of this will end. There will be a final meeting. A final Mass. A final time we put on the regalia of a Knight. Someone else will sit in our chair. Someone else will do the work we once thought could not be done without us. And eventually, our name will be spoken mostly in memory. When that day comes, very few people will remember how many meetings we attended. But our wives will remember how we loved them. Our children will remember whether we had time for them. Our grandchildren will remember whether our faces lit up when they entered the room. And our brother Knights will remember whether, when life became difficult, we stood beside them. That is where holine...

7:00 PM - Call to Order Prayer – Our Father Pledge of Allegiance 7:01 PM - Roll Call of Officers GK- Present DGK- Excused FS- Present Recorder- Present Treasurer- Excused Chancellor- Present Advocate- Present Warden-Presnt Inside Guard - Present Outside Guard - Present One Year Trustee- Excused Two Year Trustee- Excused Three Year Trustee-Excused Voting Strength:  12 present, one online 7:02 PM - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (corrections & additions?) Approved Unanimously 7:03 PM - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey) Membership Challenge ACTS Retreat - speech We are not finished, we are not complete- consider this retreat September 17-20th 2026 What we do as Knights- fits into Acts- Adoration, Community, Tradition and SERVICE! Membership Challenge  7:05 PM - District Deputy Remarks 7:05 PM - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin) Fraternity Checking:  $2622.62 Unity Savings Account Balance:  $544.87 Charity Savings Account Balance:  $5.71 Report Accepted 7:10...

Meeting, Tuesday August 18th, 2026.   Agenda   now available. St. Clare Hall, doors open at 6:30 PM. Meeting is in person and/or online via ZOOM, see below. A limited agenda is planned for this meeting.  Following the business portion of our session, I will present a talk prepared by Dr. David Villegas, "The Holiness of a Knight". Yes, the St. Clare Hall/cafeteria is air conditioned!!!! Ted will have the Zoom room open no later than 6:45pm. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81926336107 Meeting ID: 819 2633 6107 +17193594580,,81926336107# US +12532050468,,81926336107# US 

Ted is organizing Carpooling to the district meeting in Canby on August 15th.  Meet at St Clare's Office Parking Lot by 7:15am.  Expect to return to St Clare's by 1pm. Announcement from Brothers In The Spirit: My brothers all In part due to a scheduling conflict with the District Meeting Next week in Canby, Week 3 will be delayed until August 22nd. The topic will be finding grace in our local parish and diocese regardless of what is going on in the rest of the world. 11 days ago, Archbishop Sample covered exactly this topic on his podcast in response to the autoexcommunication of the SSPX.  I realize it's a big ask, in this day and age of short attention spans, to set aside 48 minutes in our busy lives to listen to a podcast.   But I urge you to do it anyway, sometime before August 22nd, and join us in our discussion on that day, two weeks from today.   https://youtu.be/kOagN59BQz0? si=4yqKfesMVp_-Mctl Ted

We are having a District + wide Officers Training Meeting  Saturday August 15th   8:00Am to 12;00 noon  @ St.Patrick's church Auditorium in Canby  498 NW 9th Ave.  Canby, OR 97013 Officers are Highly recommended to attend. Supreme Regional Growth Specialist Billy Chrisman will be flying in from alaska & running the Meeting.  Any Third Degree is welcome to attend .  We will start with the heart of the Gospel for first hour,  following will be officers training  Kevin Guenther Knights of Columbus District Deputy # 3 Council 3591 PGK / Trustee 503-341-7206 Kguenther63@gmail.com

  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...

July 21st Monthly Meeting of the KofC John/Clare Council 15485  By Don Mey  - July 20th,  2026 Meeting, Tuesday July 21st, 2026.   Agenda now available. St. Clare Hall, doors open at 6:30 PM. Meeting is in person and/or online via ZOOM, see below. A limited agenda is planned for this meeting.  We will begin our small group discussion sessions in place of "For the Good of the Order". Yes, the St. Clare Hall/cafeteria is air conditioned!!!! Ted will have the Zoom room open no later than 6:45pm. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81926336107 Meeting ID: 819 2633 6107 +17193594580,,81926336107# US +12532050468,,81926336107# US 

Having their first child in the next week.

Registration is now open for the September Men's ACTS retreat.  Many Knights went in November and it was a great experience. https://www.osvhub.com/saintclarechurch/forms/men-s-acts-retreat-september-2026

From the District Master: Worthy Sir Knights,       Sending out a reminder about the Funeral Mass for Florence Morris on Thursday, June 25th at 11:00 am at St. Matthews Church in Hillsboro. It has been requested that all Honor Guard be there by 10:00 am. Thank you and God Bless.       Richard D. Huff       District Master, Oregon District

Michael Chau has a new place to live. His new address is: 21055 SW Erin Terrace, Beaverton, OR 97006 It's just off of 209th near Orenco

 7:00 PM - Call to Order Prayer – Our Father Pledge of Allegiance 7:05 PM - Roll Call of Officers GK, FS, Chan, Recorder, Advocate, Warden, IG,OG present Treasurer, DGK, 1YT,2YT,3YT, DGK excused 14 members present.   7:10 PM Fraternal Benefits Presentation - 14 members watched this 7:40 PM Installation of Officers 2026/2027 Trustees and Treasurer excused, substitutes used 8:10 PM - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (corrections & additions?) 7:45 PM - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey) Membership Challenge - 1 short Officers and committee challenges If you are willing to take on Life Committee, contact GK Don Mey Membership Challenge - Daniel Salomon volunteered to help with this, get your prospect names to him 7:55 PM - District Deputy Remarks 7:55 PM - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin) Fraternity Checking balance $4,000.64 Unity Savings Account balance $544.83 Charity Savings Acct. balance $5.71 Report accepted 7:56 PM - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers) ...

Meeting, Tuesday June 16th, 2026.    Agenda   now available. St. Clare Hall, doors open at 6:30 PM. Meeting is in person and/or online via ZOOM, see below. Please plan on attending! Andres Contreras will conduct a Fraternal Benefits Program. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the many benefits of KofC Insurance. Following the FB Presentation, our Districy Deputy, Kevin Guenther will preside over the Installation of Council Officers Cerimonial for the 2026/2027 fiscal year beginning July 1st. We will conduct an abbreviated business meeting following the above activities. Yes, the St. Clare Hall/cafeteria is air conditioned!!!! Ted will have the Zoom room open no later than 6:45pm. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81926336107 Meeting ID: 819 2633 6107 +17193594580,,81926336107# US +12532050468,,81926336107# US

Many of us met her at the State Convention this year. Worthy Sir Knights,       Please keep Duane Morris in your prayers. His Mom passed away early this morning. May she be with our Lord now, and be in peace. God Bless,      Richard D. Huff      District Master, Oregon District

Thank you to all who volunteered. Gross donations were $857 Expenses were $217.08 Thanks to our wonderful shopping team, we continue to have relatively low expense despite inflation.  With 166 breakfasts served, we spent an average of $1.30/breakfast which attracted $5.16 average donation per breakfast

 At the request of Jason Kopekne, I am trying something new. Please review the volunteer spreadsheet at This Link  as a google sheet. If you cannot open the link, or if you're NOT going to be able to perform your assigned task, please contact seebert42@gmail.com If you do not see your name on the sheet and want to volunteer, ideal times will be for the 10:45am Dining Room duties and the Saturday Night setup after 5pm Mass, for many hands make light work!