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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | |
Knights of Columbus Good Shepherd
Council 11672
Volume 13, Issue 8 August 2009
| Grand Knight | Bob Spuhl | 426-0030 | robert-spuhl@us.army.mil |
| Deputy Grand Knight | Ed Gniadek | 880-9037 | kgniadek@aol.com |
| Newsletter Editor | Mike Rose | 213-2876 | sfmedic1970@bellsouth.net |
| NEXT COUNCIL MEETING | August 3, 2009 | 7:30 PM |
| PARISH BREAKFAST | August 9, 2009 | 8:30 - 10:30 AM |
| OFFICERS MEETING | August 21, 2009 | 7:00 PM |
| SEPTEMBER COUNCIL MEETING | September 14, 2009 | 7:30 PM |
| SEPTEMBER PARISH BREAKFAST | September 13, 2009 | 8:30 - 10:30 AM |
| SEPTEMBER OFFICERS MEETING | September 22, 2009 | 7:00 PM |
The Assumption - August 15!
August's Attendance Award - $10.00
Each Month one council member is selected to receive an attendance award. The only requirement is to be present at the monthly meeting. The attendance award accumulates until a member wins. Come out to the monthly meeting for a chance to win. August's Meeting Attendance Award is $10.00.
GRAND KNIGHT'S COMMENTS
Brother Knights,
Our summer appears to be coming to a close with the start of our children and grandchildren's school year mid-month. Let us all keep the future minds of our country in our prayers as they return to the think tanks we call the school system.
Also keep in mind that this year is the Year of the Priest. Please give a priest your special thanks for their sacrifices for our behalf and keep them in your prayers.
We have some significant activities I want to highlight up front:
Ministry Fair: This August 1 and August 2 after all Masses there will be a ministry fair to draw interest for both volunteers as well as participants in our Parish ministry activities. We will have a Knight's booth set up and would love for you to recommend to those potential Knights you know to stop by to see us. If you are able, please stop by yourself to man the booth for 15-30 minutes.
Confirmation: This August 29 is the day of our parish confirmation. We have been asked, and accepted, to cook/serve a scaled down breakfast for our young men and women receiving confirmation as well as their sponsors (80-100 folks). We need help in cooking, help in serving, and help in help clean up on this Confirmation Saturday morning. We anticipate being done by 11:00 p.m.
Huntsville Stars Game: We're getting tickets for Knights, family and friends to watch our local team the Huntsville Stars for the night of August 21. Please RSVPs for tickets by August 10. Please send an email (by August 10) to me with your RSVP (number of tickets required) if you intend to come.
2nd Degree Exemplification: As yet a date in August TBD ... 2nd Degree Exemplification heads up. Our Worthy District Deputy will be letting me know the exact date and place for this exemplification and I'll be passing it on in an email to our 1st Degree members.
Tootsie Roll Drive: Heads Up! The Tootsie Roll Drive is coming. The scheduled dates are:
October 16-18 October 23-25
Religious Education: Our parish is calling out to our Knights council looking for members to teach Religious Education to our younger parishioners. Yo u'll be set up for success with co-teachers. If interested please send me an email. This is a great opportunity to serve our parish in a unique way if you haven't been particularly interested in some of the events we've got going already.
Squires Circle: Coming this fall, if you have not already heard, several of our Knights have taken it upon themselves to begin effort to start up a Squires Circle in our parish. This will be the first in northern Alabama. Kudos go to Chris Long, Jay Carroll, and Jon Bloomingburg in particular. We'll keep you informed of their progress. Please consider all of the 10-18 year olds you know, who might be interested and put a bug in their ear.
Special acknowledgements:Our Council's Knight of the Month for June is Jay Carroll Our Council's Family of the Month for June is John Bloomingburg
New Transfers into our Council:
Greg Grindstaff (former GK from Mobile) moving here from Kentucky Paul Huter moving here from Texas
Special Prayers: Please keep the following individuals in your prayers:
Mary Puent Pam Godwin Bob Sullivan The Aiello's
Vivat Jesus,
Bob Spuhl
DEPUTY GRAND KNIGHT'S COMMENTS
Brother Knights,
I am honored and pleased to serve as your Deputy Grand Knight this fraternal year. While browsing through my Knights of Columbus files, I noted that I had held this office 10 years ago. Where has the time gone?
While contemplating what has transpired within our Council 11672 the past 10 years, I was taken back another four years to 1995 when our Council began with 55 members. Our Council Charter is located in our council room listing the names of our initial brothers.
Fast-forwarding to today, Council 11672 has since added over 100 brother Knights. As a member of our Council's First Degree Team, I have been extremely impressed and gratified with the quality of our new brothers and by the support they have provided to council, church and community activities.
As our Grand Knight mentioned in last month's newsletter, we should strive to continue to grow as a Council. There will be no "growing pains" experienced with this type of growth. To the contrary, as we continue to increase our strength in numbers, we will serve to fulfill the vision of Father Michael J. McGivney 127 years ago by calling together Catholic gentlemen to remain steadfast in their faith through mutual encouragement and fraternal ties as members of the Knights of Columbus.
Vivat Jesus,
Ed Gniadek, Deputy Grand Knight
EDITOR'S COMMENTS
We are in the mist of Summer. Vacations are just about over and school is about to start again. We must keep close the good times of the past and let the heartaches and losses of the past go. Having our faith and belief in God and the promises of Jesus gives us strength to keep going. The 'keep going part' I believe is to do what you can to continuously improve yourself and give the support to help others and the community in which we live, and to do what we can to facilitate improvement. Improvement is not just the physical improvements, but also that of the mind and the soul. I also believe that you cannot improve yourself, unless you hold to your faith and consider others as they all go hand in hand.
Be of good cheer; take time for yourself, your family, your friends, and your community.
It is also important to mention that the Parish needs volunteers for the various ministries. You can sign up for a ministry on August 1 after the 5:30 p.m. Mass, and after the 8:30 a.m., and 11:00 a.m. Masses on August 2. As a Knight we can contribute to the Parish by being on various Commissions and Committees that support the various ministries.
Vivat Jesus,
Mike Rose, The Editor
Sir Knights,
There was an Exemplification Of the Fourth Degree at Our Lady Of The Valley Church, Ft Payne, on June 27. Eight Knights from the Huntsville area received their degrees: William Boggess, Jack Hagopian, Jon Bloomingburg, Christopher Long, John Carroll, Dominic Ragucci, and John Bland. Additional Knights present were Paul Adams, Jim Kaelin, and Jim Taylor who participated and helped mentor the young exemplification team. Afterwards, we dined on slow cooked roast beef and vegetables.
On July 10, at the 4080 K of C Hall, Bill Shultz installed the officers and they are:
Faithful Navigator - Paul Adams
Faithful Captain - Pat Jackson
Faithful Pilot - Jim Kaelin
Faithful Friar - Rev. Michael MacMahon
Faithful Comptroller - Mark Squires
Faithful Purser - Al Rossi
Faithful Admiral - Brian Lagasse
Faithful Scribe - George Jobczynski
Faithful Trustee (3 yr.) - Gordon Keene
Faithful Trustee (2 yr.) - Steve Plonka
Faithful Trustee (1 yr.) - James Taylor
Faithful Inside Guard - Larry Davenport
Faithful Outside Guard - Richard Cowling
The focus of this months highlight on Patriotic Catholic American Women is Dorothy Day. Born November 8, 1897, she was an American journalist, social activist, anarchist, and devout Catholic convert. Dorothy Day became most famous for founding, with Peter Maurin, the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent and pacifist movement which combines direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf. The Catholic Church is considering for sainthood Dorothy Day.
Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. In 1914, she went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on a scholarship, but dropped out after two years and moved to New York City. Ms. Day was a reluctant scholar. Her reading was chiefly in a radical social direction. Settling on the lower east side, she worked on the staffs of Socialist publications (The Liberator [2]), The Masses, The Call) and engaged in anti-war and women's suffrage protests. Initially Day lived a bohemian life, with two common-law marriages and an abortion, which she later wrote about in her semi-autobiographical novel, The Eleventh Virgin (1924). With the birth of her daughter, Tamar (1926-2008), she began a period of spiritual awakening which led her to embrace Catholicism, joining the Church in December 1927, with baptism at Our Lady Help of Christians parish on Staten Island. Subsequently, Dorothy Day began writing for Catholic publications, such as Commonwealth and America.
The Catholic Worker (CW) movement started with the CW newspaper, created to promote Catholic social teaching and stake out a neutral, pacifist position in the war-torn 1930s. This grew into a "house of hospitality" in the slums of New York City and then a series of farms for people to live together communally. The movement quickly spread to other cities in the United States, and to Canada and the United Kingdom; more than 30 independent but affiliated CW communities had been founded by 1941. Well over 100 communities exist today, including several in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, and Sweden.
By the 1960s Dorothy Day was embraced by Catholics. Yet, although Day had written passionately about women's rights, free love and birth control in the 1910s, she opposed the sexual revolution of the sixties, saying she had seen the ill-effects of a similar sexual revolution in the 1920s. Dorothy Day had a progressive attitude toward social and economic rights, alloyed with a very orthodox and traditional sense of Catholic morality and piety. She was also a member of the Industrial Workers of the World ('Wobblies').
In 1971, Dorothy Day was awarded the Pacem in Terris Award. The Pacem in Terris Award was named for a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII. The called upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. 'Pacem in Terris' is Latin for 'Peace on Earth.' Dorothy Day was accorded many other honors in her last decade, including the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame, in 1972.
She died on November 29, 1980 in New York City.
The Claretian Missionaries, in 1983, proposed sainthood for Dorothy Day. Pope John Paul II granted the Archdiocese of New York permission to open Dorothy Day's "cause" for sainthood in March 2000, thereby officially making her a "Servant of God" in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
Our next Assembly meeting will be on August 12th beginning at 7:30 PM. You can contact me by email at: TheAdams@Bellsouth.net.
Vivat Jesus,
Paul Adams, Faithful Navigator
MEMBERSHIP AND EXEMPLIFICATION EVENTS
Council Social and Recruitment Event Update
None Scheduled at this time.
Personal Information Update
Please check to ensure that your contact information is updated with the Financial Secretary. This includes an email address (if you have one) for the sending the Monthly Newsletter. The Shepherd’s Watch subscription is available only through e-mail, it can be also downloaded or read off the Parish website.
New Council Members
The following new members in the month of July came to us from other councils. We wish to welcome them in to Council 11672:Greg Grindstaff (former GK from Mobile) moving here from Kentucky Paul Huter moving here from Texas
Exemplifications Schedule Information
Please understand that 2nd, 3rd, and 4th degrees are typically offered once or twice a year in North Alabama. This is an opportunity to complete your journey to full Knighthood and it's a very convenient location. Please reflect on this and consider participating.
First Degree Exemplifications
None scheduled for this month.
Second Degree Exemplifications
One is scheduled for August, but the date, time, and place have not been announced.
Third Degree Exemplifications
None scheduled for this month.
Fourth Degree Exemplifications
None scheduled for this month.
NEWS OF INTEREST
Birthdays
Officers and members of Council 11672 want to extend a Happy Birthday to the following members whose birthday falls in August:
Paul A. Bartinikaitis 8/15 Albert Carreon, Jr. 8/2 Steven D. Fox 8/31 Fred S. Garcia 8/13 Dean E. Kimmel 8/22 Henry O'Bierne 8/16 Rev. Philip N. O'Kennedy 8/23 Edward M Poniatowski 8/30 James K. Regan 8/16 Marty Siebert 8/26 Christian Z. Sloan 8/9 Kenneth R. Turner 8/2 Michael L Walker 8/19 Thomas F. Zoladz 8/24
Knight and Family of the Month
The Council and members want to congratulate Jay Carrol, the Knight of the Month, and the Family of the Month is the John Bloomingburg family.
Rosaries for our Soldiers
Our Brother Knight Merv Eberhardt is also spearheading an effort to make corded rosaries for the military. If you are interested in joining this effort, please contact Merv by email or 256-882-6819 (home) or 256-457-4881 (cell). Please consider supporting our troops in this worthwhile activity. Some background information is available at the “How To Make A Rosary” link on the Our Lady’s Rosary Makers home page.
St. Vincent de Paul Society
The following is a brief description from the web. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a worldwide organization founded in 1833 by six university students in Paris under the patronage of St. Vincent de Paul. Today the Society includes almost 900,000 members spread among 46,000 confraternities in 130 countries of five continents.
The Society's purpose is to provide direct aid to those who suffer, and to help individuals reduce and even eliminate the causes of their suffering, themselves. Society members use their own resources, sharing not only possessions but also the valuable gift of their presence.
Recently there has been an inquiry about establishing a St. Vincent de Paul group at Good Shepherd. Both the Knights and the St. Vincent de Paul Society have a strong focus on charitable works. The Holy Spirit Parish St. Vincent de Paul group is well established and has been active for many years. If you have an interest in learning more about this society and possibly help establish a group at our parish, please contact John Bellono at 256-882-6767 for more information.
Insurance News
For your insurance and investment needs, please contact our K of C Field agent, Brother Yosway.
Serving Families for Over 125 Years
"A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created" --Will Rogers
Brother Mark P. Yosway, FIC
Field Agent
Knights of Columbus
P.O. Box 96
Madison, Alabama 35758
Tel/Fax: 256-772-7666
Cell: 256-679-5632
Canned Goods Drive
Don't forget those canned goods. Each Knight is asked to bring just one canned good or money to the monthly Council meeting. The food or money goes to the Church pantry for support of the poor and hungry in our community. Remember charity is a Knight's duty, not a courtesy.
Volunteer Hours
Volunteer Hours are due in January of each year to State Office. Please keep a running total of your hours during the year. It would be nice to report them on a monthly basis to the Deputy Grand Knight, as to not make this a major data collection effort at the end of the year. Please tally your volunteer hours for Council, Church, and Community activities and forward them to the Deputy Grand knight as soon as possible but no later than January 15 of each year. It's a time consuming activity to accumulate responses from all our members and summarize them as required - the sooner you can provide them to the Deputy Grand Knight the better. We often overlook community activities such as CASA, Burrett Museum, Habitat for Humanity, Harrison Hardware, and neighborhood swimming associations, etc. Please include these types of community organization activities in your totals. As you compile your volunteer hours, reflect how your time spent in the past year and prayerfully consider how you might better serve those in need in the future. May God Bless all volunteers everywhere no matter where in the world they are.
PRAYER LINE
Taking care of our Brother Knights in distress is one of basic principles
espoused by our founder, Father McGivney. Please remember our sick Brother
Knights and those deceased in your prayers. If anyone knows of a Brother Knight
in distress, contact Grand Knight Bob Spuhl by telephone (426-0030 or email).
Remember
the Prayer Line also includes family members and friends. Being Catholic is not
a requirement to have a person's name placed on the prayer Line.
A good person regardless of
his or her religious beliefs should have our prayers offered to hopefully relieve their distress.
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882-1844 |
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7:00 p.m. |
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881-4781 |
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9:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. |
M, T, TH 12:00 p.m. W 7:00 p.m. |
9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. |
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Redstone Arsenal, 842-2175 0r 842-2178 |
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T-F 12:00 p.m. |
5:00 p.m. |
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Queen of the Universe, 852-0788 |
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11:30 a.m. |
W–F 12:00 p.m. T 6:30 p.m. |
7:00 p.m. |
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the Baptist, 722-0130 |
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8:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. |
T 6:15 a.m. W, Th 6:30 p.m. |
Vigil 8:30 a.m. 7:00 p.m. |
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534-8459 |
5:00 p.m. |
11:15 a.m. |
7:00 a.m. T 7:00 p.m. |
Vigil 7:00 a.m. 8:45 p.m. |
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536-6349 |
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The Short Story Corner
This month's Short Story comes by way of Mrs. Sarah Bowen of Fort
Belvoir, Virginia. She is the Shepherd's Watch daughter. Not sure if this was an
actual incidence in a classroom or not, but I found it interesting!
Communicating Ideas About God
By Anonymous
A fifth grade teacher in a Christian school asked her class to look at TV commercials
and see if they could use them in some way to communicate ideas about God.
God is like Bayer Aspirin. He works miracles.
God is like a Ford. He's got a better idea.
God is like Coke-a-Cola. He's the real thing.
God is like a Hallmark Card. He cares enough to send His very best. God is like Tide. He gets the
stains out that others leave behind. God is like General Electric. He brings good things to life.
God is like Sears. He has everything.
God is like Alka-Seltzer. Try Him, you'll like Him.
God is like Scotch Tape. You can't see Him, but you know He's there. God is like Delta Airlines. He's
ready when you are.
God is like Allstate. You're in good hands with Him.
God is like VO-5 Hair Spray. He holds through all kinds of weather.
God is like Dial Soap. Aren't you glad you have Him? Don't you wish everybody did?
God is like the U.S. Post Office. Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet nor ice will keep Him from His
appointed destination.
God is like a Chevrolet. The heart beat of America.
God is like Maxwell House. Good to the very last drop.
God is like Bounty paper towels. He is the quicker picker upper, he canhandle the tough jobs, and
He won't fall apart on you.
Quotes, Sayings, Puns and Facts
- The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Circumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
- I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
- She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
- A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.
- No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
- A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
- Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
- A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
- Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'
- I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
- A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the grass.'
- The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
- The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran
- A backward poet writes inverse.
- In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
- When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
The Poet's Corner
By: Emily Dickinson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Newsletter Submissions
This is your Newsletter and that anything you would like to let the Officers and Council members be aware of, please submit the information to the Newsletter Editor, . His telephone number is 213-2876 and his e-mail address is sfmedic1970@bellsouth.net.
The information submitted can be of a general interest to the Council members. It does not necessarily have to be directly connected to the Council, the Knights of Columbus, or the Church, e.g. a Boy Scout or Girl Scout event, or something the members might enjoy such as a play or art show. It can be of interest to the Huntsville community at large. Please submit text, photographs, etc. Anything submitted is subject to review and editing by the Editor.
The deadline to have information included in the next publication of the Shepard's Watch is the 20th day of the month preceding the next publication.
The Council is also always looking for material to submit to the One Voice and the Columbia.
We ask you also to keep you mailing address, telephone numbers, and e-mails current.
Questions for the Mind
July's Questions and Answers:
- If a State Supreme makes a ruling concerning the constitutionally of a state law and it is appealed, to which court is the appeal made? The U.S. Supreme Court.
- Is self-love ever sinful? Yes. Disordered love of self is the root of all sin. There can be only one center of a person's life. That center is God, or it can be oneself. The second choice is pride, from which all sin flows.
- What is the baptism of blood? Baptism of blood is the reception of baptismal graces and gifts attained by dying for Christ rather than by the reception of the sacrament. The Holy innocents received such a baptism, as did the catechumens in the early Church who were martyred for Christ.
- Who confers the sacrament of baptism? Ordinarily baptism is conferred by a bishop, priest, or deacon. In an emergency, however, baptism may be administered, by anyone, even by a non- catholic.
- What is death? Death is the end of our natural life in the flesh, the separation of soul and body. At death our time of pilgrimage and trial is over, and we come to God to be judged. "The dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it (Eccle. 12.7)."
August's Questions:
What is logic? What is common sense? What did Thomas Jefferson say about common sense? What is a system? What is a subsystem? What is a component?
