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COUNCIL 5548
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
April 2014
Volume 8 - Issue 9
WORDS FROM THE GRAND KNIGHT
Grand Knight’s Message:
Calendar of Events
March 29th - State Free Throw
Contest
April 3rd - Regular meeting - 6:30
P.M. - Rosary and speaker from the
Franciscan Sisters - Pot luck dinner
April 5th - Family Day of Prayer see the attached flyer
April 13th - VA Chapel - escorting
veterans to mass
April 15th - Officers Meeting 7 P.M. Note the date change due to
holy week
April 20th - Easter Sunday
April 25-26th - Fourth Degree
Exemplification in Bemidji
April 25-27th - Fundraiser for
People with Developmental
Disabilities (Tootsie Rolls)
April 26th - Walters Spaghetti
Fundraiser - see the attached flyer
May 1st - Regular monthly meeting
May 3rd - Marriage Day at St.
Mary’s Cathedral
Volunteer Corner
April 5th - Family Day of
Prayer Friends Camp at
Annadale, MN
April 25-27th - Fundraiser for
People with Developmental
Disabilities (Tootsie Rolls)
April 26th - Walters Spaghetti
Fundraiser - see the attached
flyer
We need to take up our cross and follow Jesus.
This message was delivered loud and clear at the Catholic Men’s Conference and
then again during our Stations of the Cross service on March 21. Today we are
being told to take the easy road and not follow our Catholic faith. In many ways we
are being persecuted much as was Jesus when we stand up for our truths like
abortion is killing an innocent human being or marriage is to be the special union
between a man and woman. Jesus died on the cross for us rather than deny Himself
and His Father. To keep our Catholic communities strong we need to take up our
cross and take a stand for our faith and follow in His footsteps with our parish and
church leaders.
We had a fantastic showing for both these events from our members. I am humbled
and proud to be a member of our council when we show such commitment to our
faith. Thank you to Mike Schmidtbauer for providing the soup and our new member
Ray Halupczok for making us fresh bread for the meal at the Stations of the Cross.
April 5 is our Family Day of Prayer – last chance to sign up. Contact Gene Markman
at 253-3635. This is a great addition to our Lenten Journey and it free to our
members and their families.
April 25 through 27 is the Fundraiser for People with Developmental Disabilities
better known as the Tootsie Roll Drive. Beat the rush and sign up now. We also need
people to work with their parishes at the masses that weekend and help with the
support and collections at our store locations. Contact me at 260-6945 or send me a
message at cmeier2@chartermi.net.
April 26 is the Ryan Walters Spaghetti and Silent Auction Fundraiser. See the
enclosed flyer. Bring your family, friends and neighbors to support the son of our
Brother Knight Dan Walters.
St. Anthony’s church is looking for help in filling the hours for their Perpetual
Eucharistic Adoration. Many of the hours are from midnight to 5:00 AM. These were
the hours Jesus was praying in the garden before his crucifixion. Contact Kathleen at
259-5148 for more details.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOUR INPUT ON OUR MEMBER MEETINGS FOR NEXT
YEAR. SHOULD WE MOVE OUR MEETINGS BACK TO THE THIRD THURSDAY
OF THE MONTH OR LEAVE THEM ON THE FIRST THURSDAY? LET US KNOW
BEFORE OR AT OUR NEXT MEETING, APRIL 3.
Conrad Meier, your faithful Grand Knight
april
FAMILY of the MONTH:
Gary & Elaine Notch
KNIGHT of the MONTH:
Don Dols
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COUNCIL 5548 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
“As we reach Holy Week”
Soon, we will be celebrating the holiest part of the year with the Holy Triduum which includes Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil. All three make up one
big liturgy. Recently, I was doing some spiritual reading that explains the idea of “supplication”. We hear this word often in the Mass but it is a big word that is used to
indicate a very rich activity that can happen in our relationship with God. I would like to explain this because it really indicates a good way that we can approach Holy
Week spiritually.
Throughout Lent, we have been doing various practices to help us to go deeper in our relationship with God. The whole purpose is to help us to be purified of
anything that keeps us from accepting the life of God in our hearts. Through our penances, we are meant to learn some key things: The first is that we seek to belong
to Christ. Hopefully our practices increase our longing for him and our awareness of this longing. The second reason for the practices is to grow in a greater distrust
for ourselves. We should learn not to trust in our own understandings of life or only in ourselves. Rather, we should seek to see as God sees and depend on him. The
third is to grow in confidence in Jesus Christ. All of what has been said should lead us to have a tremendous (even a mad) confidence in the sacred heart of Jesus!
Jesus wants nothing more than our own confidence in his forgiveness, his healing, his will, and his love. Uniting this kind of confidence in him with his sacrifice that
re-presented at each Mass but particularly powerfully on Holy Week brings us to into the greatest communion with God.
Many blessings to you during these final days of Lent and know of my prayers for you! -Fr. Ben
From the desk of Gene Markman F.S.
Congratulations to our new third degree members - Ray Halupczok, Ken Booth Jr., and Tom Paxson. Frank Welle and Matthew Eiynck
also attended the class in Paynesville to complete their 2nd and 3rd degrees. Matt is currently a St. Cloud State student and transferred to
our council so he could be active.
Please mark your calendars for the 8th of July. This is our council’s annual picnic at Wilson Park
Serving time 4:30 to 6:30 P.M. There is no charge for the members and their families.
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AUXILARY COMMITTEES
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President
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Secretary
Treasurer
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2 Years
3 Years
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Kay Chmielewski
Elaine Notch
Helen Bauer
Jean Burnett
Marianne Janicik
Kae Ziehl
Liz Markman
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252-3901
252-5273
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John Burnett
Jerome Jansen
Ronald Lahr
Mark Phillips
Jared Schreifels
Michael Valerius
Thomas Daniel
Thomas Kellen
Leonard Laudenbach
Sylvester Raymond
Marvin Spoden
Louis Vogel
Ed Dockendorf
Paul Kettner
Joe Mareck
Matthew Reker
Ferdinando Stella Jr.
Steven Zinsli
Jeffery Gallagher
Eugene Lahr
Philip Orth
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Council 5548 Knights of Columbus
Auxiliary News
April 2014
Auxiliary News
“LENTEN PRAYER Loving God, we pray this Lenten
season that we make more room for you and others. We pray
that our actions help to create a world where we rededicate
our time in your service, where we truly appreciate the many
blessings of our lives, where we share our gifts and talents
with others and where we all continue to grow in your love.
We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.”
Our April meeting will be held on Thursday, April 3, 2014
at St. Anthony’s Parish Center meeting room following the
6:30 p.m. rosary with the Knights and pot luck supper. Please
bring a dish to share that is ready to be served. Please include
an utensil if your dish requires one as we have limited kitchen
space. We will continue to collect pennies for seminarians
and the milk/juice project. THANK YOU to all who donate
on a regular basis.
The following slate of officers for 2014-2015 will be
presented at our April meeting. They are President Kim Walz,
Vice President Kay Chmielewski, Secretary Corine Meier,
Treasurer Karen Welle, Trustees Kae Ziehl, and Jan Gross.
We are in need of one more person to serve as a Trustee. If
you are willing to accept this position please call Helen Bauer
at 251-9055. Nominations will also be taken from the floor
the night of the meeting. Voting for officers for 2014-2015
will take place at our May meeting.
Our annual St. Scholastica Bingo Party will be on Tuesday,
April 29, 2014. Please arrive by 6:15 p.m. as bingo will start
at 6:30 p.m. We will be supplying wrapped gifts, (something
the Sisters can use (ie: note cards, stamps, Kleenex, hand
lotion, chapstick, Fiddle Faddle, snack bars, shampoo,
toothbrush) for this event as well as bars or cookies for the
social that will follow the bingo.
THANK YOU to all who participated in our fundraiser at
Pizza Ranch. Our next fundraiser for the auxiliary will be a
Brat Sale to be held at Coborn’s Centennial on Friday May 23
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday May 24 from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. We will need everyone’s help to make this fundraiser
a success. Sign up sheets will be passed at the April and May
meetings or you may call Elaine Notch at 252-5273. Earlier
callers will be guaranteed the time slots that work for them.
“Almighty and eternal God,
You chose to offer humankind
a model of Humility; Our Savior
took on flesh and subjected Himself
to the Cross. Grant us the grace to
faithfully live the lessons He taught us
through his Passion, and to have a share
in His Resurrection. This we ask
in the name of Jesus Christ,
our Son and our Savior.”
UPCOMING EVENTS
April 3
April 5
April 20
April 29
May 1
May 3
6:30 p.m. Rosary with the Knights (Pot Luck Supper)
Family Day of Prayer
HAPPY EASTER
St. Scholastica Bingo Party- arrive at 6:15p.m. bingo
starting at 6:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. Rosary with the Knights
K C State Auxiliary Convention
and World Marriage Day
Happy BirthdaY
to our April birthday ladies:
Sheila Hughes, Ruth Stang,
and Evelyn Zabinski-Briggs
Helen Bauer and Elaine Notch, Public Relations
Volume 8 - Issue 9
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