Roseville Patriotism Knights Of Columbus Nazareth News March 2015 Vol. 5, Number 7 Unity www.kofc4021.org # 4021 Charity Fraternity Council Activities March 9 March 17 March 16 7:00 PM March 23 March 29 April 3 7:30 pm Business Meeting at Hall. ST. Patrick’s Day 7:30 Bingo, Golden Living Center Lakeridge Social Meeting at the Hall 7:30 AM Serving Pancakes at Dorothy Day 8:30AM Annual Good Friday Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood St. Paul April 5 Easter Sunday April 12 Divine Mercy Sunday April 13 7:30 pm Business Meeting at Hall. April 20 7:00pm Bingo; Maplewood Good Samaritan April 26 World Day of Prayer For Vocations The initial target for 40 DAYS FOR LIFE is the Robbinsdale Planned Parenthood across the street from Pro-Life Action Ministries' Chapel of the Innocents. However with the current weather and the distance it might be better for St. Paul area residents to do their praying at the Mega Planned Parenthood at 671 Vandalia St. (just north of University Avenue-not far from the former Amtrak Station-Pierce Butler to Transfer Rd. to University and turn right). Everyone doing praying during the current 40 Days For Life is asked to pray at the Mega Planned Parenthood Monday, March 23 --Sunday March 29. SENIOR BINGO! Monday March 16, 2015 7pm Golden Living Center Lakeridge 2727 North Victoria Roseville, MN. To volunteer call, Bill Scarborough 651-489-3818 or Hank Langevin 651-488-1153 or just show up, help is always needed. Drive! April 24, 25 and 26, 2015 Spring is almost here and that means it is once again time for the Minnesota State wide annual tootsie roll drive for people with developmental disabilities on April 24-26. The usual place for the drive covered by Nazareth Council 4021 are all the weekend Masses at St. Rose, Corpus Christi, Maternity of Mary, St Johns of Little Canada and St. Jeromes We also will be present at Rainbow on Larpenteur and Cub at Harmar both Friday night and Saturday morning. Along with those handing out tootsie rolls we will need people to count money at the Hall. Again we plan to have a pizza party at the council chambers on Friday evening. Please brother knights and ladies we need your help in this large event. To Volunteer call: Willie Eddleston 651-482-8920 Firearms Safety Class. The date for the Spring Firearms Safety class will be Wednesday, March 04, 2015, and will run six consecutive Wednesdays, with the range day Saturday, April 04, 2015. These classes will be held at the Roseville VFW, 1135 Woodhill—Roseville, starting at 6:30PM-9PM. These classes are cosponsored by Nazareth Council #4021 and Roseville VFW Post #7555. Reservations are required. Contact Brother Knight James Eddleston 952-895-9808 Chaplains Comments Father Ken Ludescher Chaplain of Nazareth Council #4021 LENT: Try to keep your good Lenten resolutions! Lent is a special grace filled time for spiritual growth in our lives! It is a time for extra prayers, works of charity, penance, a time to renew our baptismal covenant, our baptismal promises to turn away from sin and turn more completely to Jesus! It is a time for on-going conversion to live the gospel message of Jesus as taught to us through our Catholic Church. Conversion to Jesus is a day by day process. We do not become saints quickly. We have to work hard year after year. With God's grace, we will achieve our goal of eternal life with Jesus in heaven! ST.PATRICK AND ST. JOSEPEH: During March, the Catholic Church celebrates the memorials of two important saints of the Church, St. Patrick on March 17, and St. Joseph on March 19. St. Patrick, is the patron saint of Ireland and the Irish people all over the world! Ireland has given the worldwide Catholic Church many priests, religious sisters and brothers along with many faithful lay leaders in the world. As affluence came to Ireland, and religious values declined in Europe and the America, the religious vocations declined greatly! Many secular leaders in Ireland are now hostile to the Catholic Church! Pray that Ireland, and the rest of the world, will have a religious revival and encourage more religious vocations! St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, is the beloved saint for all Catholics and Christians through the world! He is the patron saint of husbands and fathers, of workers, and of the dying! He was a person of great faith! He worked hard to provide for and protect the Holy Family! All Christian men should pray to St. Joseph daily for the help to model their lives on that of St. Joseph! MIDDLE EAST: Violence, terrorism and wars continue to grow in the Middle East as well as in Northern Africa and cities of Europe! Christians in the Middle East are being killed or forced to quickly leave the area! If this trend continues, soon there will be few Christians in the Middle East! Muslim leaders in American must speak out strongly and influence the Muslim leaders in the Middle East to stop arming, stop recruiting new terrorists, stop persecutions of Christians and begin to fight the terrorists! They fight among themselves. Remember the war between Iran and Iraq! Its seems that America has to do most of the fighting and peace keeping! As more counties in the Middle East gain atomic weapons, a massive war could happen! People who comment that "one religion is as good as another, because we all pray to the same God". They forget that different religious have very different concepts of what God is like! Countries where there is a Muslim majority, even when they reject ISIS and other terrorist groups, still make it difficult for Christians to practice their religion in those countries! We need to pray hard and long for peace to come to the Middle East! Work on finding strong Catholic Men to keep our Council strong in 2015! Jericho March Monday, March 23 – Sunday, March 29, 2015 3:00p.m. each day Mega-Planned Parenthood 671 Vandalia St. St. Paul, MN 55114 Join our Jericho March at Planned Parenthood as we march around in silence once a day for six days. On the seventh day, we march around Planned Parenthood six times in silence and the seventh time making a lot of noise! Reprinted from Pro-Life Action Ministries web site. Year Of Consecrated Life 11/30/14 to 2/2/16. Grand Knight Tom Bieter 651-308-9002 From our Grand Knight : My fellow Knights, we are now rapidly approaching the Holy season of lent. In the past, it was popular to give up for Lent as a means of experiencing some form of self improvement. Over time and with sin it became evident that our hope in forgiveness was not dependent on ourselves, but that it existed outside of ourselves. Became called to stop being spectators and to be active in seeking and doing God's will. We need to remember Jesus promise to be with us always in God's constancy in his promise. We must walk with Jesus across the chasm of sin, evil and death, trusting essentially in life's only true support the will of God. May God be with each one of us as we experience the challenges of intensifying these relationships to the point of experiencing true Easter joy. God Bless you, Tom Bieter. Resolution #16 WHEREAS: Nazareth Council has always supported Catholic Schools and Education. WHEREAS: Community of Saints Regional Schools a partnership between St. John Vianney, St. Matthews, St. Michael’s and our Lady of Guadalupe, is committed to high academic standards, excellence in teaching, enriched learning, strong community, Catholic values and making Catholic education affordable. WHEREAS: they will be holding An Evening Under the Stars auction on February 7th to raise funds to assist the school in funding the students’ education. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: Nazareth Council donate the sum of $600.00 to help make their action a success. Submitted by: Peter DeZurik William Eddleston Duane Sanocki Resolution #17 WHEREAS: Nazareth Council 4021 has always supported the St. Paul Seminary in their mission to educate future Priests through the Pennies fro Seminarians Program. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: Nazareth Council provide $1000.00 to the pennies for Seminarians program. Submitted By: Nazareth Council Office 651-631-0538 Financial Sec. Richard Frederick Deputy Grand Knight Tom Pepin 651-773-0912 651-636-3051 K.C. Insurance Rep District Deputy Kevin Nelson Matt Heffron 612-743-8926 Nazareth News Ken Scheierl 763-502-1060 or kgs1963@live.com Dead line for Nazareth news , 15th of the month. Resolution #18 WHEREAS: We as knights have always supported our local churches through, prayers, volunteer service, and financially, in many different ways; WHEREAS: St. Rose of Lima Faith Formation/Youth Ministry department, is planning to hold its first ever youth ministry winter weekend retreat for high school aged youth, to further develop a deeper relationship with God and the Catholic Church; WHEREAS: The St. Rose of Lima Youth Minister and the Volunteer CORE adult leaders in planning this weekend retreat at the Koinonia Retreat Center in Annandale, MN; they're trying to keep the participants out of pocket expenses as reasonable as possible to attract as many of the St. Rose of Lima HS aged youth as possible; BE IT RESOLVED: Nazareth Council #4021 donate the sum of $350.00 (Three Hundred Fifty dollars) to sponsor the 15th Ever Youth Ministry Winter Retreat @, S Rose of Lima for HS aged youth. Submitted by; David Richard Tom Chamberland Mike Pierce, PGK Mike Pierce PGK Jim Eddleston II PGK Thomas J O Dea PGK Check out our new Council #4021 web site! www.kofc4021.org Nazareth Council #4021 Knights of Columbus 2233 North Hamline Avenue B-12 Roseville, MN. 55113 Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage Paid Twin Cities, MN. Permit 3658 Dated Material, PLEASE DELIVER PROMPTLY. Return service Requested. Prayers and Condolences Brother Thomas "Tom" E. Rogers died December 27, 2014 at age 86. He and his wife, Harriet, had been married 64 years. They had 6 children, 12 grandchildren, 4 step grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren, and 7 step grandchildren. Tom had been a knight for 29 years. He was a Honorary Life Member of Nazareth Council. He will be missed by his family, friends and his Brother Knights. (We just learned of this the last few days) Brother Gregory "Greg" M. Mlekoday died July 24, 2014 at Lindstrom, Minnesota. He was 69 years of age. Greg was a member of Nazareth Council for more than 37 years. He was an Honorary Life member of Councl 4021. He will be missed by his wife, Dorothy, and his family and friends. Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen. Special remembrance to our brother Knights or Columbian Woman who are sick or in distress, that they may recover by the grace of almighty god, Extended Illness Especially: Steve Peterson Tom Schraad Louise Simon Dorothy Kettler Harold Hebl Fr. Jim Fangman Kathleen Phillippi Mary Jo Kobold Pat Kobold Henry Sigety Frank Junghans Merlyn Scroggins Liz Ethen James F. "Jim" Lyons Tom Triemert Howard Agee Prayerfully Temporary JoAnne Zdrojkowski Floyd Zdrojkowski John Ethen Jackie Phillippi Jean Richard Floyd Monty Debbie Schuster Al Spangenberg Don Zettel John Matschi Andy Litschke Matt Steiner Shannon Fahey Gerry Reeves James "J.O." Thompson Evelyn Perszyk Bernie Scroggins Francis "Barney" Hagen and any other Brother Knight's, Columbian Women or their loved ones, that we are unaware of. Sick & Vigil Co-chairs Doug Larson 651-483-0148 Duane Sanocki 651-644-2309
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