KNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER. March Grand Knight's Corner. Holy Trinity Council # & Assembly #3097. Serving the Church and Community

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1 KNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER Holy Trinity Council # & Assembly #3097 Serving the Church and Community March 2018 Grand Knight: John Guerrero Deputy Grand Knight: Jaime Rivera Recorder: John McGannon Financial Secretary: Bill Dewey Treasurer: Ronald Wilde Chancellor: Jack Seaman Faithful Navigator: John Guerrero Faithful Comptroller: John McGannon Faithful Captain: James Berry Faithful Scribe: James Kellogg Next Council Mtg: Tuesday, Mar. 6, 6:30, Rm 12 Assembly Mtg to follow. Congratulations to Roberto DelaPena, James Berry and Program Appointees! At our February meetings Roberto DelaPena was elected 3-Year Trustee and James Berry was elected Faithful Captain. Also, the following Service Program appointments were announced: Deacon John Vocations, Carl Green Community Director, Randy Paulino Youth Director, and Joseph Palme Membership. Congratulations to all... Grand Knight's Corner Mar 17th Dinner at 6PM! We re on! for our St. Patrick s Day Dinner. Everything s coming up GREEN... Watch for the Flyer! $10 per dinner, 12 & under are FREE! Please plan on joining us for an evening of good food and good fellowship. (And please put yourself on track to help if you are able!) Brother Knights, We're in Lent and every Friday is the Stations of the Cross at 3 and 7 PM, please make an effort to participate. Monday, March 6 PM we Knights will cook and serve soup for the Parish. Our February 17th Dinner and Dance had a good turn out an enjoyable night with the sounds of the NAPU band. Many thanks to our fellow Knights and their wives for decorating and serving; also Jamie and Pat for preparing the dinner. Congratulations to the following Knights for making their fourth degree: Sir Jack Seaman, Sir Nelly DeJuan, Sir Frank Atoigue and Sir Luis Talavera. And please remember the March 3rd first Saturday 4:30 pm. Vivat Jesus, John Guerrero GK / FN 1

2 Upcoming Dates for your Calendar: Tues, Feb 27: 2nd Degree 6:30, Bremerton Council. Sat, Mar 3: Men s 9 AM, Social Hall. POC: Deacon John, Al Velez. Sat, Mar 3: Communal 4:30 PM, in the Church. POC: Jaime Rivera, John Guerrero. Tues, Mar 6: Council 6:30 PM, Rm. 12. Assembly meeting to follow. Sat, Mar 10: Knighthood (3rd) 11 AM, Gig Harbor. (See flyer below.) Mon, Mar 12: Knights sponsor Parish Soup & Bread, 6:45 PM. POC: Jaime Rivera. Sat, Mar 17: St. Patrick s Day 6PM, Social Hall. POC: Jaime Rivera. Watch for the flyer! Sat, Sun Mar 17 & 18: Knights wear vests and help recruit by telling strangers about the Knights. Sun, Mar 25 (Palm Sunday) - Sat, Mar 31 (Easter Vigil): Holy Week. Sun, Apr 1: Easter Sunday. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said... Sat, Apr 7: Spring Tootsie Roll Drive at East Bremerton Safeway, 9 5. POC: Mark Alcamo. Sat, Apr 14: Spring Tootsie Roll Drive at Silverdale Safeway, 9 5. POC: Mark Alcamo. Looking ahead: Sunday, May 13, we are doing a Special Mother s Day Breakfast/Brunch for all three Masses, 8, 9:45 and There will not be a Parish Dinner in May so we can focus on this event - please be prepared to pitch in! Zether Harris has been Jaime s Right-hand man in the kitchen since Day One, and at the January Dinner she got a small token gift of appreciation for her considerable efforts. Many, Many, Thanks, Zether! At the February meeting we budgeted $300 for the Benedict House initiative headed by Jaime Rivera. Watch for future meals we ll be cooking for them and see if you might help it s a very worthwhile and rewarding ministry. We recently contributed $250 each to St. Vincent and Bremerton Food Banks. Thanks to John McGannon for leading our food donations program and Bill Anderson for his assistance. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Annual Fraternal Survey. We disbursed over $21,000 to charitable causes and logged 9750 Volunteer Hours for CY 2107 a 40% increase over And Thanks to Jack Seaman for collecting and collating all the data. 2

3 Jack-of-all-Trades, John Wincott, gets an award from John Guerrero for all his help at the Parish dinners. Keep up the good work, John! Jim Kellogg, with two of the new Assembly members, CDR James Morton and Joe Kochera. Congratulations to our three new 3rd Degrees: Nelson DeJuan, Stephen Shirk, and Luis Talavera; with John Guerrero and Jaime Rivera. Left: George Cruz receiving Knight of the Month Award. Below: The Reyes Family receives Family of the Month Award. Dan Collins receiving Knight of the Month Award. 3

4 Welcome to our newest member: Obaloker James Lomuda! And, Congratulations to our six new 4th Degree Assembly members: Frank Atoigue, Nelson DeJuan, Joe Kochera, CDR James Morton, Jack Seaman, and Luis Talavera. 1st Degree Team: Standing: Jack Seaman, George Cruz, Bill Anderson, Tom Nealon, Walter Bogaardt, John Devine (Bremerton), John McGannon RCD, Ron Wilde TREA, and John Guerrero GK. Seated: Bill Dewey FS, Obaloker James Lomuda (1st Degree), with Bremerton Council 1st Degree. Dearest Lord, Teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve You as You deserve; To give and not to count the cost, To fight and not to heed the wounds, To toil and not to seek for rest, To labour and not to ask for reward save that of knowing I am doing Your Will. - St. Ignatius Loyola 1st Degree Exemplification of Obaloker James Lomuda on February 19th. Newsletter Editor: Mark Alcamo, at: alcamos@comcast.net, or Please feel free to contact me with comments or suggestions, or if you d like to submit something. Thanks for reading... And if you haven t already: Please consider signing up for the Tootsie Roll Drive the 7th and 14th of April! POC: Mark Alcamo,

5 Be My Valentine? We had a successful and very F~U~N Valentine s Dance on February 17th Thanks to all who were able to help! 5

6 Interview of the Month: Deacon John Deacon John Amlag and wife, Mina Mark: Deacon John, please give us a quick biographical sketch of yourself, when you first settled in Bremerton, your marriage and your family, and your travels from Bremerton to the Big City side of things (and your ordination as Deacon), and back. Deacon John: Bremerton became a home for my family after a 4-year assignment in Olongapo City serving in the naval service in the enlisted ranks. My family came to Bremerton in August of 1986 leaving behind a somewhat tumultuous but peaceful transition of the Philippine government from the dictatorship of then president Marcos to the election of Corazon Aquino as the new Philippine President. We were housed at the old WWII housing in East Bremerton which is now the YMCA before we were transferred to the Navy housing at Jackson Park. While assisting the military chaplain Fr. Brown at Bangor Submarine base, his advice was to find a local parish that would assist with the growing needs of a family. We bought a house in East Bremerton in 1992 and started attending mass at Holy Trinity and registered as parishioners as well. I retired from the Navy in 1994 and became really active in the different ministries of Holy Trinity while working in the Shipyard. In 2003 the question was asked by then Deacon Bob Rupno if anyone was interested in knowing about the Diaconate and if there was any interest in becoming a deacon. I was wondering what a deacon was and encouraged by Fr Jack I started going to the initial interviews for the diaconate and was admitted to the diaconate class in the fall of The following years were dynamic years of movement because our eldest daughter, Chera, was off to college at the University of Washington, and our second daughter, Joanne, was not far behind from entering college and so were our twin boys, Nick and Aaron. Mina and I decided our family would be better off with all of the family under one roof and we found a house in Bothell. I continued my diaconate formation at the Palisades retreat house while working in the shipyard and assisting with ministries at the St Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Bothell. I finally was ordained a deacon in May of 2009, assisting with outreach ministries and assisting in the RCIA program. I was reassigned to St Pius Parish at Mountlake Terrace in July of 2013 serving the needs of the parish as the Faith Formation Director. When the tenants of our Bremerton house moved out in December of 2016, and with needed repairs of the house, we requested reassignment to Holy Trinity. The transfer request was approved in November of Mark: How long have you been a Knight, what caused you to want to become one, and what have you enjoyed most, or found most rewarding, about being a Knight? Deacon John: When I was attending college in the University of the Philippines, I was a in a fraternity and enjoyed the camaraderie of fellow college students. The Knights offered a nobler purpose and when I joined at St Pius I was only able to go to limited functions because of my hectic schedule with Faith Formation and the daily commute to work from Mountlake Terrace to the Shipyard. With the assistance of the Knights and other Ministries, the online resource Formed.org became a part of the Faith Formation in the Parish, along with the Knights providing the bibles and Catechism for the adult RCIA. 6

7 Mark: Since returning to the Parish, you ve reestablished your main vocational interest is in Faith Formation. What led you to that ministry and what are some of your hopes and plans in that area? Deacon John: One of my outreach ministries as a Deacon in St Elizabeth Ann Seton in Bothell was doing bible studies as a prison ministry in the City of Everett jail. In the five years of doing jail ministry, I found that the those who attended my bible studies were mostly Christians of other denominations. In over three years of doing the RCIA program and Baptismal Preparation in Mountlake Terrace, most of the sponsors had a lot of misunderstanding about Catholic doctrine. With the advent of online resources, my hope is for parishioners to avail themselves of the richness of the Catholic Faith. Mark: Finally, if you don t mind showing favorites, is there a Saint, or a Christian life, you are particularly inspired by, and why? Deacon John: All the saints are an inspiration to me because each saint in his or her own way, made something very ordinary in their life and transformed that event, thing, or process, to one which is extraordinary and how they did it is very inspiring. Thank you Deacon John, and it s terrific having Mina and you back at Holy Trinity (where, as Father Jack says), you belong. Please join us for the monthly Men s Breakfast on the first Saturday of the month. Deacon John has been giving inspiring presentations afterwards. And if you haven t done so yet, it s time you checked out the FORMED.org website. Holy Trinity has paid for a year s subscription for the whole Parish. (Access Code: PWYKTH) It s an incredible resource for Catholic audio and video materials. Especially during Lent, you might commit yourself to spending some time with it. The subscription runs to September of this year get some use out of it while there s time! From the Formed.org website. Holy Trinity Pilgrimage in October! Deepen your faith by joining Holy Trinity parishioners on a pilgrimage to Italy and/or the Holy Land in October, Our parishioners Connie and Art Asentista of Bayani Travel have arranged two special pilgrimages for us to enrich our spiritual life and help Holy Trinity Parish in its renovation project. Proceeds from the pilgrimages are being donated to the Capital Campaign Fund. Our pilgrimages will be led by Father Anthony Bernas, aka Father Gege, Chaplain of Naval Base Kitsap and Presider at our Sunday Spanish Mass, who will celebrate Mass each day. Expert guides will help us understand the countries, the history and the features of all the beautiful churches and sites we will visit. In Italy, we will venture to Rome for a visit to St. Peter's Basilica and an audience with Pope Francis. After visiting Rome's four major basilicas, we will travel to the churches dedicated to our beloved saints and where Saints Benedict, Catherine, Francis and Padre Pio lived and prayed. In addition to Rome, we will visit Florence, Assisi, Siena, Lanciano, Monte Sant'Angelo, and San Giovanni Rotondo. You can conclude your pilgrimage in Italy or continue onto the Holy Land to walk where Jesus, Mary and the apostles lived. Pray where Jesus was born, Cana - the site of his first miracle, the Jordan River to renew our Baptismal promises, the site of the Transfiguration, the Mount of Olives, a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, the holy city of Jerusalem and the Old Testament sites of the Jericho, Masada and Qumran where the Dead Sea scrolls were found. Please see the flyers below for more details. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Connie at or her at mailto:connie@bayanitravel.com or call Art at for further information and registration forms.

8 DEPART SEATTLE $ PAPAL AUDIENCE AND FOUR MAJOR BASILICAS OCT. 8-17, 2018 HOLY TRINITY SHRINES OF ITALY PILGRIMAGE Italy is a destination for travelers who want to rejoice in their faith. On this inspirational tour, you'll celebrate Mass, have an opportunity to attend the Papal Audience and learn about some of Italy s most beloved saints. Learn about St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, a modern-day saint who was canonized in Visit the Shrine of Monte Sant'Angelo, one of Christendom's most celebrated shrines and where St. Michael the Archangel appeared and visit the basilicas of St. Francis and St. Clare in Assisi. Visit Florence, a true paradise for culture and art lovers. On this tour you'll see why Italy is a must for faith-based travelers and for art lovers. MONTECASSINO FOUNDED BY ST BENEDICT, MIRACLE OF THE EUCHARIST ST. PADRE PIO, ST. MICHAEL, ASSISI, FLORENCE, SIENA ROUNDTRIP AIRFARE, AIRPORT TAXES, FUEL SURCHAGE (INCREASES IN GOVERNMENT TAX AND FEES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE), HOTEL ACCOMODATION, AIRPORT TRANSFER (FOR THOSE FLYING WITH THE GROUP), ENTRANCE FEES, HOTEL GRATUITIES, PROGRAM FEES, DAILY BREAKFAST & DINNER, DELUXE MOTORCOACHES, PROFESSIONAL LOCAL GUIDE 4215 Pine Rd NE, Bremerton, WA 98310, USA CONTACT: CONNIE ASENTISTA ART ASENTISTA HOLY TRINITY PARISH

9 DEPART SEATTLE $3588 Or from JFK $3188 RENEWAL OF BAPTISM AT JORDAN RIVER OCT , 2018 HOLY TRINITY PILGRIMAGE TO HOLY LAND WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS NAZARETH, CANA, MOUNT TABOR, SEA OF GALILEE, MOUNT OF BEATITUDES, TABGHA, CAPERNAUM, YARDENIT, THE JORDAN RIVER, MAGDALA, GOLAN HEIGHTS, CAESAREA PHILIPPI, HAIFA, BETHLEHEM, JERUSALEM, MOUNT OF OLIVES, MOUNT ZION, WESTERN WALL, DEAD SEA, JERICHO, MASADA AND QUMRAN 4215 Pine Rd NE, Bremerton, WA 98310, USA RENEWAL OF WEDDING VOWS FOR COUPLES AT CANA MASS DAILY ROUNDTRIP AIRFARE; AIRPORT TAXES, FUEL SURCHAGE (INCREASES IN GOVERNMENT TAX AND FEES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE) ACCOMODATION; AIRPORT TRANSFER (FOR THOSE FLYING WITH THE GROUP); ENTRANCE FEES; HOTEL GRATUITIES; PROGRAM FEES, DAILY BREAKFAST & DINNER, DELUXE MOTORCOACHES, PROFESSIONAL LOCAL GUIDE CONTACT: CONNIE ASENTISTA ART ASENTISTA HOLY TRINITY PARISH

10 KNIGHTHOOD 3 RD DEGREE EXEMPLIFICATION Hosted by District 29 & St Nicholas Council 9238 St Nicholas Parish at 3610 Rosedale St NW Gig Harbor, WA On Saturday March 10, 2018 Location: The 3 rd degree will be held on Saturday March 10 in Gig Harbor at St Nicholas Parish Social hall located at 3610 Rosedale St NW. Directions: From either Northbound or Southbound Highway 16 take the Second Gig Harbor Exit (Wollochet Drive /City Center) o From the North, cross over the highway and turn left at the first light (Stinson Ave) o From the South, continue straight after the light (Stinson Ave) Continue on Stinson Ave to the second stop sign (Rosedale St) Turn right on Rosedale St. Go just past the LDS Church on your left. There will be a sign on a post on your right pointing to the driveway for St Nicholas Church and a sandwich board on the sidewalk pointing to their school. Districts: District 29 (DD Alan Kempen) will host this event District 22 (DD Al Reponte) will co-host this event. Time: The Degree will begin at 11:00 am. Candidates are to arrive at least ½ hour prior. Anticipate 1 - ½ hour for the exemplification and an hour for the lunch and social following the degree. It will be about a 3 hour event. Honoree for the 3 rd Degree will be: Jerome Dutch Dolney, (Council 9238), FDD, PGK, PFN Points of Contact: HDD: Alan Kempen, akempen@q.com, (360) (H), (360) (C). Except for day of event, please use home number first. Conferring Officer: Ed Cabalero, ejcabiro@gmail.com - (253) Host Grand Knight: Bill Lindsay, balindsay@msn.com - (253) Refreshments: There will be a light lunch with food and refreshments served immediately after the 3 rd degree. Remarks: Grand Knights, Financial Secretaries, and/or sponsors should bring their candidates. All Knights, including candidates, are required to have their membership cards. The sponsor will present the candidate s third degree membership card at registration. No mass will be offered specifically for this degree. Regular Saturday mass at St Nicholas will begin at 5:30 for those wishing to attend. Please direct all questions, comments, concerns, or recommendations to the Host District Deputy. Council officers please provide expected number of candidates to HDD at least a week before the degree.