A message from our Faithful Navigator. Your Brother in Christ, SK Robert Reavis, FN

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1 The Manogue Helmsman Bishop Manogue Assembly (50) 5961 Newman Ct. Sacramento, CA (953 Hall) All personal information such as addresses, etc., is for the sole use of the Manogue Assembly # 50, Knights of Columbus and their spouses. All other use is prohibited without the specific consent of the individuals and the Assembly. A message from our Faithful Navigator Iwould like to thank all the SK s and there ladies who attended our St. Valentine s Dinner / Ladies Night Out. It was so well attended that we filled the room to capacity! A grand evening it was with good food and great companionship had by all. I would like to hold our last Ladies Night Out in July and would like some feedback on this event including suggestions on a location. Assembly Resolution was passed at our February RBM thereby raising our annual dues to $40.00 beginning January 1, This should help to ensure the financial security of our Assembly. On March 8 th we held our PFN Dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory. We recognized all of our Past Faithful Navigators and honored our newest PFN, SK Dale Edwards and his service to our Assembly during the Columbian Year 2012/2013. At SK Dales request, rather than receive a gift from the Assembly for his service, he requested that the money that we would have spent for a gift be donated to Christo Rey High School. So, in honoring that request, $ was donated (in SK Dales name) to Christo Rey High School. As I write this article for March, I realize that Lent is upon us. So I ask all the SK s in our Assembly what are you doing for Lent? I, myself, will be going on a retreat the last week end of March where I can withdraw from the world for a short time and reflect on all the gifts with which our Lord has blessed me and how I can best use those gifts to better serve Him, my brother SK s, and His people. I would also like also to recognize all of our Color Corps members and to thank them for their service; there are 10 confirmations that they will be attending this month! The 113 th Exemplification of the 4 th degree is just around the corner so please get your RSVP in for the Friday night dinner, the ladies luncheon, and the Banquet Saturday night. This is a great time to meet our new members and show them support by coming out. I hope to see you there. One last item Our New Member Dinner will be held at 953 hall on April 28 th at 7:30 with a brief officers meeting at 7:00. More to come Your Brother in Christ, SK Robert Reavis, FN

2 For the Men and Woman protecting our rights by serving in the Military, those in law enforcement, and for all of those who risk their lives every day to protect us We Pray to the Lord Lord, hear our prayer! For all of our dearly departed Brother Knights, family, friends, and benefactors Eternal rest, grant to them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through Thy mercy, rest in peace. Amen! Please Remember in your prayers: SK John Condon and his wife Marty, SK Ron Bei, SK Charlie Popp, Lorraine Cutting, CMDR John Regelbrugge, USN and family, and for the peaceful repose of the soul of SK George Donch, SK Arthur Munguia, and Muggs Zarate. Sick or in distress If you know of any Brother Knight, Lady of a Knight, and/or family member of a Knight who is ill or has recently deceased, please notify or our Faithful Navigator, SK Rob Reavis ( ). Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric? (Geo. Washington, Farewell Address). The first president obviously considered those words relevant as he stepped into welcome retirement after nearly half a century of devoted service to the new social experiment. I m sure all of our brother knights would agree they are, if anything, even more relevant today. Sad to say, it seems clear Washington would not be pleased at the many attempts by leaders and other people (with good intentions of course) to banish religion from public life altogether. It is interesting to contrast the role which Washington (and all the Founding Fathers) accorded to religion with the role Karl Marx accorded it. Marx by contrast regarded it as the opiate of the people, something which had to be gotten rid of if society was to prosper. Disturbingly it is the Marxist idea, not that of the Founding Fathers that pervades so many of our institutions, and worse, our government today. As knights, we have the grace of knowing the value of allegiance to God. If we can t impress upon our fellow citizens the importance of obeying God s laws and of heeding Washington s salutary advice, then who can? In doing so we will be fulfilling important obligations both as Christians and as citizens. Fr. Patrick Lee Helmsman March 2014 Page 2

3 Color Corps Report My thanks to those color corps members that were able to participate in our recent Sunday afternoon practices. The practices went so well that I cancelled the last couple prior to the start of our confirmation season. Speaking of confirmations, below is the list of all that are scheduled in March and April. I realize that many of our CC members will not be able to show up in color at most of these, but I am hopeful that all CC members will make an effort to come out whenever your schedule permits. With the recent establishment of a new assembly we lost several of our CC members. I will be including our brother assembly CC commanders in my call outs to hopefully see some of their CC members at our confirmations. As you may know, our assembly has about a dozen parishes to cover. So that being said, here is the list for March and April: Date Time Parish Monday 3/31 6:30 pm St. Peter/All Hallows (55 th St & 14 th Ave.) Tuesday 4/1 6:30 pm Immaculate Conception (Broadway) Saturday 4/5 10:30 am St. Anne ( th Street) Wednesday 4/9 6:30 pm Our Lady of the Assumption Friday 4/11 6:30 pm St. John Vianney (Rancho Cordova) Saturday 4/26 10:00 am St. Charles Borromeo (7584 Center Parkway) Important Notice: I will be gone on a long ago planned vacation from April 4th through April 20th. This will require help in leading our color corps at all but the last confirmation in April. This help should include color corps commanders from other assemblies, SK Michael Langer, and where necessary our more experienced color corps members. Please call me if you have any questions or suggestions - you have my number. Vivat Jesus SK Dale, Color Corps Commander Pray for Us! Venerable Michael J. McGivney. Helmsman March 2014 Page 3

4 ASSEMBLY EVENTS Date/Function Time Chairperson/Location March 31, 2014 April 1, 2014 April 5, 2014 April 5, 2014 Exemplification of the 4 th Degree (T)(S) April 7, 2014 Officers Meeting April 9, 2014 April 11, 2014 April 26, 2014 April 28, 2014 Regular Business Meeting/New Member Dinner (T/S) May 5, 2014 Officers Meeting 6:30 PM St. Peter/All Hallows 6:30 PM Immaculate Conception Broadway 10:30 AM St. Anne 10:00 AM Registration 12:30 Exemplification SK Louis Munoz SK Michael Brady Double Tree Hotel - Sacramento, CA 7:30 PM TBD 6:30 PM Our Lady of the Assumption 6:30 PM St. John Vianney 10:00 AM St Charles Borromeo 7:00 PM 7:30 PM Dinner FN 953 Hall 7:30 PM TBD No Business Meeting in May June 2, 2014 RBM/Election of Officers (T) 7:30 PM June 23, :00 PM RBM RBM/FN Dinner 7:30 PM Dinner June xx, 2014 Planning Meeting Yr 2014/15 TBD (T Tuxedo for Officers; C Casual Attire; S Spouses Welcome!, * Unknown at this time) FN 953 Hall FN 953 Hall FN Elect Helmsman March 2014 Page 4

5 CatholicDefinitions What is a Religious Order? Catholic religious orders are, historically, a category of Catholic religious institutes. Subcategories are canons regular (canons and canonesses regular who recite the divine office and serve a church and perhaps a parish); monastics (monks or nuns living and working in a monastery and reciting the divine office); mendicants (friars or religious sisters who live from alms, recite the divine office, and, in the case of the men, participate in apostolic activities); and clerks regular (priests who take religious vows and have a very active apostolic life). In the past, what distinguished religious orders from other institutes was the classification of the vows that the members took in religious profession as solemn vows, but in the course of the 20th century some religious institutes outside the category of orders obtained permission to make solemn vows, at least of poverty, thus blurring the distinction. Solemn vows were originally considered indissoluble. As noted below, dispensations began to be granted in later times, but originally not even the Pope could dispense from them. If for a just cause a religious was expelled, the vow of chastity remained unchanged and so rendered invalid any attempt at marriage, the vow of obedience obliged in relation, generally, to the bishop rather than to the religious superior, and the vow of poverty was modified to meet the new situation but the expelled religious "could not, for example, will any goods to another; and goods which came to him reverted at his death to his institute or to the Holy See. The 1917 Code of Canon Law reserved the name "religious order" for institutes in which the vows were solemn, and used the term "religious congregation" or simply "congregation" for institutes with simple vows. The members of a religious order for men were called "regulars", those belonging to a religious congregation were simply "religious", a term that applied also to regulars. For women, those with simple vows were called "sisters", with the term "nun" reserved in canon law for those who belonged to an institute of solemn vows, even if in some localities they were allowed to take simple vows instead. However, it abolished the distinction according to which solemn vows, unlike simple vows, were indissoluble. It recognized no totally indispensable religious vows and thereby abrogated for the Latin Church the special consecration that distinguished "orders" from "congregations", while keeping some juridical distinctions. In practice, even before 1917 dispensations from solemn religious vows were being obtained by grant of the Pope himself, while departments of the Holy See and superiors specially delegated by it could dispense from simple religious vows. The 1917 Code maintained a juridical distinction by declaring invalid any marriage attempted by solemnly professed religious or by those with simple vows to which the Holy See had attached the effect of invalidating marriage, while stating that no simple vow rendered a marriage invalid, except in the cases in which the Holy See directed otherwise. Thus members of "orders" were barred absolutely from marriage, and any marriage they attempted was invalid. Those who made simple vows were obliged not to marry, but if they did break their vow, the marriage was considered valid. Another difference was that a professed religious of solemn vows lost the right to own property and the capacity to acquire temporal goods for himself or herself, but a professed religious of simple vows, while being prohibited by the vow of poverty from using and administering property, kept ownership and the right to acquire more, unless the constitutions of the religious institute explicitly stated the contrary. Helmsman March 2014 Page 5

6 After publication of the 1917 Code, many institutes with simple vows appealed to the Holy See for permission to make solemn vows. The Apostolic Constitution Sponsa Christi of 21 November 1950 made access to that permission easier for nuns (in the strict sense), though not for religious institutes dedicated to apostolic activity. Many of these latter institutes of women then petitioned for the solemn vow of poverty alone. Towards the end of the Second Vatican Council, superiors general of clerical institutes and abbots president of monastic congregations were authorized to permit, for a just cause, their subjects of simple vows who made a reasonable request to renounce their property except for what would be required for their sustenance if they were to depart. These changes resulted in a further blurring of the previously clear distinction between "orders" and "congregations", since institutes that were founded as "congregations" began to have some members who had all three solemn vows or had members that took a solemn vow of poverty and simple vows of chastity and obedience. The current Code of Canon Law, which came into force in 1983, maintains the distinction between solemn and simple vows, but no longer makes any distinction between their juridical effects, including the distinction between "orders" and "congregations". It has accordingly dropped the language of the 1917 code and uses the single term "religious institute" (which appears nowhere in the 1917 Code) to designate all such institutes of consecrated life alike. Thus the Church no longer draws the historical distinction between religious "orders" and "congregations". It applies to all such institutes the single name "religious institute" and the same rules of canon law. While solemn vows once meant those taken in what was called a religious order, "today, in order to know when a vow is solemn it will be necessary to refer to the proper law of the institutes of consecrated life." "Religious order" and "religious institute" tend indeed to be used now as synonyms, and canon lawyer Nicholas Cafardi, commenting on the fact that the canonical term is "religious institute," can write that "religious order" is a colloquialism. A religious order is characterized by an authority structure where a superior general has jurisdiction over the order's dependent communities. An exception is the Order of St Benedict which is not a religious order in this technical sense, because it has a system of "independent houses", meaning that each abbey is autonomous. However, the Constitutions governing the order's global "independent houses" and its distinct "congregations" (of which there are twenty) were approved by the pope. Likewise, according to rank and authority, the abbot primate's "position with regard to the other abbots [throughout the world] is to be understood rather from the analogy of a primate in a hierarchy than from that of the general of an order like the Dominicans and Jesuits." The Canons Regular of Saint Augustine are in a situation similar to that of the Benedictines. They are organized in eight "congregations" each headed by an "abbot general," but also have an "Abbot Primate of the Confederated Canons Regular of Saint Augustine." And the Cistercians are in thirteen "congregations," each headed by an "abbot general" or an "abbot president," but do not use the title of "abbot primate." Helmsman March 2014 Page 6

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8 Bishop Manogue Assembly 50 - Officers for Faithful Navigator Faithful Friar Faithful Captain Faithful Pilot Faithful Comptroller Faithful Purser Faithful Scribe SK Robert Reavis Fr. Patrick Lee SK Michael Brady SK Ricardo Saldana SK Luis Munoz SK Thomas Simms SK Patrick Dolan Color Corps Commander Faithful Admiral SK Dale Edwards Faithful Inner Sentinel SK Charles Mudd Faithful Outer Sentinel * Faithful 3 rd Year Trustee SK Bill Hancock, PFN Faithful 2 nd Year Trustee SK Larry Rositani Faithful 1 st Year Trustee SK John Cox, PFN SK Dale Edwards, PFN Knights of Columbus, Bishop Manogue Assembly (50) 5961 Newman Ct. Sacramento, CA ADDRESS SERVICES REQUESTED Postage Here Helmsman March 2014 Page 8