ANNUAL GARAGE SALE 15 AND 16 SEP 2006

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1 Council # 9760 Father Gilpin September 2006 Volume 1, Issue 2 Inside this issue: Sep / Oct 2006 SCHEDULE Grey Cup Pool Roast Beef Dinner Insurance Agent District Deputy s Message Supreme Knight Editor Pat Meuse Fall Supper 6 Oktoberfest 6 Charity Appeal 8 Request For Help 4th Degree Knights 8 8 ANNUAL GARAGE SALE 15 AND 16 SEP 2006 Blacked Nieszner out atfor privacy There will be Barbequed Hamburgers and Hot Dogs available for purchase so bring your family and friends, come out and see what treasures you can find and enjoy something to eat. Steak Night 13 October 2006 Council #9760 is Info or to get tickets holding a Steak Night contact Frank Lacher at at the Park Hotel on 13 Blacked out for privacy October Tickets will be available approx mid September. The cost will be $11.00 per ticket. For more Council # 9760 s Annual Garage Sale is on the 15th and 16th of Sep at the Church of our Lady Community Center. Items for donation may be dropped off at the church center on Thurs 14th of Sep from 6pm to 8 pm. For more info or to arrange pickup of larger objects contact Reg

2 September 2006 Page 2 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sep K of C Day of Prayer 15 / 16 Garage Sale 17 Parish Breakfast Prep Team 4 Cleanup Team 1 18 General Meeting Council Cham bers 7:30 p.m. TBD- Scholarship committee meeting TBD Right to life walk 24 Fall Supper. All Teams. 30 Highway Cleanup (possibility) Oct Steak Night at Park Hotel 14 / 15 Membership Blitz 15 Parish Breakfast Prep Team 2 Cleanup Team 3 16 General Meeting Council Cham bers 7:30 p.m. 18 Membership Info 7 PM 21 K of C Oktoberfest State Bowling Humbolt, Sask GREY CUP POOL TICKETS Council #9760 will be selling their annual Grey Cup pool tickets again this year. We will also be selling Grey Cup pool tickets for the Church of O-ur Lady. Tickets will cost $1.00 each and will be the same as last year with the score for the east and west already printed on the tickets. Prizes will be for matching the score each quarter plus the reverse score. For more info or to purchase tickets contact John Fischer at Blacked out for privacy

3 Volume 1, Issue 2 Page 3 Roast Beef Dinner Council #9760 is holding a roast beef supper on 4 November 2006 at Chiller s Brew Pub. Cost for tickets will be $12.00 each and should be available approx end September. For more info or for tickets, contact Frank Lacher at Blacked out for privacy For all of your Insurance, Long Term Care, Funeral and Investments needs call Your Knights of Columbus agent Phone Bus: (306) Fax: (306) Paul Cossette F.I.C. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHEVALIERS DE COLOMB BOX RPO WILDWOOD SASKATOON, SK S7H 5P1 District Deputy s Message Hello, my brother Knights. I bring you greetings from both the Supreme and State Boards. I hope everyone is having a great summer, and I'm looking forward to getting the new Columbian Year started. A few words about myself, for those who may not know me. My name is Dominic Mancuso. My wife's name is Debbie, and we have four grown children - 3 boys and 1 girl. We moved to Moose Jaw around 1976, and have been proud to call it home ever since. We have been members of Church Of Our Lady parish for approximately 20 years. I am a founding member of Council 9760, and have served in a few positions including Grand Knight. As well, I am a Past Faithful Navigator of Dr. Hourigan 4th Degree Assembly. This is my first time as a District Deputy, and I know I have some big shoes to fill. Brother Al Rossler was my immediate predecessor, and he carried out his duties with professionalism, compassion and dignity. I hope I can do half as well. I thank him for his trust and encouragement. We have a full calendar of activities planned for our Council this year. Every member of our Council belongs to one of four "Work Teams", and each team has a leader. The four leaders are myself, John Fischer, Vince Bouchard and Frank Lacher. We try to divide the activities among the four teams so that no one group of people does all the work. As we are all volunteers, we know that if the same people are doing all the work, they can quickly burn out. I would encourage each member to find those activities in which they believe they can participate, and then do so. If you are not sure Continued on page 7

4 September 2006 Page 4 Pope Benedict XVI is a steady guide for Catholics confused by popular culture s distortion of Church teaching. by Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson In my February, 2003, column, I wrote about a pervasive form of anti- Catholicism shaped primarily by 19th century intellectuals, but which is still very much alive today. I proposed that for these writers, Christianity did not make sense. Christianity was not just irrelevant, it was dangerous to man s welfare because what Christianity said about human nature was wrong and therefore a barrier to human progress. One of those I cited for promoting these views was the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. I wrote that such men insisted that Christianity is not the truth that sets man free. To the contrary, it is what keeps him enslaved. The French scholar Paul Ricœur described Nietzsche as one of the Masters of Suspicion for the way in which he cast doubt not on Christianity s view of God, but upon its view of man and his freedom. Those familiar with The Da Vinci Code will immediately see the same approach in its plot: Catholicism s great secret is that it totally misunderstands the nature of human sexuality and, therefore, also misunderstands the nature and dignity of women. Catholics who are committed to the Church s way of life and rise to levels of authority within it therefore supposedly suffer from the distorting effects of this misunderstanding of human nature. Readers of Pope Benedict XVI s first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love), will find great insight about this problem. The pope writes, According to Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity had poisoned the love between man and woman that the ancient Greeks called eros. The pope continues, Here the German philosopher was expressing a widely-held perception: Doesn t the Church with all her commandments and prohibitions, turn to bitterness the most precious thing in life? The pope refutes this contention, saying that it was really the ancient Greeks who distorted human love by presenting in religious rituals a warped and destructive form of it that actually strips it of its dignity and dehumanizes it. He continues, the prostitutes in the (pagan Greek) temple, who had to bestow divine intoxication, were not treated as human beings and persons, but simply used as a means of arousing divine madness :

5 Volume 1, Issue 2 Page 5 Continued on page 4 Continued from page 3 far from being goddesses, they were human persons being exploited. An intoxicated and undisciplined eros, then, is not an ascent in ecstasy towards the Divine, but a fall, a degradation of man. By ending these destructive practices, Christianity, according to the pope, does not reject or poison human love, but, to the contrary, heals it and restores its true grandeur. Recently, I addressed an international conference in Rome sponsored by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, entitled The Legacy of John Paul II on Marriage and Family: To Love Human Love. Bringing together scholars from around the world, the conference was financially supported by the Knights of Columbus, as is the institute itself. Pope Benedict also addressed the meeting and remarked: The great challenge of the New Evangelization, which John Paul II proposed with so much drive, needs to be supported with a profound authentic reflection on human love, as this love is a privileged way that God has chosen to reveal himself to the world, and in this love calls it to communion in the Trinitarian life. Tragically, The Da Vinci Code has added to the great confusion already affecting many in our society, set adrift as it is by the exploitation of human love. As Catholics we can be grateful that we continue to have in these matters a steady and reliable guide. Our Lord once called Peter, the first pope, the rock. We now have one more reason to hold firmly to Peter s successor. Vivat Jesus! This article was taken from the Knights of Columbus Web Site at Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson

6 September 2006 Church of Our Lady s Fall Supper. Church of Our Lady will be holding their Annual Fall Supper on 24 September All teams will be working to enable a successful event. Tickets will cost $9.00 for adults and $6.00 for children between 6 and 12 years old. For more info or to purchase tickets, please contact Ron Pigott at , BlackedJohn out for Fischer privacyat or Matt Haag at Page 6 Knights of Columbus Oktoberfest Council #9760 will be hosting an Oktoberfest dinner and dance at the Church of Our Lady Community Centre on 21 October The band will be Denis Ficor. Cocktails will begin at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will start at 7 p.m. and the dance will be from 9 p.m. til 1 a.m. For more info contact Reg Nieszner Blacked at out for privacy

7 Volume 1, Issue 2 Page 7 Knights of Columbus Fall Membership Drive Council #9760 s fall membership drive is on. We will be having a Blitz weekend on 14 / 15 Oct 06. This will be followed by an information night on 18 Oct 06 (if we have any prospects) and finish off with a First Degree on 29 Oct 06. District Deputy Cont d from pg 3 do all sorts of charitable work, assist in Church Ministries, etc. Things that what team you belong to, please you are already doing, that contact any of the above you take for granted, are mentioned Knights. worth reporting. It's that We also have a number of "all simple! That's really what team" events, such as Fall and the Knights are all about. Be Spring Suppers, Memorial p r o u d o f y o u r Mass, etc. Again, you don't accomplishments; it's okay to have to do everything, but blow your own horn once in please take the time to find one a while! or two activities you can do, and Finally, take a few moments to think about a family member, close friend or even a co-worker who you think would make a good pitch in. Many hands makes light work. I would also like to ask that any activities that you are involved in, you report to the Deputy Grand Knight, Les Good, who is also Program Director. Many of you do things like help coach kids' sports, sit on a local board, Knight. Then go ahead and ask him if he would like to join. Explain to him who we are, and what we do; like you, he may already be doing the same things the Knights do. Why not do them a s a K n i g h t? T ha n k you f o r this opportunity to talk with you. I look forward to working with each and every one of you. And I must e x p r e s s m y s i n c e r e appreciation for the good wishes and support you have already extended to me so far in my term. God bless and Vivat Jesus! Domenico Mancuso

8 4TH DEGREE KNIGHTS PREPARE FOR THE BUFFALO DAYS PARADE IN REGINA 05 AUGUST 2006 Help With Ticket Sales Council #9760 will be looking for volunteers to help with ticket sales at both Wall-Mart and Co-Op. Anyone who can help should contact Matt Haag at Blacked out for privacy Charity Appeal Tickets The Annual Saskatchewan Knights of Columbus Charity Appeal tickets are in and available for distribution. Tickets cost $2.00 for one or $5.00 for three or $10.00 for ten. Anyone wiling to sell a couple of books of tickets should contact Gilles Doiron at Blacked out for privacy September 2006 Page 8