KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 1 ST JOSEPH, HUSBAND OF MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL NO WEST SAHARA AVENUE LAS VEGAS, NV 89117

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1 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 1 09 p;[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ddd KNIGHTLY NOTES ST JOSEPH, HUSBAND OF MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL NO WEST SAHARA AVENUE LAS VEGAS, NV Y2K PLUS XVIII EDITION, ISSUE X OCTOBER 2017 NOTE FROM THE GRAND KNIGHT Worthy Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I hope that your day has found you all well. Summer is gone & from what it seems and the temperatures has finally gotten very comfortable. Just a recap, September 16th was our Country and Western BBQ. Unfortunately, it wasn t quite the turn out that we had expected but, everyone who was there seemed to really enjoy themselves with entertainment from the Star Dusters Square Round Dance Club and a surprise treat from Mr. Roy Hammock the Willie Nelson Impersonator and the Delicious BBQ that was prepared by Brothers Chef Franco Brigandi, Chuck McCloskey, and Tony Tatalo. A Heartfelt thanks go out to everyone for their help in making the BBQ happen. The Council had its first Pancake Breakfast in the Hall last Sunday September 24th along with the Ladies who had their Religious goods sale that day and had a good turnout of parishioners many thanks go out to everyone for their help in making this successful our next pancake breakfast will take place on October 29th, 2017 in the Catholic Center. Tickets for the upcoming October 7th Pasta dinner will be sold Saturday and Sunday (9/30, 10/01) in the plaza after all masses for $10 per person. From what I understand the food is going to be excellent, so if you have the chance, please come on down to the table and purchase a ticket or two. All of the proceeds from the dinner will help the Council support our 10 Seminarians. The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, in anticipation of the Holy Season of Advent, invites everyone to a screening of Open Bethlehem concerning the plight of the Christians in a small town in Bethlehem at Bishop Gorman High School. For more information, see the article on the later pages of the newsletter. November the 8th at 6pm afterwards they will be having a Q/A with the maker of the film, Ms. Leila Sansour. Registration is asked for and setting is limited. Here s the link to anyone interested to register; open-bethlehem-moviediscussion-with- filmmaker-las-vegas-tickets contact is Teena and Pieter Scholte, or for more details. All are asked to keep in their thoughts and prayers the Brothers and Sisters in the mass shooting in Las Vegas, those in Puerto Rico and Mexico including others who have lost and are suffering from Natures wrath, and- please continue your prayers for SK Frank Montesano, Bill and Vilma Koss and anyone not mentioned who is either sick or in distress. God Bless, Ray Foster raf94403@gmail.com Grand Knight Council *************************************************

2 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 2 **************************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************************** OCTOBER 2017 Oct 1 Pasta Dinner Ticket Sales Plaza after all Masses Oct 5 Council/Ladies Monthly Business Meeting 730-9pm Hall/St Francis Room Oct 6 Pasta Dinner Food Prep 9a-5pm Hall Oct 7 Pasta Dinner 12p-9pm Hall Oct Officer Planning Meeting 630-8pm Emmaus Room Oct 14/15 Tootsie Roll Drive Plaza after All Masses Oct Business Meeting 730-9pm Hall Oct 21/22 Membership Drive Plaza after All Masses Oct 26 Council Officers Planning Meeting 730-9pm St Francis Room Oct 28 First Degree Exemplification 7-9 am St Francis Room Oct 29 Pancake Breakfast/Religious Goods Sales 6a-1p Hall ********************************************************************************************** NOVEMBER 2017 Nov 2 All Souls Day Council Business Meeting Knights and Ladies 730-9pm Hall/St Francis Room Nov 4 Tootsie Roll Drive Smith Stores - Time TBD- Nov 5 Tootsie Roll Drive Smith Stores - Time TBD- Nov Officer Planning Meeting 630-8pm Emmaus Room Nov 11 Tootsie Roll Drive Smith Stores Time TBD Nov 12 Tootsie Roll Drive Smith Stores Time TBD Nov Business Meeting 730-9pm Bread of Life Room Nov 23 Thanksgiving Day Nov 25 First Degree Exemplification 7-9 am St Francis Rm Nov 26 Pancake Breakfast/ Religious Goods Sales 6a-1pm Hall Nov 30 Council Officer Planning Meeting 730-9pm St Francis Room **************************************************************************************************** The most potent prayer before God is the prayer of action. - Fr John Hardon ******************************************************************************

3 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 3 *PLEASE KEEP THESE BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN YOUR PRAYERS** Please continue to help our brothers, families, and friends that are in need of our prayers. Please remember the following in your prayers and Let me know if we should add or delete any names from the List! Special prayers asked for those killed/injured in the Mass shooting and their Families. Please keep them and our country in your prayers. Please keep PGK Bill Koss in your prayers. He had a severe stroke on Sept 10 and has made miraculous progress due to faith and continued prayers from family and friends. Pray also for his wife, Lady Vilma Koss. Pray for her strength and also relief from her own pain. SK Frank Montesano is in need of prayers. He has had some recent heart problems. SK Jack Davis is very ill and is need of our prayers. Please pray for peace and relief from pain. Tony and Paula Donofrio both are in need of our prayers. They have both been in hospital the last weeks. Please pray for them to heal, regain strength, and recover. Please keep Charlene Sawyer, wife of Ken Sawyer, in your prayers as she recovers and tries to regain her strength. Please keep PGK Ken in your prayers as well. Bob Zagby has been having neck problems and needs our prayers. Also his wife, Dee Zagby has been having a check up on her heart. Please keep her in your prayers as well. Leon and Kathy Fuselier are in need of our prayers. Kathy has Parkinson s and memory problems, and Leon is her caretaker as well as his own. Please keep Tony Ruivivar and his wife Karen in your prayers during his continuing health challenges and his dialysis. Pray for strength for them both. SK Sylvester Smith has been in lots of pain because of his shoulder surgery. Please remember him and his wife Marsha in your prayers. Please also pray for Bill and Terri Gorman, Lamar Johnson, Bill Allen, Vince Zappia, Jr, and also Dorothy Mae Castronova, wife of Mike, Juan Padron, Steve Corkins and Charlene Sawyer, wife of Ken. Please also pray for all we do not know about and the Spouses of all those who have gone to our Father! Remember our Blessed Mother has a direct line and it works! Please continue to help our brothers & families with prayers. I know they will be answered! Call or visit the sick. PRAYER WORKS. It is That simple. To all who are Ill: Remember many brothers and sisters are praying for you!! Please pray often so as not to miss out on Her Help!! Online Rosary: comepraytherosary.org All Members be a part of one of the best brotherhoods and add new lifelong friends. Let us all remember those older folks and those with illnesses that have not called us for one reason or another. They all need prayers and check in on them!! For new members if you want to meet others, volunteer to be an Usher at the mass you normally attend. A great way to meet others. God Bless, Nick Ciccone, Fraternal Chairman (leave message) or luckynik@cox.net *****************************************************************************************

4 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 4 ***************************************************************** COUNCIL UPDATES. ****************************** October Birthdays Raceleo Garcia Oct 1 Joseph Egan Oct 16 Thomas Koranda Oct 24 Frank Sherman Oct 3 Lino Loyola Oct 16 Alden MacFawn Oct 25 James Contreras Oct 4 Louis DeMarco Oct 17 Dario Luna Oct 25 Lloyd Curry Oct 6 Robert Clark Oct 18 Frederico Engada Oct 25 Symaron Brasfield Oct 6 Timothy Erkinger Oct 18 Kevin Kenstler Oct 26 Henry Bruzza Oct 7 Daniel George Oct 19 Jose Sandoval Oct 27 Gerald Fransen Oct 9 Joe Quinonez Oct 22 Nicholas Fotheringham Oct 29 Jose Aragon Oct 10 James Bevan Oct 23 John Boland Oct 30 John Labrador Oct 11 Jose Torres Oct 23 Afton Kidd Oct 11 Angel Allarde Oct 24 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL!!!! ********************************************************************** Council /Assembly thank those who participated in Feed the Homeless Event Many thanks to those who participated in the Feed the Homeless Event: From Council 10442: Lamar Johnson, Patrick Christopher and Edgar Castro. A big thanks to those who helped from St. Anthony of Padua Council as well. Thanks for helping! ************************************************************************************** 40 Days for Life Kickoff Rally Fall days for life is a peaceful prolife Effort across America and spanning over 20 countries. Prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil make up the components of this life-saving campaign. This year, the 40 day prayer vigil will be held outside the Birth Care Control Center abortion clinic at 872 E Sahara Avenue. SJHOM has signed up for Saturday, October 21 st. All parishioners are encouraged to come join the St Joseph Prayer Group in Prayer beginning at 7AM. Sign ups are taking place now. Anyone interested in joining contact Greg Farina and gcfarina@gmail.com. ******************************************************************************* Faith is a gift, but also, at the same time, an achievement. CARDINAL GIANFRANCO RAVASI ****************************************************************************************************

5 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 5 Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada Needs Your Help! Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada needs volunteers! Go to their website where you can read about all the amazing work that they do there. They have many services where volunteers can sign up and help including the meals at the Lied Dining Room, the Meals on Wheels program, and the food pantry. Did you know.. The Meals on Wheels Program delivers a set of seven nutritionally balanced, frozen meals to more than 2,100 clients each and every week throughout the year? Did you know - Established in 1965, the St. Vincent Lied Dining Facility feeds an average of 800 nutritious meals each day to homeless and men, women, and children in need every day of the year, in a clean and safe environment, no questions asked. Did you know - Catholic Charities Hands of Hope Community Food Pantry is an opportunity for low income Nevadans to shop in a grocery store setting for a variety of supplemental food items like: fresh produce, baked goods, boxed, canned and frozen food items, when available, to meet their family s needs. Go to the website Catholiccharities.com and click on donate or volunteer buttons/links to get started. It is that easy and We guarantee you will feel like you are doing God s Work!!!!!!! *************************************************************************** Screening of Open Bethlehem The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem in anticipation of the Holy Season of Advent invites everyone to a screening of Open Bethlehem concerning the plight of the Christians in a small town in Bethlehem at Bishop Gorman High School November the 8th at 6pm afterwards they will be having a Q/A with the maker of the film Ms. Leila Sansour registration is asked for and setting is limited. Here s the link to anyone interested to register; open-bethlehem-movie-discussion-with- filmmaker-las-vegas-tickets contact Teena and Pieter Scholte, or ******************************************************************************************* KofC Golf Tournament for Catholic Charities Deacon Tom Roberts congratulates Golf Tournament Chairman Ken Sawyer for another great tournament that will net more than $30,000 this year, for the Meals on Wheels program. Ken said that a lot of the credit goes to SK Stephen Corkins and SK Lamar Johnson who put in countless hours soliciting contributions, and the support we received from more Councils and the KofC Ladies Axillary this year. And a huge thank you goes to Brother Joe Micatrotto Sr. (a member of Council 10442), who with Cane's Chicken Fingers who were a Platinum Sponsor this year. All this extra help allowed us to surpass last year's tournament by over $7,000 and that is something all Knights should be proud of. Ken Sawyer would like to express his Thank you to all that helped with this event. ************************************************************************************************************************* Father, help us not to give up meeting together and praying together with other believers. Amen **************************************************************************

6 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 6 Council Dates you should Know: October is a busy month. October 5 th is the Business Meeting at 730. Pasta Dinner is October 7 th. Then we have Tootsie Roll Drive in the Plaza after all masses Oct 14/15, and membership drive in the plaza after all masses the weekend of Oct 21/22. Pancake Breakfast is on Oct 29 th. November 2 nd is our Monthly Business Meeting. Weekends of Nov 4/5 and Nov 11/12 is the Tootsie Roll Drive at the Smith Stores. (the one at Sahara and Durango and the one at Buffalo and Flamingo). Please see Ray Foster for more information/to sign up. Thanksgiving is Nov 23 rd. Pancake Breakfast/Religious Goods sales is Nov 25/26. Come join in the fun! ************************************************************************************************* Ladies Auxiliary News ************************************************************* Our Officers for the Year President Mary Ann O Reilly Vice President Donna Urso Vuolo Secretary Carol Maltese Treasurer Maria Miranda Sergeant-at-Arms Nadine Stango Parliamentarian Paula Donofrio TRUSTEES 3 year Vilma Koss 2 year Patricia LaRiccia 1 year Krista Richardson The Ladies Auxiliary, in conjunction with the Knights of Columbus, are having a Christmas party on December 8 th at Sienna Bistro. Festivities are scheduled to be from 6-10pm. Cost is $40 per person. Dress is Jacket, tie. As one Knight said, this will allow the ladies to dress up. We will have a DJ and dancing, perhaps even sing Christmas carols to start the season off. To purchase tickets, contact Donna Urso, Mary Ann O Reilly, or Maria Miranda. It is expected to be as much fun as our other parties, so get your tickets early, so we can plan accordingly! The Ladies Auxiliary will be having their Christmas Religious Goods sales with many new items October 28 and 29 th in conjunction with the Pancake Breakfast weekend. Hope to see all there!

7 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 7 ********************************************************************** COUNCIL RECOGNITION ************************************************************************** Council is proud to honor: ************************************************************************************************************************************************ New Knights Council would like to congratulate our Brothers who made their First Degree Sept 30, 2017 Ruben Oesterling Ronald A. Petruzzo Roderick J. Songalia Please welcome these new Brothers to the best Brotherhood there is! ************************************************************************************************************ KNIGHT OF THE MONTH- SEPTEMBER 2017 Council is proud to honor Father Jose Unlayao. Father Jose is an active 4 th Degree Knight. He has done a lot to help promote the Council and Assembly events, such as the CW BBQ Recently held last month. Thanks Father Jose for all you do! No Family of the month was elected for September. ********************************************************************************************************************************************* SHINING ARMOR AWARD The Shining Armor Award is presented to a Knight, who in their first year of Membership, has exemplified distinguished service as a Knight of Columbus. The requirements during the first year are: Be involved in at least 3 service programs, attend at least 3 Council business meetings, make their second and third degree, and recruit at least 1 new member. The Council is proud to announce that Lino Loyola has qualified for this distinguished award and will be receiving the certificate and lapel pin soon. Also to Honor our last recipient, from earlier this year, Fred Smith, is shown here receiving his lapel pin for the Shining Armor Award. Congratulations to them both! ***********************************************************************************************************************************

8 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 8 Knights of Columbus Council St Joseph Husband of Mary Roman Catholic Church 7260 West Sahara Avenue Las Vegas, NV Phone: Or Contact: Grand Knight: Ray Foster, Deputy Grand Knight: Patrick Barry, Fraternal Chairman: Nick Ciccone, Financial Secretary, Fred Smith, Newsletter Editor -Jolyn Pinzl, Membership Director: Bob Zagby, Supreme Website: Nevada State Council Website: ********************************************************************************* SJHOM IS IN GREAT NEED OF USHERS! If you are interested in becoming an Usher, please contact the Head Usher: Lino Loyola at or lino.loyola@yahoo.com Responsibilities of Ushers: Hospitality - Meet, greet and seat Parishioners before the mass. Collection - each usher will be assigned to their respective sections to pass collection baskets before the Homily. Communion - each usher will be standing by next to a Eucharistic Minister, Priest, or Deacon to make sure that Parishioners will consume the Host - and NOT walk away with it. Please consider helping and contact Brother Lino Loyola if you can help! *************************************************************************************************** COUNCIL Has a new INSURANCE FIELD AGENT Council s Insurance Field agent is Sean Melancon. His Phone number: sean.melancon@kofc.org. CONTACT HIM FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS!! NOTE: All members are encouraged to look into the annuity and insurance programs offered by the Knights. The annuities start at 100 and are a great long term investment. Go to the Supreme Council s website or Contact field agent Sean Melancon above for more info. **************************************************************************************************************************************** Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. Thomas Merton

9 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 9 PRAYER FOR THE CANONIZATION OF FATHER MCGIVNEY Founder of the Knights of Columbus in 1882 God, our Father, protector of the poor and defender of the widow and orphan, you called your priest Father Michael J. McGivney, to be an apostle of Christian family life and the lead the young to the generous service of their neighbor. Through the example of his life and virtue may we follow your Son Jesus Christ more closely, fulfilling his commandment of charity and building up his Body which is the Church. Let the inspiration of your servant prompt us to greater confidence in your love so that we may continue his work of caring for the needy and the outcast. We humbly ask that you glorify your venerable servant Father Michael J McGivney on earth according to the design of Your Holy will. Through his intercession, grant the favor I now present (make your request) Through Christ our Lord. Amen Please report all favors received to: The Fr McGivney Guild 1 Columbus Plaza, New Haven CT ********************************************************************************************************** Please PRAY FOR OUR 10 SEMINARIANS OF THE DIOCESE Studying: Mount Angel Seminary Mundelein Seminary One Abbey Drive 1000 E Maple Ave Saint Benedict, OR Mundelein, IL Felipe Jimenez Edmund Finley Miguel Corral Mauricio Espino Dominic Cipriano Rogelio Molina Joseph AJ Sales Ivan Lara Nick Cipriano Simon Tran ******************************************************************************************** Prayers for the victims of the mass Shooting on Oct 1 and their families Please pray for the victims of the mass shooting on the strip that happened October 1 st at the concert. Please keep all the victims, their families, and our country in your prayers. Let us be thankful for our blessings, not take things for granted, and do all we can to help others as our Lord wants us to. There is also a blood Drive at LaVoy Hall Sunday Oct 8 from 7a to 1230 pm. Contact Ray Foster if you can donate blood. *******************************************************

10 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 10 QUOTES AND THOUGHTS We all suffer for each other, and gain by each other's suffering; for man never stands alone here, though he will stand alone hereafter; but here is he is a social being, and goes forward to his long home as one of a large company. CARDINAL JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Our human dignity is inseperable from the sacredness of life as a gift of the Creator. In God's plan, each person is unique and irreplaceable. A person comes into this world in a family, which is the first focus of humanization, and above all the first school of peace. To build peace, we need to look to the family, supporting it and facilitating its task, and in this way promoting an overall culture of life. The effectiveness of our commitment to peace depends on our understanding of human life. If we want peace, let us defend life! - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect. -- Cardinal Timothy Dolan Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. St Pope John Paul II The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals. JRR TOLKIEN

11 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 11 THE WITNESS OF FRATERNAL COMMUNION 9/1/2017 by Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson THROUGH OUR PRACTICE OF CHARITY AND FRATERNITY, WE ARE CALLED TO BRING THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL TO OTHERS IN MY COLUMN last month, I discussed some of the ideas I proposed in my keynote address to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sponsored Convocation of Catholic Leaders. I would like to follow up in this column with some additional thoughts. In July, approximately 3,000 Catholic leaders from organizations and dioceses around the country met on the topic of The Joy of the Gospel in America. The convocation was inspired by the apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis titled Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel). There were many impressive aspects of the convocation. But to me, one of the most important was the evidence that the Knights of Columbus in every diocese throughout the country is already bringing the joy of the Gospel to millions of our fellow Catholics and to those outside our Church through our works of charity. In Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis calls Catholics to be an evangelizing community that is filled with joy (24), a community that is permanently in a state of mission (25), and a community that practices a fraternal communion and missionary fruitfulness (89). Elsewhere in Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis urges Catholics to live in fraternity (91) and to share a fraternal love capable of seeing the sacred grandeur of our neighbor, of finding God in every human being (92). He writes: I especially ask Christians in communities throughout the world to offer a radiant and attractive witness of fraternal communion. Let everyone admire how you care for one another, and how you encourage and accompany one another (99).Last month, I wrote that this is a special responsibility for every Knights of Columbus council throughout the world. It is a special responsibility in two ways. First, the pope s words are a good way for us to measure how our councils are living up to our principles of charity, unity and fraternity. We should ask ourselves just how our councils offer a radiant and attractive witness of fraternal communion and how we care for each other as brother Knights and for our families. Many of our councils offer such a witness, but for others there may be room for improvement. In any event, every Knight should take these words of Pope Francis to heart as he approaches the work of his local council. Second, we must make a greater effort to demonstrate within our parishes how the Knights of Columbus offers an authentic model of fraternal communion. We can offer a witness of fraternity to show how all of us as Catholics can do a better job of caring for one another and how we can encourage and accompany one another in our parishes. It might be too much to say that Knights of Columbus are experts in building fraternal communities, but for more than 135 years, Knights have experienced a fraternal communion based upon the principles of charity, unity and fraternity.the insights of Evangelii Gaudium can help us live those principles as brother Knights in a more profound and authentic way. The convocation was a historic opportunity given to us by our bishops to respond to the pope s call for a new chapter of evangelization. But its lasting importance will only be realized if enough Catholics respond to this opportunity and write a new page in the history of Catholicism. Let each of us do our part in the days ahead. Vivat Jesus! - Kofc.org

12 KNIGHTLY NOTES PAGE 12 9/22/2017 WORLDWIDE RELIEF EFFORTS KNIGHTS IMMEDIATELY RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF HURRICANE, EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS Council 5877 in Cholula, Mexico South set up a distribution center for supplies in its meeting place. In response to the damage done to Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria, the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council donated $100,000 to the Archdiocese of San Juan for relief efforts. In addition, a second donation of $100,000 was distributed among the dioceses in the areas of Mexico City, Puebla and Cuernavaca to assist earthquake victims. Within hours of the powerful earthquake that struck Mexico Sept. 19, Knights in Mexico City and the surrounding areas reached out to victims by bringing food and other supplies to those displaced. The 7.1-magnitude earthquake leveled buildings and killed hundreds of people. This was the second earthquake to strike Mexico in a two-week period. In addition to the work of these councils, Knights in Mexico South, Central and Northeast have been collecting supplies for distribution in affected areas that are more remote. For those who wish to contribute, please visit Many thanks. -kofc.org ***************************************************************************************************************************** *********************************