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1 2016 Jo THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ST. MAXIMILIAM KOLBE COUNCIL 9612 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER Calendar of Events Friday, October 7 7:00pm First Friday Tuesday, October 11 8:00pm General Meeting Sunday, October 16 Sunday, October 23 Tuesday, October 25 7:30pm Executive meeting Friday, 4 7:00pm First Friday Tuesday, 8 8:00pm General Meeting Sunday, 20 Sunday, 27 Tuesday, 29 7:30pm Executive meeting GRAND KNIGHT S MESSAGE October was a very busy month for our council. We held our annual Autumn Dance which was successful thanks to a very committed dance committee and support from sponsors who donated generously to our raffle. A big thank you to everyone who attended the dance and to all our brother knights and families who volunteered their time to help out. About a week later we held our Roses for Life campaign at the parish and raised some money for this great cause, thank you to all the brother knights who took shifts to stand by the entrances and the Pro-Life Club for helping out on the Saturday. With it being the fall season lots of work was done in the park rozancowy and is still ongoing please contact Bro. Henry if you are available for a few hours to help. In the month of October we also said goodbye to our Late Bro. Ted Jarosz who was a Charter Member of our council, may he rest in peace. In the coming months we have the Mikolaj for the kids and grandchildren of knights in good standing on December 3rd please sign up to Bro.. This year, as we have in the past, our council will be facilitating a food drive at our parish more info will be provided in the church bulletin closer to the date. Also in the new year we will be having an Oplatek on Saturday January 14th 2017 in the evening, tickets will be available soon so please mark the date in your calendars. Let's continue to work together and be shining examples of good Catholic men for our community. Have a story, pictures, joke, event details or prayer request that you would like to share with your Brother Knights? Then please forward it before our next Submission Deadline Novt 27, to: Joe@zacon.com or contact Joseph Zielinski at Vivat Jesus Mark Ruta

2 2016- Page EXECUTIVE Chaplain Grand Knight Past Grand Knight Deputy Grand Knight Chancellor Recorder Financial Secretary Treasurer Advocate Warden Inside Guard Outside Guard 1ST Year Trustee 2ND Year Trustee 3RD Year Trustee Lecturer KofC Insurance Agent District Deputy Membership Director Program Director Church Director Community Director Council Director Family Director Youth Director Fr. Janusz Blazejak, OMI Mark Ruta Adam Rachwal Miroslaw Ruta Andy Makula Mieczyslaw Gniotek Michael Balawejder Robert Jagielski Janusz Ostrowski Albin Trella Zygmunt Wardzela Ted Siuda Henry Lopinski, P.G.K Joseph Zielinski Joseph Studzinski 905- Eugeniusz Gwiazdowski Andrei Dias Gary McDonald Ted Siuda Henry Lopinski, P.G.K Zygmunt Wardzela Miroslaw Ruta Robert Jagielski From The Pulpit The Sadducees rejects resurrection because it was not in the Pentateuch, the only books they considered were Scriptures. They tried to discredit Jesus through a Leviticus law requiring that if a man without children dies, his brother would marry the widow and their first son would be considered the dead man s son. But what if the second brother died childless, and a third, up tp a seventh brother? Which of the seven would be her husband when they rose from the dead? Surely the idea of resurrection was problematic. But Jesus rejected their premise. Resurrected life was not the same as our per-resurrection life. The resurrection transforms us into a different state of being, where things like marriage no longer occur. Jesus also addressed their view that resurrection was not in the Torah. In Exodus, God spoke to Moses as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all of whom were long dead by Moses time. But God is the God of the living, so those three must still be alive in some way. Jesus himself is the basis for our own resurrection. He lived a human life like each of us and, just as we will, he died. But he rose from the dead three days later. This is the central mystery we celebrate in the Eucharist and our hope for the future. John L. McLaughlin, Toronto, ON Fr. Janusz

3 FRATERNAL BENEFITS ADVISOR REPORT. WHY WE OFFER INSURANCE In 1882 life for Catholics was very difficult, most were new immigrants and because, they were new and Catholic, the only jobs available to them were the ones no one else wanted, like working in the coal mines or factories. Attitudes to women working were very different then they are today, the wife and mother had to stay home and look after the children while the husband and father worked long hours in unsafe conditions. Many of these men died when they were very young and left the wife widowed and the children without their father and penniless, most times the State would step in and send these children to group homes, because the mother was not able to support the family financially. Fr. McGivney seeing the families of his parish being torn apart, decided to do something and the Knights of Columbus was born. What started out as a hat being passed around after meeting to create a reserve fund, has grown to one of the most secure and oldest financial institutions in North America. Life in 2015 is not that much different for Catholics, we are told not to wear crosses and display sacred images at work, we are no longer allowed to say the Lord s Prayer during Mississauga city council meetings, we are even told to keep Christ out of Christmas and instead say happy holidays. But through all these adversities we have stood strong and our Councils and our Order has worked tirelessly to make sure that the Light of Christ shines through. Our 10 th Supreme Knight Luke E Hart, championed and had Under God included in the U.S pledge of Allegiance, when Pope Francis visited America in September the Knights of Columbus gave over 3 million dollars to help offset some of his costs. But have you ever wondered how we have been able to fund these important achievements? Page 3 The answer Brother is the premiums you and I pay, to protect our loved ones. I could have been insured by any other Insurance company, but why would I, when I know my premiums are being used to promote our Catholic faith and values, there is no other insurance company in North America that can say the same. Since 1882 the Knights of Columbus have been protecting Catholic families, and when the days come when it becomes hard to pay my premiums and they do happen, I remember that those same premiums will insure that my children and my children s children can walk down a street and proudly proclaim I am Catholic. The Knights of Columbus offer Permanent and Term life insurance, Tax Free Saving Accounts, Registered Retirement Savings Accounts, Long-term Care and Disability Income Insurance, speak to me today to find out how I can protect you through service. Terras Irradiant ( Go Enlighten the world) Bro. Andrei Dias Family of the Year Henry Lopinski Family 2016 October September Family of the Month George Presz Family Joseph Ztudzinski Family

4 2016- Page 4 August July Henry Lopinski Family Andy Makula Family Brother of the Year Joseph Zielinski Brother of the Month 2016 October September August July Jacek Milkowski Stan Janowski Jozef Sadowski Stan Janowski 4 Regina Baginski 5 Urszula Makula 5 Irena Nowak 11 Marianne Szuber 15 Teresa Ostrowski 26 Wendy Stepniak 28 Franciska Hapek Happy Birthday Brothers 1 Rev. Tadeusz Nowak 4 Andy Tokarz 6 Henry Lopinski 7 Marian Kowalczyk 9 Paul Blazejewski 9 Henry Kane 9 Ted Wieczorek 11 Jozef Grela 21 Sylwester Opinski 23 George Presz 23 Andrzej Skwarko 27 John Zielinski 27 Miroslaw Prochowski 28 Krzystof Siuda 16 Anna and Stanislaw Armatowicz 22 Wendy and Stanley Stepniak Happy Birthday Ladies

5 Are you excited enough about your experience to want to offer it to someone like a brother, father, son, son-in-law, father-in-law, uncle, grandfather, grandson, neighbour, co-worker, and fellowparishioner Page 5 The Polish Independence Day is very different from the American 4th of July, with its happiness, feasts and fireworks. The atmosphere on 11th in Poland is more serious and solemn than plainly happy, although there seems to be a trend to loosen it up a bit and get rid of all the pompousness. The Independence Day 11th, 1918 Brother Henry Lopinski is our Fraternal Director, if there are any Brother Knights or family members that are sick or in distress he should be contacted at Ted Siuda can also be contacted at Our Council will make the appropriate gesture if we know the situation. Fraternally, Brother Henry Lopinski REMEMBRANCE DAY 11th Although the Polish temporary government, the Regency Council, had announced Polish Independence over a month earlier, the celebrations couldn't have been complete with one man Jozef Pilsudski, perhaps Poland's most important independence fighter. Pilsudski came to Warsaw a day before 11th, and on the date that is now celebrated as Polish independence Day he was appointed Commander in Chief of the Polish Forces and given the assignment of forming the first real Polish government after a 123-year period. 11th wasn't announced Independence Day until two years after Pilsudski's death in About that time, the largest of the devoted to Pilsudski, was erected. Canadians pause that day in silence to remember those who died in war and to pray for the victims of aggression and inhumanity throughout the world. This is a day to pray for peace, to consider what we are doing as individuals, as a community and as a nation to bring God s peace into the world. This is a day when a believing community should rededicate itself by prayer and action to the ideals Jesus gives us in the Beatitudes.. 11 th Polish Independence Day