KOFC COUNCIL NEWS. Back to School. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Council Pickerington, Ohio Tim Bowie Grand Knight Dear Brother Knights,

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1 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Council Pickerington, Ohio Back to School 1 August 2011 Volume 18 Issue 10 Dear Brother Knights, WOW, August already! In a few weeks the kids will be back in school and most of us will adapt to a different, but familiar routine Vivat Jesus! - Why Vivat Jesus? I was curious about the closing my predecessors have used in past newsletters. The words Vivat Jesus are much more than a slogan or password for the Knights of Columbus. In these words, Jesus lives! we find the foundation, meaning and mission of our Order. Please read more about this elsewhere in this newsletter. KOFC COUNCIL NEWS SERVING SETON PARISH AND THE COMMUNITY Important Feast Days: The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ, August 6 th. August 15th is the feast of the Assumption of Mary, our Patroness. Please be sure and take a few minutes to honor the Mother of God and thank her for her many intercessions. Our Program Directors during this Fraternal Year are as follows: Thank you Brothers! Church Director - Jim Thesing Youth Director - Jesus Garcia Family Director - Mike Phillips Council Director - George Schneider, DGK Membership Director - Mike Croyle Community Director - Open Right to Life Director - Edd Chinnock Parish Festival: Sept What a great opportunity to work hard and share ourselves with our Parish Community and the Pickerington Community - Service to others, that s us, the KNIGHTS OF COLIUMBUS - wear your blue shirts proudly gentlemen! Adoration: Stop in and visit Jesus, when you have something to celebrate or are in desperate need and feel like you have no where else to turn. Jesus welcomes visitors around the clock every single day. You don t have to stay for an hour, many people just pop in for 5 or 10 minutes. The Knights have a special hour from 5:00 to 6:00 am on Monday mornings, if you d like a dedicated time to be with Jesus. If you ever want to reach me directly with a suggestion, comment or complaint, my is timjbowie@hotmail.com and my cell phone is Vivat Jesus! Tim Bowie Grand Knight Looking Inside... Business Meeting Minutes 2 Insurance Corner 3 Adoration Schedule 3 Daily Devotion for August 4 Right to Life 5 Prayers 6

2 Business Meeting Minutes July 13, 2011 Meeting opened at:7:33pm with a prayer. Roll of Officers: Chaplain, Warden, Outer Guard, and one Trustee were excused. Reading of the Minutes: Edd Chinnock motioned for the previous minutes to be accepted as printed, and Frank Piper seconded the motion. Minutes were approved as written. Chaplain s Report: No report. Admission s Update: Jim Doty read the application of Jeffrey Carter. Application was voted and approved. There is a First Degree on July 27 th at St. Brendan s if we wish to take our candidates. Grand Knight s Report: The Kegley family sent a thank you card for our Mass Card for their deceased son. We also received a thank you note from one of our scholarship winners. Tim reminded all to try to attend our business meeting early for the praying of the rosary. He asked all to prayerfully consider praying the rosary with the officers before each First Saturday officer s meeting as well. Tim thanked brother Bog Glavan for hanging all plaques on our Wall of Fame. We have been asked if we wish to take part in the Men s Choir as part of our First Sunday Mass. Contact Tim or Pandora if interested. Rehearsals will be few and the songs will be ones we know. We may need to decide today if we will donate to the Wilderness Support group who presented to us earlier in the year, but asked for no donation at the time. Tim reminded us all to read The Knightline to see what other councils are up to. The Fiscal Calendar for is posted. Worthy of note is our Mass for Deceased Members which follows our First Sunday Mass on November 6 th. Tim shall schedule the inductions of the officers and communicate the date with all. Council Program Leaders are as follows until replacements can be groomed: Church: Jim Thesing Community: Tim Bowie Council: George Schneider Family: Mike Phillips Youth: Jesse Garcia Membership: Mike Croyle Pro-Life: Edd Chinnock We ask that anyone interested in helping with any of these positions, please contact the leader who will work with you to learn the proper s of the position. All positions are rewarding in their own way. Treasurer Report: Brother Phillips presented our account balances at present. Mike expressed his desire to follow our proposed budget plan of the previous year and plan events to sponsor all expenditures Financial Secretary Report: Reading of Receipts and Bills. He only deposit was from Pennies from Heaven. All financial reports were motioned, seconded, voted upon and passed. Trustee s Report: No Report Chancellor s Report: No Report Report of Service Committees/Programs: Membership: Mike Croyle stated we lost more members than we gained last year due to much needed membership purging. We hope next year will be an improvement. George Schneider has our next Council First Degree scheduled for August 24th. A practice will be scheduled in early August. Program Director: Frank Hare mentioned we still need to submit for our State Award for completing all programs. He also reminded us we need membership to assist with the kitchen preparation for the Seton Open which brings money into the Council. Church Director: Jim Thesing asked all to please sign up for a Holy Adoration hour. 5-6am on Monday mornings. See him after the meeting to sign up or call him, and remember to sign in when you attend. Squires: Mark Knight spoke on many items regarding our Squires which included: New Leaders have been elected. Our attendance at the State Convention was a positive one. Kyle Knight was honored with election as the State Bursar. Our Circle will propose to host the State Dodge Ball Tournament next year and will seek Council assistance again. Respect Life: Edd reported that control of abortion bills are passing in Congress with the next one called the Heart Beat Bill which prohibits abortions once a heart beat can be identified usually around the 20 th week. Edd proposed a motion to front money for the D.C. Right to Life Bus Trip for next January. Family Director: Mike Phillips sadly announced the cancellation of the Ice Cream Social which we had hoped to conduct this summer. Council Director: No Report Youth Director: Jesse Garcia stated the SPY group was attending a Leadership Retreat. He also reminded everyone of the SPY Car Wash scheduled for Sunday, July 24 th. Drop your car off before Mass, drive it home clean and shiny afterwards. Report of Standing Committee s: Magnet Sales: We are still selling. Communications: No Report Unfinished Business: Nothing hanging except the induction of officers. New Business: A motion was made by Edd Chinnock for the Council to advance funds up to $XXXX to cover initial expenses for the Right to Life trip, with the understanding this amount will be returned to the Council after attendees pay for their individual seats. Discussion ensued. Voting will be held in August. Field Agents Report: Stanley Krulia introduced himself as the one servicing our Council for the year. His business phone is Business Meeting Minutes (Continued on page 3) 2

3 (Continued from page 2) District Deputy Report: No Report 4th Degree Report: Brother Bog Glavan stated they will have an Ice Cream social on Wednesday, July 20 th and all are invited to see what the 4 th Degree is all about - Patriotism. Bog mentioned the 4 th of July parade was a success and very moving. Lecturer s Report: Lecturer Bud Joos spoke on the problems he experienced with testing cattle while he was in Veterinarian School in Kentucky and how finding a cure was often in just how you looked at the illness and that life is the same way. Life is a matter of perspective. Good of the Order: Please keep in your daily prayers: All military personnel, active or veteran. All Brothers in need, and all the sick in our parish. The following list should be in our prayers for this month. Harry Clyburn s neighbor and family, Jacinta Hooker, Hilda Bowie, for Father Jim during his vacation and trip, Caroline Hare, Geri Capwill, Ed Loch, Ryan Schneider, Joan Trainer, and Maureen Patterson. Tim Bowie led us in the closing Prayer, and we closed the meeting at 8:54pm. Mike Croyle Recorder Insurance Corner I have a couple of statements to make today: You know you need life insurance. I realize it is not a glitzy purchase it s not something you show off to your friends but you know you need it. If you have some, chances are pretty good, great actually, that you need more! And you know why you need it. It s all about your family. It s not about you. It s about them. So, assuming you know it, and I know you need it, why aren t we getting together to arrange for it? If nothing went wrong yesterday, what are the chances that something will go wrong tomorrow? You re feeling good, you re looking good, you re loving life, and you have many other, more important things to do with your hard earned cash. The only time you really think about life insurance, really, is when we call you. Thinking that you have an unlimited supply of tomorrows to make a decision on securing the future for your wife, children and grandchildren is both foolish and dangerous; it personally has happened to me. Let s talk Stanley Krulia 1915 Bunker Hill Ct. Lancaster, OH Cell: Home: stanley.krulia@kofc.org Perpetual Adoration Since Perpetual Adoration started at Seton, the Council has been responsible for the Monday 5-6 am. hour and we have filled by using the call list. When I call, please sign up for a time. The following dates are covered: August Ron Blymire Is there a better way to spend an hour than in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament? Please contact me at or jcsthesing@aol.com to reserve an hour. Thanks, Jim Thesing Church Director We are now on Facebook, head to our website, ( click on the facebook link and sign in (an account is required). Registering and using are free and easy... August, 2011 September Pope John Paul II s beatification to sainthood is meaningful not only to the world and to the Church but also to the Knights of Columbus. This month is the third in a series of eight addresses by John Paul II to the Knights of Columbus. I urge you to persevere in doing good works and to remain steadfast in the Catholic faith which has been handed on to you be the Church. A passage from St. John expresses my sentiments well. My reason for having written to you is not that you do not know the truth, but that you do (1Jn 2:21). Let what you have from the beginning remain in your hearts. Message to 103 rd Supreme Convention, Washington, D.C Bud Joos, PGK Lecturer 3

4 Respect Life: NRL Pro-Life Junior Essay Contest Our young people really get it! Sometimes they can express what we all feel better than anyone. The following essay was written for the National Right to Life Pro-Life Essay Contest. Anna Maria Divozzo of Ada, Michigan won first place at the junior level grades 7-9. Soul or Cell "I call Heaven and' earth to witness this day, That I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Choose therefore Life" (Deut. 30:19) Women are sanctuaries of human life. We bear the most amazing privilege of having life formed within our bodies. What a glorious gift from God, what a wonderful sanctity He as bestowed upon women. Women have the great responsibility, that most wonderful privilege, of bringing life into the world. Pro-abortionists argue that the fetus is not yet a human life. But this has been scientifically proven to be wrong. Doctors are not just blotting out a live cell when they perform an abortion, they are quenching the fire of a new life and they know it. Women know this too. As soon as she can feel the movement of human life within her, she knows. And how could she not know? Life within life; it is most wonderful. There must surely be a bond between the woman and the tiny human life she carries within her for nine long months-a bond that blooms into a mother's love for her child, if only it were given the chance. And after that, after sustaining this baby's life with her own, she heartlessly and for her own convenience, snuffs out that life that had barely begun without every giving it a chance. Our very own Declaration of Independence states that: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness..." There, our very own Declaration of Independence states that every human being has the right to life. And now that it is a scientific fact that the fetus is a human being, that means that he too has the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. So perfect is the argument that it almost seems that our fore-fathers wrote it in defense of the unborn. Abortion may or may not be against the Constitution, but it is against the American spirit. With the knowledge that an unborn child is, without a doubt, a human being, we cruelly deny him the rights that Americans have fought and died for, for the past two centuries. We fought a war- for our freedom, we fought a war for the freedom of slaves, wars for the freedom of other countries. Freedom is our cornerstone, freedom is America in a nut shell, freedom and the unalienable rights of man Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. "All men are created equal," all men, born or unborn. We must protect the rights that 'the unborn deserve, the rights that can't be denied them. We must give them the chance to become good American citizens who may become great people and do great things for their country. And it all starts with that little decision of letting them live. From National Right to Life News, June/July 2010, Vol. 37 No. 6-7 Edd Chinnock, Council Respect Life Coordinator For more information on Pro-Life Activities us at prolife@usccb.org Pro-Life Activities th Street, N.E., Washington DC (202) Information Update: Council is always trying to improve the communications aspect of our group. We rely on to get the message out quickly, but we also need your address and phone number. Please fill out the form and either it to me or place it in my church mailbox. My is 84svo@ameritech.net Name: Address: City: State: Zip: Phone Cell: Alt You can also go on-line and submit this information only.htm 4

5 2011/2012 Council Calendar (tentative) July 2011 August September 2 Rosary/Officers Meeting 6 Rosary/Officers Meeting 3 Rosary/Officers Meeting 3 Knight s Mass 7 Knight s Mass 4 Knight s Mass 3 Squires Meeting 7 Squires Meeting 4 Squires Meeting 13 Business Meeting 10 Business Meeting 14 Business Meeting 20 Assembly Meeting 17 Assembly Meeting 21 Assembly Meeting 27 1 st Degree/Social 24 1 st Degree/Social 28 1 st Degree/Social 4 Independence Day 29 School Starts (1-12) 5 Labor Day October November December 1 Rosary/Officers Meeting 5 Rosary/Officers Meeting 3 Rosary/Officers Meeting 2 Knight s Mass 6 Knight s Memorial Mass 4 Knight s Mass 2 Squires Meeting 6 Squires Meeting 4 Squires Meeting 12 Business Meeting 9 Business Meeting 14 Business Meeting 19 Assembly Meeting 16 Assembly Meeting 21 Assembly Meeting 26 1 st Degree/Social 23 1 st Degree/Social 28 1 st Degree/Social 10 Columbus Day 11 Veteran s Day 25 Christmas Day 12 Council Anniversary 24 Thanksgiving 31 New Years Eve 29 Family Fun Festival 13 1st Pancake Breakfast 11 2nd Pancake Breakfast 30 2nd/3rd Degree January 2012 February March 7 Rosary/Officers Meeting 4 Rosary/Officers Meeting 3 Rosary/Officers Meeting 8 Knight s Mass 5 Knight s Mass 4 Knight s Mass 8 Squires Meeting 5 Squires Meeting 4 Squires Meeting 11 Business Meeting 8 Business Meeting 14 Business Meeting 18 Assembly Meeting 15 Assembly Meeting 21 Assembly Meeting 25 1 st Degree/Social 22 1 st Degree/Social 28 1 st Degree/Social 1 New Years Day 14 Valentine s Day 17 St. Patrick s Party 16 MLK 20 President s Birthday 22 ASH WEDNESDAY 2 2nd Fish Fry 8 3rd Pancake Breakfast 9 3rd Fish Fry Free Throw Contest 12 4th Pancake Breakfast 23 4th Fish Fry 24 1st Fish Fry 30 5th Fish Fry Wives Appreciation Dinner April May June 7 Rosary/Officers Meeting 5 Rosary/Officers Meeting 2 Rosary/Officers Meeting 8 Knight s Mass 6 Knight s Mass 3 Knight s Mass 8 Squires Meeting 6 Squires Meeting 3 Squires Meeting 11 Business Meeting 9 Business Meeting 13 Business Meeting 18 Assembly Meeting 15 Assembly Meeting 20 Assembly Meeting 25 1 st Degree/Social 22 1 st Degree/Social 27 1 st Degree/Social 1 Palm Sunday 13 Mother s Day 17 Father s Day 5 Holy Thursday 28 Memorial Day 6 Good Friday 8 EASTER Convention 14 Blue Coats Dinner Measure Up 5

6 August /12 Officers Phone List 6 Rosary/Officer s Meeting 7 Knight's Mass Chaplain Fr. Jim Klima UPCOMING EVENTS 7 Squire s Meeting 11 Business Meeting 18 Assembly Meeting 25 1 st Degree/Social 29 SCHOOL STARTS!!! 3 Rosary/Officers Meeting 4 Knight s Mass 4 Squires Meeting 14 Business Meeting 21 Assembly Meeting 28 1 st Degree/Social September 2011 Grand Knight Tim Bowie Deputy Grand Knight George Schneider Chancellor Jim Doty Advocate Edd Chinnock (740) Recorder Mike Croyle Financial Secretary Mark Borys (740) Treasurer Mike Phillips Warden Ron Blymire Inner Guard Eugene Ebert Labor Day Outer Guard Mike Sillings 3 rd Year Trustee Wayne Patterson nd Year Trustee Frank Piper Knights of Columbus St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Council Hill Rd. North Pickerington, Ohio Comments or articles contact Jesus Garcia Phone: svo@ameritech.net 1 st Year Trustee Jesus Garcia Lecturer Bud Joos Membership Mike Croyle Field Agent Stanley Krulia (740) Council website Prayer Corner Please keep the following in your daily prayers: Harry Clyburn s neighbor and family, Jacinta Hooker, Hilda Bowie, for Father Jim during his vacation and trip, Caroline Hare, Geri Capwill, Ed Loch, Ryan Schneider, Joan Trainer, and Maureen Patterson. All military personnel, active or veteran. All Brothers in need, and all the sick in our parish. 6