The Knights Line. Why John Paul II Was Beatified THE HOLY FAMILY

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1 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS The Holy Family Council 9236 Blessed Theodore G. Romzha Assembly 2279 P.O. Box 1391 Windermere, FL The Knights Line MAIL TO: DATED MATERIAL PLEASE DO NOT DELAY THE HOLY FAMILY WEB SITE - VOLUME 17, No. 7 July /31/2011 Why John Paul II Was Beatified Blessed Pope John Paul II was an extraordinary witness of faith and love, seeking unity with Christ above all During the days leading up to the beatification of Blessed John Paul II, I was frequently asked by journalists whether I thought the Vatican was rushing John Paul II's path to sainthood. My answer was simple: "If the Lord had not wanted John Paul II beatified now, he would not have granted the miracle Carl A. Anderson that was attributed to his intercession." The so-called "waiting period," which was shortened in the case of Pope John Paul II, is one way to help ensure that procedures are followed and requirements are met. The important test is that the pope and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints are satisfied that all the standards have been fulfilled. As Pope Benedict XVI observed in his homily during the beatification Mass May 1, he wanted the cause of beatification "to move forward with reasonable haste" because "of the ways God's people showed their veneration" for John Paul II and "because this is what was pleasing to the Lord." The world saw the extraordinary witness and heroic Christian virtue that marked the nearly 27 years of John Paul II's papacy. We might say that the world pronounced its judgment on him during his funeral Mass when hundreds of thousands of people chanted, "Santo Council - council9236@me.com Subito!" ("Sainthood now!"). To be sure, the beatification of John Paul II is not a scorecard on his papacy. Rather, it is a judgment on his living the Christian life. But the beatification does tell us something very important about the papacy of his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, and about the papacy in general. Many may remember the common wisdom among journalists that was expressed during the conclave held after the death of John Paul II. Some thought the pendulum had swung too far in one direction and that the new pope needed to be a "corrective," to return the Church to some unspecified "middle ground." While the image of a swinging pendulum may be appropriate in a secular political context, where public attitudes shift back and forth between the political left and right, it is not adequate to understand a Church guided by the Holy Spirit along the sure path of salvation history. A shining example of this reality was the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to succeed Pope John Paul II. Pope Benedict XVI's episcopal motto "Cooperators veritatis" ("Co-workers of the truth") provides a key to our understanding. If we recognize the fundamental responsibility of a bishop to be a teacher, that is, to be a cooperator with the truth, then the pope is an unparalleled example of this teaching office. As Pope Benedict observed in his homily, during his 23 years of service as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he was one of John Paul II's closest co-workers. In that capacity, he came "to revere him all the more." Benedict also referred to the "witness of faith, love and apostolic courage" of Blessed John Paul II, whom he said exemplified "a personal and communitarian existence directed to Christ." (Continued on Page 2) Assembly - romzha@me.com

2 District Deputy s Report No Report available for this newsletter 4th Degree Assembly 2279 Faithful Navigator s Report No Report available for this newsletter Grand Knight s Report No Report available for this newsletter Knights of Columbus Holy Family Council 9236 Awarded Council of the Year in the Division 1 Category At the recent 107th Florida State Convention of the Knights of Columbus held May 27-29, Holy Family Council 9236 of Orlando, Florida was awarded Council of the Year in the Division 1 category. Council 9236 received six awards in all, they include: Youth Services Award granted by the Supreme Council, third place award for Family Activity, second place award for Public Relations Activity, first place for Youth Activity and the Bulletin and Newsletter Award. Each of these awards culminated in receiving the State of Florida Council of the Year Award. Holy Family Council 9236 services St. Andrew and St. Nicholas parishes and sponsors many events including the Father Daughter Dance, Pro-Life Seminar and Free Throw Contest at St. Andrew. (Continued from Page 1) In the closing words of his homily, Pope Benedict gave the clearest reason for the beatification of John Paul II: "He lived out in an extraordinary way the vocation of every priest and bishop to become completely one with Jesus." For more than three decades, the Knights of Columbus has been privileged to be "co-workers" with these two great popes and has supported many projects essential to their ministry. But our greatest privilege has been to experience their "witness of faith, love and apostolic courage" and in our own way to be their co-workers in this sense. May the prayers of Blessed John Paul II sustain us in this work.. Vivat Jesus! Supreme Court rejects latest challenge to "under God" in Pledge of Allegiance 6/14/2011 Knights of Columbus waged successful defense on East and West Coast cases The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance, thus ending a seven year battle involving two separate cases, one originating in California and the other in New Hampshire. The Knights of Columbus, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, played a key role in defending the Pledge as a defendant intervenor in both cases. The Knights of Columbus is proud to have played a major role in successfully defending the constitutionality of the (Continued on Page 6) BLESSED BISHOP ROMZHA ASSEMBLY OFFICERS Faithful Navigator Joseph Chenette Faithful Captain John Adams Faithful Admiral Henry Abbott Faithful Pilot John Thomas Faithful Comptroller Michael Krochmalni Faithful Purser Peter Shine Faithful Scribe Michael Crawford Faithful Friar Fr. Sal Pignato Yr Trustee Eugene Hawk Yr Trustee Donald Abate Yr Trustee John Long To request Honor Guard please contact the Faithful Navigator THE HOLY FAMILY COUNCIL OFFICERS Grand Knight Jeffrey Jones Deputy Grand Knight Joseph Chenette Warden Tommy Tate Chancellor Allison Anthony Financial Secretary Michael Krochmalni Treasurer Eugene Hawk Recorder Michael MacMenamin Advocate John Conley Chaplain Fr. Sal Pignato Yr Trustee Donald Abate Yr Trustee Alan Spears Yr Trustee Dan Buckley Insurance Agent Alvin T. Smith, Sr District Deputy John Forster

3 THE AMERICANS WHO RISKED EVERYTHING It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall, bony, redheaded young Virginian found time to buy a new thermometer, for which he paid three pounds, fifteen shillings. He also bought gloves for Martha, his wife, who was ill at home. Thomas Jefferson arrived early at the statehouse. The temperature was 72.5 degrees and the horseflies weren t nearly so bad at that hour. It was a lovely room, very large, with gleaming white walls. The chairs were comfortable. Facing the single door were brass fireplaces, but they would not be used today. The moment the door was shut, and it was always kept locked, the room became an oven. The tall windows were shut, so that loud quarreling voices could not be heard by passersby. Small openings atop the windows allowed a slight stir of air, and also a large number of horseflies. Jefferson records that the horseflies were dexterous in finding necks, and the silk stocking was nothing to them. All discussion was punctuated by the slap of hands on necks. On the wall at the back, facing the President s desk, was a panoply consisting of a drum, swords, and banners seized from Fort Ticonderoga the previous year. Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold had captured the place, shouting that they were taking it in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress! Now congress got to work, promptly taking up an emergency measure about which there was discussion but no dissension. Resolved: That an application be made to the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania for a supply of flints for the troops at New York. Then Congress transformed itself into a committee of the whole. The Declaration of Independence was read aloud once more, and debate resumed. Thought Jefferson was the best writer of all of them, he had been somewhat verbose. Congress hacked the excess away. They did a good job, as a side -by-side comparison of the rough draft and the final text shows. They cut the phrase by a self assumed power. Climb was replaced by must read, then must was eliminated, then the whole sentence, and soon the whole paragraph was cut. Jefferson groaned as they continued what he later called their depredations. Inherent and inalienable rights came out certain unalienable rights, and to this day no one knows who suggested the elegant change. A total of 86 alterations were made. Almost 500 words were eliminated, leaving 1,337. At last, after three days of wrangling, the document was put to a vote. Here in this hall Patrick Henry had once thundered: I am no longer a Virginian, Sir, but an American. But today the loud, sometimes bitter argument stilled, and without fanfare the vote was taken from north to south by colonies, as was the custom. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted. There were no trumpets blown. No one stood on his chair and cheered. The afternoon was waning and congress had no thought of delaying the full calendar of routine business on its hands. For several hours they worked on many other problems before adjourning for the day. Much to lose What kind of men were the 56 signers who adopted the Declaration of Independence and who, by their signing, committed and act of treason against the Crown? To each of you the names Franklin, Adams, Hancock, and Jefferson are almost as familiar as household words. Most of us, however, know nothing of the other signers. Who were they? What happened to them? I imagine that many of you are somewhat surprised at the names not there: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry. All were elsewhere. Ben Franklin was the only really old man. Eighteen were under 40; three were in their 20s. Of the 56, almost half 24 were judges and lawyers. Eleven were merchants, 9 were landowners and farmers, and the remaining 12 were doctors, ministers, and politicians. With only a few exceptions, such as Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, these were men of substantial property. All but two had families. The vast majority were men of education and standing in their communities. They had economic security as few men had in the 18th century. Each had more to lose from revolution than he had to gain by it. John Hancock, one of the richest men in America, already had a price of 500 pounds on his head. He signed in enormous letters so that his Majesty could read his name without glasses and could now double the reward. Ben Franklin wryly noted: Indeed we must all hang together, otherwise we shall most assuredly hang separately. Fat Benjamin Harrison of Virginia told tiny Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: With me it will all be over in a minute, but you, you will be dancing on air an hour after I am gone. These men knew what they risked. The penalty for treason was death by hanging. And remember: a great British fleet was already at anchor in New York Harbor. They were sober men. There were no dreamy-eyed intellectuals or draft card burners here. They were far from hot-eyed fanatics, yammering for an explosion. They simply asked for the status quo. It was change they resisted. It was equality with the mother country 3 (Continued on Page 4)

4 (Continued from Page 3) they desired. It was taxation with representation they sought. They were all conservatives yet they rebelled. It was principle, not property, that had brought these men to Philadelphia. Two of them became presidents of the United States. Seven of them became governors. One died in office as vice president of the United States. Several would go on to be U.S. Senators. One, the richest man in America, in 1828 founded the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. One, a delegate from Philadelphia, was the only real poet, musician and philosopher of the signers (it was he, Francis Hopkins not Betsy Ross who designed the United States flag). Richard Henry Lee, a delegate from Virginia, had introduced the resolution to adopt the Declaration of Independence in June of He was prophetic in his concluding remarks: Why then sir, why do we longer delay? Why still deliberate? Let this happy day give birth to an American Republic. Let her arise not to devastate and to to conquer but to reestablish the reign of peace and law. The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us. She demands of us a living example of freedom that may exhibit a contrast in the felicity of the citizen to the ever increasing tyranny which desolates her polluted shores. She invites us to prepare an asylum where the unhappy may find solace, and the persecuted repose. If we are not this day wanting in our duty, the names of the American legislators of 1776 will be placed by posterity at the side of all those whose memory has been and ever will be dear to virtuous men and good citizens. Though the resolution was formally adopted July 4, it was not until July 8 that two of the states authorized their delegates to sign, and it was not until August 2 that the signers met at Philadelphia to actually put their names to the Declaration. William Ellery, delegate from Rhode Island, was curious to see the signers faces as they committed this supreme act of personal courage. He saw some men sign quickly, but in no face was he able to discern real fear. Stephen Hopkins, Ellery s colleague from Rhode Island, was a man past 60. As he signed with a shaking pen, he declared: My hand trembles, but my heart does not. Most glorious service Even before the list was published, the British marked down every member of Congress suspected of having put his name to treason. All of them became the objects of vicious manhunts. Some were taken. Some, like Jefferson, had narrow escapes. All who had property or families near British strongholds suffered. tt Francis Lewis, New York delegate, saw his home plun- dered and his estates, in what is now Harlem, completely destroyed by British solders. Mrs. Lewis was captured and treated with great 4 brutality. Though she was later exchanged for two British prisoners through the efforts of Congress, she died from the effects of her abuse. tt William Floyd, another New York Delegate, was able to escape with his wife and children across Long Island Sound to Connecticut, where they lived as refugees without income for seven years. When they came home, they found a devastated ruin. tt Phillips Livingstone had all his great holdings in New York confiscated and his family driven out of heir home. Livingstone died in 1778 still working in Congress for the cause. tt Louis Morris, the fourth New York delegate, saw all his timber, crops, and livestock taken. For seven years he was barred from his home and family. tt John Hart of Trenton, New Jersey, risked his life to return home to see his dying wife. Hessian soldiers rode after him, and he escaped in the woods. While his wife lay on her deathbed, the soldiers ruined his farm and wrecked his homestead. Hart, 65, slept in caves and woods as he was hunted across the countryside. When at long last, emaciated by hardship, he was able to sneak home, he found that his wife had already been buried, and his 13 children taken away. He never saw them again. He died a broken man in 1779, without ever finding his family. tt Dr. John Witherspoon, sign- er, was president of the College of New Jersey, later called Princeton. The British occupied the town of Princeton, and billeted troops in the college. They trampled and burned the finest college library in the country. tt Judge Richard Stockton, an- other New Jersey delegate signer, had rushed back to his estate in an effort to evacuate his wife and children. The family found refuge with friends, but a Tory sympathizer betrayed them. Judge Stockton was pulled from bed in the night and brutally beaten by the arresting soldiers. Thrown in a common jail, he was deliberately starved. Congress finally arranged for Stockton s parole, but his health was ruined. The judge was released as an invalid, when he could no longer harm the British cause. He returned home to find his estate looted and did not live to see the triumph of the revolution. His family was forced to live off charity. tt Robert Morris, merchant prince of Philadelphia, delegate and signer, met Washington s appeals and pleas for money year after year. He made and raised arms and provisions which made it possible for Washington to cross the Delaware at Trenton. In the process he lost 150 ships at sea, bleeding his own fortune and credit dry. tt George Clymer, Pennsylvania signer, escaped with his family from home, but their property was completely destroyed by the British in the Germantown and Brandywine campaigns. tt Dr. Benjamin Rush, also from Pennsylvania, was forced to flee to Maryland. As a heroic surgeon with the army, Rush had several narrow escapes. tt John Martin, A Tory in his views previous to the debate, (Continued on Page 5)

5 (Continued from Page 4) lived in a strongly loyalist area of Pennsylvania. When he came out for independence, most of his neighbors and even some of his relatives ostracized him. He was a sensitive and troubled man, and many believed this action killed him. When he died in 1777, his last words to his tormentors were: Tell them that they will live to see the hours when they shall acknowledge it [the signing] to have been the most glorious service that I ever rendered to my country. tt William Ellery, Rhode Island delegate, saw his property and home burned to the ground. tt Thomas Lynch, Jr., South Carolina delegate, had his health broken from privation and exposures while serving as a company commander in the military. His doctors ordered him to seek a cure in the West Indies and on the voyage he and his young bride were drowned at sea. tt Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, and Thomas Hey- ward, Jr., the other three South Carolina signers, were taken by the British in the siege of Charleston. They were carried as prisoners of war to St Augustine, Florida, where they were singled out for indignities. They were exchanged at the end of the war, the British in the meantime having completely devastated their large landholdings and estates. tt Thomas Nelson, signer of Virginia, was at the front in command of the Virginia military forces. With British General Charles Cornwallis in Yorktown, fire from 70 heavy American guns began to destroy Yorktown piece by piece. Lord Cornwallis and his staff moved their headquarters into Nelson s palatial home. While American cannonballs were making a shambles of the town, the house of Governor Nelson remained untouched. Nelson turned in rage to the American gunners and asked, Why do you spare my home?: They replied, Sir, out of respect to you. Nelson cried, Give me the cannon! and fired on his magnificent home himself, smashing it to bits. But Nelson s sacrifice was not quite over. He had raised $2 million for the Revolutionary cause by pledging his own estates. When the loans came due, a newer peacetime Congress refused to honor them, and Nelson s property was forfeited. He was never reimbursed. He died, impoverished, a few years later at the age of 50. Lives, fortunes, honor Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war. Five were captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment. Several lost wives, sons or entire families. One lost his 13 children. Two wives were brutally treated. All were at one time or another the victims of manhunts and driven from their homes. Twelve signers had their homes completely burned. Seventeen lost everything they owned. Yet not one defected or went back on his pledged word. Their honor, and the nation they sacrificed so much to create, is still intact. And, finally, there is the New Jersey signer, Abraham Clark. He gave two sons to the officer corps in the Revolutionary Army. They were captured and sent to that infamous British prison hulk afloat in New York harbor known as the hell ship Jersey, where 11,000 American captives were to die. The younger Clarks were treated with special brutality because of their father. One was put in solitary and given no food. With the end almost in sight, with the war almost won, no one could have blamed Abraham Clark 5 for acceding to the British request when they offered him his sons lives if he would recant and come out for the King and parliament. The utter despair in this man s heart, the anguish in his very soul, must reach out to each one of us down through 200 years with the answer: No. The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence proved by their very deed that they made no idle boast when they composed the most magnificent curtain line in history. And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr. My friends, I know you have a copy of the Declaration of Independence somewhere around the house in an old history book (newer ones may well omit it), an encyclopedia, or one of those artificially aged parchments we all got in school years ago. I suggest that each of you take the time this month to read through the text of the Declaration, one of the most noble and beautiful political documents in human history. There is no more profound sentence than this: 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... These are far more than mere poetic words. The underlying ideas that infuse every sentence of this treatise have sustained this nation for more than two centuries. They were forged in the crucible of great suffering, and great sacrifice. They are living words that spring from and satisfy the deepest cries for liberty in the human spirit. Sacred honor isn t a phrase we use much these days, but every American life is touched by the bounty of this, the Founders legacy. It is freedom, tested by blood, and watered with tears.

6 Twelfth Annual Pro-Life Seminar Hosted by Knights of Columbus Holy Family Council 9236 Saturday September 10, 2011 Special Guest Speaker Fr. Peter West from Priest for Life Other Guest Speakers Lorreta Fleming Assistant Director for Field Coordination for the National Committee for Human Rights Amendment and Deborah Shearer Director of Respect Life Office for the Diocese of Orlando at St. Nicholas Catholic Church 5135 Sand Lake Road Orlando, Fl Registration fee $20.00 per person Includes Luncheon Cutoff date September 5, 2011 Call for reservations at or reservations to Visit our web site at for updates and registration information The "Sacrament" of Abortion Fr. Frank Pavone National Director, Priests for Life The Sacrament of Abortion is the title of a book written by Ginette Paris and published in In this short book, the author claims that abortion is a sacred act, a sacrifice to Artemis (known to the Romans as Diana). Artemis is both a protector of wild animals and a hunter who kills them with deadly aim. How can these contradictory roles be found in the same female deity? The view proposed in this book is that a mother properly cares for life only if she possesses full power over life and death. Death is sometimes preferable. The one who can provide death, in order that one may escape an unfriendly life, is really loving the one who is being killed. Abortion, then, is seen as "an expression of maternal responsibility and not a failure of maternal love" (p.8). "Artemis stands for the refusal to give life if the gift is not pure and untainted.as Artemis might kill a wounded animal rather than allow it to limp along miserably, so a mother wishes to spare the child a painful destiny" (p. 55). Artemis, of course, is the same goddess whose worshippers felt so threatened by Paul's proclamation of the Gospel in Ephesus, where a riot nearly broke out and a vast crowd shouted for two hours, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" (Acts 19:34). The worshippers of Artemis today should likewise feel that their beliefs are threatened, because the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ is that He alone has authority over life and death. Neither the mother, nor the father, nor the state, nor the individual herself, can claim absolute dominion over life. "Nobody lives as his own master, and nobody dies as his own master. While we live, we are responsible to the Lord, and when we die, we die as His servants. Both in life and death, we are the Lord's" (Rom. 14:7-8). The fact that some defend abortion as a sacred act should alert us to the depth of the spiritual warfare that is going on. Abortion has never been merely or even primarily a political issue. It is a false religion. When pro-life Christians, for example, pray in front of an abortion mill, it is not simply a matter of pro-life people opposing false medicine. It is the true Church in conflict with a false Church. One former clinic security guard, after being converted, admitted why he was angry at pro-life sidewalk counselors: "You were coming to protest in front of our church. That clinic was where we conducted our worship." May all believers, and their clergy, take renewed strength to speak out against abortion. Not only is doing so consistent with the proclamation of the Gospel; it is the proclamation of the Gospel. (Continued from Page 2) words under God in the Pledge of Allegiance, Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson said. We were instrumental in persuading Congress to add those words to the Pledge in 1954, and they express a fundamental belief that we have held as a nation since our founding, that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights. The notion that this somehow violates the First Amendment has now been soundly rejected by both the First and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the Supreme Court has now allowed both decisions to stand. It is a victory for common sense. The Ninth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the Pledge in March 2010 and the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the California case in March The First Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the Pledge in November 2010 and the Supreme Court denied certiorari in that case yesterday, June 13,

7 REPORT FROM OUR INSUR ANCE AGENT A NEW FRATERNAL YEAR A new fraternal year is upon us. Congratulations to the newly elected and appointed council leaders. I m sure you have a list of things that you want to accomplish during the coming year. I m eager to help. One of these goals is likely the attainment of the Star Council award - the most prestigious award the Order offers at the council level. I m certainly committed to helping on the insurance side, but I ll be glad to help on the membership side as well. If you know an eligible Catholic man who might be interested in joining the Order (and who among us doesn t), he s probably just waiting to be asked. I can help you, either by approaching him myself, or by coaching you transferring sales skills that you can use to recruit him and other prospects. As always, I m at your service. What would be helpful to all of us would be an early start on those goals, rather than waiting until May or June. Let s get an early start on award season this year. Some say, I m too old or I m uninsurable. No problem simply open a Knights of Columbus annuity and you can be come an insurance member, helping your council attain Star Council. Call me for more details. Call Alvin T. Smith at for his assistance in setting up a plan that will protect your wife and family. ( alvin. smith@kofc.org) Donald T. Kahrer, Jr. Florida State Council Knights Of Columbus State Warden Phone: (407) cmkdtk1@embarqmail.com 829 Grovesmere Loop Ocoee, FL Newsletter Subscription The newsletter subscription will be $15.00 for the year or $8.00 for 6 months. Send checks to our P. O. box and make checks out to either K of C Council 9236 or K of C Assembly If you are a sponsor and I do not have your address the remainder of your sponsorship will be added toward the subscription. happy birthday! To all brother Knights who were born during the month of July some years ago: Carlos J. Bonilla Daniel J. Buckley John W. Foster Eugene H. Hawk Jeffrey C. Jones Joseph G. Mizii Eugene C. Polarolo Edwin J. Prusak John A. Tricoli jr. Robert S. Urrutia CONGRATULATIONS! KNIGHT of the MONTH for june Fr. SalvatorePignato FAMILY of the MONTH for june Family of Michael MacMenamin For all your religious supplies and icons - Come visit our council website at and follow the link shown below 7

8 Dates to Remember JULY INDEPENDENCE DAY 25 7:30 P.M. Council business meeting AUGUST Saturday 6 15 Thursday All articles and reports due for next month s newsletter TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD 8 7:30 P.M. Assembly business meeting 18 All articles and reports due for next month s newsletter 23 DORMITION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD 7:30 P.M. Council business meeting BEHEADING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST 29 5 LABOR DAY Saturday 10 Pro-Life Seminar - St. Nicholas Church - 8:00AM to 4:30 PM SEPTEMBER 2011 Thuirsday Wednesday Sunday 8 FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD 12 7:30 P.M. Assembly business meeting 18 All articles and reports due for next months newsletter FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE CROSS 7:30 P.M. Council business meeting TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD DORMITION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD NATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD EXALTATION OF THE CROSS If anyone knows of a member or family member that should be listed in our Pray For column please contact Michael P. Krochmalni at so that we can add their names. You can send this information by mail to: Michael P. Krochmalni 2207 Viento St. Orlando, FL or to: council9236@me.com Pray For Thomas Prebee Helen Obuch Lois Swirderski Anna Kocur George Chandler Bobbie Abate 8 John Wisdo Henry Dugan Luis & Juanita Ortega Josie Johnson SK Donald Whiting Fr. Peter Boutros Mary Krochmalni Minnie Gates Bob & Mary Jane Spencer Eugene & Shirley Hawk Donald Abate