Knights of Columbus Pokrova Council #13561 Chartered June 27, 2004 Meets 4 th Thursday 7:30 pm at St Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church 2026 Bath Rd,

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1 Knights of Columbus Pokrova Council #13561 Chartered June 27, 2004 Meets 4 th Thursday 7:30 pm at St Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church 2026 Bath Rd, Bristol PA

2 The New Year: The Mystery of Time By Fr. Alexander Schmemann [Excerpt from internet posting of Philip Kontos 12/31/2015] On New Year s Eve we feel the mystery of time more powerfully than at any other time. We feel, in other words, that its flow in which we live and in which everything constantly vanishes as the past and constantly places us face to face with the unknown future essentially contains within itself the main question that everyone is called to answer with their lives. Vain gift, chance gift life, why have you been given me? asks the poet [Pushkin] in his immortal line. Indeed, it is enough for one moment to turn away from the cares that absorb us, enough mentally to stop the ceaseless waterfall of time, disappearing into the abyss, in order for the question Why is life given and what is its meaning? to rise from the depths of the subconscious, where we normally hide it from ourselves, and stand before us in all its implacability. I was not, now I am, and I will not be; thousands of years passed before me, and thousands will come after On the surface of this unimaginably infinite ocean I am but a fleeting bubble, into which a ray of life flashes for a split second, just to be extinguished and disappear then and there. Vain gift, chance gift life, why have you been given me? What, in comparison with this only The Word of God, upborne on the shoulders of the Cherubim, goes to dwell in a womb without blemish. The passionless One is bound fast to the flesh; He comes on earth as a man, born of the tribe of Judah. A cave becomes the palace of the King of all; the throne of fire is replaced by a manger, where the Virgin Mary lays Him as a babe, for He comes to restore the first-created man,// as He is well pleased so to do. Free Will an understanding Time decides who you meet in your life. Your heart decides who you want in your life. Your behavior decides who stays in your life. Jennifer Mary Johnstone [FB Post Jan

3 1HZ <HDUV 5HVROXWLRQ ² 7K KH *LIW RI 7LPHµ RU 7HPSXV )XJLW 0R RPHQWR 0RULµ By Roman Fedorak 2. I want the road to be covered with my verybody sees that treasure so that ev material wealth acquired on earth will stay on earth. o swing in the wind, 3. I want my hands to so that people understand that we come to this world empty haanded and we leave this world empty haanded after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is: TIME The last wishes of Alexander the Greaat [ BC] on his death bed, Alexander summoned his army generals and told them his three ultimate wishes: 1. The best doctors should carry his coffin 2. The wealth he has accumulateed (money, gold, precious stones) should bbe scattered along the procession to the cem metery 3. His hands should be let loosse, so they hang outside the coffin for all tto see!!! One of his generals who was surpriseed by these unusual requests asked Alexander tto explain. Here is what Alexander the Great had to say: 1. I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that in the face of death, even the best doctors inn the world have no power to heal We do not take to our grave any material wealth, TIME is our most precious treasure t because it is LIMITED. We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time. When we give someone ou ur time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back. Our time is our life! The best present that you can give to your family and friends is your TIME. May God grant you plenty y of TIME, to share with all. Happy New Year! Roman Jan nuary Schedule Pokrova Council Fri/Sat First Friday Eucharistic Adooration Fri March for Life, Washingtonn DC 28 Thur Monthly businesss meeting 7:30 pm Febrruary Schedule Pokrova Council 05 Fri 6:30 pm Panachyda / Divin ne Liturgy for brother Knight Kevin Storey at St Mary Church Fri/Sat First Friday Eucharistic Adooration Fri Monthly Business Meeting, 7:30 pm church basement

4 Mr. Kevin Parker Storey, age 60, of Feasterville Trevose, PA, passed away Thursday, December 3, 2015 at Mercy Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Kevin was born July 5, 1955, in Roanoke Rapids, NC, the son of the late Henry Parker Storey and Ginger Annette Conwell Storey. He attended Chowan College in Murfreesboro, NC, and served his country in the US Marine Corp. He is survived by his sisters, Anita Davidson, Robin Hudak and a brother, Henry Clinton Storey. His uncles, Ronald Storey (Joyce) and Steve Storey (Jean) and one aunt, Carolyn Thompson. Also many cousins. Funeral services were held Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 2:00 PM at Massey Funeral Home in Jackson. Burial followed at the Storey Family Cemetery. [above italics - Internet excerpt from ] Revisit Dateline: Bristol, PA First anniversary commemoration of events of 911 Terrorist attack on World Trade Centers, NYC held at St Mary Catholic Church - Ukrainian Byzantine Rite. Procession began at the Bristol Township municipal buildings Bath Road. Brother Knight Kevin Storey of blessed memory is shown carrying the rosary of Our Lady. Now in 2016: Vichnaya Pamyat Eternal Memory.

5 It is said that home is where they have to take you in. I, however, maintain that home is where your friends are. Having just returned to Paris after three weeks home, I continue to bask in the truth of my definition. As usual, my musings are mostly musical. Of course, the soundtrack of my life includes the music of my foolish youth but then, doesn't the music of our youth impact the rest of our lives? It is out of a childish vision of friendship that Barney sings to his little pals: I love you You love me We're a happy family With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you. Won't you say you love me too! The Mills Brothers add what Paul Harvey would have called the rest of the story : You always hurt the one you love The one you shouldn't hurt at all You always take the sweetest rose And crush it 'till the petals fall You always break the kindest heart With a hasty word you can't recall... In search of a resolution to the conundrum, my mind wends to the dulcet tones of another James namely James Taylor: Ain't it good to know that you've got a friend When people can be so cold They'll hurt you, and desert you And take your soul if you let them, oh yeah, don't you let 'em nowyou just call out my name And you know wherever I am I'll come running to see you again, oh baby, don't you know Winter, spring, summer or fall Hey now, all you have to do is call And I'll be there, yes I will You've got a friend... Indeed. And this baby boomer cannot help remembering another song with a similar message, this one by Simon and Garfunkel: When you're weary, feeling small When tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all I'm on your side, oh, when times get rough And friends just can't be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Aren't these but contemporary renderings of the Scripture quote chosen as a title for this article? (Be encouraged to look it up!) As we used to say, What goes around comes around. In other words: to have a friend, be a friend. The flimsy foundation of fleeting friendship where faithfulness is often found wanting leads us to search beyond our meager powers and rickety resolve. I think back on the missal which we all grew up with, Fr. Michael Shchudlo's My Divine Friend. Doesn't this echo Jesus' relationship with His disciples? As He Himself said, No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. (John 15: 15) Ah, yes, with God all things are possible even in spite of our best efforts to mess things up. Moreover, as February dawns, we Byzantines will have been celebrating Christmas for forty days, so I dare to close this reflection with a carol whose lyrics were composed by Robert Southwell : 1 Let folly praise that fancy loves; I praise and love that child whose heart no thought, whose tongue no word, whose hand no deed defiled. I praise him most, I love him best; all praise and love are his. While him I love, in him I live, and cannot live amiss. 2 Love's sweetest mark, laud's highest theme, our most desired light. To love him life, to leave him death, to live in him delight. He mine by gift, I his by debt, thus each to other due: first friend he was, best friend he is; all times will find him true. 3 Though young, yet wise, though small, yet strong, though man, yet God he is; as wise he knows, as strong he can, as God he loves to bless. His knowledge rules, his strength defends, his love doth cherish all; his birth our joy, his life our light, his death our end of thrall.

6 Do you know your State's Preamble? We the people of the State of Alabama, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution.. We, the people of Alaska, grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land. We, the people of the State of Arizona, grateful to Almighty God for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution... We, the people of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government... We, the People of the State of California, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom... We, the people of Colorado, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of Universe... The People of Connecticut, acknowledging with gratitude the good Providence of God in permitting them to enjoy. Through Divine Goodness all men have, by nature, the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences. We, the people of the State of Florida, grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty, establish this Constitution... We, the people of Georgia, relying upon protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution... We, the people of Hawaii, Grateful for Divine Guidance... Establish this Constitution. We, the people of the State of Idaho, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings. We, the people of the State of Illinois, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors. We, the People of the State of Indiana, grateful to Almighty God for the free exercise of the right to choose our form of government. We, the People of the State of Iowa, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of these blessings, establish this Constitution. We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges establish this Constitution. We, the people of the Commonwealth are grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties.. We, the people of the State of Louisiana, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy. We the People of Maine acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity... And imploring His aid and direction. We, the people of the state of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty... We...the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe In the course of His Providence, an opportunity and devoutly imploring His direction We, the people of the State of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom, establish this Constitution. We, the people of the State of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate its blessings: We, the people of Mississippi in convention assembled, grateful to Almighty God, and invoking His blessing on our work. We, the people of Missouri, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness - Establish this Constitution... We, the people of Montana, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty establish this Constitution.. We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom.

7 Establish this Constitution. We the people of the State of Nevada, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, establish this Constitution... Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors. We, the People of New Mexico, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty.. We, the people of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings. We the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those... We, the people of North Dakota, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, do ordain... We the people of the state of Ohio, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings and to promote our common. Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessings of liberty, establish this All men shall be secure in the Natural right, to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their consciences We, the people of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance... We the People of the State of Rhode Island grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing... We, the people of the State of South Carolina grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution. We, the people of South Dakota, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberties. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their conscience... We the People of the Republic of Texas, acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace and beneficence of God. Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we establish this Constitution. Whereas all government ought to enable the individuals who compose it to enjoy their natural rights, and other blessings which the Author of Existence has bestowed on man. Religion, or the Duty which we owe our Creator can be directed only by Reason and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance, Love and Charity towards each other We the People of the State of Washington, grateful to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution Since through Divine Providence we enjoy the blessings of civil, political and religious liberty, we, the people of West Virginia reaffirm our faith in and constant reliance upon God... We, the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, domestic tranquility... We, the people of the State of Wyoming, grateful to God for our civil, political, and religious liberties, establish this Constitution... After reading the above, I d say we were founded as a "Christian nation. [excerpt received from R Fedorak]

8 2016 Jan 22 March For Life Washington, DC Grand Knight Steve Schaeber, wife Carol & daughter Nitaliya joined with St Andrew parishioners and students to participate in the 2016 March for Life which featured the beginnings of an east coast blizzard and meeting US Congressman and Sir Knight Michael Fitzpatrick during the march. Other council participated by attend local prayer services. [ Photo below from facebook address: March for Life 2016 St Andrew banner can be seen in lower right corner]