Bishop Flaget Flyer Volume 18, Issue 3 Special points of interest: Know a Catholic you think highly of? Then ask him to serve with you. Ask him to join the Knights! Grand Knight s Letter 2 Birthday List 2 Anniversary List 2 Insurance 3 Fraternal Survey 4 News Deadline 4 Advertisers 5 Contacts 5 Events Calendar Meetings: Regular Business Meetings 1st Tuesday, 7:30 PM Officer s Meetings Last Tuesday, 7:30 PM St. Bernadette Parish Center 6500 St. Bernadette Ave Inside this issue: Back Bishop Flaget Council 13053, Louisville, KY MARCH 2018 Prayers for Our Members & Families All priests, deacons and religious men and women JoAnn Durbin Chris & Michael Hornback Erin Lally Bruce Lane Bob Miller Matt Missi Bill & Gerri Moriarity Diane Pysz Charlie & Darleen Rhodes Bob Rucinski Tara Samuels Catherine Stuart Mary Lou Such Tim Talaga Dennis Welch Mike Wurth All of our Servicemen and Women overseas. (If you know of any other brother knight or their families that are in need of prayers, please contact Mike Lally by phone at 822-3746 or e-mail at cardfan71@yahoo.com) FORTY DAYS FOR LIFE The Respect Life Team of St. Bernadette along with Bishop Flaget Council will again support the 40 days for Life campaign starting Ash Wednesday and running through Palm Sunday. If you are looking for something to do this Lenten season join us in our fight to stop abortion. A group of Knights and and parishioners will be praying each Tuesday during Lent in front of the abortion clinic at 2nd and Market. Some will be leaving after daily 8:15am Mass and carpooling downtown. Our council and Parish is committed to the 10:00am/11:00am hour but other parishes in Diocese will be there 24/7 during the 40 days, so if you cannot make our time, feel free to go any day at any time. BELIEVE ME IT'S MORE REWARDING THAN GIVING UP CHIPS OR CANDY! Please join us or go when you can. For more information contact Larry Kessler 615-945-1384, lkes648004@aol.com.
PAGE 2 VOLUME 18, ISSUE 3 Brother Knights, Grand Knight s Letter The weather is changing! Over the past months we have seen cold snaps of weather with temperatures in the single digits. Wind, blowing snow, ice and sleet all made up our weeks and months of this winter season. This past week we have seen a change to the weather. Moderate temperatures above freezing to 80 s in the month of February that set new record highs. We too are like the changes in weather. I find myself cold and more removed from my relationship with God during times of darkness. As a brother Knight I appreciate the support that all brother Knights share with each other. This is our gift from each other. With some recent family health issues I missed a lot of connectivity to our brother Knights but my record temperatures are and have been knowing that many of you have prayed for the healing of my Mom after her bypass surgery. My cold was losing my Dad this past May, and then adding this bypass surgery just over seven months later. For me the weather was cold. How could God allow this to happen to both of my parents while we are still grieving the loss of my Dad? Well I now realize that God has spared my Mom and although his plan may not be as easy to see in my mind, I have to have faith that spring is coming. Not just the physical weather but the emotional and liturgical weather. Lent is a time at least for me that I have my personal seasonal change. I have always done more vs giving up things for lent and that warms me up. So this lent season I feel we are all called to set new record temperatures. Be nicer to your family, friends and brother Knights. After being gone a lot for the past month I have seen so many acts of kindness from Brother Knights that my heart is warm. I thank you all and you know who you are. So we can share these blessings and find another Catholic Gentleman to share your good Knight stories. Warm up a new recruit and prepare them for our coming founders day recruitment drive in March. Share the good news, the record temperatures by sharing the good deeds Knights do in Charity, Unity and Fraternity in the following of Fr McGivney. Also, please get involved in one of the many upcoming activities that we do as Knights. I am proud to be called a Knight. Vivat Jesus. Best to you all on your lent journey and God bless. March Birthdays David Dumont Daniel M Langan Faustin Ndagijimana Chris Hornback Richard M Vuturo Richard A Hartke Deacon Pat D Harris 1st 11th 23rd 24th 24th 25th 30th HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Bill & Debbie Ferko March 13th 36 years Bill & Mary Jo Kopriva March 23rd 34 years Jim & Nancy Cook March 28th 38 years David
VOLUME 18, ISSUE 3 Bishop Flaget Flyer Plan for this Tax Day and into the Future PAGE 3 Now is a good time to begin preparing for April 18 (tax day). It s become popular this time of year to encourage the opening of an IRA or similar retirement annuity, or the depositing of additional funds into an existing account, as a tax-savings vehicle. Or perhaps someone has tried to convince you to open an account, touting the rate of interest that money in one of these accounts can earn. Let me join the chorus of folks encouraging you to open or add funds to an annuity, but for a different reason. Certainly, contributing money to a Knights of Columbus annuity will allow you to save some money on your income tax return. And, our annuities do pay a very competitive interest rate, consistent with our primary goal of absolute safety of principal. Opening or adding to an annuity for these reasons, however, strikes me as taking a short-term view of a product that is designed to provide long-term security. How much security? How does retirement income that you cannot outlive guaranteed sound to you? Here at the Knights of Columbus, you can open a retirement annuity for as little as $300. Consistent and disciplined savings placed into that annuity over time can guarantee you an income at retirement that you cannot outlive. That guarantee along with the fact that no one has ever lost money left in a Knights of Columbus annuity (remember absolute safety of principal) really will provide you with peace of mind. I am happy to meet with you, at your convenience and in your home, to explain in detail the benefits of opening a Knights of Columbus annuity. Dwight Frank, Field Agent Knights of Columbus 502-802-8490 Dwight.Frank@kofc.org
PAGE 4 Bishop Flaget Flyer VOLUME 18, ISSUE 3 Water With Blessing Bishop Flaget Council will be hosting a fund raising concert for Water With Blessing in an effort to stamp out Cholera in Haiti by providing them with clean drinking water through a filtration process. To date our Council has purchased over 86 units. Each unit provides clean drinking water for four families for life. That is 344 families who now have clean, safe drinking water. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU FOR AN AMAZING RESPONSE. More will come on the concert but our tentative date is Friday, June 22. Larry Kessler, 615-945-1384 Bless Me Father For I Have Sinned Those seven words bless me Father for I have sinned trigger a variety of responses from Catholics. While not mandatory but certainly customary, these are usually the first words from a penitent in celebrating the sacrament of Reconciliation. The declaration I have sinned is an admission of responsibility from the penitent. It is also the stumbling block for many as they contemplate whether to engage the priest in the act of confession. For many decades prior to the Second Vatican Council, weekly Confession was a standard practice for adult Catholics. I remember as a child in Catholic grade school going to Confession at least every other week. The process involved an examination of conscience (it still does) and a declaration of one s sins. As a child, it was hard to remember them all or even very many of them. Even as an adult, who can possibly remember all their sins? Many adults simply stopped going to Confession altogether. Some decided that their sins really weren t that bad or maybe not even a sin in the first place. Others mistakenly believed that by trying to be a good person they could avoid Confession altogether by attending Mass regularly. Ultimately, the habit of regular examination of conscience and sacramental confession of sin was lost. Lent is an invitation to start a new habit regular celebration of the sacrament of Reconciliation. This habit begins with a reformulation of our notion of Sin and our sins. Rather than thinking of each individual instance of omission or commission (again who can possibly remember it all) it is better to think of participation in evil. All sin is participation in evil. Evil is an objective reality in the created world. Evil cannot be totally avoided and because of our humanity, we are tempted by Satan (who is real) and we succumb to sin when we act on Satan s temptations. Our individual acts (those we remember and those we don t) are participation in evil. This is sin! Our admission of wrongdoing and our declaration to try to avoid it in the future is our role in the sacrament. The priest, in the person of Jesus Christ, declares I absolve you of ALL your sins and offers a penitential act that moves us toward grace. Every absolved penitent emerges from the confessional with a spotless soul just as when we were baptized. The sacrament of Reconciliation is needed today as it was needed yesterday and will still be needed tomorrow. What a gift! Lent is a great opportunity to begin new habits. Consider making regular use of the sacrament of Reconciliation as a new habit worth cultivating for the rest of your life. Father Gary Padgett Deadline for for submissions for for the the April May newsletter is is March April 2, 23, 2016 2018
VOLUME 18, ISSUE 3 O F F I C E R S Bishop Flaget Flyer Chaplain Fr. Jeff Nicolas 502-815-3107 frnicolas@stb2008.org Grand Knight David Such 412-4209 drsuch42@gmail.com Dep. Grand Knight Dan Block 832-725-4286 dwblock0129@gmail.com Chancellor Larry Kessler 615-945-1384 lkes648004@aol.com Recorder Dave Wallace 228-9313 dwallace@worldbridgepartners.com Financial Secretary Mike Lally, PGK 822-3746 cardfan71@yahoo.com Treasurer Steve Krebs 426-9436 sk2285tk@bellsouth.net Advocate John Sutton 533-0263 johnsutton@aol.com Warden Bill Kopriva 425-8308 bkopriva@bellsouth.net Inside Guard Bruce Lane 425-1829 bklane37@bellsouth Outside Guard Bob Wuetcher 592-3183 robertwuetcher@gmail.com 1 year Trustee Jack Banbury, PGK 876-0807 jackban@aol.com 2 year Trustee Dick Scherrer, PGK 493-9296 dsche40299@aol.com 3 year Trustee Richard Hines, PGK 595-8763 rr.hines@twc.com PAGE 5 Program Personnel Membership Director Bruce Lane 425-1829 bklane37@bellsouth.net Recruitment Chair David Such 412-4209 drsuch42@gmail.com Retention Chair William Kopriva 425-8308 bkopriva@bellsouth.net Program Director Jack Banbury 876-0807 jackban@aol.com Church Director David Wallace 228-9313 dwallace@worldbridgepartners.com Vocation Chair Mike Welch 727-3553 welch.b4@twc.com Community Director David Such 412-4209 drsuch42@gmail.com Pro-Life Couple Larry Kessler 6159451384 lkes648004@aol.com Council Director Charlie Rhodes 426-7309 1792car@gmail.com Public Relations Mike Lally, PGK 822-3746 cardfan71@yahoo.com Newsletter Editor Mike Lally, PGK 822-3746 cardfan71@yahoo.com Family Director Richard Scherrer 493-9296 dsche40299@aol.com Historians All past GKs Youth Director Steve Krebs 426-9436 sk2285tk@bellsouth.net Fundraising Chair David Wallace 228-9313 dwallace@worldbridgepartners.com Lecturer Gerry Hope 762-1786 gbhcat@yahoo.com Place your Ad Here $50 per year Other Contacts State Deputy Gabe Cabral 270-784-3145 gcabral@twc.com Program Director Kent Hoskins 502-339-0770 choskin1@bellsouth.net District Deputy George Hayes 502-558-9079 george.h.hayes@wildblue.net New Council Dev. Paul Martin 502-640-2447 pamarti8@att.net General Agent Darrell Swope 859-421-6164 darrell.swope@kofc.org Field Agent Dwight Frank 502-802-8490 dwight.frank@kofc.org Websites Knights of Columbus Supreme www.kofc.org Vatican www.vatican.va Columbian (online) www.kofc.org/publications/columbia/index.cfm Catholic Conference of Kentucky www.ccky.org K of C Insurance www.kofc.org/insurance/index.cfm Nat l Conference of Catholic Bishops www.ncbuscc.org Knights of Columbus Kentucky www.kykofc.com Bishop Flaget Council www.bishopflagetcouncil.org Local KofC Insurance www.dwightfrank.com
Bishop Flaget Council #13053 c/o St. Bernadette Church 6500 St. Bernadette Avenue Prospect, KY 40059-6543 Editor - Mike Lally cardfan71@yahoo.com Schedule of Events Mar 6th Regular Business Meeting 7:00 PM @ St Bernadette Mar 27th Officer s Meeting 7:00 PM at St Bernadette Apr 3rd Regular Business Meeting 7:00 PM @ St Bernadette Apr 24th Officer s Meeting 7:00 PM at St Bernadette May 11th Pro-life golf scramble @ Seneca May 13th Mother s Day Roses & Pancake Breakfast @ St Bernadette June 22 Monarchs Concert (tentative) «AddressBlock» Place Stamp Here First Class Mail Pray the Rosary to End Abortion March 2018 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 Regular Meeting 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Officers Meeting 28 29 30 31