Officer’s Meeting Notes

February 18th, 2010

Our Lenten Mass series begins this Saturday at 9 AM. Please make plans to attend, we would like to show our priests our support. This week is Fr. Kastl and next week will be Fr. Caldwell.

This Sunday is our Pancake Breakfast, please plan to attend and help out. If you come in at 7:30, that is a good time to help set up. If you come later, please plan to stick around and help clean up.

On 2/26 the Knights will be sponsoring the Friday Lenten Meal at St. Pius X. Holy Hour is at 5:30 pm, Stations of the Cross at 6:30 pm in the Church, followed by Supper and a short presentation in Dorney Hall.

Bill Hull brought some food by the Madonna House last week. The place is always full and is always in need of donations. Just because the previous drives have ‘ended’, the need is still there. The Knights and Community Food Bank will be doing a food drive in the near future. We will announce this at the council meeting next week.

Worthy Chancellor, Chris King, completed the presentation folders for our applications for Oklahoma State Council Awards. These are very impressive for our applications for Community, Council Activities, Church Activities, and Family Activities.

Financial Secretary’s Report – after the State Training, he was able to put the membership on the national database. There are 116 non-insured members. We have 4 honorary members and 30 Life members. Several more members will be eligible to ask for for Life or Honorary Life memberships. A Knight has to have 25 years of uninterrupted service and be over 65 to get Life Membership, over 70 will be Honorary Life Members.

There will be some issues discussed that will impact the entire membership. Please plan to attend the next Business Meeting next week so that your voice will be heard.

We will be sending in the Family of the Month to Supreme beginning this month.

Lenten Reflections - Confession

Brother Knights and Friends;

Many of our Protestant friends have a problem with our practice of Confession. Here are some comments and some apologetics for Brother Knights. The most common argument is that there is “That is not in the Bible”. Well, here are instances of Biblical support:

Biblical References to Confession (Penance, Reconciliation)

• John 20:22-23
  And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."
• 2 Corinthians 5:18-20
  All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.
  • Source: Bible Answers for Bible Christians http://www.biblechristians.org/answers.cfm?ID=95

Well,  there are two instances in the Bible where God breathes on man, in Genesis where Life is given to Adam and in John, where Christ breathes His Spirit and gives new life to mankind. I think all of us have times where we have felt a kind of dread in entering the Confessional. I have had those times, and it has kept me away from the Grace which is always present in the Forgiveness of Our Lord. For whatever the reason I have stayed away, I have come back and felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. When I was in college, I took my walks down the front of St. Gregory’s with Fr. Ian, Fr. Louis, or Fr. Theodore.

If we think back, we can hold on to the real answer to our Protestant friends suspicions. The answer is the way we feel when we come out of the Confessional, when we feel like there is no forgiveness for how we have behaved, or how we’ve treated our friends, or our wives, or our children. But, without fail, there is forgiveness, there is no judgment, just those simple words,

“I Absolve You in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”

With those simple words, we walk away feeling more refreshed than any shower, any caress, and light on our feet to receive the Body and Blood of the Savior that Redeems us, and forgives us through the Ministry of the Church.

When we confess our sins to a priest, we are confessing the guilt of our sinfulness. Why this is uplifting is that we hear Jesus, through the person of the priest, say the words:

 “Your Sins are forgiven!”

This is important because when we hear and believe, God's grace is poured out on us.  While going to God directly is good, after a while, when we don't hear God answering us, we begin the spiral downward. Believing that God does not hear us, and our hearts become hardened. The effect of God's Grace lessens because we do not believe we are worthy to receive this Grace. Thus, speaking your sins out loud to another person who stands in the person of Jesus as the head of the Church, is humbling because the priest, who is human, understands. It is uplifting because Jesus understands us as well. The Grace poured out is from the Heart of Jesus responding in and through the actions of the priest.

Vivat Jesus!

Next week, Eucharist…

 

Thank you, Fr. Jim, for your input into this article….

Mike Buckendorf Update

Brother Knights,

I visited Mike in Southcrest Hospital (Room 409) this morning. He had a severe kidney infection since Monday but has significantly improved since being hospitalized on Tuesday. He is not 100% yet but is quickly returning to his normal self and hopes to go home this evening. He very much appreciates all of our concerns and prayers. See the attached picture of Mike in a resting mode, a role very hard to envision for our ever active friend.

Bob Caruso

4721 to be in Columbia

Beginning March 1, 2010, Knights of Columbus Council 4721 will have an article viewable online at www.kofc.org. Because of the limited space in the print publication which we all receive in our mailboxes, it will be several months before it is printed in the national publication. Below is the response from the Columbia

Dear Joseph:

Thanks for your submission. We will include your report AND/OR photo in the next online posting of Knights in Action at www.kofc.org on March 1, 2010.

It will be viewable there for approximately one month, after which time it will be archived on the K of C Web site and filed for publication in the magazine at a later date. Due to the volume of reports received weekly and the limited number of pages available to us monthly in the print edition of the magazine, it will be several months before it appears in print. Thanks again.

Pat Scalisi

Associate Editor, Columbia

Knights of Columbus Supreme Council

1 Columbus Plaza

New Haven, CT 06510-3326

(203) 752 - 4485 (voice)

(203) 752 - 4109 (fax)

patrick.scalisi@kofc.org

Upcoming Events - Edited

Note: Our next Blood Drive is next month. The Pancake Breakfast at the end of the month will NOT coincide with the Blood Drive the next time. Pancake Breakfast & Blood Drive This was a misprint in the calendar, there will be a Pancake breakfast after the 8:00 and 10:00 am Mass but will NOT be the American Red Cross Blood Drive. Please contact Bob Caruso to schedule your time. bobnantul@cox.net. Phone 252-2216. Please plan to attend the Breakfast and help out where you can.
February 21, 2010 8:00 AM

Clergy Appreciation Dinner
There will not be a Ladies Auxiliary meeting on Feb 8th due to the Priests’ Appreciation dinner. The dinner will be subject to the weather.
February 8, 2010 6:00 PM

Veterans Mass
Veterans’ 9:00AM Mass at the VA Hospital in Claremore the 2nd Thursday of every month. Contact Lon Unsell, Leroy Weismann or Bob Caruso for carpooling. We leave Tulsa at 8:00AM and return around 11:00AM.
February 11, 3910 9:00 AM

FS Training
Feb 13, 2010

Ladies Appreciation Dinner
February 14, 2010 4:00 PM

Officers Planning Meeting
Planning meeting will be held in the Youth Room.
February 18, 2010 7:00 PM

Lenten Mass
Fr. Gary Kastl
Brother Knights; Make it a point to attend our Lenten Masses at the Hall during Lent. It is a wonderful time to be shared with your family and friends (these are open to all – if not Catholic, just don’t receive) and the talks given by the priests have been very instructional and edifying. I will update the time if it should change but last year we gathered at 9:00 AM for Mass followed by a talk by the Celebrant. After the Mass, we would hang around for visiting, lunch and fellowship.Vivat Jesus!
February 20, 2010 9:00 AM

Pancake Breakfast & Blood Drive
This was a misprint in the calendar, there will be a Pancake breakfast after the 8:00 and 10:00 am Mass but will NOT be the American Red Cross Blood Drive. Please contact Bob Caruso to schedule your time. bobnantul@cox.net. Phone 252-2216. Please plan to attend the Breakfast and help out where you can.
February 21, 2010 8:00 AM

Lenten Mass
Fr. Jim Caldwell.
Brother Knights; Make it a point to attend our Lenten Masses at the Hall during Lent. It is a wonderful time to be shared with your family and friends (these are open to all – if not Catholic, just don’t receive) and the talks given by the priests have been very instructional and edifying. I will update the time if it should change but last year we gathered at 9:00 AM for Mass followed by a talk by the Celebrant. After the Mass, we would hang around for visiting, lunch and fellowship.Vivat Jesus!
February 27, 2010 9:00 AM

Majority of Americans, and Nearly 6 in 10 Young Adults, View Abortion as Morally Wrong

1/21/2010

56% of all Americans and 58% of those 18-29 years old say abortion ‘morally wrong’

Strong majority of Americans believe abortion to be morally wrong.

On the eve of the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion throughout the United States, a new survey shows a strong majority of Americans believe abortion to be “morally wrong."

“Millennials” (those 18-29) consider abortion to be “morally wrong” even more (58%) than Baby Boomers (those 45-64) (51%). Generation X (those 30-44) are similar to Millennials (60% see abortion as “morally wrong”). More than 6 in 10 of the Greatest Generation (those 65+) feel the same.

The most recent Knights of Columbus – Marist survey – conducted in late December and early January – is the latest in a series of such surveys commissioned by the Knights of Columbus and conducted by Marist Institute for Public Opinion. In October of 2008 and July of 2009, the survey has been tracking an increasing trend toward the pro-life position – a trend confirmed by Gallup and Pew surveys in mid-2009.

“Americans of all ages – and younger people in even greater numbers than their parents – see abortion as something morally wrong,” said Supreme Knight Carl Anderson. “America has turned a corner and is embracing life – and in doing so is embracing a future they – and all of us – can be proud of.”

He added: “Advances in technology, show clearly – and ever more clearly – that an unborn child is completely a human being. That, coupled with the large number of Americans who know one of the many people who has been negatively affected by abortion are certainly two of the reasons that Americans are increasingly uncomfortable with Roe v. Wade’s legacy of abortion, and with abortion generally. The majority of Americans now understand that abortion has consequences, and that those consequences are not good.”

The question on abortion was part of a larger survey, which will be released in the next several days.

This report presents the findings from a survey of 2,243 Americans –including an oversample of 1,006 Millennials. Reports for Americans have a margin of error of +/-2% and for Millennials it is +/-3%. Data were collected from December 23, 2009 through January 4, 2010 using an online, probability-based panel from Knowledge Networks, Inc.

Click this link to go to the story on the Supreme Website

Copyright © Knights of Columbus 2010. All rights reserved.

Clergy Appreciation Dinner

…and a good time was had by all! Thank you Bishop Slattery for helping to make this Appreciation Dinner a success. I am posting some pictures from the dinner. Ladies and Knights came and helped to make this a wonderful evening.

Thanks to all the clergy, including deacons and their wives, who attended the dinner. One of the highlights of the evening was the presentation from our Worthy State Treasurer to the Bishop a check from Pennies for Heaven. This money will help the seminarians who are studying for the Diocese of Tulsa. With the addition of young men who are studying for the priesthood for the Diocese of Tulsa, our average age of priests, according to Bishop Slattery, has dropped from the mid 60s when he came to Tulsa 16 years ago, to a current average of about 45!

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Hall Available for Rental

Remember that the Hall is for rent for:

• Birthday Parties,
• Meetings,
• Dances,
• Weddings,
• Reunions, etc.

Call Walt Casey for information – 918-583-6856 or email at piwalt@cox.net

Pope Benedict’s Prayer Intentions for February

BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR FEBRUARY

VATICAN CITY, 1 FEB 2010 (VIS) - Pope Benedict's general prayer intention for February is: "That by means of sincere search for the truth scholars and intellectuals may arrive at an understanding of the one true God".

  His mission intention is: "That the Church, aware of her own missionary identity, may strive to follow Christ faithfully and to proclaim His Gospel to all peoples".

BXVI-PRAYER INTENTIONS/FEBRUARY/...                              VIS 100201 (80)

February Business Meeting

Grand Knight’s Report:

• Thank you to Phil Nickles and Bill Hull for putting on the 50th Anniversary Dinner. Thanks to Leroy for his history of the council, Norbert cut the cake then gave a fantastic trip down memory lane! Thank you for the Memories. Now on to more and other things.
• Upcoming events are the Priests’ Appreciation Dinner and the Ladies Appreciation Dinner.
• Communications: Deacon Tran and his wife in thanks for the invitation to the dinner
• Four will be attending the Financial Secretaries Meeting at St. Gregory’s.
• State Scholarship program to St. Gregory’s – we are compiling a list of scholarships from our Council. Need it by April 15th.
• Amendments tried to be passed at last year’s State Meeting. Amendment passed was to assess active, ordained Deacons and Priests in the membership. These would not be assessed a membership fee.
• There are priests that will be leading pilgrimages. These are posted on the bulletin board. These include Italy, Prague, etc.
• Fr. Tim wrote an article in the Oklahoma Knight about Social Teaching in the Church. This is a good to read article.

Financial Secretary’s Report

• Pancake Breakfast – Made over $100 in profit from the breakfast.

Chancellor’s Report

• Pope Benedict’s Prayer for Vocations is being handed out
• Please pray one extra rosary each month for vocations

Program Director’s Report

• New Membership Committee
• David Bassler – Our Pro-Life Project is DVIS for Easter – provides domestic services for victims of domestic abuse – there is a list of items they will need to make a nice donation for them for after Easter. Conclusion will be the week before Easter
• Bill Hull – Blood Drive was not as good as before. Next Blood Drive is March 21st so mark your calendars.
• There is a full docket for the Lenten Masses. 9 am each Saturday. Fr. Gary Kastl will celebrate the first Mass. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend. We need to make a good showing! Bring a friend.

Here is the schedule for our Lenten Masses:

Feb. 20               Father Gary Kastl

Feb. 27               Father Jim Caldwell

Mar. 6                Father Mike Knipe

Mar. 13              Father Tim Davison

Mar. 20              Bishop Slattery

Mar. 27              Father Brian O’Brien

• Chris King – Columbian Squires is having an open house. We are officially opening our Circle. The Social is Tuesday, March 9th at 6:30 PM at St. Pius X. There will be a pizza, cookie, and drink social for the families. Chris is the State Squires Chairman and will serve and the Council Squires Chairman.
  • We are hoping to have a All City Investiture of the new Squires. Hopefully, we can have the Bishop, as well as the Archbishop from Oklahoma City (Eusebius Beltran, who is also a former Squire).
• Thursday we will be going to the VA Mass in Claremore. It is at 8 am.
• Chris King is putting together packages for the State Awards including Priests Appreciation, Easter, Halloween and Christmas parties, Pro-Life Madonna House efforts, and 50th Anniversary Dinner. We want all the pictures we can get. Send any pictures you have to Chris King.
• Bill Hull – We need RSVP’s for the Ladies Appreciation Dinner. Tom Metzler will be the cook for the dinner for the ladies. The dinner is Monday.
• Lenten meal on Friday nights at the Hall during Lent. We will pray the Rosary after the dinner. There will be a nominal $6 charge for the meal.

New Business:

• Proposed to offer 2 scholarships to St. Gregory’s. Proposition was carried. There will need to be a new vote for the next meeting to approve it.
• Delegates to the State Convention on April 23rd through the 25th. Lon Unsell, Grand Knight, was proposed as well as Bill Hull, Trustee and Past Grand Knight was proposed. Lon, as Grand Knight is automatic. Bill was proposed since he is a Past Grand Knight.  J.A. Arroyo, DGK as Alternate and Chris King as an Alternate.
• Bernie Fonzo Award, Civic Award – Nominations. Does not have to be someone that is Catholic but has to be someone that has contributed to the community. The winning nominee will be invited to the State Convention. Nominees have to be in my March the 4th.
• Next Pancake breakfasts will be March 21st (Blood Drive too), April 21st Pancake Breakfast.
• Council will be offering an annuity for Fr. Mike at St. Pius X.
• In the newsletter, there is a link to the Tulsa World for the story on the March for Life. Over 3000 were in attendance! This was well over the initial estimates for the March.

District’s Deputy Report

• The 50th Anniversary Dinner was fantastic. We all had a great time and it was a successful evening.
• Our District quota is 12, we have no additions but no deductions. We need to get a new membership going. Holy Family has 9 new members! We need to really push for new members.
• Holy Family will have a First Degree on Sunday, Feb 28th at 1:00 pm. We can get our new members in there so we can get members into the Council. There is a 2nd and 3rd Degree in Broken Arrow on April 18th at St. Anne’s. We can get our members here through all three degrees in Feb and complete them in April.

JOHN COLLIER! Won the Pot of Gold! John won $157 for being at the meeting this month.

Good of the Order

• Matt Buckendorf – in an accident during the ice and snow storm. Flipped his car and was trapped for awhile. Nothing was broken and bruised pretty good. Praise be that he is doing well.
• Brody Million, grandson of J.A. Arroyo, had surgery today for tonsils and adnoids.
• Kim Weisman, Leroy Weisman’s daughter-in-law, will begin Chemotherapy next week
• Josephine Prugge, Scott Collier’s aunt, has terminal cancer
• Deacon Todd Young and Colleen, keep in prayers
• Don Dupruis new grandson Bode Reaves, born premature and in hospital 45 days.

Knight of the Month – J.A. Arroyo for his work on the Newsletter

Family of the Month – Bill Hull and Phil Nickles

Vocations:

Don’t forget to send an email or letter to at least one of our seminarians this month! Show your appreciation to our young men who are working hard to be our Priests!

Seminarians for the Diocese of Tulsa

Keep Our Seminarians in Your Prayers

We encourage you to email our seminarians as often as you can. I am including email addresses and pictures of our seminarians for you to keep these men in your prayers and thoughts. During the summer, many are back in the Diocese for various assignments. Click on the picture or the email address to email the Seminarian

Kerry Wakulich
3rd Theology
St. John Vianney Theological Seminary
1300 S. Steele St.
Denver, CO 80210
wakulich@yahoo.com

Ernesto Calvillo
3rd Theology
St. Meinrad School of Theology
200 Hill Drive
St. Meinrad, IN 47577
semi_81@hotmail.com
Alex Carroll
2nd College
Tulsa Community College
440 S. Florence Ave.,
Tulsa, OK 74104

Andrew Dever
4th College
Conception Seminary College
PO Box 502
Conception, MO 64433
Sean Donovan
2nd Theology
North America Pontifical College
00120 Vatican City State, Europe
North America Pontifical College

Kevin Gasperino
2nd College
Conception Seminary College
PO Box 502
Conception, MO 64433
imgas2@cox.net

Jorge Gomez
2nd Theology
St. Meinrad School of Theology
200 Hill Drive
St. Meinrad, IN 47577
jorgelmoxad_tulok@hotmail.com

John Grant
1st Theology
St. John Vianney Theological Seminary
1300 South Steele Street
Denver, CO 80210
johngrant27@gmail.com

Michael Judkins
Pre-Theology II
St. Meinrad School of Theology
200 Hill Drive
St. Meinrad, IN 47577

Bryan Ketterer
4th College
St. John Vianney College Seminary
Mail #5024, 2115 Summit Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105

Todd Nance
4rd College
Conception Seminary College
PO Box 502
Conception, MO 64433
toddnance19@yahoo.com

Duy Nguyen
1st College
Tulsa Community College
2720 South 129th Street East Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74134
nvtd_tommy@yahoo.com
Jorge Perez
3rd Theology
Pontifical University of Mexico
Victory #98, Col. Tlalpan CP 14000, Mexico, DF

Mike Pratt
2nd Theology
North America Pontifical College
00120 Vatican City State, Europe
homer6923@sbcglobal.net

Joe Thummel
3rd Theology
St. John Vianney Theological Seminary
1300 S. Steele St.
Denver, CO 80210
wildthumbs3@hotmail.com

Monthly Business Meeting Thursday

Just a reminder to the membership that we have our business meeting tomorrow night at 7:30 pm at the Hall.