Dear Brother Knights,

Elections are coming up at our May meeting—May 23rd. As you can see on page 2 we have several people who have stepped up and are running for po-sitions. Just because ONE person is running for a po-sition doesn’t mean YOU can’t run for the same po-sition! Think about it and if you are able to handle one of the many positions, please consider running

for it.

As most of you know we had a successful Golf Out-ing at the beginning of April. Many of you helped out and that made it a success! We had a lot of happy golfers. The more

people who help out at the events, the easier it is to run

them.

We also had a very success-ful Citizens with Disabilities Campaign ( Tootsie Roll Drive ) this past month. I would like to thank one of our Past Grand Knights, Ron Rizzolo, who has run this fund raiser for the past seven years and has always had outstanding results. Our collections from the Tootsie Roll Drive will enable me to give nice checks to the ARC of Palm Beach County and the Vinceremos Thera-peutic Riding Center. It is always a pleasure to visit these places and to enable the Grand Knight to show what Your Council can do.

Thank you.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. -

Pope Francis

Vivat Jesus

Bob Cataldo

Grand Knight’s Message

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OFFICERS Grand Knight Robert Cataldo Deputy Grand Knight Rocco D’Attolico Chaplain Rev. Laurent Assenga Chancellor Benny Matos Recorder Alan Bottorff Financial Secretary Bert Lanctot Treasurer James Bezick Lecturer Robert Laquerre Advocate Jose Calas Warden Mario Garcia Inside Guard Joseph Young Outside Guard Neville Moo Young Guard at Large 3 Year Trustee Joe Deithorn 2 Year Trustee Martin J. Farraher 1 Year Trustee Ronald J. Rizzolo Membership Director Jose Calas Insurance Agent John Cesta

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Upcoming Events Mother’s Day

Sunday May 8th

Officer’s Meeting

May 11th at 7:30PM in

Festival Hall

General Meeting

May 25th at 6:30PM in Cele-

bration Hall

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Deputy Grand Knight’s Message

Brothers, “. . . I give you a new commandment: love one an-other. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. . .” (Jn 13:34-35) Lines from the Gos-pel of Sunday, April 24, 2016. Reflecting on this command of Jesus’ and taking Fr. Andy’s powerful homily message of and I am paraphrasing: love is to generously impact everyone who crosses, in a positive or even a negative way, our path. While it is easier said than done, I committed my-self to, as Fr. Andy says, “We can all do a better job,” doing a better job with my new found defini-tion of love. Five minutes after mass in the Publix parking lot, a fellow pulled into a parking space I was waiting for. With my windows up, I ran through my usual tirade. So much for love. Sometimes for me at least, it is really difficult to obey the Lord. What about you? Vivat Jesus, Rocco V. D’Attolico

Trinty Sunday

May 22nd

Memorial Mass

May 30th 8:00 AM

Frank Delvechio

Spaghetti Dinner

June 8 2016 from 5-

7PM in Celebration

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Chancelors Report

Brothers, On May 1st , many of our young Catholics will receive their First Holy Communion. Among these beautiful children is my very own son Alexander. We have already seen our other child , Ash-ley receive her Sacrament of Confirmation on Feb 22nd and now

it’s Alex’s turn. What a blessing. As I am so proud of my chil-dren, I wanted to take this opportunity to remind ourselves of how great and important it is to Remember the Holy Eucharist. If you ever question your Faith or better yet want to strengthen it, well then read John 6 (48-68) . Below is a caption on what many Catholic Scholars believe is one of the most important

writings in the Bible. John 6 I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the de-sert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread

that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world." The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?" Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and

my blood is true drink.

When you receive the Holy Eucharist, truly Remember what Je-sus said and be in total Communion with Him.

Vivat Jesus Benny Matos

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Odds and Ends

Message from DelVecchio Family

On behalf of my father and the DelVecchio family I would

like to extend heart felt gratitude to the Color Guard for its

professional display of honors and to the brothers of 12376

for their support to the family. My father personally viewed

it as an honor to be a member of the Knights of Columbus

and was truly at peace. Thank you all!

Fraternally,

S/K Joe DelVecchio

Welcome to our New Brother Knights

On Thursday April 22nd we gained 2 new brothers. Michael

Santoro and Timothy Vail made their 1st Degree.

Congratulations to Deacon Wisman Simeon

The Seminarian we sponsored this year Wismon Simeon ( a

brother Knight ) was ordained a Transitional Deacon on

March 19th.. A transitional deacon is an ordained minister

of the church who can perform baptisms, witness marriag-

es and conduct funerals. To find out more about Deacon

Simeon, see the April 22-May 12, 2016 issue of Florida

Catholic for the Palm Beach Diocese.

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Birthdays

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May Birthdays

Christopher Santoro 05/01 Leonard Khan 05/03 John Kissel 05/03 Christopher Korbelak 05/03

Joseph Ryan 05/06 Matthew Lupardo 05/07 Domenic Mattioli 05/08 August Pascual 05/08 Roy Perrott 05/14 Michael Cuccio 05/15 Robert Diaz 05/16 Martin Farraher 05/18 Andrew Fulkerson 05/08 Johnny Simpson 05/21 Brian Junkes 05/22 Dominick Pierro 05/24 Cesar Sastoque 05/29

George Kobosko 05/30

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Joseph DelVecchio Fran DeMarinis Milton Deithorn Marion Donohue Lou Divideo George Everson Gabriel Farina Mark Fink Jim Gornick Ralph Guera

Nicole Lanctot Claude Jenkins David Kennedy Alexander Matos Edna Muller Denel Nelson Jean Palmero

Erin Potter Ralph RIzzolo Maria Rodriguez Yve Rose Chris Santoro Mario Scollo Mike Sullivan & Family Sandy Techman John Sykes Gene Wajdowicz **For Brothers, Family Members and those in need of our prayers please contact the G.K. or the D.G.K. so they can make those names available to all of the broth-

Your continued prayers are needed for the follow-ing Brothers and their Families: Nick Alessandria Verna Adhlen John Anderson Francisco Beldez Rosemary Behan Pete Bishop Sharon Bitters Michael Brown Mac Caronia Deacon Luis Castellaños Joseph Callahan Patricia Cataldo Ann Chaland Jacob Conelly DeLores Chamberlain

Good of the Order

Anniversaries May Anniversaries

James & Mary Bezick 05/02 Eugene & Evelyn Travaglini 05/05 Dean & Lorraine Mercurio 05/09 Martin & Margaret Farraher 05/11 George & Ramona Kobosko 05/14 Benny & Carala Matos 06/20 John & Kelly Duemig 05/25 Nick & Carolyn Reising 05/26 Paul & Carole Leffler 05/31

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2016 / 17 Council Elections slate:

Grand Knight: Jeff Donoghue, Carlos Rivera

Deputy Grand Knight: Alex Casas

Financial Secretary: Jose Calas—Supreme Report-ing Position

Treasurer: OPEN

Recorder: Alex Hermedia

Advocate: Mario Garcia

Chancellor: Alan Bottorff

Warden: Terry Morgan

Inside Guard: Neville Moo Young

Outside Guard: Ray Glaubrecht

Third Year Trustee: Robert Cataldo

Continuing positions:

Second Year Trustee: Joseph Deithorn

First Year Trustee: Martin Farraher

Appointed Positions by Grand Knight:

Lecturer

Chaplain

Guard at Large

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Father Laurent’s May Message Brother Knights, We are in Easter season. “We know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more power over him” (Rom. 6:9). This is a great victory for Jesus. It is also a great victory for his dis-ciples. It is also a great victory for us since as his present disciples, through our baptism, we participate in his death and resurrection. We therefore share in his victory. The Risen Lord empowers us to live as Easter people ‘here and now’ in our daily journey to eternal Easter, where “death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away” (Rev. 21:4). Brother Knights, let us always live our lives joyfully as Easter people, giving thanks to God the Father who raised his Son Jesus from the dead through the Spirit. Again let us always give thanks to the Risen Lord who promised his disciples that he will be with them until the end of time (Mt. 28:20b). The Risen Lord always fulfils his promises. Just as he accompanied his two disciples on their way to Emmaus, he accompanies us in our day to day journey in our lives and at specific moments he enlightens us as he did to the Emmaus disciples when he was explaining to them the scrip-tures and breaking bread with them. The disciples recognized the Risen Lord and then he disappeared from their eyes (cfr. Lk. 24:13-35). The two disciples were so happy. They could not keep their joy in themselves. They immediately went to share their joy with the other disciples in Jeru-salem who were also very happy after seeing the Risen Lord. They all shared their joy among themselves and to all they encountered after that event. This is what we, brother knights, as Easter people need to do always: to

share our joy with our families, parishioners,

friends, relatives, co-workers and any one we

meet or comes into our lives. In this way we will

allow the Risen One to use us in extending his

victory, his joy, his salvation and make his king-

dom grow more and more here on earth as it is in

heaven until when everything will be subjected to

God, “so that God may be all in all” (1Cor.

15:28).

Fr. Laurent Assenga.

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Knight of the Month

The Knight of the Month was a very easy choice for me. I worked with many of our Brother Knights during the fish fry. There were so many to choose from. One of our Brothers has worked all the Fish Fries. He helped every Friday morning with the fish prep and then spent each Friday evening standing out by the fryers cooking. I am proud to name Mike Hoefert as the Knight of the month.

The Family of the month was a very easy choice this month even though we had so many families working on our many Council Events. One of our brother knights and his wife devoted a lot of time to our Golf Outing as they have done in the past. The work that they do makes the job as Grand Knight easier because you can always depend on them. I am pleased to name Ron and Susan Rizzolo as Family of the Month.

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To Mary, Refuge of Sinners

Hail, most gracious Mother of mercy, hail, Mary, for whom we fondly yearn, through whom we obtain forgiveness! Who would not love thee? Thou art our light in uncertainty, our comfort in sor-row, our solace in the time of trial, our refuge from every peril and temptation. Thou art our sure hope of salvation, second only to thy only-begotten Son; blessed are they who love thee, our La-dy! Incline, I beseech thee, thy ears of pity to the entreaties of this thy servant, a miserable sinner; dissipate the dark-ness of my sins by the bright beams of thy holiness, in order that I may be ac-ceptable in thy sight.

Our Lady Queen of the Apostles

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