SEPTEMBER 2018 KNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER
IN THIS ISSUE…
2.GRAND KNIGHT ARTICLE…
3. MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAPLAIN...
4. CALENDAR OF EVENTS…
5.MSG FROM OUR LECTURER…
6.JUNE BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
7.4TH DEGREE LIASON
8.LABOR DAY MESSAGE
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MESSAGE FROM THE GRAND KNIGHT...
St Agatha Food Pantry Visit
Last year Sister Joan, Purchasing Director at St Agatha’s Food Pantry requested from our council 100 bottles of Clorox Bleach for her food pantry. Well, you may ask what does a food pantry need with 100 bottles of bleach? Before I answer that let me tell you what Sister Joan asked of us this year. She requested, bleach, hand soap, toothpaste, deodorant, dish soap and laundry detergent. Six items and she said she had 100 families. She makes this her big cleaning supply drive prior to the children going back to school. As she said, everything can be extra clean. You see food stamps do not cover non-food items. Now Sister was not planning on us supplying 100 of each item but that is what effectively we did. With the help of Brother Knight Steve Mayer, Schnuck Market Inc. Steve’s employer and Keith Shannon Schnuck Market Center Store Director we were able to purchase all the items at wholesale cost and packaged in lots of 96 for a neat delivery to the pantry. It went like clockwork and the Sisters of St Agatha Pantry were very pleased. We loaded up two pickup trucks from the loading dock of Schnuck’s Wildwood, see pictures below and drive right to the pantry located in St Louis right next to the Budweiser Brewery on the corner of Utah and South 9th Street.
Space is limited at the pantry but having everything boxed and labeled is a big help. Getting the items into the pantry basement requires feeding the boxes through the basement window which has a roller conveyer that finishes the descent. An amazing design that has to be seen to be appreciated. We stacked and stored the goods, but no one leaves without the tour provided by Sister Joan and Sister Claire. The pantry is small but very efficient and the storage/shopping area is rich in protein to provide the customers with alternatives to empty calories. This day we got an extra treat, we received a personal tour of St Agatha Church. Originally German but now provides four mass’ on Sunday, 2 in English and two in Polish. Our own Father Freddy joined us on the tour and we all agreed that this is a very beautiful church.
This was a most rewarding mission and St Agatha’s Food Pantry and customers very much appreciated our generosity. I want to thank you all for making it happen and supporting this cause. Thank you, Schnuck Market Inc., for your generosity and assistance.
Jim Cunningham
Grand Knight
Council 12022
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MESSAGE FROM OUR WORTHY CHAPLAIN...
FATHER FREDDY
Jesus values small people and small things
In 1845, Julia Fletcher Carney, a schoolteacher in Boston, was preparing a lesson for
some Bible-school children. She wanted to emphasize the value of small things, and so
she penned this “little” poem.
Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean,
and the pleasant land.
So the little moments,
humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages,
of eternity.
It is the small events, small people that make the world go around. It is the little peo-
ple who make our life meaningful. This is exactly the beauty of Jesus. He values all that
is small. He would use the example of a tiny Mustard seed to teach about the King-
dom of God (Mathew 13;31). He would call Zacchaeus, the small man in stature and
pronounce, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of
Abraham.” (Luke 10;1-10). Jesus would call the apostles who were the small people of
the society. They were the nobodies of the society. Jesus would value the small gifts of
the boy in the wilderness who gave his lunch to Jesus and ended up feeding five thou-
sand (John 6:9)
The Apostle Paul suggested in I Corinthians 1:26ff that the members of that church
look around. They would see not many celebrities, not many people the world ac-
claims as great or mighty or rich or gifted. God chose to use the nobodies of the world.
Today we live a culture where big, huge, grand are admired and small things and little
people are despised. That’s why the prophet Zechariah (4:10) asked the people, "Who
has despised the day of small things?" The counter culture of Jesus is to value the
small things and the little people who we tend to despise and discard.
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SEPTEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS
3RD LABOR DAY
6TH ADORATION CHAPEL AND GOLF MTG
8TH SOCCER CONCESSION
10TH GENERAL MTG
13TH ADORATION CHAPEL AND BIBLE STUDY
15TH SOCCER CONCESSION AND GOLF TOURNAMENT
16TH BLOOD DRIVE
20TH ADORATION CHAPEL
22ND SOCCER CONCESSION
24TH OFFICER MTG
27TH ADORATION CHAPEL
29TH SOCCER CONCESSION
30TH FAMILY COMMUNION BREAKFAST AND KNIGHTS PICNIC
NOTE: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENTS CAN BE OBTAINED BY
GOING TO OUR WEBSITE www.kofc12022.org AND CLICK ON THE
EVENT CALENDAR.
*** THESE MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ANY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL.
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FROM OUR LECTURER...
Brothers,
The goal for each of us should be to become a saint. That is, to share
eternity with God in heaven. Bishop Barron provides a lesson today on
how to do that. Can you, can I, can we give up our earthly stuff and
put God and others first
NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
JOHN 6:41-51
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus offers himself as food for the soul. There
is a great truth revealed in the bread of life discourse. It is the law of the
gift. This personal, incarnating God wants to be eaten and drunk, to be
radically and fully for the other.
Why were the gods of the ancient world so popular? Because they were
projections of ourselves—vain, arrogant, resentful, violent. This means
that they put little moral pressure on us. They were frightening but not
morally demanding.
But this God who shows that he is totally love and who wants us in rela-
tion to him, to eat and drink him in, is the God who wants us to be like
him. As he is food and drink for the world, so we must be food and drink
for the world. As he gave himself away utterly, so we must give our-
selves away utterly, without clinging to the goods, honors, or values of
the world—all those things that aggrandize the ego.
The personal God, the incarnate God, the God of the gift. How compel-
ling. How deeply challenging. How will you decide?
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SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS
JEFF BRZEZINSKI 9/2
STEVE MACKANOS 9/5
JEFF PLATCHER 9/6
CONNER MAYER 9/14
MICHAEL ARWAY 9/15
DAN AMIRI AND GLENN MORGAN 9/17D
DAN LANG 9/22
DAVE SANDER 9/25
JERRY BENTRUP 9/28
JOHN AND KAREN BUTLER 9/3
BUD AND NANCY ROBERTS 9/7
BOB AND GERRY MARYAS 9/8
BILL AND PAT CARR 9/10
RICH AND LINDA HUCK 9/14
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4th Degree News From Your Liaison...
The next General meeting will be held on September 26th
at Incarnate Word at 7 p.m.
Our council at St. Alban Roe has 58 4th Degree Sir Knights
and also 14 Honor Guard members. If you are interested
in the 4th Degree (Patriotism) or what the Honor Guard is
about, see Ron Krentz.
For information about events, meetings, etc , please visit
our website, www.kofcassembly3588.org.
UPCOMING CALL-OUTS
9/5 ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY MASS FOR ST.. TERESA OF CALCUTTA
9/16 BLUE MASS WITH ARCHBISHOP CARLSON AT CATHEDRAL. 10:00 A.M.
10/7 RED MASS WITH ARCHBISHOP CARLSON AT CATHEDRAL 10:00 A.M.
10/8 ANNUAL KOC MEMORIAL MASS @ CARDINAL GLENNON HOSP. 11:30 A.M.
HONOR GUARDS ARE TO REPORT 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO EVENT TIME.
ALL EVENTS CAN BE SEEN ON THE ASSEMBLY WEBSITE CALENDAR
WWW.KOFCASSEMBLY3588.ORG
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Labor Day is an annual holiday to celebrate the economic and social contributions of workers to the
strength, prosperity, and well-being of the country. In the United States, Labor Day is a federal holi-
day observed on the first Monday of September.
In the United States, Labor Day is customarily viewed as the end of the summer vacation season, alt-
hough school starting times now may vary.
Labor Day has its origins in the labor union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement,
which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. In the
United States the first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New
York City. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was cele-
brated in many industrial centers of the country. Oregon was the first state to make it a holiday on
February 21, 1887. By the time it became a federal holiday in 1894, thirty states officially celebrated
Labor Day.
LABOR DAY 2018
