St. Pius X Council #3848 PIUS PAPERS St. Pius X Council #3848 31555 Hoover Warren, Michigan 48093 Instituted May 9, 1954 www.knights-of-columbus3848.weebly.com Proudly serving the St. Martin de Porres Community since 2013 Recipient of Star Council Award for 2016-2017 Oct / Nov / Dec 2019 VOLUME 3 No. 2 Dear Brother Knights and Families, Vivat Jesus! As we move into the second quarter of the fraternal year, we are FINALLY getting a Fall season. Cooler weather, sweatshirts, fall colors and visits to the cider mills for cider and donuts!! My favorite time of the year. We take a look back on what we did this past quarter: We held a Texas Hold ‘em to benefit our charities, held an Ice Cream Social in early August for the parishioners at St. Martin’s after all Holy Masses. Our Corporate Communion, on Fr. McGivney birthday weekend, was a HUGE success (over 30 members and family members), our biggest Corporate Communion to date. Thank you to DGK Rich Del Papa for hosting a brunch at his home after Mass. In September, we hosted a Euchre Party to benefit Coats For Kids and at the end of the month, we passed out baby bottles at church for our Baby Bottle Drive (in conjunction with 40 Days For Life), to benefit Image of God, Crisis Pregnancy Center, in Madison Heights. Congratulations to our Council for being awarded the Columbian Award for our programs we accomplished for Fraternal Year 2018-19. Looking ahead, we will hold a Parish Campaign Membership Drive, host the children in our Trunk or Treat, have a Keep Christ In Christmas Poster Contest (all November), hold another Euchre Party to benefit the Warming Center (to feed our homeless guests that stay here for a week in February), and of course, our biggest yearly event, our Annual Council Christmas Party on December 14. One more item, on the weekend of November 9-10 we will be collecting the baby bottles from the parishioners at St. Martin from our Baby Bottle Drive. Our monthly meetings in October and November are the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7pm (with recitation of the Holy Rosary at 6:30 pm). There are no meetings in December. We want and hope to see new faces at our meetings to bring us fresh, new ideas. See our calendar for more details on our programs. The Financial Secretary will be mailing out dues’ notices in early-mid November. PLEASE send them in as soon as possible. We do not want to lose ANY member, from a failure to pay his dues. Also, please update any information, if needed on your dues’ form, especially your email address, so that you will always stay informed on our council news and activities. On behalf of Lady LeeAnn and my children, please have a great Fall season and a Blessed Christmas and Happy New Year. Keep an eye on your elderly family and neighbors as the weather turns colder. Fraternally Yours, Kevin Labudde, Grand Knight
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St. Pius X Council #3848
PIUS PAPERS St. Pius X Council #3848
31555 Hoover Warren, Michigan 48093
Instituted May 9, 1954
www.knights-of-columbus3848.weebly.com
Proudly serving the St. Martin de Porres Community since 2013 Recipient of Star Council Award for 2016-2017 Oct / Nov / Dec 2019 VOLUME 3 No. 2
Dear Brother Knights and Families,
Vivat Jesus! As we move into the second quarter of the fraternal year, we are FINALLY getting a Fall season. Cooler weather, sweatshirts, fall colors and visits to the cider mills for cider and donuts!! My favorite time of the year. We take a look back on what we did this past quarter: We held a Texas Hold ‘em to benefit our charities, held an Ice Cream Social in early August for the parishioners at St. Martin’s after all Holy Masses. Our Corporate Communion, on Fr. McGivney birthday weekend, was a HUGE success (over 30 members and family members), our biggest Corporate Communion to date. Thank you to DGK Rich Del Papa for hosting a brunch at his home after Mass. In September, we hosted a Euchre Party to benefit Coats For Kids and at the end of the month, we passed out baby bottles at church for our Baby Bottle Drive (in conjunction with 40 Days For Life), to benefit Image of God, Crisis Pregnancy Center, in Madison Heights. Congratulations to our Council for being awarded the Columbian Award for our programs we accomplished for Fraternal Year 2018-19. Looking ahead, we will hold a Parish Campaign Membership Drive, host the children in our Trunk or Treat, have a Keep Christ In Christmas Poster Contest (all November), hold another Euchre Party to benefit the Warming Center (to feed our homeless guests that stay here for a week in February), and of course, our biggest yearly event, our Annual Council Christmas Party on December 14. One more item, on the weekend of November 9-10 we will be collecting the baby bottles from the parishioners at St. Martin from our Baby Bottle Drive. Our monthly meetings in October and November are the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7pm (with recitation of the Holy Rosary at 6:30 pm). There are no meetings in December. We want and hope to see new faces at our meetings to bring us fresh, new ideas. See our calendar for more details on our programs. The Financial Secretary will be mailing out dues’ notices in early-mid November. PLEASE send them in as soon as possible. We do not want to lose ANY member, from a failure to pay his dues. Also, please update any information, if needed on your dues’ form, especially your email address, so that you will always stay informed on our council news and activities. On behalf of Lady LeeAnn and my children, please have a great Fall season and a Blessed Christmas and Happy New Year. Keep an eye on your elderly family and neighbors as the weather turns colder.
Annual membership dues form will be mailed to each member by November 15th. If you do not receive it, please contact me. As the Grand Knight indicated in his message, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, mail your dues payment to me as you get them! For most members, dues are $45.00, but some are less due to Honorary or Life members. Returning your DUES ON A TIMELY BASIS is requested and very much appreciated by
your Financial Secretary and Membership and Retention Chairman. It sometimes takes hours to chase down
a member to pay his dues. Help us to eliminated the extra steps. Council #3848 does not want to lose one member of our council for the lack of paying their dues. Each one of you is important as a member to our council. Your Grand Knight wants you to stay that way.
John Steinberger(l) and Stan Sobecki(r) present an M.I. Drive check to The Fellowship
Circle in West Bloomfield, to help people from all over the Metropolitan Detroit area with
intellectual disabilities.
About Friendship Circle
Friendship Circle of Michigan is a non-profit organization affiliated with Lubavitch of Michigan. Their goal is to
provide every individual with special needs the support friendship and inclusion that they deserve. Friendship
Circle provides assistance and support to 3,000 individuals with special needs and their families by providing
recreational, social, educational and vocational programming. In addition to helping those in need, the Friendship
Circle enriches its vast network of volunteers by enabling them to reap the rewards of selfless giving.
Friendship Circle also provides support to individuals and families struggling with isolation, addiction and other
family-related crises.
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Thursday, October 10
General Business Meeting*
7pm (Holy Rosary 6:30 pm)
Saturday-Sunday, October 19-20
Parish Membership Campaign Drive
at all Holy Masses
Sunday, October 27
Trunk or Treat
St. Martin de Porres Parking Lot 3pm
Saturday-Sunday, November 9-10
Baby Bottle Drive
Bottle Returns
at all Holy Masses
Thursday, November 14
General Business Meeting*
7pm (Holy Rosary 6:30 pm)
Saturday, November 16
Euchre Party
Parish Center 6pm-12am (to benefit feeding our Homeless Guests during the Warming Center)
Saturday, December 14
Council Christmas Party
Century Banquet Center 6-10pm
*General Business Meeting are held in room #1
at St. Martin de Porres Parish Center.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
July
Knight of the Month Jerome Manofsky
August
Knight of the Month Stan Sobecki
September
Knight of the Month Tom Doherty
August Family of the Month
Richard Del Papa
September Family of the Month
John Mc Leod
PROTOCOL
Please remember, if you attend the Business Meeting and are late, after entering, come before the podium and address the Grand Knight with the vertical sign of the cross and he will address you with the horizontal arm of the cross. Repeat to Deputy Grand Knight.
Eternal Rest grant
unto them, O Lord
and let perpetual
light shine upon
them.
Rest in peace!
Tony Burger
Gerald Kast
Adam Moraczewski
Please keep the knights, spouses, and friends of the council, who are on our prayer list, in your prayers.
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THE ROSARY
The rosary probably began as a practice by the laity
to imitate the monastic Divine Office (Breviary or Liturgy of the Hours), during the course of which the monks daily prayed the 150 Psalms. The laity, many of whom could not read, substituted 50, or even 150, Ave Marias (Hail Marys) for the Psalms. This prayer, at least the first half of it so directly biblically, seems to date from as early as the 2nd century, as ancient graffiti at Christian sites has suggested. Sometimes a cord with knots on it was used to keep an accurate count of the Aves.
The first clear historical reference to the rosary, however, is from the life of St. Dominic (died in 1221), the founder of the Order of Preachers or Dominicans. He preached a form of the rosary in France at the time that the Albigensian heresy was devastating the Faith there. Tradition has it that the Blessed Mother herself asked for the practice as an antidote for heresy and sin.
One of Dominic's future disciples, Alain de Roche, began to establish Rosary Confraternities to promote the praying of the rosary. The form of the rosary we have today is believed to date from his time. Over the centuries the saints and popes have highly recommended the rosary, the greatest prayer in the Church after the Mass and Liturgy of the Hours. Not surprisingly, it's most active promoters have been Dominicans.
Rosary means a crown of roses, a spiritual bouquet given to the Blessed Mother. It is sometimes called the Dominican Rosary, to distinguish it from other rosary-like prayers (e.g. the Franciscan Rosary of the Seven Joys or Franciscan Crown, the Servite Rosary of the Seven Sorrows). It is also, in a general sense, a form of chaplet or corona (crown), of which there are many varieties in the Church. Finally, in English it has been called "Our Lady's Psalter" or "the beads." This last derives from an Old English word for prayers (bede) and to request (biddan or bid).
The rosary has been called the preparation for contemplation and the prayer of saints. While the hands and lips are occupied with the prayers (it can and should be prayed silently when necessary so as not to disturb others), the mind meditates on the mysteries of the Incarnation and Redemption represented by the decades. Meditation is the form of prayer by which the one who prays uses the mind and imagination to consider a truth and uses the will to love it and form resolutions to live it. In this way the heart, mind, and soul of the Christian is formed according to the Gospel examples of the Savior and His First Disciple, His Mother. In God's own time, when this purification of the heart, mind, and soul has advanced sufficiently the Lord may give the grace of contemplative prayer, that special divine insight into the truth which human effort cannot achieve on its own.
Why pray the Rosary today? Certainly, to grow in holiness and in one's prayer life. The following are a few others reasons why the rosary should be prayed often, even daily:
"Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary" (Pope Pius IX).
"Say the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world" (Our Lady of Fátima). "There is no surer means of calling down God's blessings upon the family . . . than the daily recitation of
the Rosary" (Pope Pius XII). "We do not hesitate to affirm again publicly that we put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the
healing of evils of our times" (Pope Pius XII). "No one can live continually in sin and continue to say the Rosary: either they will give up sin or they will
give up the Rosary" (Bishop Hugh Doyle). "The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire
world" (Pope John XXIII). "The Rosary is the compendium of the entire Gospel" (Pope Paul VI quoting Pope Pius XII). "Meditation on the mysteries of the Rosary . . . can be an excellent preparation for the celebration of those
same mysteries in the liturgical actions [i.e. the Mass] and can also become a continuing echo thereof" (Pope Paul VI).
"My impression is that the Rosary is of the greatest value not only according to the words of Our Lady at Fátima, but according to the effects of the Rosary one sees throughout history. My impression is that Our Lady wanted to give ordinary people, who might not know how to pray, this simple method of getting closer to God" (Sister Lucia, one of the seers of Fátima).
"How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening" (Pope John Paul II). Pope John Paul II has called the Rosary his "favorite prayer," after the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. St. Louis de Montfort warns us against both the ignorant and scholars who regard the Rosary as something
of little importance..."the Rosary is a priceless treasure inspired by God."
Here are some ideas…..”Tool Time” “Dinner for 2” “It’s Coffee Time” “Pasta Night” “Kitchen Gadgets”
“Chocolates Galore” Be creative!
Save the Date St. Pius # 3848 Annual Christmas Party
Saturday, December 14, 2019 Century Banquet Center
33204 Maple Lane (14 Mile Rd and Hoover) Cocktail at 6pm Dinner 7pm
Email to follow early November.
Be sure to register your car -TODAY!
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TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the town,
St. Joseph was searching—walking up roads and down. Our Lady was waiting---so meek and so mild,
While Joseph was seeking a place for the child.
The children were nestled each snug in their beds, And the grown-ups wouldn’t bother—“There’s no room,” they said.
When even in innkeeper, sent them away, And Joseph was wondering—where they would stay.
He thought of a cave in the side of a hill, “Let’s go there,” said Mary, “It’s silent and still.”
The moon on the hill of the new fallen snow, Made a pathway of light, for their tired feet to go.
And there in the cave, in the cradle of hay, The Savior was born on that first Christmas Day.
The Father was watching in heaven above, And sent for His angels, His couriers of Love.
More rapid than eagles, God’s bright angels came, Rejoicing and eager as each heard his name.
“Come Powers, come Cherubs, come Virtues and Raphael, Come Thrones and Dominions, come Michael and Gabriel.”
“Now fly to the earth, where my poor people live, Announce glad tidings, my Son comes to give.”
The shepherds were watching their flocks in the night, And saw in the heavens, an unearthly light.
The angels assured them, they had nothing to fear, “It’s Christmas Day,” they said, “The Savior is here.”
They hastened to find Him and stood at the door, ‘Til Mary invited them in—to adore.
He was swaddled in bands, from His head to His feet, And never did shepherds see a baby so sweet.
He spoke not a word, but the shepherds all knew, He was telling them secrets and blessing them too.
Then softly they left Him, the babe in the hay, And rejoiced with great joy, on that First Christmas Day.
Mary heard them exclaim, as they walked up the hill, “Glory to God in the Highest and Peace to Men of Good Will.”
Author Unknown
When Is Veterans Day?
Veterans Day occurs on November 11 every year in the United States in honor of the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 that signaled the end of World War I, known as Armistice Day.
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
In 1968, the Uniform Holidays Bill was passed by Congress, which moved the celebration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. The law went into effect in 1971, but in 1975 President Gerald Ford returned Veterans Day to November 11, due to the important historical significance of the date.
Veterans Day commemorates veterans of all wars. . In many places, people wear red poppies pinned to their lapels, a symbol of veterans remembered since World War I. Other countries around the world will celebrate this day too (some calling it Remembrance Day and Armistice Day), and many of those citizens also wear the same familiar red poppies. This tradition, of course, was inspired by the famous poem, "In Flanders Field", written in 1915 by Canadian soldier, Major John McRae.
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May the Good Lord Bless all Brother Knights celebrating Birthdays!
OCTOBER 1 DOUGLAS COTTEE 2 ROBERT BONDRA 3 EDWARD SOBCZAK 9 FR. NICHOLAS ZUKOWSKI 11 JEROME KUNERT, PGK, DD 12 LLOYD LEASE 12 LAWRENCE MARDEUSZ 16 ERNEST KRAJNIAK 21 CARL JENDROWSKI 24 GEORGE HEITMANIS
NOVEMBER 1 BERNARD GRAHAM 1 WILLIAM KRAWCYK 4 JOHN Mc LEOD 8 HAROLD TABERSKI 9 TIMOTHY PRUSE 13 JOHN DEREWICZ 13 ROGER ROY 16 NICHOLAS KOSTRZEBA 24 PAUL ZANIEWSKI
DECEMBER 4 AARON BROWN 7 GILES RICHTER 12 CHARLES ANDERSON 17 BRADLEY GRINCEWICZ 18 WILLIAM MADRO 26 GARY KUJAWA 31 JAMES MIASKOWSKI 31 ROBERT WAYPA
On your special day, we pray that God will continue to warm your heart and lift your spirits while granting you peace and serenity on this very special day of yours.
God bestow His goodness and blessings on the two of you as you celebrate another year of marriage
May God bless you with His boundless love, calming peace, and heavenly joy throughout the coming year!
OCTOBER 20 EMILY KOSTRZEBA
NOVEMBER 9 DEBY GRAHAM 12 ELIZABETH PRILL 15 KATHY BUSSE 16 SARAH GRINCEWICZ 28 KATHERINE MUNCEY
DEC 5 YVONNE JUREWICZ 16 MARIE MANOFSKY 20 INGA BURGER
CHARITY
Our Catholic faith teaches us to “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” There is no better way to experience love and compassion than by helping those in need. A call we, as Knights of Columbus, should answer every day.
