Knights of Columbus
Phillip Dreis Assembly 1204
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
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FOURTH DEGREE NEWS FROM YOUR FAITHFUL NAVIGATOR Brother Knights & Ladies: Happy autumn! October is the month dedicated to OUR BLESSED MOTHER! October 13th is the Feast day of OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY. At our September mass Fr. Mike centered his homily on Mary and asked us to pray the “Magnificat” daily. Remember that the Knights of Columbus sponsors the Rosary on cable TV. It is aired at 8:30 A.M. Monday – Saturday. On September 13th I attended a Fourth Degree District Leadership meeting in Winneconne. At this meeting it was stressed to asked 3rd degree members to join the 4th degree. The next exemplification for our district will be held on April 18th 2009 at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton. We were introduced to our new Faithful Master of the Eastern District, Carl Duch. Our new area 4 Coordinator is Sir Knight Fredrick Yurk. Please welcome these gentlemen and thank them for their dedicated service to our assembly. At this meeting I was also given the raffle tickets that will be sent to you shortly along with your annual dues notice. Please make sure to sell the tickets or purchase them yourself. If we meet our quota our assembly will receive a rebate. Checks were handed out at this meeting from last years raffle and our assembly did not qualify for the rebate. One assembly received a check for almost $500.00, so please sell your tickets. Additional raffle tickets are available from our Faithful Comptroller Gerald Ziegler or you can call me at (920) 918-5066. It’s not too early to set aside March 8th 2009 for our annual Fourth Degree Spaghetti Dinner. As you know this is our only fund raiser and many volunteers are needed for this function. I am giving everyone advance notice of this date so when you are called on to help out, you will be available. At our next meeting, October 15th our immediate past Faithful Master of the Eastern District, Edward Vander Bloomer will install all officers. Officers, please make every Effort to attend the October meeting. Shirt and tie attire is acceptable. Our next meeting will be held on October 15th at Millhome Supper Club in Kiel. Cocktails at 6:00 P.M. and a family style dinner will be served at 7:00 P.M. God Bless you all! Fraternally
yours, Richard M.
Tauferner
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CHAPLAINS MESSAGE Praying the Rosary is an exercise in meditation about God’s goodness as well as a reminder that we belong together as a community of people created in the image and likeness of God. Our meditation as we pray the rosary is very much enhanced by the mysteries. Each mystery leads us to ponder the generous gift of God’s love in the incarnation. God decides to become a human person. Jesus is still fully God and he is also fully human. We can say a lot of rosaries and still have time left over to think about this great happening. As we go from bead to bead we have an opportunity to sense our oneness with God and each other. The beads are connected, each of the many beads is a little different, and each bead is a procession, a moving forward. As we think of this unity and this difference, we can also think about all the people in our immediate lives, as well as all the people throughout our community and the world that need our love and care. Touching each bead with a sense of wonder about God’s creative goodness and our relationship with all those whom God has created is especially satisfying. Touching is one of the five senses and thus it sends powerful and informative messages to the mind and heart. The more we squeeze each bead with thoughts of love and care and wonder and thanksgiving, the more our minds and hearts are moved to a level of excitement about God and each other that is truly overwhelming. It is in this level of wonder and joy that we are impelled to experience true love. We once again sense how good God is to us. With each bead we acknowledge our relationship with each other and all creation as gifts from God; and as opportunities to serve and care for all creation. We are one with God and one with one another and each bead reminds us of this connectedness. That is why we are not comfortable with a broken rosary; we truly want to experience each bead as a oneness with God and each other. In Genesis we read that after God created our world and us as human beings he was very pleased and he said “it is good.” That which was good and went awry is now restored by the coming of Jesus. In the transfiguration God speaks to Jesus and uses these same words. “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” The final words of the cross exclaim this restoration- “it is finished.” This great and infinite act of love has lifted up all things and once again God is pleased. As we touch each bead of the rosary and move forward from one bead to another we are truly in the process of commitment. Like Mary we will embrace Jesus as our companion. Like Mary we will present Jesus to our world. Like her we will be beneath the cross begging for the grace to do all things well, and like the good thief we will be asking for forgiveness and the grace to do better and to love more. As Knights of Columbus, Council 722, Our Lady of the Rosary, we have much to share and cherish in this instrument of wholeness and oneness Fr. Mike Chaplain
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