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COLORADO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Volume XVIII Issue XI May, 2013 NIGHTS ALL K C S TATE OFFICER S HOMESTRETCH-WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME? Another Fraternal Year is coming to the end. So looking back what can we State Chaplain say? Are you better off at the end of this Fraternal Year than you were last Rev. Robert D. Fisher Fraternal Year? Or are you saying “I’m done” or maybe “I am the lame duck State Deputy who just coasts and will leave it for the next guy”. How easy is that to say and Roger G. Muller, Sr. “I did my share;” or “There is nothing to prove and nothing in it for us”. We State Secretary have a tendency to do that. If we do not see something tangible in it, we seem to coast and remain status quo or think the start of next Fraternal Year will be Charles K. Page better. Maybe our membership and program activities did not go the way we State Treasurer anticipated or maybe it did; but a glitch made everything seem for naught. We James D. Caffrey all have a tendency to be part of society’s “me’ generation and forget that we State Advocate are all volunteers who do what we can when we can. We forget that there will be times where the trials and tribulations of life get in the way and may lead to a mistake in judgment or John J. Doherty human error. Who hasn’t forgotten to turn in a form, missed a deadline or has just been too tired to go State Warden on at the time because it just was not a priority in our life. It happens. For those of us whose life may be Christopher J. Foley going well, we have a tendency to use those shortcomings as an excuse to affix blame for possibly our Immediate Past State Deputy own mistakes or shortcomings. LIV E Y O U R LI fe AS A G oo D CATH O LI C TH ro UGH TH E P romo TI O N of CHA R ITABL E work S Foster J. Sauter As Knights or leaders in our Order, it should be our goal to do the best possible job that we can. There Colorado District Master is an old adage, “If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.” Let’s face it. Any time we do a job, we Claude A. Trujillo, Jr. may experience frustration. Each of us assesses priorities differently. In my terms through the state chairs, I felt I have learned a lot about myself, my church, my faith and the Order. I believe this growth is a result of having been blessed with the opportunities to learn and listen to others with more experience STATE LADIE S AUXI L IARY and insight. As a result, I became better informed to prioritize, be a better Catholic and a better Knight. I OFFICER S have come to realize that one of the most important aspects in life is to be able to live your life as a good President Catholic through the promotion of charitable works. We as Knights can do this through the promotion and growth of our Order. We must put aside looking for accolades or recognition and come together as Sharon Hernandez Knights to do what will benefit others. What can we do so that others may receive our gifts of charity, Vice President possibly making their lives, their community, church and our Order better? Barb Heumann Join with your parish to provide support and involvement Secretary/Historian Let us encourage our councils and members to work to grow the Order through membership and Ginny Lopez programs. Being able to think outside the box and utilizing the tools in our parishes will make us effective. Those councils with a Squires Circle should look to nurture and develop these young men so Treasurer they have a desire to become Knights. They are a part of our future. Parishes that collect food for the Rose Higgs poor are opportunities for Councils to assist them to collect additional food for families. Joining in with Immediate Past President your parishes will give them the benefit of supplementing their programs with manpower. Involvement Dolly Castle in your parishes provides a Knights’ visibility and the opportunity to expand our Order with men of the parish wanting to join the Knights as they become more involved in charitable efforts with men of faith, both offered by the membership in the Knights of Columbus. Coo RDINAT O R S What’s in it for me? Executive Secretary Are you still wondering “what’s in it for me?” I would tell you to look at our programs. There are youth programs such as the Summer School Lunch Program that feeds those children who cannot James VonFeldt afford to eat when school is not in session. There is the Coats for Kids program, placing coats on children Program Coordinator because they do not have one to keep warm. There is our support for Special Olympics that help those John Eiler with mental or physical disabilities. Here are the family programs such as the Food for Families Program Membership Coordinator that places food in the hands of families who may otherwise not be able to afford to eat. And our Pro Life programs that have Knights who respect life. There is the Ultra Sound Initiative that places ultra Jon Herskovits sound machines in pregnancy centers so that pregnant women can make informed decisions on life. District Deputy Coordinator There is our unwritten principle of standing in solidarity with our bishops and priests and our support Robert Sherman of seminarians; while pursuing and standing up for our religious freedoms. This support gives us the Knights Call Editor/PR Chairman ability to live out God’s greatest Commandment, “Loving our God with our whole heart, whole mind, Bruce Tawson whole soul and loving our neighbor as ourselves”. By living the greatest Commandment, it becomes obvious what is in it for us----eternal life. Is that not worth it? The challenge to councils is to work through the entire Fraternal Year. Recruitment will provide www.coloradokofc.org for the expansion of our way of life, expansion of our Church and our faith and the expansion Knights Call is a publication of the of our Order. Ending the fraternal Year as usual by clearing our membership rolls and living State of Colorado Knights of Columbus all rights are reserved. the “wait till next year”, may find you with there being no next year. Are you willing to stand in front of Our Lord and Savior knowing that you were “waiting till next year”? Think about your answer. I am sure He will know. Remember the words of Lyndon Johnson, “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose”. Vivat Jesus, Vivat Maria Roger Muller Roger G. Muller, Sr. Colorado State Deputy [email protected] TORNADO DIST R I C T MAST er RE P or T ACTIVITy… Sir Knights, Brother Knights, and Families, The month of May in my calendar is I hope you are having fun with all the spring jammed with events. There are all kinds of work and gardening at this time of year. I have things that are coming to a stop and, it seems, not had the time to do mine yet, but it will as many things that are getting started. The come. Preparation for the State Convention, spin created by these start and stop activities charity work and Fourth Degree business has seems annually to create such a spin on life kept me very busy. that it takes on the air of a tornado. Think As I said here, I need to remind the Knights of all the things going on in your life: school and Sir Knights, please get together and hold is letting out for the summer; Graduation(s), Confirmation, First hands within you councils and assemblies and Holy Communion, weddings, funerals, Spring clean-up, vacation pray for all Sir Knights and Brother Knights that are ill and in need (hopefully) planning, family and friends coming and going … the of prayers. pace and activities are hectic to say the least. What’s a Knight As we move forward to the last quarter of our Fraternal Year, to do?!? I need to remind you that we have three Degrees left to bring our Put out your anchor!! In the midst of the hurry and scurry membership up. One in the Delta- Montrose area, Assembly # 2418; of activity let your Sundays be an anchor from which you can another in Littleton, CO, Padre Pio Assembly # 2813; and finally, at bring some stability to your week. Anticipate a little “down” time Holy Family in Security, Assembly #96. with the Lord, after all that’s what the Sabbath was created for. As our Supreme Knight has stated in the Knights Line, what better Make sure that you and the family get to Mass; share with each way to promote the Order of the Knights of Columbus if it is not other what the readings (maybe even the homily) meant to you seen through the eyes of the Fourth Degree. So, my Sir Knights, as and what effect they may have in your life; take the time to have we move through this final quarter, let us be visible and make these a meal together – put away the cell phones and “I” devices and exemplifications successful through our membership.