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Maryland State Council Monthly Newsletter Maryland State Council December 2018 MARYLAND STATE COUNCIL MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Published monthly on the Maryland State Council Website: KofC-MD.org Select Newsletters on the homepage to access current and recent editions December 2018 www.kofc-md.org Volume 1, Issue 6 Volume 1, Issue 6 www.kofc-md.org Page 1 Maryland State Council December 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS State Chaplain’s Message . 4 State Deputy’s Message . 5 Membership Report . 6 State Programs . 7 First Lady’s Message . 8 Box of Joy . 9 Soccer Shootout. 10 St. Jean Vianney Relic Pilgrimage . 11 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier . 12 Memorial Mass Necrology. 13 March For Life . 14 Reflections . 15 Keep Christ In Christmas . 16 Marian Icon Prayer . 17 State Convention. 18 State Calendar . 20 Put your Faith into Action as you Serve Christ by Serving Others. Volume 1, Issue 6 www.kofc-md.org Page 2 Maryland State Council December 2018 From our Family to your Family, may you have a Happy and Blessed Christmas! Volume 1, Issue 6 www.kofc-md.org Page 3 Maryland State Council December 2018 STATE CHAPLAIN’S MESSAGE State Chaplain’s Message By: Fr. Joseph Jenkins (Email: [email protected]) nized in line, waiting to see Santa. Gospels. That is why he survived and did These guys had broken my rectory not despair. He came to know Jesus and window with a rock and then ran realized that there was one person who faster than I could chase them. When loved him and who would never abandon they saw me they started to cry. They him. Years later, this boy would become a felt for sure I would kick them out. man and a minister of the Gospel. He One of them pleaded, “Please Mister, went to college and witnessed to others we did not know you would do this about his life. When we feel sorry for for us, nobody ever did anything for ourselves, think about this little boy. He us before!” They were not bad boys, had nothing, except for Jesus— and yet, just angry. Poverty can do that to a that gave him hope and he counted Jesus person, make you angry and even as the great treasure of his life. Jesus cause you to despair. knew what he had to endure. Our Lord I heard a minister speak many years even said that the Son of Man had no- where to rest his head. Dear Brother Knights, ago about his boyhood in a way that made a permanent impression upon Our Lord was placed into a manger, a We celebrate the fact that divine joy has me. He had been raised by his grand- feedbox for animals. Our altar is also a entered our vale of tears. Have you ever mother. She was the only family he manger, but it is a place not for the food noticed that while Advent and Christmas had in the whole world. One day she of animals but of men. Jesus is the bread has many very joyful and happy hymns, fell asleep and did not wake up. Fear- of life. He asks us to come up to the man- both sacred and secular, that it also has ful that the authorities would send ager of the altar and to receive our rations some of the saddest songs and themes. We him away to a foster home, he from the promised shore, the food of eter- are often brought to tears at this time of grabbed as many clothes as he could, nal life. Jesus also wants to make a man- year. We remember holidays of the past his grandmother’s tattered old Bible, ger of our hearts. He seeks a home in our and family and friends who are no longer and took off. Eventually he settled souls. He came down from his heaven so with us. We also recognize that the world under a nearby bridge where, at least, that he might abide with us always. itself can be a harsh place and we try des- he could stay dry. He washed his Realize the many wonderful Knights of perately to preserve the innocence and hap- clothes in the creek, got occasional Columbus programs in your parishes and piness of children. The happy-sad conflict supplies and food from the local is even seen with our Lord. Once again, we communities for Advent and Christmas churches and shelters, and tried to look at the crèche and then to the cross. make the best of things. His grand- - Food for Families Jesus is born to die. This will be the price mother had always urged him to be a - Coats for Kids for his fidelity to the Father, the ransom to good boy and so he continued to go - Boxes of Joy redeem a people. to public school. Only 11 or 12 years - Journey to the Inn - Light Up for Christ Over the years in my ministry, I have seen old, he tried to hide the fact that he - Crèche or Advent Wreath Blessing firsthand the need to bring some joy and was on his own. He borrowed school - Keep Christ in Christmas Poster Contest peace to the hurting and the poor. We bring supplies from other kids. Now, if this - Caroling at a Nursing Home food baskets to families and maybe toys were a movie, some people would - Consecration to the Holy Family and clothes to children. I think God will have seen his plight and a nice family show special attention and mercy toward would have adopted him as their This is the season, not merely of giving, those who have given children toys at own. But, this was not a movie and but also of forgiving. Witness God’s Christmas. It is a precious act to give joy to not all stories are happy ones. People mercy and love to your families and a child. I recall working in the city where had their suspicions about him but no friends. You may never see the faces of volunteers ultimately gave a dinner and one cared enough about a young boy everyone you help through acts of charity. new toys to over five hundred children and to bother to find out more. He grew But it should be enough to know that you their families. I remember one father, alter- up under that bridge. Sometimes he have given hope and happiness to the nately held up by his little boys, as they would cry himself to sleep at night. It poor, the hurting and the afraid. At a time walked him to the school hall for the food was not just because he did not have when the Church is enduring much scan- and toys. The father had been drinking and any of the things that other children dal, be a living testimony in word and so we filled him with coffee. These kids had. No, he confessed the worse action that JESUS is the reason for the season. had little. They were the poorest in the city. thing was not having anybody to tell There were two other boys who I recog- him, “I love you.” He picked up his Many blessings upon you grandmother’s Bible and read the Father Joe (Jenkins) Volume 1, Issue 6 www.kofc-md.org Page 4 Maryland State Council December 2018 STATE DEPUTY’S MESSAGE State Deputy’s Message By: Dale W. Trott (Email: [email protected] ) As we close the month of As we begin December, the second of December is also November, I want to thank the beginning of the Church’s liturgical year, Advent is Walt Williams, Brian Trott the season encompassing the four Sundays (and week- and those that came and days) leading up to the celebration of Christmas. The helped with the State Soccer Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our Shootout competition. I hearts and minds to Christ’s second coming at the end heard that it was a great suc- of time and also to the anniversary of the Lord’s birth cess and we even had an un- on Christmas. The final days of Advent, from Decem- scheduled “Paper Chase” ber 17th to December 24th, focus particularly on our event during the shootout preparation for the celebrations of the Nativity of our (LOL). Also, during this Lord (Christmas). Advent devotions, including Advent month, we remembered and wreaths, remind us of the true meaning of the season. Dale W. Trott celebrated the lives of those Let us use this very special time in our lives to not only State Deputy that have gone before us to prepare to celebrate the birth of our Lord, but to pray for their heavenly reward this His and our church. past year. My sincerest thanks to Lou Woods, Jim Duryee and everyone who helped or attended the State On behalf of Linda and myself and, the State Officers Council Memorial Mass at Good Shepherd Parish. On and Ladies, we wish you and yours a very Merry & Ho- Monday, November 19th, I was joined by District Dep- ly Christmas and a Blessed, Safe & Healthy New Year. uty, Charles Kohler and Masters Michael Thumm and Please always remember that when we put our Faith Fritz Leach at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ar- into Action, we are Serving Christ by Serving Others. lington Cemetery. Together, we laid a wreath at the Tomb on behalf of the Knights of Columbus. Truly, a Merry Christmas, very humbling experience. Dale W. Trott State Deputy REMINDER “MID-TERM” MEETING For District Deputies, District Wardens, Grand Knights & Deputy Grand Knights Will begin at 8:00AM on SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 2019 At COLUMBUS GARDENS (Council #2521) 4301 Klosterman Avenue Nottingham, MD Volume 1, Issue 6 www.kofc-md.org Page 5 Maryland State Council December 2018 MEMBERSHIP REPORT Membership Director Message By: Ronald G.
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