February - March 2021

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY Council 1287 and Assembly 850

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Council 1287 Charles K. T. Saffa Assembly 850 LIMITED MEETINGS DUE TO COVID MEETING AFTER COUNCIL MEETING 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM Rosary starts at 6:30 PM Meeting Location Parish Hall Blessed Sacrament Church, Lawton OK

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Brothers, FEBRUARY The Council had our first 9 Council Meeting 6:30 PM. (St. meeting at Blessed Mary’s Cafeteria) Sacrament Church, Parish Hall in January. 17 Ash Wednesday We had a good turnout. Please mark 20 The 25th Annual “In The Father's your calendar for our next meeting Footsteps” conference will be streamed February 9 in the Saint Mary’s Cafeteria. live. You can participate from the Dues Council notices have been sent Blessed Sacrament Parish Hall. out by email and snail mail. Please send Register as a live stream attendee to in your dues ASAP. Bob is also pay your share of the parish expense. setting up the Parish Hall at Blessed For more information, reach out to Sacrament to participate in the XXV “In Deacon Bob 580-583-0271 The Father’s Footsteps” conference February 20. Please contact: MARCH Deacon Bob at 580-583-0271 or 9 Council Meeting (Parish Hall) [email protected] Additionally Supreme has dictted a new meeting agenda which is at the end of the newsletter. PRAY FOR Vivat Jesus!  Our deployed Knights GK Milton Morales  Our men and women in service  All our Knights who are ill FR. MICHAEL J. MCGIVNEY GUILD  Knights families who are ill The Father Michael J. McGivney  All the departed souls of the Knights Guild serves as a source for and their families information about the life, works  All who are impacted by COVID-19 and spirituality of Father McGivney. Guild members receive regular updates on Father McGivney's EDITOR cause for canonization and are To have notices posted invited to participate in promoting or to correct any errors devotion to this Servant of God. in this newsletter please The Father Michael J. McGivney contact: Guild Newsletter is sent free to Guild members. Join at: [email protected]

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https://www.fathermcgivney.org/en/j MEDITATION oin-the-guild.html "Furthermore, let us produce ACTIVITIES worthy fruits of penance. Let us Creche Teardown also love our neighbors as Blessed Sacrament Church ourselves. Let us have charity and January 9, 2021 humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense COVID and a meeting for District Deputies, they deserve. We must not be wise Grand Knights, and other officers reduced our and prudent according to the flesh. numbers. Rather we must be simple, humble 4th DEGREE NEWS and pure. We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we Sir Knights, although the Assembly hasn’t met this ought to be servants who are year, we will meet after submissive to every human being each Council meeting. for God's sake. The Spirit of the The honor guard is Lord will rest on all who live in this continuing to support funerals for way and persevere in it to the end. Knights. He will permanently dwell in them. They will be the Father's children who do his work. They are the spouses, brothers and mothers of our Lord Jesus Christ." — St. Francis of Assisi

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BIRTHDAYS CENTER OF FAMILY LOVE FEBRUARY 1981 CREW Anthony Velez Since the organization’s foundation in Dr. Juan Lopez 1981, the Center of Family Love has Francis Furtado provided innovative day programs and Aaron Borrego residential opportunities that inspire individuals with intellectual and physical Daryl Garner disabilities to reach for and achieve Deacon Robert Quinnett, Jr their dreams. Frank Hanchak With a gift of just $19.81 each month, Lincoln Marini you will create a lasting legacy that will John Donohue change the lives of individuals living Gary Conner with disabilities for generations to Donato G Guerra come! MARCH As a member of the 1981 Crew, your Rev L Courtright monthly gift provides for our resident’s Neal Hubbard, II ongoing needs including: adult diapers, Rafael Neris transportation, medical equipment, educational materials, exciting Efren Tavarez adventures and so much more! Thomas Harris https://centeroffamilylove.org/1981crew Jevone Gray / Matthew Benner

Rev Uche Godwin Iheke Bernard Garcia Joseph Glowaski Raul Mendez John Wells Adam Farrar Donald Ross Nelson Rodriguez

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about “Tradition” is the old-fashioned way of looking at “the mama.” That’s one theme of the play; the changing roles in the family and in society. Many of our spouses have the role of breadwinner, professional, provider, business owner, etc.….and manage to also make a proper home, raise the family and run the household. They are remarkable! By the time you read this you and I have probably been working from So, don’t forget that dozen roses, the home, sheltering in place or on heart-shaped box of chocolates, the lockdown for 11 months! Who would card or the gift as a token of your have thought it? I hope you and your love and letting her know how much family are safe and healthy. she means to you. And if you want to really let her know how much you Being at home so much over the past love her, take a few minutes with me 11 months has been different…mostly and take stock of where you are with in a good way, although I think most your life insurance and disability of us have “corona virus fatigue.” insurance coverage. With so many We’ll keep socially distant and do our spouses in the workplace, it would be part by wearing a mask, but we’re neglectful to not make sure they are tired of all the restrictions. On the properly protected. Many households home front we’ve had our minor rely on two incomes to pay the bills squabbles but being at home has and the loss of either one, to an helped me have more dialogue with untimely death or an illness or my family and has taught me how accident that means one is unable to precious time together is. It’s taught work, can be devastating. me to slow down, consider the important people in my life and I’ve met with many of you over the resolve to keep this attitude when the past months but we now have the restrictions are lifted. ability to meet virtually over the computer…everyone stays safe. The This is the month of Valentine’s Day Order has equipped me to make sure and being home makes me appreciate I can properly meet and service all my wife even more. Whether or not my assigned brother knights and their you have children at home, our families. spouses don’t get nearly enough credit for all they do. What would we Let’s spend a few minutes together do without them? In Fiddler on the and make sure everything is in place Roof, Mama and Golde sing, “Who for the ones you love. must know the way to make a proper Vivat Jesus! home…Who must raise a family and run the home?” Of course, that song

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New Council Meeting Agenda 1. Call to Order 2. Opening Prayer 3. Pledge of Allegiance (USA) or Patriotic Display of Loyalty 4. Approve Minutes of Prior Meeting 5. Chaplain's Message 6. Grand Knight's Report 7. Financial Report 8. Membership Report • Balloting of Candidates for Admission or Transfer 9. Other Reports • Programs • Committees • Fourth Degree • Insurance Agent • District Deputy • Other 10. Unfinished Business (motions carried over from previous meetings) 11. New Business (new motions) • Bills Not Previously Approved 12. Good of the Order • Awards (Family and Knight of the Month, etc.) 13. Lecturer’s Reflection (optional) 14. Grand Knight’s Summary 15. Closing Prayer (including intentions for sick or distressed members): Prayer for Canonization of Blessed Michael McGivney or Litany of Blessed Michael McGivney 16. Adjournment

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Biography of the Archdiocese Bishops (8th in Series)

Archbishop Paul Stagg Coakley, S.T.L., D.D. 2011- Present

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley was born to John and Mary Coakley in Norfolk, VA in 1955 and lived there with his father, mother and older brother, John, until he was two years old. The family relocated to Metairie, LA where his sister, Mary Christina was born. After beginning his elementary education at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic School, the family moved in 1965 to Overland Park, KS. Archbishop Coakley’s secondary education was completed in public schools in Overland Park.

After graduation from high school, he attended the University of Kansas where he completed his undergraduate studies in English and Classical Antiquities in 1977. During this period he was a student in KU’s Integrated Humanities Program, where he studied under John Senior, Dennis Quinn and Frank Nelick.

Upon completing university studies Archbishop Coakley traveled in and briefly considered a monastic vocation at the Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault in , before he returned to begin seminary studies for Diocese of Wichita in 1978.

After completing studies at Mount St. Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD, he was ordained a priest on May 21, 1983. After serving as a priest of the Diocese of Wichita for twenty-one years, he was appointed Bishop of Salina on October 21, 2004. Bishop Coakley was ordained and installed as Bishop of Salina on December 28, 2004.

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On December 16, 2010, Bishop Coakley was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the fourth Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. He was installed as Metropolitan Archbishop on February 11, 2011.

Archbishop Coakley has selected "Duc in Altum" as his episcopal motto (Put out into the Deep). It is found in St. Luke’s gospel when Jesus, after teaching the crowds from Simon’s boat, invites the apostles to “put out into the deep” and lower their nets for a catch (Lk.5:4). Obedient to Jesus’ command, Simon Peter and his companions cast their nets as directed, and “caught such a great number of fish that their nets were at the breaking point” (Lk. 5:4). Jesus calls the Church today, as always, to put out into the deep, as a witness to hope, to hear, and to respond joyfully to his word with faith and confidence. It is a call to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the New Evangelization.

(https://archokc.org/bishop-bios)

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