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November 2020 Dispatch Brother Knights, I pray that this dispatch finds you well and in a state of sanctifying grace. It is my sincere hope that each of us can one day be saints in Heaven and celebrated for the glory our lives offered to God in time spent on earth! Praise God for the gift of life and time under His providential and transcending goodness – love, mercy, care, and friendship. November is the month in which we celebrate Thanksgiving Day (see Good of the Order below). God is deserving of all praise, thanksgiving, honor, majesty, blessing, worship, and glory. Let us ask Him for the grace to be thankful every day we are blessed to live and that, building upon such a strong foundation, we may grow closer to Him in holiness and friendship through the very presence of our LORD and savior, Jesus Christ, in our hearts. May God richly bless you and your families! May God bless and protect all the souls He has created through the intercession of His holy saints! Holy men and women in Heaven, pray for us! Upcoming Events Summary – Mark Your Mobile Calendars! It’s the only way one can remember these things! French Toast Breakfast – on Sunday, November 1, from 7:15 to 12:30 PM, St. Robert Bellarmine Council will be serving its first French Toast Breakfast in the Mainelli Center after each morning Mass! If you can help, that would be great! Just sign up at the link below. If you are unable to serve, feel free to support us by partaking in the breakfast as our special patrons. We would be honored to serve you! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C44AFA92CAAFB6-november/ Coats for Kids – on Saturday, November 7, St. Robert Bellarmine Knights of Columbus Council, in partnership with the St. Vincent de Paul Chapter of St. Robert Bellarmine, will be donating four dozen coats and helping to distribute them to children at the St. Peter Catholic Church gym, located downtown at the northwest corner of 27 th and Leavenworth Streets. If you would like to be a part of this moving Corporal Work of Mercy, please sign up at the link below. The event begins at 7:30 AM and ends around 3:00 PM or until coats run, which usually happens. The need is always great in our very own city! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F084EAAA72EA13-knights Memorial Mass and Reception – on Wednesday, November 11 (Veteran’s Day), the council will be attending 5:30 PM Mass in honor of the souls of those brother Knights that have gone before us into eternal life, especially remembering those we have lost in the last year. We will also honor our current and deceased veteran’s for their sacrifice to our great nation in the same event. After Mass, a reception will be held in the parish community room (meeting room next to the Knights of Columbus room). Please plan on joining the council in this precious annual event where we celebrate the lives of our deceased brother Knights. Please email [email protected] to RSVP so that an approximate attendance number is known for food. Christmas Card Sales – starting the weekend of November 21/22 (and each consecutive weekend following until Christmas or cards are sold out), volunteers will be needed to man the Catholic Christmas card station after each weekend Mass. This is a laidback fundraiser that only requires approximately 15 minutes of service after whichever Mass any and each volunteer attends. As part of the Knights of Columbus “Keep Christ in Christmas” program, it is a very important and faithful effort to remember and promote the real reason for the season, which is exactly that Jesus Christ was born on earth as a human being in order to begin and bring about the salvation of all men and women that believe in Him! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C44AFA92CAAFB6-2020/ Monthly Calendar November Upcoming Events Birthdays Holy Days / Feast Days 1 French Toast Breakfast Solemnity of All Saints 2 All Soul’s Day 3 Election Day Edward Bragg, David McGill St. Martin de Porres Joseph Engelbert, Michael 4 St. Charles Borromeo Weaver 5 St. Peter Chrysologus St. Nicholas Tavelic and 6 Companions 7 Coats for Kids St. Didacus 8 Blessed John Duns Scotus Dedication of St. John 9 Lateran Jeff Asche, Michael Azara, 10 St. Leo the Great Francis Brune, Charles Stoner Memorial Mass and 11 St. Martin of Tours Reception # 12 St. Josaphat 13 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini 14 St. Gertrude the Great Vernon Langel, Michael 15 St. Albert the Great Schweiger 16 Cullen Herout St. Margaret of Scotland 17 Francis Ryan St. Elizabeth of Hungary Dedication of Churches of 18 Saint Peter and Saint Paul 19 John Matyja St. Agnes of Assisi St. Rose Philippine 20 Duchesne Presentation of the Blessed 21 Christmas Card Sales Virgin Mary 22 Christmas Card Sales Brett Patterson St. Cecilia 23 Mike Pritchard Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro St. Andrew Dung-Lac and 24 Christopher McGill Companions 25 Officer Meeting Cancelled Patrick Ramaekers St. Catherine of Alexandria 26 Thanksgiving Day Rich Melkus St. Columban St. Francesco Antonio 27 Jon Eden Fasani 28 Christmas Card Sales St. James of the Marche 29 Christmas Card Sales St. Clement 30 St. Andrew *Bold Underlined Numerical Dates Represent Sunday – Don’t Forget Mass and Rest! *Bold , Italicized, and Underlined Dates Represent Holy Days of Obligation #The Memorial Mass and Reception will take place instead of the Monthly General Council Meeting. Good of the Order Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, Who is good, Whose mercy (and love) endures forever. - Psalms 106:1, New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) Brother Knights, How can we imagine, approach, supplicate, bless, and/or worship God when we have just a finite and simplistic understanding of His might, power, honor, wisdom, and glory? God is God. His Name is the Name above all names – I AM WHO AM (YAHWEH). God is the creator and sustainer of all, except sin. Sin being the only entity created by creature. Still, God is and never has been without. So what can we as weak and minuscule beings possibly offer to God? Is there anything that we are able to give Him, albeit not add to Him? The answer is yes! We are able to give glory to God by our lives. Consider still that even with or without our participation in His plan and grace, God is still not without. Nothing has and never will be added or subtracted from God. God is eternal. All that has come to be and is yet to come has already been claimed by God. All of created time is always before the ever-living God Who is outside of time and space, yet always within it in the Person of Jesus Christ. Despite this mind-boggling mystery, God allows us to glorify Him by our lives. He does not need our praise and worship, but accepts and credits our imperfect attempts as righteousness and continues to reward us abundantly. But how is it that we can are able to glorify this Being Who is all being? The most basic of all glorification is to offer our lives to Him in thanksgiving. Consider the immense and precious gift that is our lives, wrapped up in another wonderful gift called time. As long as we are still living and breathing, we are able to turn to our Divine Master and communicate with Him, to be in communion with His Spirit. Remember, God is all and in all things, but sin. The most basic gift we have been given and can offer right back is any and every moment of God-given time in our lives with a spirit of thanksgiving – great, terrible, and everything in between. Thanksgiving is, at its root, essentially the only thing we can truly give by our own free will, but of course, other things flow in and out from this sense of gratitude to God. Sure, there are good, small acts of love that we do in this life, but it’s all by God’s grace and because we are, in some small part, aware of God’s goodness in our lives and offer them to Him in thankful service. Thanksgiving itself is praise and glory to God, but sometimes it is best borne by our loving actions that are prompted by the Holy Spirit in accordance with His most holy will, which is always promulgated for the greater good in building up His Kingdom on earth and for the salvation of souls. Thanksgiving… such a simple yet beautiful gift from God that He allows us to give back for His glory and our good. Thanksgiving leads to a humble spirit, love, peace, joy, fear of the LORD (acceptance of the one, true, infinitely loving God and has nothing to do with actual fear of a wrathful god), perseverance in trials, charitable action, increased faith and hope, and fuller dependence on God rather than the numerous material gods we could find distraction and temporary solace in. Thanksgiving most importantly leads to communion with God, and most especially in tandem with all the previously mentioned fruits. Thanksgiving is an act of faith, hope, and love offered together that welcomes the LORD into our lives in the present moment, which in turn allows us to walk humbly with Him by our side. This is truly the best way to stay on the narrow path to Heaven! So brothers, for the good of the Order, I humbly submit that we all should take a long, focused look at the many blessings in our lives – past, present, ongoing – and make a concerted effort to increase our thankfulness throughout our days.
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