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Scottsdale, AZ Le Chevalier her life that is shown in Lourdes, France. Next Grand Knight’s month, on May 23, we will show Ignatius of Loyola. Message We h ope that the Knights and the Pa rish will be WGK Jerry Wood highly supportive of these films, and we can plan to My show more next year. My hope is that the films will My Dear be of some religious significance or a good family Brothers: comedy. We want the children to be welcomed and feel at home at the films also. Our Golf Outing will With apologies be this month as well, on April 28th. The Parish for my tardiness fundraiser is in May, and we’re working on that in getting this event this year. As always, my Brothers, we need Inside this issue: month’s Le Chevalier to you, I help, so please pitch in wherever you can. God bless Grand Knights’ Report 1 hope everyone had a blessed and you all for all you do! peaceful Easter. Knights were Knight of the Month 2 involved throughout the It’s good to be a Knight in so many ways! Ask an active Knight why…. Family of the Month 2 weekend. We were there for the Holy Thursday Mass as well as Vivat Jesus! Birthdays 2 standing watch with our Lord in Saint of the Month 3 the Ramada until midnight that Fraternally, night. On Good Friday we were Food for the Poor 4 there as ushers and lectors. At Jerry Wood
Coming Ev ents 5 the Vigil mass on Saturday Grand Knight evening, we were there again as “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ but hates his brother, Calendars 7 lectors, ushers, and sacristan. It he is a liar…” 1 John 4:20 Supreme Knight’s pleases us to be a part of these services as well as the many Letter 8 others at which we serve.If there Good of the Order is a need, you can count on Prayer List 9 Knights to be there. Join us if you Contacts 9 can. This month we’re trying a new
social event: We’re showing a movie on Wednesday evening, April 25, at 6:30 PM. We hope to continue showing films of interest to our Parish. Just as our
We’re on the WEB: first Saint of the month in Le chevalier was St. Bernadette, we
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SK Dr. Antonio Lugay
Knight s of the Month SK Vincenzo & Susan Cefalu,
Family of the Month, March 2018 March 2018
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Januario Altiveros
Stephen Bachman Tom Davey Virgil Grzywa
Victor Knight
Kevin La Pratt Bill Leicht John Lomio Tony Lugay Jr. Ken McDonald Tom Munks Mark Sunkel
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To help Saint of the Month continue these works Saint Ludovico of of mercy, in Casoria 1859 he established (March 11, 1814 – March 30, 1885) the Gray Brothers, a religious community composed of men who formerly belonged to St. Ludovico of Casona, oro the Secular pro nobis. Franciscan Order. Three years later, he founded the Gray Sisters Saint Ludovico of Casoria’s Story of St. Elizabeth for the same purpose.
Born in Casoria, near Naples, Arcangelo Toward the beginning of his final, nine- Palmentieri was a cabinet-maker before year illness, Ludovico wrote a spiritual entering the Friars Minor in 1832, taking testament which described faith as “light the name Ludovico. After his ordination in the darkness, help in sickness, blessing five years later, he taught chemistry, in tribulations, paradise in the crucifixion, physics, and mathematics to younger and life amid death.” The local work for members of his province for several his beatification began within five months years. of Ludovico’s death. He was beatified in 1993 and canonized in 2014. In 1847, he had a mystical experience which he later described as a cleansing. After that, he dedicated his life to the poor Reflection and the infirm, establishing a dispensary for the poor, two schools for African Saintly people are not protected from children, an institute for the children of suffering, but with God’s help they learn nobility, as well as an institution for how to develop compassion from it. In the orphans, the deaf, and the speechless, face of great suffering, we move either and other institutes for the blind, elderly, toward compassion or indifference. and for travelers. In addition to an Saintly men and women show us the path infirmary for friars of his province, he toward compassion began charitable institutes in Naples, Florence, and Assisi. He once said, . “Christ’s love has wounded my heart.” . This love prompted him to great acts of charity.
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Food for the Poor Project
SK Santo Graziano
Hello Knights Of Columbus and all volunteers,
Good morning to everyone, Just a reminder: NEED TO KNOW IF YOU WILL BE ATTENDING OUR FOURTH ANNUAL LUNCH. It will be held on SUNDAY, APRIL 29TH at 12:30pm at St Bernadette Church at 16245 N. 60 St., four blocks south of Bell Rd. We will have a speaker, Dr. KEN SNYDER, who has been a volunteer for St Vincent De Paul for 22 years, written books, and has spoken to children in Paradise Valley School District. We will also have FREE RAFFLE items from: Starbucks coffee, Vintage Joe's Americana, Breakfast Joynt, Firehouse Subs, High/Rye Southern Kitchen Bar, Dog Grooming, Hannah Nails and Spa, Bashas Supermarket, Rainbow Donuts, Vietnamese Restaurants, Liberty Buick . Mugs, Greek Restaurants and more. The LUNCH IS FREE and will include an assortment of deli meats, salad, chips, deserts, and drinks. AWARDS will also be given to all our volunteers who attend . Blessed are It's time to meet our fellow volunteers with some the merciful, good fellowship. PLEASE LET US KNOW SOON for they shall FOR PLANNING THIS EVENT. receive mercy.
Hope you all had a Happy Easter Thank you for When I am taking the time to love your neighbors in need. When I practice compassion, I accept others ashamed exactly as they are: the guests, the homeless at because I Phoenix Becker House St Vincent De Paul. We see understand all people as unique expressions of ourselves. Thank you all for the highest good for all the wrongs I humankind. have done, You MARK CALENDARS APRIL 29 SUNDAY 12:30PM AWARD LUNCH at St Bernadette. We will have understand speakers, awards, lunch, raffle items, and you can meet and inspire your fellow volunteers. me to devote THANKS FOR YOUR TWO HOURS EACH MONTH! this energy Food For The Poor Project to help others. Site of the Martyrdom of St. Chairperson and Committee, Thomas of Canterbury, Santo Graziano cell: 602-321-1673 Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Larry Brainard, Robert and Jackie Franciosi, Mike and England Susan Dalton
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Coming Events:
Film: Parish Hall, 6:30 PM April 25, 2018, Admission Free. Annual Golf Outing April 28, 2018 Orange Tree Resort
Fourth Annual Lunch for Food for the Poor Volunteers – Parish Hall Chapel April 29, 2018 12:30 PM
Parish Fundraiser – Orange Tree Resort May 19, 2018
State K of C Convention May 18-19, 2018 Tucson
.Film: Parish Hall, 6:30 PM May 23, 2018 Admission Free
April 15, 2018 Pancake Breakfasts resume
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Monthly Pancake Breakfast
Third Sunday of every month between September and May $5.00 Family: $15.00
Join us in the Parish Hall!
Pancakes, Scrambled Eggs, and Sausage! During February and Building the Domestic Church March we will be offering our Lenten Fish Fry every Friday strengthening our Parish
th beginning on Feb. 16 . We will
resume our Pancake Breakfasts on
April 15th
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April 2018
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Easter Meeting 7:00 pm 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Council Business Meeting 7:00 PM 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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May 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 Officers’ Meeting 7:00 pm
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Council Meeting 7:00 pm
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 . Parish Fundraiser Orange Tree Resort 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Film:
Ignatius Pancake Breakfast of Loyola 27 28 29 30 31 1 2
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Dear Brother Knight, including the Conscience Protection Act in their omnibus spending bill.
Your immediate action is necessary to protect medical professionals and all people of faith from You can do this easily by visiting our Action Alert being forced to participate in or pay for abortions. Center to email your elected representatives today.
Congress is currently considering legislation to fund the government, and it is critical that a provision called the Conscience Protection Act be included in Thank you for your attention to this important this legislation. matter and for helping to protect conscience rights in the United States.
The Conscience Protection Act would strengthen federal law to ensure that doctors and nurses are not Fraternally, forced to perform abortions. This critical legislation CarlAnderson would also ensure that our churches and other Supreme Knight religious organizations do not need to cover abortion in their insurance plans.
Our recent Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll found that a majority of Americans agree that no one should be forced to perform, or provide for, an abortion against their will.
I urge you to contact your Congressman and Senators today and express your support for
St. Bernadette's KofC Color Guard
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Officers, Dire ctors, and Program Chairmen—2017-18
Officers : Committee Chairmen: Grand Knight SK Jerry Wood 602-568-2779 1st Degree Team SK Dan Conway 480-368-1427 Chaplain Fr. Edward Gilbert 480-905-0221 Blood Drive Dennis Logue 602-595-1460 . D. Grand Knight SK Richard Welp 602-826-1241 Oktoberfest SK Gene Arvizu 480-272-9442 Chancellor SK David Wagner 414-828-4471 Social Committee SK Larry Bramanti 602-404-7692 Financial Sec. SK Michael Smalley 602-799-2256 Italian Dinner SK William Torresala 404-668-9399 Treasurer SK Gene Arvizu 480-776-4794 Food for the Poor SK Santo Granziano 602-321-1673 Recorder SK Frank Scarpone 480 - 540 - 8460 Tootsie Roll Drive SK Dan Conway 480-368-1427 Advocate Dennis Logue 602-595-1460 Rosary Sunday Chair needed Warden SK Vince Cefalu 602-350-9106 Free Throw Contest Conrad Franks 623-628-6392 Outside Guard SK John Young 480 - 322 -2035 Le Chevalier Graphic Design SK Don Tellis Inside Guard Conrad Franks 623-628-6392 Fr. Pete Memorial Golf Tournament SK Lou DeLuco, 3yr Trustee SK Michael Dill 702 - 213 -3737 SK Richard Welp 2yr Trustee SK Roberto Pastrana 480-323-0479 1yr Trustee SK Lou DeLuco 602 - 5 24 -7447 Webmaster SK Roberto Pastrana Editor SK Jerry Wood
Good of the Order Prayer List—February 2018 Brothers, please join us as we pray for the following Knights and their families.
The family of SK Larry Bramanti, whose brother Bill passed away from cancer two weeks ago. . Derek “Ric” Fichera SK Ken McDonald Joan Graziano had surgery. SK Virgil Grzywa. SK Al and Johnna Minetti Walter Nuñez and family. He passed away after being struck by a drunk driver. Sergio Romero, SK Gene Arvizu’s cousin, who’s suffering from cancer. Wilma Dunai is at home after surgery and recovering slowly. Chita Dilema, who lost her husband Harmon Dilema. SK William Torresala. For the Pope, every Priest and Deacon and all the clergy. For the safety and good health of all our military, police, and fire fighters. For the good health of all Knights and their families and our own Knights who continue to find the strength to keep coming out to do God’s will.
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Becoming a Knight offers many opportunities to serve your Church and your Council. As you might note from these pictures, there are many activities that the St. Bernadette Council provides for its Parish. Every event requires a little time and a little work; each event also provides a great deal of St. Bernadette Council satisfaction as well as the camaraderie of 12164 Brother Knights. We welcome all who wish 16245 N. 60th Street to join us, and we invite those Knights who Scottsdale, AZ 85254 have never served to join us. Volunteers are always needed; serve one time, and you’ll Phone: want to serve again. (480) 905-0221 Fax:(480)905-0249 St. Bernadette, ora pro nobis
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