Knights of Columbus

Council 9665 Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish Our Lady of Established December 9, 1987 Mt. Carmel www.kofc9665.org January 2008

Grand Knight Report ~ An Unprecedented Invitation ~

Dear Brothers,

Happy New Year to you and your families. As we start our last half of the Columbian year, I like to recognize those Brothers who volunteered to help with traffic control on ALL KNIGHTS OF Christmas Eve – Bros. Mike Carlin, Archie Ordonio, Joe Malabanan, Bill Betts, Chris Morales, Mark Malebranche COLUMBUS and Michael Chau. Also, a big thanks to Bro. Fred Reyes and his team who spent many hours transforming the AND THEIR WIVES Church colors from Advent to Christmas. A special thanks to all the CDEP Watchers and Bankers who through their In the dedication, make it possible for our `Council to do the good deeds and charities we do. DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO are invited to You are reminded that the District Basketball Free Throw will be held at St. Michael’s Church in Poway on January 19, 2008. The deadline for submitting your application for A PASTORAL MORNING WITH the 4 th Degree Exemplification in Ontario will be January ROBERT BROM 18, 2008. The event will be held on February 2nd and 3 rd . If you wish to do your 4 th Degree, please contact your Sponsor, Bro. Ron Doris (Membership Chairman) or our To address Worthy Deputy Grand Knight, Joe Santos. SEXUAL ABUSE & RELATED MATTERS

The Membership Drive is typically held in mid January but our Council has adopted a one-to-one approach of SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2008 recruiting new members. Because it takes 2 to 3 months From 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. for a prospect to be become a Knight, I urge you to start working on your prospects as soon as possible. We at already have 3 new members to date but need 4 additional THE DIOCESAN PASTORAL CENTER members to meet our quota by June 30, 2008. 3888 Paducah Drive

May the New Year bring you Peace, Joy and Harmony. San Diego, California 92117

Vivat Jesus, Michael Chau, Grand` Knight This pastoral session will be the same as Bishop Brom, assisted by Monsignor Steve Callahan, is leading at many of the parishes throughout the diocese.

From the California State Knights of Free Throw District Level Championship Columbus website: Saturday, January 19, 2008 St. Michael’s Parish, Poway

Pope Benedict XVI to visit the United Photos from the Council-level Championship States April 15-20, 2008 held December 9 th :

The Holy Father will arrive in Washington on the evening of April 15 , with a visit to the White House on April 16 and a meeting with the of the United States at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception that evening.

April 17 will include a public Mass at the new Nationals Stadium in Washington and a meeting with the presidents of Catholic universities and diocesan heads of education at Catholic University of America, as well as a meeting with representatives of other religions at the John Paul II Cultural Center.

Pope Benedict XVI will fly to New York City on April 18 for an address to the United Nations. He will also meet with ecumenical leaders at a New York City parish that evening.

On April 19 he will celebrate a Mass for priests, deacons and members of religious orders at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and will meet with young Catholics at St. Joseph Seminary in Yonkers.

April 20 will include a visit to ground zero, the site of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and a

public Mass at Yankee Stadium. Photos submitted by Bro. Bill Betts

For information from: ------Tickler Corner: The Washington DC Archdiocese: www.adw.org/papalvisit/ People want the front of the bus,

The New York City Archdiocese: the back of the church, and www.archny.org/papalvisit/ the center of attention. January 31: Feast Day of St. John Bosco bedraggled boys hanging around. And he had so little money and help that people thought he was crazy. Priests In 1867 Pope Pius IX was upset with John Bosco because who promised to help would get frustrated and leave. he wouldn't take his dreams seriously enough. Nine years Two "friends" even tried to commit him to an institution for earlier when Pope Pius IX met with the future saint who the mentally ill. They brought a carriage and were planning worked with neglected boys, he learned of the dreams that to trick him into coming with him. But instead of getting in, John had been having since the age of nine, dreams that John said, "After you" and politely let them go ahead. When had revealed God's will for John's life. So Pius IX had made his friends were in the carriage he slammed the door and a request, "Write down these dreams and everything else told the drive to take off as fast as he could go! you have told me, minutely and in their natural sense." Pius IX saw John's dreams as a legacy for those John worked Through it all he found encouragement and support through with and as an inspiration for those he ministered to. his dreams. In one dream, Mary led him into a beautiful garden. There were roses everywhere, crowding the ground Despite Scripture evidence and Church with their blooms and the air with their scent. He was told to tradition respecting dreams, John had take off his shoes and walk along a path through a rose encountered skepticism when he had arbor. Before he had walked more than a few steps, his his first dream at the age of nine. The naked feet were cut and bleeding from the thorns. When he young Bosco dreamed that he was in a said he would have to wear shoes or turn back, Mary told field with a crowd of children. The him to put on sturdy shoes. As he stepped forward a second children started cursing and time, he was followed by helpers. But the walls of the arbor misbehaving. John jumped into the closed on him, the roof sank lower and the roses crept onto crowd to try to stop them -- by fighting the path. Thorns caught at him from all around. When he and shouting. Suddenly a man with a pushed them aside he only got more cuts, until he was face filled with light appeared dressed tangled in thorns. Yet those who watched said, "How lucky in a white flowing mantle. The man Don John is! His path is forever strewn with roses! He called John over and made him leader hasn't a worry in the world. No troubles at all!" Many of the of the boys. John was stunned at being helpers, who had been expecting an easy journey, turned put in charge of these unruly gang. The back, but some stayed with him. Finally he climbed through man said, "You will have to win these the roses and thorns to find another incredible garden. A friends of yours not with blows but with gentleness and cool breeze soothed his torn skin and healed his wounds. kindness." As adults, most of us would be reluctant to take on such a mission -- and nine year old John was even less In his interpretation, the path was his mission, the roses pleased. "I'm just a boy," he argued, "how can you order me were his charity to the boys, and the thorns were the to do something that looks impossible." The man answered, distractions, the obstacles, and frustrations that would "What seems so impossible you must achieve by being stand in his way. The message of the dream was clear to obedient and acquiring knowledge." Thenthe boys turned John: he must keep going, not lose faith in God or his into the wild animals they had been acting like. The man told mission, and he would come through to the place he John that this is the field of John's life work. Once John belonged. changed and grew in humility, faithfulness, and strength, he Often John acted on his dreams simply by sharing them, would see a change in the children -- a change that the man sometimes repeating them to several different individuals or now demonstrated. The wild animals suddenly turned into groups he thought would be affected by the dream. "Let me gentle lambs. tell you about a dream that has absorbed my mind," he When John told his family about his dream, his brothers just would say. laughed at him. Everyone had a different interpretation of The groups he most often shared with were the boys he what it meant: he would become a shepherd, a priest, a helped -- because so many of the dreams involved them. For gang leader. His own grandmother echoed the sage advice example, he used several dreams to remind the boys to we have heard through the years, "You mustn't pay any keep to a good and moral life. In one dream he saw the boys attention to dreams." John said, "I felt the same way about eating bread of four kinds -- tasty rolls, ordinary bread, it, yet I could never get that dream out of my head." coarse bread, and moldy bread, which represented the state Eventually that first dream led him to minister to poor and of the boys' souls. He said he would be glad to talk to any neglected boys, to use the love and guidance that seemed boys who wanted to know which bread they were eating and so impossible at age nine to lead them to faithful and then proceeded to use the occasion to give them moral fulfilled lives. He started out by learning how to juggle and guidance. do tricks to catch the attention of the children. Once he had He died in 1888, at the age of seventy-two. His work lives on their attention he would teach them and take them to Mass. in the Salesian order he founded. It wasn't always easy -- few people wanted a crowd of loud,

Council Officers:

Grand Knight – Michael Chau Deputy Grand Knight – Joe Santos Tempus fugit. Time flies. The older we get, the more that Chancellor – Mark Malebranche statement seems to ring true. Especially as we prepare to Recorder – Ralph Paige ring in another new year. I hope that 2007 was a healthy, Financial Secretary – Mark Woolley prosperous year for you and your family. Treasurer – Mike Carlin Lecturer – Gary Mayer If you’re like most people, you’ve made some resolutions Advocate – Ron Doris for the New Year. If I may, I’d like to add to your list of Warden – David Phillips resolutions by two. First, write them down. A resolution Inside Guard – Mike Rogers is really a goal for the year and, until you commit a goal to Outside Guard – Frank Leccese rd writing, it’s nothing more than a wish. So write your 3 Year Trustee – Ed Abelon nd resolutions down. Whether they be to lose weight, 2 Year Trustee – Bill Betts st contribute more time and money to charity, read more or 1 Year Trustee – Joe Malabanan watch less television, you’re more likely to stick to them if Chaplain – Msgr. Frank Fawcett you write them down. Service Programs: Second, schedule some time to visit with me, your professional Knights of Columbus insurance agent. The Program Director – Joe Santos “insurance check-up” that I’ll provide (free of charge, by Church Director – Boris Volbeda the way!) will quickly identify any gaps in your family’s life Vocations Chairman – Mark Malebranche insurance program. And you’ll want to fill those gaps Community Director – Joe Malabanan now, not later. Because unlike many other products, you Pro-Life – Frank Leccese need more than money to obtain life insurance; you also Health Services – Mike Forte need good health, and no one will ring a bell warning you Council Director – Joe Santos when your health is about to change. Public Relations – Howen Fernando Family Director – Ron Doris Knights of Columbus life insurance offers something Youth Director – Mike Palzkill precious few other financial products can – guarantees. Membership Director– Ron Doris As long as you pay your premiums, the policy proceeds Recruitment Committee – Mike Carlin, Frank Leccese, will be there for your beneficiaries should something Mike Rogers happen to you. We call that peace of mind, and that’s – as Retention Chairman – Joe Malabanan they say in the credit card commercial – priceless. Insurance Promotion – Chris Morales CDEP – Bill Betts I look forward to meeting with each of you. MR Drive – Mark Malebranche Boris Volbeda Council’s Website – Boris Volbeda Field Agent 858 484-8936 [email protected]

------Birthdays in January: NOTE: For future newsletters please forwar d any articles, notices or address changes to me at [email protected] or Happy Birthday to the following Knights… parish mailbox 297 or mail to Ron Doris, 9120 Meadowrun Jan 2 – Ron Doris Place, San Diego, CA 92129-3300. Thank you! Jan 4 – Emiliano Andaya Jan 11 – Frank Leccese Jan 11 – Anastacio Quinto Jan 28 – Ron Somera

January 2008 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 5

7 pm General Meeting in Bldg A

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Epiphany 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 K o C Basketball Free Throw District Level St. Michael’s Poway

The Baptism of the Lord 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Holiday

27 28 29 30 31

7 pm Officers Meeting in Bldg B-1

CDEP January Watch Schedule: January Bankers Schedule :

All Saturdays & Sundays of January: January 6: Trujillo 5:30 p.m. Forte January 13: Palzkill 7:00 a.m. Jeanson, Simon January 20: Malabanan 8:30 a.m. Mayer, Somera January 27: Chau 10:30 a.m. Mitchell, Fernando, Leano February 3: Ordonio 12:30 p.m. Malabanan, Andaya February 10: Betts

Catholic Men Conference CARRY YOUR BROTHER'S CROSS

February 16, 2008 * 8:00AM – 4:30PM St. Kieran’s Church – 1510 Greenfield Dr. - El Cajon CA 92021

Bishop Cordileone Fr. Eric Bergman Dcn Alex Jones Larry Schimpf

Bishop has been the of San Diego since July 2002. He was ordained to the priesthood in July 1982. Bishop Cordileone has a degree in Canon Law and experience working for the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial court in the church. Fr. Eric Bergman is married and has 4 children. He was a former Episcopal Priest who converted to Catholicism in 2005. Along with his wife and children he brought many members of his congregation into the . He was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest in May 2007 and now serves as the director of the St. Thomas More Society in Scranton, PA. Deacon Alex Jones was a former Pentecostal Pastor. After studying history to determine how the “Early Christian Worship Service” was practiced, he realized that it was without a doubt the Catholic Mass. He along with many members of his congregation converted to Catholicism. He became a Deacon in 2005 and is currently the Director of Evangelization for the Arch-Diocese of Detroit. Larry Schimpf is well known as a speaker throughout San Diego. Larry has been married for over 50 years. He has 6 children and 20 grandchildren. A retired Football Coach and Teacher, he brings a wealth of knowledge and practical experience.

GREAT SPEAKERS * FELLOWSHIP *REFRESH THE MIND * RENEW THE SOUL

$25 EARLY Registration Fee by December 31, 2007 $39 After Dec. 31 st , Sudents (Ages 16-22) $25 Priests and Seminarians are Free, but must register LUNCH INCLUDED

OLMC Knights of Columbus will organize carpooling from the parish parking lot. If interested in car pooling, leave your name, e-mail address and phone number with the parish office (484-1070) and the Knights will contact you with future instructions in regard to the carpooling.

For registration and more detailed information please access their website: www.sharingthetreasures.org QUESTIONS: Call Kurt at (619) 583-3810

======CUT ALONG LINE ======Mail-In Registration Form ( PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY SO THAT WE CAN READ IT )

If mailing in a registration for more than 1 person, then please provide the following information for each registrant on a separate sheet of paper. NOTE: Priests and Seminarians are FREE, but must register.

(Name) ______(Phone) ______.

(Address) ______.

(City) ______(State)_____ (Zip Code)______(Email)______.

Name of church that you belong to?______.

Any special needs? ______.

Make Check Payable: St. Kieran Church Mail To : Kurt Redlinger ATTN: Men’s Conference; P.O. Box 19961; San Diego, CA 92159