Serving the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Community
Medina, MN – The Good Samaritan Council 13096 wants to remind all of its members that their annual dues are due. If you have not yet paid the dues please contact our Financial Secretary Ed to make payment arrangements. He will then provide you the mailing address of where to send your check.
Please ensure you make the check out to “K of C Council 13096“
Supreme Office shared this earlier today & has asked that we share with Brother Knights their friends, families & local media. To read the full article please visit kofc.org
WASHINGTON — On Friday, Jan. 27, just days after the presidential inauguration, Vice President Mike Pence spoke to tens of thousands, including members of the Knights of Columbus, gathered to participate in the 2017 March for Life.
The event has taken place every January since 1974, on or near the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion throughout the nation.
The event kicked off with a rally sponsored by the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, which was born out of the grassroots movement that gathered on the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
At the rally, Vice President Pence, the highest ranking government official to attend the event during its 44-year history, said, “I am deeply humbled to be the first vice president of the United States ever to attend this event.” On behalf of President Trump, he also thanked the attendees for their stand for life and their compassion for the women and children of America.
Medina – MN The Good Samaritan Council 13096 will once again their annual Free Throw Championship on January 28, 2017 at 2pm which is an updated time from the previously announced. All boys and girls ages 9 to 14 are invited to participate in the local level of competition for the 2017 Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship. The local competition will be held January 28th, at 1:30PM in the Gym at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church which is located on County 24 one mile west of State Highway 101. They will also be helping with the district tournament on Feb 11th from 1:30 – 3:30pm which the location for was still to be determined.
Since 1972, councils have sponsored the annual Knights of Columbus International Free Throw Championship for boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 14 (starting in the fraternal year 2013-2014) with winners progressing through local, district, and state competitions. International champions are announced by the K of C international headquarters based on scores from the state-level competitions. All boys and girls 9 to 14 years old are eligible to participate and will compete in their respective age divisions.
All contestants on the local level are recognized for their participation in the event. Age eligibility is determined by the age of the contestant on January 1st, 2016. Parental/guardian consent is required. Download your entry forms or contact Earl Forrence for additional information. If you wish to volunteer at the event please sign up now!
Watch a Video of Bishop Barres of Allentown, Penn. commenting on the Free Throw Championships.
About the Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus is an international Catholic family fraternal service organization with over 1.8 million members in 15,000 local councils. Last year, Knights donated over 70 million volunteer hours and $167.5 million to charitable and benevolent causes, sponsoring projects to benefit their church, councils, communities, culture of life, families and youth.
About Good Samaritan Council 13096
The HNOJ KC’s are a Catholic men’s service organization that supports our parish priests and church community with time, talent and treasure by hosting fundraising events, Wednesday fine dining and Sunday breakfast buffets for the benefit of worthy Catholic parish causes. Our members and their families volunteer hundreds of hours of service, annually, to a wide variety of HNOJ activities. For more details visit, www.hnojkc.com
Every year the Good Samaritan Knights of Columbus Council helps with parking at the Christmas eve mass. We have been asked once again to help do this and thus in need of some extra hands on deck to help us. Please consider joining Grand Knight Dave Stumpf and other Knights as we welcome greet, and be that first person our visitors and guests meet as they arrive to our parish.
Merry Christmas to all of you and thanks for your help on this wonderful service opportunity to our Holy Name of Jesus Community.
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We received word via email earlier today from the Supreme office in New Haven, Connecticut that they were proud to announce that Supreme Knight Carl Anderson was among the outstanding Catholic leaders recognized by Our Sunday Visitor for contributions to the Church and society throughout the year!
The original article was shared on OSV Newsweekly Home Page but in an effort to make it easier for you to view we have embedded it below.
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November 12, 2016 – Medina,MN – The Good Samaritan Council of the Knights of columbus is pleased to share with it’s members that we were requested by Holy Name Parish to provide a 250 word paragraph that could be featured in the bulleting for the parish. Thanks to the work of our Marketing team headed up by PR Chair Jason Touw and our Lecturer Marty Dehen the council will be featured this weekend. The weekend was chosen to coinside with our pancake breakfast. Be sure to get your copy at our breakfast on November 13th and take a extra copy to share about our parish and council wiht other friends and family.
You can also share the link directly to your friends and family here
Medina, MN – The Good Samaritan Knights have announced they will be hosting their first Pancake Breakfast of the 2016 – 2017 season on October 2nd, 2016. Further details were not yet provided as to when the future dates would be.
The Good Samaritan Council invites all members of the public to join them for their kick off breakfast event this Sunday. The cost for breakfast is a free will offering and can be made via cash, credit or check.
Further details on the breakfast can be found on their website – hnojkc.com or by emailing [email protected] should you wish to volunteer please click here.
Fr. Steve came to our last council meeting on Tuesday, September 13th and presented a couple of issues weighing heavy on his mind. Across the entire country, but specific to our Archdiocese, attendance is down, at least 20%, which means Sunday collections are also significantly lower. In turn, all the various “worthy Catholic causes” are also feeling the crunch and stepping up efforts for all the area parishes to swing the collection plates a second time during Mass. The mathematics indicate that a large number of donors basically divide up the normal intended Sunday give between the two charities, resulting in both groups getting less. Many area Pastors are forced to disallow the second collections, in order to keep their own finances in check. Fr. Steve will speak to the parish about this soon. Chances are fairly high that it will be met with some resistance.
Fr. Steve has elected to continue to support Ascension Parish and most of our HNOJ favorite charities, but needs to institute a few changes at HNOJ, some yet to be determined. He is creating a groundswell discipleship movement that will need the support of our KC Council and other “bellwether” leadership groups inside HNOJ, to help support Nate and Chris and other staff members, launch the efforts need to succeed. We have always had a great community at HNOJ. In the future, he may call on our council to assist in new ways, as he has always considered us “good disciples”. Our KC Council believes we may brainstorm the topic and help Father come up with ideas. Be sure to do your best to support all of his efforts. There’s nothing easy about being a priest.
Because of the economy, the political environment and the historical and widely reported abuse in the Catholic Church, people are more emotional than normal. Trust levels are at an all-time low, across the board. The various topics are awkward to discuss and polarizing for priests and parishioners, especially the not-so-regular Mass attendee’s. The many openly public “armchair quarterbacks” love to bloviate opinions at work and social encounters, keeping wounds open and topics fresh. The mainstream media has never been an ally. As KC’s, one of our biggest duties is to support our parish priests with time, talent, treasure and prayer. We also need to pray for vocations.
If you believe in history repeating itself, this isn’t the first time the Catholic Church has ever fallen out of favor with the masses. Every once in a while, I’ve engaged in a discussion about the 13 year old Pope that was put into power by corrupt families many centuries ago. At that time, much of Europe’s populace was illiterate, uneducated, poor and oppressed people. Also, during that time-frame, ordinary parish priests; i.e. St. Francis, St. Benedict, St. Ignatius, St. Dominic and many more, were touched by God or saintly intercedents and became infused with the Holy Spirit to create numerous, robust religious orders that educated and evangelized all of Europe. Most of them incorporated the Rosary with their teachings. The Catholic Church grew at an incredible rate, in spite of the dysfunction in Rome.
It’s times like these, where God intervenes and inspires great deeds from ordinary people. Open your minds and hearts to prayer and meditation, attend mass, read the Bible and stay engaged in our wonderful HNOJ community. This, too, will pass.
Sunburn and Life Insurance, how can you connect them? Well thanks to my kids, I can. Yesterday I went to my paternal annual cousin’s day. We gather at my Aunt’s house on the lake near Chisago city. I told my kids to put on sunscreen before hitting the water. Nope, they are smarter than good old Dad. Well I now have three kids look like lobsters. Sound advice given and now after the damage is done, that advice makes sense. But what confuses me…. this has happened before, and before and before. This is not the first time they have refused to listen and then get burned.
The same thing happens with life insurance. We know we need it (the sunblock), your agent says that you need it (the advice), the refusal and then the pain of the burn. You suddenly need it. But there is nothing you can do with the pain (the new price). Your health has changed, you have gotten a decade or two older. I did not think I needed life insurance beyond this age, etc, etc, etc… Brothers your permanent life insurance is the a lifetime sunblock that will never fail you. Everyone needs it. We are all going to die, we just don’t know the day nor the hour. Too often I get a phone call from Brother Knights who have received bad news from the Doctor and then want life insurance. Don’t delay, put on some sunblock and buy some permanent KC life insurance. You will be thankful after a hard life in the sun.
Vivat Jesus,
David Goedtke, Your humble Field Agent
Phone: 507-720-1652
We hear all this talk about Star council. Who cares? Well let me shed a little light on why you should care. Star Council is the easiest way to see if a council is healthy and doing the work of Fr. McGivney. So where to begin? Membership, Programs, Insurance… Well first I will start with the Insurance. Our program is by Brother Knights, For Brother Knights and their families. Are you aware that your council, just our own little council has millions of dollars of insurance. If something happens, our insured members will spouse, children, charities, the church itself will receive millions of dollars. That money is real, it allows the family to continue on. What happens when a Brother Knight dies. Well a husband has been lost. A child loses their father. Our Council loses a friend. Life Insurance suddenly becomes a real necessity. It becomes real. Consider the member who called me at the age of 85 and wants $375,000 of coverage and doesn’t want to pay premiums. He is treating life insurance like a lottery ticket. My next post. Programs.
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