Serving the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Community
During the monthly council meeting on June 14th, 2016 the brothers present at the meeting voted to proceed with an order of name tags for all officers. As part of the motion it was agreed to allow members that wish to purchase a name tag at a discounted rate of $4.25 versus the full price of $8.50 could do so. Please complete the below form and provide us exactly as you would like it to appear on the tag. We will then place an order for you
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We have been provided an opportunity as a council once again to provide service to our parish by volunteering for the annual Holy Name Rummage Sale. Your muscles could come in handy for set-up for the sale this Sunday, June 19th, from 1-4PM. Another big opportunity comes on Saturday, June 25th during clean-up from noon until 3PM. Additionally, we could use Brother Knights during the day or evening to help unload contributions Monday through Wednesday, the 20th to the 22nd. Finally, if anyone has use of a pickup truck, that would come in especially handy during clean-up on Saturday the 25th, as a set of clothing display racks that are borrowed from St. Thomas Church in Corcoran will have to be returned that day.
If you are available to assist please register here on the parish’s sign up genius form
During the monthly council meeting on June 14th, 2016 the brothers present at the meeting voted to proceed with an order of new polo shirts through a new vendor of Promotional Breezes. These polo shirts will be made available for you to purchase as a member of our council.
PLEASE NOTE: The pre-order was placed at 9:38am this morning and all future orders taken via the below form will be on a first come first serve basis.
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Medina, MN – The Holy Name Knights of Columbus Good Samaritan Council held their May Meeting and would like to announce the following Awards:
The Family of the Year Award was given to the Anto Pitchiah Family for their involvement in our Council. Anto transferred into our Council from the Basilica. Anto’s family stepped up and became involved in virtually every one of our functions.
The Knight of the Year Award was given to Jason Touw for his exceptional work on building and maintaining a new Council website. Jason transferred into our Council from the Bloomington
Council and became involved as an Officer, he also took over the Marketing and Public Relations for our Council.
Grand Knight Dave Stumpf said “I would like to congratulate them for their involvement in our Council.”
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I’ve tried writing this post five or six times. We, my Brothers, serve an AWESOME GOD! I have spend the last few days surrounded by the Holy Spirit, once again the Spirit has filled my soul and nourished me. I feel like a dixie cup at Niagra Falls. Truly my cup is runneth over. Where do I begin; my weekend started with my being involved in the Honor Guard for Archbishop Hebda’s installation. If you were there you will understand when I say the Holy Spirit filled the Cathedral. The next morning, I attended our MN annual KC council meeting (that’s what the convention is) and Fr. Perez-Cobo started the mass with Jesus Christ is Risen; we were to respond with Alleluia, Alleluia. Early on, it sounded as if we were in a fog. By the end of the mass, after being fed by Jesus with His Body and Blood, I wish you could have heard the Alleluia, Alleluia! I thought instantly of the Easter Exsultet, let these holy building shake with joy. The words of the faithful praise our God was so beautiful. Through out the day I saw old friends, meet new people, heard of the incredible works that our Order has/is and will do. Guys, it is impossible for me to write how much we serve each other, our Families, our communities. Brothers we are a force of good in this world.
I followed it up on Sunday, the Feast of Pentecost, enjoying pancakes with the best council in the state (watch out Lino Lakes, that will be another post), spending time with my family and then ending the day finally watching the movie God’s Not Dead with my wife. Again I am humbled to see how people either deny or reject this Awesome God we serve. Brothers, the Holy Spirit is alive and well within our council. We accomplish nothing without the Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that we need to come into us, our families, our community and after he comes into our lives; Get out of the way and just let go and let God, let go and let Jesus, let go and let the Holy Spirit fill us like the Dixie cup at Niagara Falls.
Vivat Jesus,
David Novack
Your humble Field Agent
Our Archdiocese had a busy weekend with the activities that occurred for the Installation of our new Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda. The Good Samaritan Council would like to take this opportunity to congratulate him and welcome him to the Archdiocese.
Watch below the announcement of our new Archbishop Hebda and then below the full Installation Mass
Click the below image to watch the mass in its entirety courtesy of Catholic TV.
I carry rosary with me. But I also carry a couple of other things with me, one is the Divine Mercy and the other is my love for Fr. McGivney. When it comes to Fr. McGivney I’m all in. I think that today would have been one of Fr. McGivney’s days; the Feast of the Good Shepherd. I understand Fr. McGivney. He was, is and always will be nothing but a simple parish priest. What I think makes this man more remarkable is that he listened to the Holy Spirit. He Shepherd his flock just as the Lord is the one true Shepherd of all the faithful. Fr. McGivney gave all of himself. He died from pneumonia at the early age of 38! To this day, I believe with al my heart that he is still fill his role of Shepherd. He wants to guide us to the Lord. He is here for us.
Let me share a recent story about Fr. McGivney. Marty, the Council and the staff at HNOJ had lost our rosaries that we give to the Passion Play kids. With only one day to share Marty called me and said Dave is there anything you can do, we need 125 rosaries for the kids, and 125 of the “How to pray the Rosary cards“. Marty was really concerned. I said don’t worry about it. I said I will take care of it. Before I started my quest I simply said Fr. McGivney we need your help. I can’t do this. I’m going to need your help. I made two phone calls. The first was to Home Office and ordered the rosary cards and had them FedEx overnight to Marty. Easy part done. The next call I made was to a Brother Knight who is with the Franciscans Brothers of Peace in St. Paul. I told him we, Good Samaritan Council needed 125 for the kids. He said that’s all? I thought this was going to be super hard. Not a problem; stop on by and I will have them ready for you.
I drove over to the rectory, picked them up and drove them up to Marty’s so that he had them for the next day.
Guys, what looked like an impossible task Marty, for myself or for anyone was not a challenge for Fr. McGivney. He did not take it as a challenge, he simply said anything I can do to Shepherd the children (or anyone else for that matter) to the Lord – is my delight. Thank you for asking me for my help.
Brothers, next time you need someone to carry a request to our Lord, why not ask Fr. McGivney to present it to the Lord on your behalf.
Vivat Jesus,
David Novack
Your humble Field Agent
April 12 Agenda
Communications
1)Thank you, Lauri Becker
The Knights of Columbus are holding their annual Tootsie Roll Drive for Special Olympics and other local charities that our Council supports each year. This will happen on April 30th and May 1st after all the Masses.
Please sign up to help a great cause.
If you have any questions about our Council and would like to talk to someone, email us at [email protected] and we’ll get back with you.
If you are ready to join, click here Join Here and complete the form. Be sure to enter our Council# 13096 when filling it out.
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