Serving the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Community
Medina MN – November 11 2015 – The Good Samaritan Knights of Columbus 13096 Council is pleased to announce the launch of their new website hnojkc.com.
On this new site they plan to post news about their council, photos and information on the various activities they participate and coordinate throughout the area.
Would you consider being a member of our newest committee at The Good Samaritan Knights of Columbus 13096?
At the November 10th council meeting it was brought up by our newly appointed Public Relations Chair Jason A. Touw that he is in need of some additional brothers to help out with marketing efforts and the updating of the website. Some of the tasks are
If you can write a word document, send an email, or surf the web that’s the only experience you need.
Please consider this opportunity and contact Brother Jason asap!
Medina, MN. – During the Good Samaritan Knights of Columbus #13096 monthly council meeting, Grand Knight Dave Stumpf called a special election for the Office of Warden.
The Brother’s present nominated and elected Brother Jason A. Touw into the role. Brother Touw is a parishoner of Holy Name of Jesus and transferred to our council back in September 2015 as a 4th degree Knight. Since joining our council Brother Touw has been very active with attendance at numerous events, meetings, and helped redesign our council website which can be viewed at www.hnojkc.com. Prior to joining our council Touw was a member of the Marian Council 3827 Knights of Columbus in Bloomington, MN since 2009. Brother Touw helped develop the marketing program for the Bloomington Council bringing them to receive the State Marketing award in 2014. Prior to being a member in Bloomington Touw had been a Knight in Boca Raton, FL. at Our Lady of Lourdes council #11241 and joined the order of the Knights of Columbus in 2007 as a 3rd Degree at a ceremony at Our Lady of Mercy Council in Pompano Beach, FL. He joined the ranks of the 4th degree at a ceremony in Orlando, FL 6 months later in the spring of 2008.
Launched in 2009 by the Supreme Office of the Knights of Columbus, the K of C “Coats for Kids” program has already provided more than 170,000 new coats to children in need. More than 1,200 K of C councils participated in this program in the past year and our council provides coats for kids that are in need and deliver them to the IOCP organization. Once again this year we will be participating in the project. Learn more form the below video or visit www.KofC.org/coats.
Our next breakfast buffet is Sunday November 15th. Proceeds from this breakfast will support the operations of the HNOJ kitchen. Support this worthy cause by signing up for one or both of these shifts:
If you have further questions about this breakfast you can e-mail Breakfast Buffet Chair, Tom Silver, at [email protected] otherwise please sign up to help
Thanks to all who helped with the October 4th pro life breakfast. Our net (after expenses) came to approximately $1,400 all of which went to support pro life organizations!
On Thursday October 29th, 2015 the Good Samaritan Council 13096 was pleased to welcome our two newest members to the council. These gentleman were welcomed in during the major degree ceremony hosted by our Brother Knights at the St Joseph the Worker council in Maple Grove, MN.with 13 other catholic gentleman joining from various other councils twin cities wide. Also in attendance to welcome these new knights at this ceremony was our Grand Knight Dave Stumpf, 1st Year Trustee Dan Cincoski and Brother knight / council webmaster Jason Touw.
Congratulations and welcome to the council Kent Krager & Charles Gonderinger.
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die Gloe, Director of the Minnetonka Life Care Center, is asking for our help with the expansion of the Center. New space previously occupied by an adjacent salon will be added. Work will involve tear down of walls, cabinets, ceiling, flooring, sheet rocking, etc. The goal is to have this project completed by mid January.
Brother Greg Wacek and his partner Dave Peterson will be providing us with the details, i.e. timing, number of volunteers, specific tasks, etc. (You may recall that Greg completed the construction of a new room in the Center back in 2012.) Watch for these details in an upcoming announcement.
At this time, we are looking for a Knight to serve as the “Council Project Liaison”. This person would be responsible for communicating with Greg and/or Dave and coordinating KC Council volunteers. If interested, please contact Bill Swing.
A great opportunity to promote life!
We have been requested to participate with the annual SleepOut and Fire for Discipleship. This event is hosted by Holy Name of Jesus to benefit the IOCP. The event takes place from December 16th through December 17th. We as a council have signed up to participate on the evening of December 16th into 17th at midnight for one hour. Please consider joining us for prayers, companionship, brotherly discussions and supporting Chris Kostelc, Coordinator of Adult Formation; Murray Wolf, Pastoral Council Chair; and Deacon Dennis Hanson as they sleep outside in the dead of winter.
Learn more about this event here and if you are interested in participating please contact Earl Forrence
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Happy New Year! January 1st marks the half way point through the KC fraternal year. This is a good time to reflect on the Council’s activities over the past six months and to consider upcoming activities. As you make new year’s resolutions, please think about your involvement with the Council. It’s a great bunch of guys, activities are fun, and it hits the mark as far as discipleship goes. It has been a busy six months. Take a look at these pictures that I feel capture the spirit of our Council during this time: http://hnojkc.org/index.cfm?pageid=182. The pictures don’t show all activities. Here’s a comprehensive list of activities/programs that were completed:
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My appreciation to all who have contributed their time and energy to these projects!
If there’s been a theme for this past six months, I suggest that it is “communications” – better communications with other HNOJ ministries and better communications within our Council. Fr. Andrew has been especially helpful here and we look forward to working with him more as we move forward. Another significant effort started in the first half was the complete review and rewrite of the Council bylaws. This effort, led by our Advocate and Trustees, involves a review of all facets of Council operations. This is good for our Council as it causes us to question current processes and if necessary modify them to better support the Council’s mission. The time ahead promises to bring many new opportunities for us to serve our parish and community – opportunities to become better disciples of Christ. A number of 2015 activities have already been posted to the Council’s calendar at http://hnojkc.org/index.cfm/pageid/99 (click on “Open Item”). Those coming up are:
Then there are also those projects that are in process or ongoing:
And finally, we should make a stronger effort at growing our Council. I ask that you make a concerted effort to share the good news of our Council with your friends and encourage them to join. Please continue to monitor the Council web site at http://hnojkc.org for the latest Council news and activity updates. Stay warm & have a blessed new year! |
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Gentlemen,
As you may know, Bill Swing and I are re-crafting the HNOJKC.org web site archives to be more user-friendly and informative. Over time, we will be building and adding content. We hope to eventually post what we are calling, “a Knight’s guide to the Rosary.” It will be for all the public to see (not just KC’s) and tabbed for varying degrees of users between beginners and advanced Rosary users. Feel free to direct friends and relatives to the site, if something jumps out at you that you want others to read. Future articles and Lecturers reports will be written to fill content for that reason. Past articles will be tabbed and posted and a few old articles will be re-written to better serve tab headings.
We will post all the Lecturers Reports in the HNOJ KC council section as they are geared for our council and retrievable if you want to go back and read them. However, some of them will be edited down to just the content or story format and posted on some of the other tabs in the writing section of the site for all to see. Expect to see some duplication, as some of the articles are multi-purpose. Much of the last years Lecturers Reports were written with this big “…..guide” picture in mind. Bill and I are open to suggestions and ideas, as well as new content. We also intend to ask Fr. Steve to invite or let us tender an open and ongoing appeal to invite parishioners to share inspiring Rosary stories for us to post on the site, as they get sent to us.
If you or someone you know, has an inspiring story to share, but lack confidence in writing it, I would be happy to co-author it with you or them. However, we may not run everything that comes our way. It’s not an open forum or a blog for people to crank out endless material or opinions. We’re hoping for inspiring prayer and Rosary related stories. Bill and I will determine what is compatible with our web site goals.
A media page for inspiring Catholic/Christian-related books, movies and printed media articles will also be tabbed and maintained, so we will be in constant search to add good content. Please direct us or email us pertinent links, books or copies of news articles that pertain to our Rosary promotion efforts. Eventually, there will be an education tab for classes or formal presentation notes that some of our members present to various groups like the ninth and tenth graders or other pertinent instruction. If any of you teach a class or present something special and you deem it worthy of being on the site with your outline or notes, forward it to us.
Specifically to Earl, we would like to drag in or build a whole section on the Franciscan Rosaries (both sets of seven-Joys and Sorrows of Mary), so give us a hand with that. We want to encourage and even urge all members to direct people to our Rosary articles. If you have the right skills and would like to be more involved with our council, Bill would love to train you in on assisting the management of the site. Please volunteer and we will put you to work.
It seems appropriate to start with THE ORIGIN OF THE ROSARY article which will be posted in the Monthly Lecturers Report section of the web site and separated out in one or more other sections for those who surf the site later. Comments made at the Rosary Oct. 14th procession will come from this. THE ORIGIN OF THE ROSARY In the year 1208, the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Dominic and instructed him how to build and pray the Rosary. If you recall your AP European History classes from high school, all of Europe was in a massive downward spiral of chaos, disease, debauchery, barbarianism and self-destruction. Marauding hoards were raping and pillaging every village in Europe, killing as many as they could. Rats were spreading “the plague”, also killing many people. Rome sent soldiers to intervene before all was lost. Mary wanted Dominic to use the Rosary to calm the masses by praying for real hope and change, for faith, hope and charity. It was also used by the soldiers to protect them in battle. Many miracles were recorded during this time frame, directly related to the use of the Rosary, too many to mention in this writing. St. Dominic was born in Castile Spain in 1170. While she was pregnant, Dominic’s mother had a vision of Dominic lighting Europe on fire like a hound running with a torch in his mouth. Many of today’s Dominican Institutions depict the Dominican Order with stained glass windows featuring a star-crowned shield with a hound holding a torch in his mouth. After attending the Paris University, Dominic traveled throughout France with his Bishop to teach and share what they referred to as, “the fruits of contemplation”. Later, the Bishop, Dominic and other followers founded the “Order of Preachers” to continue that evangelical work. It later became known as the Dominicans, now serving in over eighty five different countries. “We set the world on fire”, is their motto. Within that same era, the Franciscans, the Carmelites, the Benedictines, the Jesuits and many other worthy and Holy Orders of the Catholic faith were founded throughout Europe by deeply spiritual priests and Catholic people guided by divine intervention. Coincidentally, but also during that same time frame, the Roman Catholic Church was in turmoil. As Catholics, we all get side-swiped by anti-Catholic historians who remind us of this short time span when we had a 13 year old Medici family Pope and what a corrupt Church we all belong to. Don’t you think it’s interesting how God directed so many different Holy Orders to be formed during that dire time frame, not just for the survival of His Church, but to magnify its world-wide impact and strength? It’s also very interesting how rapidly and wide-spread the Rosary traveled the world and became the conduit for many of those new Holy Orders to gain momentum. The Rosary is the single most important prayer form for the entire worldwide Catholic community. Unity! More miracles are associated with the Rosary than any other prayer format. If you need a miracle, don’t wait around. Start a daily Rosary regimen right now. By the way, it’s a “two-for” i.e. the Blessed Virgin is praying it with you, every time you go. She is our “advocate” and will hand deliver your petition to God. With all the turmoil over public Catholic issues, abortion, ethnic cleansing, etc. the Rosary can have an impact on resolving overwhelming obstacles and defeating enemies. It worked before, it can work again if we all pray, together, for a miracle. |
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