Officers Council 1489 2015-2016

Grand Knight William Grode gk1489@midconetwork.com Deputy Grand Knight Jeffrey Meyer Chaplain Rev. Ed Vanorny Financial Secretary Deacon Lou Usera Sr. knightsc@midconetwork.com Treasurer Terrence Williams Recorder Dustin Wagner Chancellor Ernesto Garcia Warden Larry James Inside Guard Lanny Callen Outside Guard James Stephens Advocate Jeff Hurd Lector Ernesto Garcia Trustee First Year Stephen Hasenohrl Trustee Second Year Timothy French Trustee Third Year Leon Lunders Committee Members

2015-2016

Membership Director Bill Spratte Retention Chairman Jeff Meyer Program Director William Spratte Church Director Paul A. Yantes- Community Director Lanny Callen Blood Drive Chairman Lanny Callen Council Director Donald Skinner Family Director Dr. Greg Scherr- Youth Director Deacon Lou Usera Sr. Charity Chairman Timothy French Life Insurance Representative Mark DiSanto— 391-5694

mark.disanto@kofc.org

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1981, Rapid City, SD 57709-1981 Building Address: 1220 East Minnesota Street, Rapid City, SD 57701

Office hours: 8 to 9:30 a.m. Monday - Friday Ph. # 605-342-4681 November 2015

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP COUNCIL 1489

Happy November!

It has been a great fall. I hope that you all have freezers full of pheasant, big "W's" for your favorite football teams and some family get-togethers planned. Our Thanksgiving dinner is coming up when we feed many in our community who need the assistance. Please help if you can.

Things are going very well for our council. Thanks to all of you who are involved and make it all possible.

Be safe. Vivat Jesus, Bill

Knight of month - Bill Gradoville

Family of month - Paul Yantes and family

William Grode

Brother Knights ~~ The most recent issue of our Columbia magazine

included a story from the Opening Business Session of this year’s Su-

preme Convention, held in Philadelphia, August 4-6. This story report-

ed on the plight of Christian refugees in the Middle East, and spoke of

how, earlier in the day, the 100’s of Bishops and Archbishops, attending

the convention, had joined our Supreme Knight, Carl Anderson, at a

press conference to raise public awareness about the suffering of our

fellow Christians in Iraq and Syria.

During his annual report, our supreme knight spoke passionately of how “we,

as Knights of Columbus, are called to stand in solidarity with all those Christians

around the world who are suffering from violent persecution, and to offer spiritual and

material assistance to these victims of crimes against humanity.” And to that effort, he

announced a “Season of Truth,” and is urging his brother knights to pray daily for

these Christian brothers and sisters of ours – “for their perseverance in faith and hope,

for the improvement of their living conditions, and for the restoration of peace and jus-

tice in their land.”

You may well be aware of how we knights have already donated more than $4

million to relief efforts in Syria and Iraq through the KC Christian Refugee Fund – but

more is desperately needed, and so each local council is being encouraged to participate

in what is called the Knights of Columbus Refugee Cross Program. And for now, I

simply invite you to our next general meeting on November 10 to find more about this

and how you can participate in this program.

Blessings ~~ Father Ed

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November Calendar 1st

All Saints Day 2nd

All Souls Day 3th

Columbian Club Meeting at 6:30 p.m. Council Business Meeting 7 p.m.

6h Bishop’s First Friday Mass and Luncheon at

11:15 a.m. 9th

Catholic Daughters Annual Memorial Mass at 5:30 p.m. at St. Therese

10th Thanksgiving Pot Luck Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Regular Membership meeting at 7:30 p.m.

11th Veteran‘s Day

14th Whist Card Party at 7 p.m. at the KC Hall

15th Pancake breakfast after the 8 a.m. Mass

17th Installation of the 2015—2016 Officers at the Our

Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel. At 5:30 p.m. Mass

23th 4th Degree meeting at St. Therese

26th Thanksgiving Dinner at St. Thomas More HS

11 a.m. 2,9,16,23,30

Monday night Family Night 6 p.m. at the KC Hall.

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Pennies from Heaven When you come to any of our meetings bring your pennies.

Every Thursday Morning

Card Party At 9 a.m. at the KC

Building at 1220 E. Minnesota St. Bring a snack to share.

Member Birthdays for November

Fredrick Solano 47 Timothy Henderson 60 David Lang 56 Mario Rangel 37 William Grode 66 Dennis Hill 80 Jeffrey Hurd 51 Daniel Duffy 55 Brian Schroeder 44 Abraham Usera 71 Mark Bruhn 53 Gerald Ferguson 56 John Wagner Jr. 65 Jim Jackson 64

Wedding Anniversary November

Family Night on Monday Nights at the KC Hall . Bring members of your family and enjoy night of watching football, playing cards,

etc. Bring a snack to share.

Kenneth & Julia Orrock 11-06-1993 22

Terrence & Judith Williams

11-09-1963 52

Leslie & Joanne Swedin 11-10-1955 60

Charles & Maxine Holm

11-11-1955 60

Bradly & Marsha Colling 11-15-1975 40

Fred & Linda Berendse

11-20-1971 44

Joint Memorial Mass

This year is going to be our 3rd joint Memorial Mass with the 4 Councils & Catholic Daughters. We are asking once again that you, the members and families join us Monday, November 9th at 5:30p.m. at St. Therese for Mass & to read the names of deceased members in your Council from last year, also lighting a small candle in their memory. (The CDA will provide the can-dles). There will be a light supper served after the Mass. Please give this Mass your consideration. Your response is requested.

Call 342-1651 or e-mail bspratte@rap.midco.net God Bless: Bonnie Spratte, Regent Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court St. Rita #916 The members we will be remembering on November 9 (these members passed away after the last Memorial Mass November 2014)

Daniel Williams, Richard Kovarik, Herman Rausch, Patrick Duffy, Leo Griffin, Elmer Schorlzmann, Melvin Lien, Harold Rowe, and

Msgr. William O Connell.

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Reminder of the prayer rally at the federal court house to stop the government mandate of the affordable care act forcing the Catholic institutions to fund abortifacients, contraception drugs, etc. every Friday from 4 – 5 P.M.

FIRST FRIDAY MASS AND LUNCH WITH BISHOP GRUSS Bishop Gruss will celebrate First Friday Mass on November 6, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpet-ual Help at 11:15 AM. Lunch will be served in the

church hall at noon. Bishop Gruss will present a talk after lunch. The charge for lunch is $6. Proceeds benefit SDSM&T Newman Center. All are welcome.

The last pancake breakfast on October 18 was for Coats for Kids. The next Pancake Breakfast will be on November 15 for Federation for Northern Explor-ers. It will be after the 8 a.m. Mass in the Cathedral Hall. Come and volunteer to help with the breakfast.

Church News

Jim Jackson re-ceiving the Knight of the Month certificate for September from GK Bill Grode.

The October Pot Luck Din-ner in October had a great turn out. The next one will be on November10 and it will be an early Thanks-giving Pot Luck Dinner. So

Attention all Officers of Council 1489 Installation of the 2015—2016 Officers at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel. It will be at the 5:30 p.m. Mass on November 17, Tuesday. All Officers need to attend.

Tootsie Roll Drive Thanks to all who made our second largest annual fundraiser a success. We grossed $4400.00 over the two weekends. God “shined” His grace on our endeavors as the weather was very nice. Below are pictured some of the volunteers: Rick Doerr, Mike Janssen and kids, Francis Paulin, Jeremy Carlin, Brian Schroeder, Don Skinner, Robert Nix, Keith McCarty and son, and Brad Colling. There were many others that are not pictured.

Jim Stephens and Jerry Treinen

Co-Chairmen

Pumpkin Carving Party We had a very successful Pumpkin carving party this past month. We had over 50 kids carving pumpkins and some adults. It was such a nice day so this was the first year we actually carved pumpkins outside in the sun-shine. We started with 65 pumpkins and by the time the day was completed we had 12 pumpkins left. We missed a few of the regu-lars to a local soccer competition, so maybe next year we will try a better date. Everyone brought great snacks to share and we had a ton of left over food, especially deserts !!!! The huge pot of Chili went over well and was al-most gone by the end. The kids seem to have a ball doing it. It is fun to see them return every year now. Some are getting "too old" now to carve pumpkins, but they still come to watch the little ones do it. That is kind of neat to see. If you missed it this year, we hope to see you next year.

Vivat Jesus. Greg Scherr

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THANKSGIVING NEWS 2015

The up coming Thanksgiving Dinner will be the 32nd dinner and once again Jeff Meyer volunteered to chair the project. Thank you. He and his committee will be contacting you for help in some aspect of the project. Past years every-one pitched in and made it a successful project. This dinner will be held at the St. Thomas More HS Common. Thank you again for what this council does for the Community, Church, Youth, Charity, etc. Remember that we don’t take home delivery orders for Thanksgiving Dinner this year—only RSVP will take the orders at their office. Here are some photos from previous years of the Thanksgiving Dinner.

From the Officers of the

Knights of Columbus

Council 1489 we want to

wish everyone a very happy

and safe Thanksgiving.

Whist Card Party News

Our monthly Whist Card Par-

ty for the month of October

was held on Saturday, Octo-

ber 10. It was certainly an

evening of good company

and friendly card playing,

and, fortunately, we had

enough people for four tables again. The win-

ners for the evening were Bonnie Spratte and

Don Skinner, with high scores for the women

and the men – and Father Ed and Florence

Skinner, with low scores for the men and wom-

en. The monthly card party for November will

be on Saturday, November 14, at 7:00 pm at the

KC Hall on Minnesota Street. Please call and

invite your friends and neighbors to come on

over, and let’s play cards!!!

Events coming up soon

Annual Essay Contest

Christmas Poster Contest

Memorial Mass by the Catholic Daughters Nov 9

Christmas Pot luck Dinner on December 8 at 6:30 p.m.

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Topic: Keep Christ in Christmas Eligibility: The Knights of Columbus “Keep Christ in Christmas” Poster Contest is open to all young people between the ages of 5 and 14. Age eligibility is determined by the age of the contestant as of November 1. Age Groups: Contest entr ants compete in one of three age groups—ages 5 through 7, ages 8 through 10, and 11 through 14. Date: Poster s should be completed by December 15, 2015 Knights of Columbus Our Lady of Perpetual Help Council 1489 is inviting boys and girls in Rapid City from ages 5 through 14 to participate in the organizations’ international “Keep Christ in Christmas” poster contest. “By engaging the creative talents and imaginations of our young people we hope they will come to a deeper understanding of the true, spiritual mean-ing of Christmas,” said Council 1489 Grand Knight William Grode. The contest will be conducted locally with winning entries advancing to the district/regional and then to state, national and international levels. The winning entries will serve as the basis for a series of new Christmas Post-ers that encourage a deeper understanding of the holiday. Posters must be submitted to 1220 E. Minnesota St., Rapid City, SD by December 15, 2015. “The posters will be distributed in the countries where the Knights are ac-tive as part of our ‘Keep Christ in Christmas” campaign,’ said Grand Knight William Grode . “Creative credit will also be given to the winning artists.”

South Dakota Knights of Columbus Essay Contest

All seventh and eighth grade students are eligible to en-ter. The topic for this year is:

The Knights of Columbus is based on four

pillars: charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriot-ism. Choose one of these pillars and tell what it means. Then give real life examples of how

to live it day-by-day as a Catholic.

Dates of Contest Councils’ contest has begun and closes January 15th.

Composition of Essay Essays must be type written, double-spaced and contain 300 words or less.

Identification of Contestant The name of the Council (Our Lady of Perpetu-al Help) and council number (1489) along with the name and address of the writer must be placed in a small envelope and attached to the upper right hand corner of the essay securely, but unsealed. If there is more than one page, they must all be securely fastened together. Please state if you are a boy or girl contestant so that appropriate awards may be selected for the winners. Essays must be submitted to 1220 E. Minnesota St., Rapid City SD by January 15 or given to Paul Yantes who is the Chairperson for the Essay Contest.

Dates to remember in November Day light savings—November 1 All Souls Day—November 2 Thanksgiving pot luck Dinner November

10—6:30 p.m. Veterans Day—November 11 Thanksgiving—November 26

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For Families

Family Project

November

Because the Lord is the God of our ancestors, we want to strengthen the relationships between our family's generations. Our family defines each and every one of us. Because our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents chose life, we are here today. This month, thank God for the gift of your family.

Meditation From Pope Francis’ message to participants in the 47th social week of Italian Catholics. For the Christian community the family is far more than a “theme”: It is life, it is the daily fabric of life, it is the journey of generations who pass on the faith together with love and with the basic moral values. It is concrete solidarity, effort, patience, and also a project, hope, a future. All this which the Christian community lives out in the light of faith, hope and charity, should never be kept to oneself but must become, every day, the leaven in the dough of the whole of society for its greater common good. Hope and a future presuppose memory. The memory of our elderly people sustains us as we journey on., The future of society … is rooted in the elderly and in the young — the latter, because they are a living memory. A people that does not take care of its elderly, its children and its youth has no future, because it abuses both memory and promise. 1. Who is one person in our family whose faith shaped my own? What

strengths does each member of our family have? 2. What are some ways our family tries to live out belief in God and his

Church? Which virtue seems to be particularly strong in our family — faith, hope or charity?

3. Why is keeping alive the memory of our history, our family roots, important to shaping the future?

Making a family tree is a great way to celebrate your ances-try and learn about the past events that have shaped each family member to be who he or she is today. During this month, re-search your family history, seeing how far back you can trace. Gather copies of old photos and era-related items to accompany your information. Further connect with your family by corresponding with grandparents or other relatives who do not live nearby. Send them photos, letters, or a “Thinking of You” card signed by the whole family. Set aside time to regularly visit the graves of deceased rela-tives and to pray for them.

Scripture Reading of the Month Psalm 105: 1,6,8-11.44-45

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