Brother Knights, Already one month has passed in

the new year! “Time flies, Remem-

ber Death”! We are entering our

busiest time of the Fraternal Year.

The Basketball Challenge is this

Saturday February 7th at the Royal

Palm Beach Rec Center from 12-3

PM. Right after that we begin the

final sales of Valentines Dinner/

Dance tickets at the 4:30 PM mass

and after every mass on Sunday

the 8th. The dinner/dance is a great

evening out and I encourage every-

one to attend with that special

someone in their life! The Lenten

season begins of Wednesday Feb-

ruary 18th and we begin our six

Fish Fries starting Friday February

20th. We need a lot of help with this

event. It is one of our big money

makers! If you can’t help out,

please stop by and purchase a

meal! Please remember the Men’s

retreat starting the evening of Feb-

ruary 27th through Sunday March

1st. Right after that we have our

biggest fund raiser of the year. the

16th Annual Council Golf Outing

on Sunday April 19th. If you play

golf, please join us for a fun day in

the sun at the Village Golf Club in

Royal Palm Beach. We are slowly

adding new members to the Coun-

cil. At our January meeting I had

the pleasure of awarding first De-

gree Certificates to Thomas

McGeevey and Phil Norton. Also

we had one of our brother knights

attain his 4th Degree. On Saturday

January 31, Sir Knight Brian Guth-

rie-Buckley had his exemplification

in Miami. I have spent a lot of time

sitting outside of church in the past

few weeks selling tickets. Several

people have approached me asking

about becoming Knights. I hope

they will consider joining our ranks.

If you know someone who may

wish to join, please encourage him

and have him stop by after mass

and speak with me or another of-

ficer. Our adoration hours as of Jan-

uary 31st has reached 673. The Ado-

ration Chapel is a great place to go

to pray and be at peace. Please avail

yourself of this great resource.

Vivat Jesus, S/K Robert A. Cataldo Grand Knight

Grand Knight’s Message

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OFFICERS Grand Knight Robert A. Cataldo Deputy Grand Knight John E. Sykes Chaplain Rev. Laurent Assenga Chancellor Kevin Moore Recorder Rocco D’Attolico Financial Secretary Bert Lanctot Treasurer James Bezick Lecturer Robert Laquerre Advocate Benny Matos Warden Greg Mazzella Inside Guard Carlos Rivera Outside Guard Jose Calas Guard at Large Mario Garcia 3 Year Trustee Martin J. Farraher 2 Year Trustee Ronald J. Rizzolo 1 Year Trustee Joe Deithorn Membership Director Nick Alessandria Insurance Agent John Cesta

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Upcoming Events

the Spaghetti dinner and continued on Jan-uary 10th and 11th, 17th and 18th, 24th and 25th, 31st-Feb 1st. Our LAST days for ticket sales will be Feb 7th and 8th after all masses. The dance is on Saturday February 14th at O.L.Q.A. This event is sponsor for our parish community and is not a fundraiser for our council. So please purchase your tickets A.S.A.P. We need your support to make this parish event successful again this year! Please purchase t i c k e t s . As you can see January was a busy month, but February will be even m o r e s o . The start of Lenten

Brother Knights,

We are already starting the second month of the new year!. Last year was a great suc-cess. January was a busy month for us, we had our first Spaghetti Dinner and that was a success thanks to all of the ones who volun-teer. We also had our Memorial Mass on the 25th of January at the O.L.Q.A. Church. Thanks to everyone for attending. We also had a Blood Drive on the 18th of January. We also had several com-mittee Valentines Dance meetings, to which all were invited to attend. We started selling Val-entines Dance tickets at

Season begins right af-ter the Valentines Dance on February 18th – Ash Wednesday – and the Fish Frys begin on Feb. 20th. Dinner will be from5-7pm. We need Volunteers to set up. The dates of the Fish Fry's are as follows: February 20th, 27th, March 6th, 13th, 20th a n d - 2 5 t h . Remember the oath you took when you became a Knight. Open up your heart and you can make a difference in your Life and in other people lives. What you do re-flects on the council and the community. So Brother Knights please volunteer your time at the coming events.

John E. Sykes

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Deputy Grand Knight’s Message

Ticket Sales

Sweetheart Dance Ticket

Sales after all masses

weekend Feb 7th-8th

Basketball Shootout

Saturday February 7th,

2015 at12-3 PM RPB Rec

Center

Officer’s Meeting

February 9th, 2015 at

7:30PM in Festival Hall

Sweetheart Dinner

Saturday February 14,

2015 6-11PM

Ash Wednesday

February 18th

Fish Fry

February 20th & 27th.

Celebration Hall

General Meeting

February 23rd starting

at 7:30 PM Festival Hall

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Chancellor’s Report Brothers, February, 2015 Can you believe that the first month of 2015 has already passed us by? Where does the time go to? If you are anything like me, there never seems to be enough time in the day to get everything I need to do done. The best advice I can give to that is, just do your best and turn the rest over to Jesus. Trust in the will of God. If it is meant to be it will happen. I al-ways find that prayer is the best way to relax and to ease the stress of a busy day. Try it when you are all tense and things aren’t going the way you would like it. Ask the Blessed Mother to bring you the graces from God to get you through your trials. She is always lis-tening, as She is the deliverer of all graces. This is the busiest time of the year in our council with many events, dinners and func-tions on our calendar. Please find an event that interest you and give a little time to help your council meet and exceed its goals that have been set. We have our Parish Valentine’s Dinner/Dance coming up followed by our regular fish fry’s every Friday during Lent. Our Basketball Free Throw contest for boys and girls is scheduled for the 7th of February. Our annual Tootsie roll drive is coming up soon. More volunteers is greatly needed for this and can’t be a more worthy and fulfilling call to help someone out that can’t help themselves. One of our biggest fundraisers is just right around the corner, the Golf Tournament. Much help is needed there, both before the tournament; soliciting sponsors such as Hole and High Profile as well as gifts from local restaurants and stores. Anything you brothers can provide is a positive. We also need golfers and volunteers for the day of the tourna-ment. These are just a few things you can participate in. Please check the monthly calendar that is in the newsletter. Remember, in giving you will receive. These are some of the things our council is doing and providing for you and your fami-lies. Our parish also has many events that take place throughout the year that also needs your support. Our parish not only provides us with the Holy Sacrifice of daily and weekly Mass, but also has Bible study classes, Spiritual concerts and Health screenings and check-ups. There are many ministries in our parish that also needs your support that you may ben-efit from. A newer one in our parish is the Family ministry, where you can come, share and grow. Remember at the last meeting I spoke to you about how your council and your parish is an extension of your own personal family. Both are here to help you and fill your needs throughout this life, through the good times and the bad. You have to make the choice to be involved. Maybe by your participation you can make a difference in someone’s life that you had no idea was hurting or in need. Sometimes it may be as simple as taking five minutes and just listening. God is calling us now, He put you here for a purpose. You are special in ways you may not know. Please take to the time and share your family with the rest of us. Your parish needs your participation.

May God Bless you and your Families, Kevin Moore Chancellor

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Birthdays

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February Birthdays Michael Rossario 02/10 John Herzog 02/11 Frederick Rienecker 02/12 Greg Mazzella 02/14

Alfredo Corzo 02/15 Joseph Schuessler 02/16 Dennis Pedalino 02/16 Kenneth Woo 02/17 Leonardo Tarafa 02/17 Jerry Sullivan 02/19 Manuel Perry 02/23 Donald Roll 02/24 James Ciuffetelli 02/24 Nick Reising 02/27 Joseph Licari 02/27 Angel Rodriguez-Rivera 02/28

K N I G H T S O F C O L U M B U S

Ann Chaland Jacob Conelly Charles Davie Milton Deithorn Fran DeMarinis Lou Divideo Elaine Edson George Everson Mark Fink Jim Gornick Steven Greco Ralph Guera Claude Jenkins David Kennedy

Jesse Lopez Rosemary Matos Elizabeth McKenna Edna Muller Victoria Nash Denel Nelson Jean Paladino Erin Potter Maria Rodriguez Pat Rothenburg Mario Scollo Terri Soltis Norm Sykes Andy Schaumburg

Your continued prayers are needed for the following Brothers and their Families:

Verna Adhlen John Anderson Bishop Gerald Babarito Francisco Beldez Sharon Bitters Tom Boccagno Michael Brown John Cardente Emily Caronia Deacon Luis Castellaños

Good of the Order

Anniversaries February Anniversaries

Rafael & Agripina Santiago-Colon 2/2 Cesar & Joanne Sastoque 2/10 John & Angela Castiglione 2/14 Thomas & Margaret Schmidt 2/14 Marco & Monica Bell 2/14 Victor & Vilma Alarcon 2/14 Robert & Yvonne White 2/15

August & Lucille Pascual 2/18 Jose & Conchita Diaz 2/20 Kevin & Mimi Moore 2/22 John & Joanne Barry 2/23 William & Louise Moreno 2/25

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Father Harry’s January Message

Meditation – “Hallowed Be Thy Name:”

Often you have heard me talk about the “Lord’s Prayer”, and that we need to

pray it with the utmost reverence. I believe the following meditation written by

Father Alfred Delp, S.J., a Jesuit priest condemned to death by the Nazi’s in Ber-

lin, 1945, says it all so eloquently.

The images evoked by the Lord's prayer vividly illustrate our life. Humanity

stands or falls by the things that are mentioned in it. If this is realized we can

begin to make progress. If it is not realized, or not taken seriously, we sink and

decline. That is the real key to the grim picture of life today. And this phrase,

hallowed be name, teaches us to pray for the worthy ideal, for the unassaila-

ble, holy, venerated standard. Unless they have something of supreme value,

something at the center of their being which they can venerate, human beings

gradually deteriorate. Human nature is so constituted that it must have some-

thing holy that it can worship, otherwise it becomes cramped and distorted, and

instead of a holy object of veneration something else will take its place ...

The Word of God should evoke and receive the great veneration this phrase sug-

gests, praise, reverence, awe. This effects the realization of those fundamental

categories of life I referred to just now. The name of God is the holy of holies,

the central silence, the thing that above all others calls for humble approach. We

not only ought to believe in the truth at the center of our being, in the purpose of

our existence, but we should also bear testimony to this belief by the proper ful-

fillment of our life's purpose. We should subjugate every-

thing to this law of holiness and reject everything that

does not harmonize with it. God, the great object of hu-

man veneration, will then also be our whole life.”

Pending this meditation I’m most sure you will under-

stand the need to pray the “Our Father” with deep spiritu-

al insight and devotion! God’s blessings be with you.

Fr. Harry D. McAlpine

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Knight of the Month .

The Knight of the Month for January 2015 is one of our quiet Knights. He is always around and smiles a lot. He is always willing to lend a hand, but if you didn’t look for him you would-n’t know he was there. At the end of the Spaghetti Dinner on January 7th, he worked with me in the kitchen in order to make it a cleaner place than before we start-

ed cooking! We were there to the very end cleaning a n d f i n a l l y t u r n i n g t h e l i g h t s o u t a s w e l o c k e d t h e d o o r . It is my privilege to award the Knight of the Month award to our Brother Nevile Moo Young.

For the selection of the Family of the Month award for January 2015 I need only mention their names and every Brother can readily name the numerous acts of support to the council as well as the Parish. Both of these people do not sit on the side lines and watch our many Council and Parish events. They roll up their sleeves and jump right in to help whenever and wherever it is needed. Therefore, it is my distinct and personal privilege to announce that Susan and Ron Rizzolo are our Family of the Month.

Family of the Month

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February 2015

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednes

day Thursday Friday

Satur-

day

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Valentines Dance Ticket Sales

8 Valentines Dance Ticket Sales

9 Officers Meeting 7:30 PM Festival Hall

10 11 12 13 Celebra-tion Hall Setup 5:00 PM For Din-ner/Dance

14

Valentine's Day Dinner and Dance

15 16

Presidents'

Day

17 18 Ash Wednes-day LENT BEGINS

19 20

Fish Fry 5

-7PM

Celebra-

tion Hall

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22

23

General Meeting 7:30 PM Festival Hall

24 25 26 27 Fish Fry 5-

7PM

Celebra-

tion Hall

28 Annual Men’s Re-treat

1 Annual Men’s Re-treat

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LENTEN PRAYER

Almighty and Everlasting

God, You have given the hu-

man race Jesus Christ our

Savior as a model of humili-

ty. He fulfilled Your Will by

becoming Man And giving

His life on the Cross. Help us

to bear witness to You By fol-

lowing His example of suf-

fering And make us worthy

to share in His Resurrection.

We ask this through our

Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son.

Amen