Knights of Columbus

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Blaine / Coon Rapids

Council #5141

August, 2001

Grand Knight's Message

Council Awards

Ladies Auxiliary

Caribbean Cruise

St. Joseph's Festival

St. Tim's Carnival

Trophies

Fishing & Golf

Seminarians Story - Part 2

BLAZIN' 4th Photo's

Coming Events

Brother Knights in Christ. We are embarking on a new year and already we have been gung-ho. We have had the 4th of July parade and are already getting ready for the festivals at St. Joseph's and St. Tim's. If you can help call Marc Peters or Dick Dols. Also, the KC's & Men's Club golf outing is on July 28th.

Remember in your prayers Robert Hosford who has gone blind in one eye and also has leukemia. Also, please remember Frank and Jane Nieland and their daughter, who has been going through some hard times. Please also remember all the people who are sick and in distress.

Peace be with you,

Dick Smith
Grand Knight

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You may have noticed that the men's dues form includes information about the Ladies Auxiliary dues. You may send your Knight's dues and your dues ($3.50) in the same envelope (2 checks-- 1 to KC 5141 Ladies Auxiliary, 1 to KC 5141 for the men). We believe this should make it easier for you to join the ladies auxiliary.

The board will have a planning meeting August 15th (same time as men's meeting). The first general meeting is September 19 where the ladies host a potluck before the meeting.

If you want to have some Fall Fun, consider going bowling with the Ladies Auxiliaries. The State Bowling Tournament hosted by Epiphany on Saturday, September 29, 2001, at Maple Lanes in Fridley. Registration begins at 8 am and bowling at 9 am. Cost is $22.00 (bowling and lunch), $10.00 (lunch only). Please send your check payable to Knights of Columbus Auxiliary #10138 along with your bowling handicap to me (Jean Ackermann, 10728 Lincoln Street NE, Blaine, MN 55434) by SEPTEMBER 1st, 2001.

Hope you are enjoying your summer.

Jean Ackermann
President

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Potential Cruisers!

There has been some interest in getting some people together for a cruise in the early part of 2002. Possibilities are a 7-day cruise to the Caribbean. Any interested parties please come to St. Tim's Hospitality Center on August 1st at 8:00 PM. Bring cruise literature if you wish. Council 5141 does not promote any particular Cruise Line or Travel Agency for this first time activity.

Dick and Jan Dols

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The council's help is needed again this year at the St. Joseph's August festival, August 11th and 12th. Once again the council will help on Saturday evening, the 11th, during and after the 5 PM mass kicking off the festival under the big top. We need help during the mass to prepare the food and especially right after the mass to serve the crowd as they leave. Usually, we are done with most of the work by 7 PM, which leaves you time to enjoy the live music, beverages and games of chance. This is a great time to work, yet enjoy the company of the council members and members of the St. Joseph's community. (Fr. Tim Morin will preside at the mass; he is a member of our council.)

Along with our help, we also provide our food tent and cooker. This year we also will let the parish use the large tent that Blaine-Coon Rapids purchased during the winter for use by the two parishes as well as the Men's Club. Please consider this night, Saturday, August 11th about 4:45PM to 7PM to help. A special invitation goes out to those members of the council who attend St. Joe's; we need your help this night. Let's hear from you!!

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St. Tim's Carnival

Once again the Knights will coordinate a food booth at the carnival. This year Pork Chops on a Stick will be added to the menu. Shifts to work will be as follows:

A sign up sheet will be passed out at the August KC general meeting. Anyone who cannot make the meeting and wants to work can sign up at St. Tim's the weekends of August 18th and 19th or August 25th and 26th. Or you can call Dick Dols

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Wanted: Home for Trophies

At the year-end banquet, in conjunction with our 40th anniversary, we dug out all our trophies and awards and put them out on display. Most of the sports trophies have been stored at Vern & Barb Shereck's for over ten years and they thought it was an opportune time to unload, no, return them to the council. We thank those two for taking care of our treasures. Those attending the banquet had an opportunity to bring home and sport a trophy they wanted and a few did find new homes. However, there are still about 5 to 6 cases of assorted softball and bowling trophies left that have now found a resting place in my garage. This is your opportunity to acquire one or more pieces of hardware that commemorates part of our council's history. Maybe you are sentimental, maybe you want to impress the neighbors; or just maybe you have a shelf in your garage that is calling out for a KC trophy. Whatever the reason, don't be shy. Please give me a call and I will try to find just the right trophy(s) for you.

I will hold on to them until Labor Day. Any & all trophies after that date will be donated to an outfit that reconditions them and reuses them for non-profit organizations.

Marc Peters

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Fishing & Golf

When: September 14th, 15th, and 16th

Ball Club Lake Lodge, Ball Club Lake

In Deer River, Mn.

Host's: Jon & Marion Mason 1-800-626-7642

Cost: $100 for room, food and fun

Golf and casino extra

Payment is due by August 31st

Leaving St. Tim's parking lot at 6:30 am on the 14th

Stopping at Embers in Milaca for Breakfast

Please be on time so we can caravan

Vern Shereck has some tee times set for Friday

Meals for Friday night and Saturday morning and night will be at a restaurant called "Gosh Dam Place" in Deer River

There will be sandwich fixing's for lunch and snacks

Sunday morning you are on your own 

Directions: Take 169 to Hill City then take 200 West (left) to Highway 6. Take 6 to town of Ball Club. At Ball Club take County 39. Travel 4.7 miles to Ball Club Lake Lodge. 

Questions call Larry Silverdahl at 763-780-0429

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This article is the conclusion to the one enclosed in last months guidepost and is written by Paul Javris, the seminarian our council is sponsoring. His teaching parish is St. Joseph's in Lino Lakes.

But all worthwhile spiritual adventures and practices involve pain, simply because growth involves pain. Knee-deep in exams, writing papers, or running from one responsibility to another, seminarians begin dreaming of a life without the 24-7 frenzy, a life with some free time on Sundays. Or any other day of the week, for that matter. With a spiritual director or close friend, they may occasionally wonder whether they are Called after all. 

I've had such thoughts, myself. Fortunately, God sent me a priest - a widower, by the way - when I was doing more doubting than discerning. He didn't tell me to "get over it." He didn't pretend that the life ahead would be easy. He just graced me with wisdom from his own experience, once happily married and currently a grandfather as well as a priest. 

He counseled me that, like marriage, there will indeed be days when anything would seem better than priesthood. And just as long-married folks will occasionally wake up, turn to their sleeping spouses and wisecrack, "Oh, so you're still here." - a priest will have moments where he would much rather be a fisherman than a fisher of men and women. 

And like marriage, priesthood (as well as life in a religious order) ultimately comes down to living a life of love. The sort of love that when there is a need … you simply respond. And in responding, you reveal the transparent God all around us, much as the wind is revealed by the waves it makes in the rivers and fields. There is indeed joy in "the religious life." Maybe not Disneyland happiness. But definitely soul-rocking and soul-calming joy! Few people, according to my priest-friend, are at the center of so much joy as religious sisters, brothers, monks, nuns, priests and deacons. 

Just think of all the lives touched by a priest in baptisms. In marriages. In counseling. In preaching. In teaching. In funerals. In nursing homes. In confessionals. In Eucharist. Think of the potential for self-knowledge, knowledge of Other, and practice in Love within a religious community. 

Whether one tends to be a progressive or a traditionalist, following "The Call" is one of the most radical adventures one could ever live. Just like climbing Mount Everest, it's all about discovering your limits … and going beyond them. But instead of just taking your life into your hands, you touch a great many other's as well. 

It works for me. I'm staying in the seminary until told otherwise. Might "the religious life" be for single faithful and generous Christians you know? Knights and non-members? Maybe someone you wouldn't ordinarily think was vocation-material or fits common notions of holiness? Someone who's been widowed or has survived an annulled marriage? Religious life or priesthood should be something all at least consider making as a possible gift to God and God's people … at any stage of one's adult life, including life after dramatic changes. 

If intrigued, contact the archdiocese's vocations office: 651-962-6890, or www.10000vocations.org. Or contact me at Shismoo@Hotmail.com. Even if you or someone you know only has the slightest hint of a Calling, please consider exploring such an intensive Christian life. The best part of it is that the People of God ultimately benefit as much from this investigation as the Christian doing the discerning. 

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