March 2016

5. The Opening Ode was not sung – motion made and approved to dismiss with opening ode.

5. Chaplain’s Report -Fr. Bob

Father Bob reflected on one of the themes of Lent – “Serve and not to be served”.These are words of our Holy Father.As servants and followers of Jesus Christ, Father Bob directed us to serve the full needs of the community – emotionally, physically and spiritually.He noted that it isn’t easy to do them all.We need daily prayer and scripture reading – he suggests we start our day that way with reflection.

5. Approval of Minutes of Previous Meeting – Don Williams

Draft of minutes and corrections sent out by e-mail.Motion made, 2^nd and approved to accept the minutes as read.

5. Grand Knight’s Report – GK Chris Cushing
   • Membership retention committee
     • 3 Volunteers requested to serve on membership retention committee and contacting members who haven’t yet sent in 2016 dues. Brothers Andy Sciacca, Paul Hilchey and Don Williams volunteered.
   • Mother’s Day Breakfast
     • Project which Chancellor Paul Hilchey offered. On Mother’s Day weekend, 08MAY16 between the 8:30 and 11:00 Mass our council would serve a complete breakfast – pancakes, sausage, fruit, juices…Donations would be accepted and proceeds will be earmarked for Pregnancy Support Services. Brother Tom will be in charge of food preparations and Brother Paul and his wife Mary will be organizing the event. Event is officially on the church calendar.
   • Flowers for Mother’s Day
     • Carnations will be distributed as usual that weekend at all Masses to mothers. Brother Tom will be getting the carnations from Global Florist. We will purchase 300 carnations in a variety of colors – white, red, pink.
   • Spaghetti Dinner
     • Plans are not solid yet on where proceeds go. Tentatively planned for sometime this spring – maybe on Graduation weekend (04/05JUN16). Possible recipient for proceeds might be the Search program or another youth program.
   • Road side cleanup
     • Father Thanh wants more frequent Mason Road cleanup due to the litter of food wrappers and bottles often visible near entrance to St. Matthew. Motion made, seconded and approved to increase Adopt a Highway events from once a quarter to every other month. Next event is Saturday, 12MAR16 at 9:00 am. Post meeting note is that 12MAR16 roadside cleanup was conducted and 6 volunteers picked up an unusually large amount of trash.
   • Mass with John Toohil
     • We are targeting Saturday, 09APR16 at 4:00 PM at Brookdale facility. Don will contact council officers, Father Bob, John and Terri that week with the number of Knights who will be attending the s Mass. Terri Toohil would be making the photocopies of the music needed for the event.
   • Donation for Search program
     • Search is a faith based weekend retreat for youth. St. Mathew sent 11 youths (juniors and seniors) to the February 26^th-28^th event held at the Southfield Catholic Retreat Center. Cost was $115 per participant. Proposal made, seconded and approved for next year’s budget to include a line item of $150 for this program. This would be a “Knights of Columbus Scholarship” made available to the St. Matthew DRE to dispense to an appropriate recipient. Discussion about supporting this line item with proceeds from a spaghetti dinner.
   • Proposed BBQ dinner
     • Brother Tom offered this as a possible fund raiser for OPLAMB. Tom will be obtaining prices for catering as well as doing it ourselves. Possible date is sometime in August. One possibility is to do this event as part of Supreme’s Family week.
   • First Communion Breakfast – deferred
   • Pending Bicycle repair – deferred
   • Divine Mercy Sunday
     • 4^th Knights asked to wear regalia or social attire for this event on 03APR16 at 3:00 PM at St. Matthew. Msgr. William F. O’Brien’s FN Dave Kuboushek and Color Corp Commander Ray Anderson will be in charge of Knights role for the event.
   • GK awarded Brother Andy Sciacca January Knight of the Month honors and Brother Tom Clifton as Knight of the Month honors for February.
   • Reminder of 3^rd and last scheduled Lenten Seminarian support fish fry planned for Friday, 11MAR16. Signup sheet circulated. Post meeting note – Fish Fry was successfully conducted on Friday, 11MAR16 with 80+ plates sold.

5. Financial Secretary’s Report – Mike O’Kane:

5. Treasurer’s Report – Mike Memrick

5. Auditors and Trustee’s Report – Ray Anderson
   • Nothing to report

5. Advocate’s Report – Ken Johnston
   • Nothing to report.

5. Chancellor’s Report – Paul Hilchey
   • Nothing to report.

5. Service Program Reports – Deputy Grand Knight Andy Sciacca:
   • Communion pancake breakfast scheduled for 30APR16.
   • 4^th Degree asked to participate as Color Guard at Durham County Special Olympics Spring games at Durham Academy on 22APR. We have participated annually in this event. No cooking duties now though.
   • Brother Mike Peters continues to improve our council web site.
   • Birthday cake provided for all Knights with birthdays so far in 2016. This will be a regular event.
   • Raffle ticket sales have started. We have 400 tickets to sell. Each Knight is asked to sell 10 or more tickets.
   • 40 Cans for Lent. Program doing well. Brother Ken Johnston indicates we have collected 1500+ lbs of canned goods so far with 2 weeks left. We will receive a reward from Supreme based on the amount of donated monies and weight of the food we collect. If we meet our goal of 2000 lbs we’ll receive $200 from Supreme.

• Church Director - Ken Johnston
  • No additional report.
• Community Director - Joel Lipsey
  • No additional report.
• Council Director – Mike Peters
  • No additional report.
• Culture of Life (director needed)
  • No report.

• Family Director (director is needed)
• OPLAMB Director (director is needed)
  • Brother Tom Clifton preparing upcoming OPLAMB dates
• Membership Director - Paul Hilchey
  • No report.
• Youth Director - Willie Towell
  • Multiple upcoming events.
  • Parish council
    • Rumor of carpet in Sanctuary is not accurate. Cost for new wooden pews for seating 240 parishioners is $57,000. Old seating will be sold.

5. 4^th Degree Report – Dave Kuboushek
   • (no report scheduled on agenda)

5. Unfinished Business
   • None

5. New business
   • FS Mike O’Kane will provide report on council budget once all expenses for Fish Fries have been turned in and net profit determined.

5. Field Agent’s Report – Frank Sancineto, III
   • Not here.

5. Regional District Deputy report – RDD Tom Smith
   • Not here.

5. Good of the Order
   • Brother Jim Godowitch
   • Brother John Toohil
   • Brother Wally Burke (recent back surgery)
   • Fr. Bob
   • Thomas Edward Cooper, recently deceased older brother of Brother Ralph Cooper
   • All priests and others in Iraq and Syria who are being taken hostage by ISIS for ransom.

5. Lecturer’s comment – Paul Hilchey

DID YOU KNOW?
The “By-Laws” and “Principles”
2016-03-07

During the Spring of 1882, Father McGivney was immersed in committee work on the By-Laws and the permanent organization of the Order. Almost immediately after the incorporation of the Order, he wrote a letter (dated April 1882) to all pastors of the Diocese of Hartford. Clearly it was the first diocesan-wide promotional endeavor by the founder of the Knights of Columbus, this is the earliest public document which details Father McGivney's pastoral concerns.

Father McGivney prefaced his introduction to the aims and the objectives of the Order by stating both its religious and civil credentials. He wrote: “By permission of our Right Reverend Bishop, and in accordance with an Act of the Legislature of the State of Connecticut, we have formed an organization under the name of the Knights of Columbus.”

Father McGivney was deeply concerned about the numbers of young Catholic men who were attracted to “secret fraternal societies”. He wrote: “Our primary objective is to prevent our people from entering “Secret Societies” by offering the same if not better advantages to our members.”

Though a Catholic Fraternal Order struck him as a pastoral necessity in protecting the Faith, “Unity and Charity” - [the Order's motto (or Principles) until 1885, when the order of these were changed and “Fraternity” was added] – were expressed through its sick benefit and life insurance benefit.
He also wrote: “Secondly, our objective is to unite the men of our Catholic Faith throughout the Diocese of Hartford, that we may gain strength “to aid” each other in time of sickness; and “to provide” for decent burial; and “to render” pecuniary (or financial) assistance to the families of deceased members.”

The Founder's letter concluded with his hope that the Knights of Columbus would be represented in every parish throughout Connecticut. He urged each of the pastors to “exert your influence in the formation of a council in your parish.”

By 1890, just five years after sending out that letter, Father McGivney died at the young age 38. There were more than 6,000 men in the Knights of Columbus then. Many of them attended his funeral and then continued his work of growing the Order. Now we are at more than1.9 million members in 15,100 councils. Thank You to all who recruit new members!

. . . . . Did you know?

. . . . . Now you do know!

. . . . . And, now you should consider telling others about this!

The rest you know from our “Highlights in History” series!

5. Closing Ode and Adjournment – Motion made, 2^nd and voted on passed to dispense with Ode.

5. Closing Prayer led by GK (Hail Mary)

5. Meeting adjourned by GK Chris Cushing at 8:57

5. Important Links:

Tar Heel Knight: HTTPS://APP.BOX.COM/S/X19SOI0KA1TUBLTD73R71TEKO3FL16R2
Fathers For Good: WWW.FATHERSFORGOOD.ORG/EN/INDEX.HTML
Golden Plume: MASTERS NEWSLETTER APR 2015
Knightline: May 2015 issue of Knightline
St. Matthew Catholic Church: http://stmatthewcc.org
Council 13812 Web Site: http://stmatthewcc.org/kofcnc13812