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WORDS FROM THE GRAND KNIGHT

COUNCIL 5548 STATE WEBSITE: WWW.CENTRALMNKOFC.ORG KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

January 2016

Events Calendar

Dec. 27th 8-12 noon, VAChapel Herb and Jan Gross

Jan. 7th - 6:30 pm Rosary, Council Meeting, Dean Walz

Jan. 10th - 8-12 noon St. Peter’s Breakfast, Dean Walz

Jan. 17th - 8-12 noon St. Anthony’s Break fast, Russell Frank

Jan. TBA Free Throw Contest, Tom Winkleman

Jan. 21st - 6:30 pm, 1st Degree Officer’s Meeting, Grand Knight

Jan. 24th - After masses, Pro Life Roses, Jim Tembrock

Feb. 4th - 6:30pm Rosary, Council Meeting, Grand Knight

Feb. 5th - 4:30-7pm Spaghetti Dinner, Jim Onofrey

Feb. 7th - 12-4pm District Free throw

Feb. 13th - 9am- 4:30pm, Men’s Confer- ence at St. John’s Feb. 14th - 8-12 noon St. Peter’s Breakfast, Dean Walz

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I hope you all had a Blessed Christmas and Peaceful New Year. Another year is gone and the new one will bring us new challenges.

Even with the mild winter we have been able to distribute over 350 coats to families in our communities. This is by far the biggest distribution we have done. I would like to thank all the Knights and Ladies Auxiliary members who have helped by collecting, sorting and handing out the coats. I have also sent letters to the parishes thanking them for their support and donations. Our local parishes gave us over 250 coats, many new or in good condition. We were able to buy coats locally and from our Su-preme office with our proceeds from the Bavarian Musikmeisters concert. We gave out coats not only to the schools in our community but also other social agencies such as the Reach-Up preschool program and Hands Across the World who provides support for the immigrant people in our area. We have a good inventory and will continues to give out coats throughout the winter.

Our Spaghetti dinner will be on Friday, February 5 at St. Anthony’s parish center (see the flyer insert) with tickets being sold for Birthline and our Family Day of Prayer. We need to show our support for life by having a good turnout. I encourage you to come and bring your family, neighbors and friends to share our home cooked spaghetti din-ner complete with meat sauce, salad, and fresh bread. The tickets will be available at our January meeting or from your council officers.

January is Pro Life month and we will be handing out Pro Life roses after the masses on January 16 and 17. In addition we will be providing the support of the 40 Hour Adoration at St. Anthony’s Church again this year on January 20 and 21 by guarding the doors from 4:30 PM to 6:30 AM each day. What a great opportunity to help and spend some time in adoration. This leads up to the bus leaving for the Pro Life Rally at the State Capitol on January 22.

Our council free throw contests will be held in January at North Junior H.S. on Janu-ary 13th, All Saints Academy on the 15th, Westwood Elementary on the 20th, and Oak Hill Elementary on the 21st. These will be held during the day. Tom Winkelman is looking for volunteers to help. His phone number is (320) 202-0609. Our District contest will be on February 7 at the north gym at Cathedral High School.

For the new year we need to add new members to help us provide the support to our parishes and families. All our members should look at those who are not members of the Knights and ask them to join us. We are doing many wonderful things in our parishes and community and we need to grow. Our time commitment is small as we ask our new members to choose one or two things that interest them.

I look forward to working with each of you in the new year!

God Bless you all!

Tom Jacobs, Grand Knight

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Happy Birthday to these Knights who have January Birthdays!!!

ROBERT ASSELEN THOMAS WINKELMAN CONRAD BEINIEK DAVID BORGMANCHARLES DONNAY FRANCIS JANUSCHKA JAMES LARAMIE CHARLES STOCK

GORDON WAGNER DANIEL BUEMER LARRY RILEY JASON STOCKINGERROBERT VOIGHT PETER MERGEN FRANK WELLE KENNETH ROSHA T. “ED” TOLMAN

PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Church Activities Russell Frank 253-6870Community Dan Guemmer 654-9860Council Director Tom Winkleman 202-0609Family Dean Walz Family 251-2252Lecture Program Tom Winkleman 202-0609Membership Gene Markman 253-3635Pro-Life Jim Tembrock 253-1564Youth DirectorSunshine Coord. Ed Walker 217-5791Trustees Don Dols (1 Year) 217-4620 Allen McSherry (2 Years) 428-8359 Jim Tembrock (3 Years) 253-1564 AUXILIARY COMMITTEES

Telephone Coord. Mary Lou Linton 266-4462Pro-Life Elaine Notch 252-5273Sunshine Coord. Ione Jacobs 252-0126Historian Nicole Walz 237-3174Public Relations Corine Meier 259-5169Insurance Rep. Jim Szczech 252-7173District Deputy Ken Lommel 292-7745

2015-2016 COUNCIL OFFICERS

Chaplin Fr. Ben Kociemba 260-6945Grand Knight Tom Jacobs 252-0126Deputy Grand Knight Dean Walz 251-2252Chancellor Tom Winkleman 202-0609Financial Secretary Conrad Meier 260-6945Treasurer Bob Voigt 251-3948Advocate Gene Markman 253-3635Warden Tom Marsolek 249-4151 Recorder Issac Meier 259-5169Inside Guard Gary Notch 293-2950 Outside Guard Tom Welle 743-5862Insurance Agent Jim Mikelson 828-0875 763-210-5992

2015-2016 LADIES AUXILIARY OFFICERS

President Kim Walz 251-2252Vice President Kay Chmielewski 252-3901Secretary Corine Meier 259-5169Treasurer Tricia Walz 251-2252Financial Secretary Jean Burnett 292-1920Trustees Kae Ziehl (1 Year) 251-3646 Jan Gross (2 Years) 203-7088 Helen Bauer (3 Years) 251-9055

Dear Brother Knights, Pope Francis had a special Monday audience with all of the families of employees that work in the Vatican just before Christmas to give them Christmas greetings. He gave them an image of marriage and family life that I thought was very powerful and beau-tiful. “Marriage is like a plant,” he said. “It is not like a closet, that you put there, in the room, and just dust it occasionally: a plant is alive, it should cared for every day.” Furthermore he said the best gift that parents can give to their children is not things but their love, not forget-ting their love for each other. What a beautiful image to ponder the life of the family! I remember my parents expressing warmth in their relationship in the kitchen in front of us kids when I was younger. I look back and think of how much our experience and image of God our basic confidence in approaching the world around us largely depended on our experience of the love between my mom and my dad! We look at the world around us and how much of the solution lies in the concrete choosing to live out marriage and family well and with gener-osity. Maybe we can let this image speak to us as we live out this year! Happy New Year’s! -Fr. Ben

Conrad Meier – F.S. Notes: Thank you to our members who have already paid their dues. Over half have filled out their volunteer hours. Remember this is all your volunteer hours not only for our council. This is not the time to be modest. Even if you cannot pay your dues at this time please send in your volunteer hours as our annual report is due on January 31. Imagine the hours we could report if everyone sent in all their hours.Any member needing help to pay for his membership dues or other council activities can contact me at (320) 260-6945. All requests will be keep confidential.For those not attending council meetings we are having a great year. Our raffle lead by Marv Bauer brought in over $5,000 before the payout and we have over $2,500 still available for donations and council projects. Come to a meeting and give us your ideas on donations.The Paula Tholl family donated $500 to our council to be used for another family in need. She is doing very well, so offer a prayer of thanks for her continued recovery.We will be supporting seminarian Dylan Moore from our St. Cloud diocese through the RSVP program. Please remember him in your thoughts and prayers this year. Birthline is having their Open House on

Thursday, January 14, 2016 from 3 – 6 PM. Stop by and show your support! We will be selling tickets for Birthline for our Spaghetti dinner.The Catholic Men’s Conference will be at St. John’s on Saturday, February 13. We will be sending in a group to save on the cost and we will assist anyone who wishes to attend with the fees and transportation. Call me to sign up or for more details.There are no membership changes to report. Please help us find new members. Over 30% of our members are Honorary Life Members or over 70 years old with 25 years of service.Remember to send me your address, phone number, or e-mail address changes to con-tinue getting your newsletter.

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Auxiliary News

Council 5548 Knights of Columbus

UPCOMING EVENTS

January 2016 Auxiliary News

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! May all the joy and blessings, all the love the shepherds knew, be within your heart this Christmas season and abide the whole year through.

Our January 2016 meeting will be held Thursday, January 7, 2016 at St. Anthony’s Parish Center. The meeting will follow the 6:30 pm rosary with the Knights. Our January meeting is once again our Pro-Life meeting/shower. We encourage everyone to donate new baby items or young child items (diapers, baby wipes, onesies, crib sheets, children Tylenol, teething rings, clothing up to 3T) as well as household items or monetary gifts.

All ladies who have paid their dues by your January meeting will have their name in a drawing for a free year’s dues. Please contact Tricia Walz at 320-251-2252 if you have any questions about whether you have paid your dues or to pay your yearly dues of $6.00.

Thank you to all who have donated to the pennies for seminarians and the milk/juice project collections at each of our meetings. Anyone wishing to donate to either of these may send their donation to Tricia Walz at 914 32nd Avenue North, St. Cloud MN 56303.

Congratulations to Ione Jacobs, the recipient of the service recognition award of the November/Decem-ber 2015.

The next Waite Park Pizza Ranch fundraiser is sched-uled for May 2, 2016. St. Scholastic Convent bingo party is scheduled for April 12, 2016 at 6:30 pm. Please bring wrapped presents and cookies and/or bars to share after the bingo is complete.

Birthline is having an open house to be held on Janu-ary 14, 2016 from 3 pm to 6 pm.

Just quick notes about volunteer hours – as the New Year begins so do our volunteer hours. Please con-tinue to track your volunteer hours for the calendar year of 2016.

May Christ be heard in our language,

may Christ be seen in our life,

may Christ be perceived in our hearts

and in all that we do.

St. Peter Damian

Helen Bauer and Corine Meier, Public Relations

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Januarybirthday ladies: Shirley Loehr,Erma Bautch, Aggie Smitten andLouise Seiferman

Jan. 7 KC and Auxiliary meeting at 6:30 pm (pro-life shower) Jan. 10 St. Peter’s Family Breakfast Jan. 16-17 ProLife Roses handed out after mass Jan. 20-21 40 hour adoration at St. Anthony’s Parish Jan. 22 March for Life in St. Paul - bus leaves St. Anthony’s at 8 am Feb. 5 KC Council 5548 Spaghetti Dinner at St. Anthony’s 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm

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