grand knights report: council officers...2015/11/11 · add some final thoughts about the knights...

Father Sheldon Kelly Council 11224

Double Star Council 2012, Star Council 2013 and 2014 Happy Thanksgiving November 2015

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Council Officers:

Grand Knight: Tony Sommer

(614-596-6722) [email protected]

Deputy Grand Knight: Michael Korson


Financial Secretary: Bill Penquite


Chancellor: Terry Mandel


Recorder: Dean Headley

[email protected]

Advocate: Jerry Finnegan

[email protected]

Warden: Max Berchtold

[email protected]

Treasurer and District Deputy: Mike Reinhard


Lector: Open

Inside Guard: Matt Huffman


Outside Guard: Marvin Phipps

[email protected]

Trustees: Skeeter Nelson

Mark Taylor

Jim Bayer

Grand Knights Report:

Brothers in Christ I found this very uplifting and I

hope you do also.

Tony’s Trivia:

1. Who is the Patroness of the United States?

•Mary as “Our Lady of Guadalupe”

•St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

•St. Katherine Drexel

•Mary, under her title of “The Immaculate

Conception.”

2. What event is considered the "Birthday of

the Church?"



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•Great Flood

•Pentecost

•Creation

•Christmas

3. Where is the Center (Seat) of Catholicism?

•Vatican City (Eternal City) in Rome

•Jerusalem

•Bethlehem

•Middle East

4. Who is the first Pope?

•Jesus

•St. Paul

•St. Peter

•St. John

5. Who is the Apostle to the Gentiles?

•John the Baptist

•St. John the Apostle

•St. Paul

•St. Thomas

Answers on Page 12

Brother Knights that are One Year Older and One Year Wiser:

Thomas Rasmussen- 11/17

Nicholas Talone- 11/20

Michael Rapelye-Thompson-11/24

Happy Birthday Brother Knights!!!!

Get to Know a Saint:

St. Nerses the Great

Bishop and martyr, the father of St. Isaac the Great.

A native of Armenia, he studied in Cappadocia and

wed a princess who gave birth to Isaac. After she

died, he served as a chamber lain in the court of

King Arshak of Armenia. In 353 he was made

Catholicos of the Armenians. Nerses devoted much

effort to reforming the Armenian Church, including

convening a synod in 365 based on the principles

he had studied under St. Basil at Caesarea. Though

he established hospitals and monasteries, his

reforms and denunciation of King Arshak's murder

of the queen led to his exile. He returned after

Arshak's death in battle, but relations were not

much better with the new Armenian ruler, Pap,

whose dissolute lifestyle caused Nerses to refuse

him admission into church. Nerses was invited to a

royal banquet at Khakh, on the Euphrates River,

and was assassinated by poison.

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Parliament and Procedures by

Randy Hirsch

The History of the Knights of Columbus:

Conclusion:

I hope everyone enjoyed the 10 part series on the History of the Knight of Columbus. I would like to

add some final thoughts about the Knights and how

we affected not only our faith but our country.

Father McGivney saw the need of Catholic

immigrants in the late 1800’s for a lay organization,

the goal of which would be to prevent Catholic men

from entering secret societies whose membership

was antithetical to Church teaching, to unite men of

Catholic faith and to provide for the families of

deceased members. As a symbol that allegiance to

their country did not conflict with allegiance to

their faith, the organization’s members took as their

patron Christopher Columbus — recognized as a

Catholic and celebrated as the discoverer of

America. Knights should live according to the

virtues of loyalty, charity, courtesy and modesty, as

well as “self-denial and careful respect for the

feelings of others.” Fraternity and patriotism were

added to the Knights’ founding principles of charity

and unity

From those beginnings you were able to see how

we’ve grown and can take pride that we never

deviated from our basic principles. Even though in

the earlier parts of the 1900’s there was anti-

Catholic Hostility we should Washington DC the

important position of the Knights of Columbus as

an order in the social fabric of the United States.

We should take pride in how the Knights of

Columbus helped our country through two world

wars the great depression , the cold war and modern

day issues that confront our beliefs and our country.

So learning from history lets stand together and

continue to build upon its rich tradition of

charitable work, spiritual formation, and support

our various new charitable initiatives.

Thank you

Randy Hirsch

Protecting God’s Children Classes: Anyone interested can sign up on www.virtus.org.

Men mark your calendars!

That Man is You! Begins at Our Lady of

Perpetual Help in Grove City on Saturday,

September 12, 2015, at 6:30 am – 8:00 am sharp!

Modeled on some of the country’s leading men’s

programs, This Catholic men’s program, That

Man Is You!, combines Scripture, solid secular

research and a little fun to address the pressures

and temptations facing men in our modern

culture. It seeks to form authentic leaders who

will be capable of transforming homes and

society.

http://www.virtus.org/



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Trunk or Treat arrives again:

On November 1st, the Father Sheldon Kelly Council

11224 and the Women’s Guild hosted Trunk or

Treat at Saint Simon and Jude Church from 4:30pm

to 6:00pm. There were 15 trunks, over 60 trunk or

treaters, and plenty of candy for everyone. Here are

the pictures to prove it.

First you have the setup:

Then you have the trunks:



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And of course the Treaters:



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Let’s not forget our Shadpoke:

And last but not least, our winners:

Best Trunk Candyland

Best Youth Costume

Best Adult Costume

And of course fun was had by all. See you next

year.



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We Stand Strong on Ethical Ground

Some people believe that ethics in business is a

contradiction in terms. They think that in order to

be profitable, a company and its leaders must

abandon morality and embrace the dark, greedy

side that they see so often in the news and in

movies...

At the Knights of Columbus, we know this isn’t

true. A business can be both ethical and successful.

We are.

As a Catholic organization, we understand the

value and importance of our core beliefs and the

original mission of Venerable Father Michael J.

McGivney. In fact, much of the strength and

financial security we provide to members and their

families can be attributed to our ethical, moral

standards.

More than 96 percent of Knights who buy our life

insurance keep it, year in and year out. The Order

takes this commitment to our members very

seriously. This means carefully planning when it

comes time to invest. Our professional staff

researches all transactions to insure that they fall in

line with Catholic values. If a transaction makes

them uncomfortable, they don’t make it.

“We exclude any company engaged in activity that

conflicts with Catholic moral teaching: companies

directly involved in abortion, contraception, human

cloning, embryonic stem cell research, for-profit

health care that pays for any of these, or

pornography,” said Supreme Knight Carl Anderson.

“There are many companies in the pharmaceutical

and communications industries that would

undoubtedly provide excellent returns for us, but

which are not in our portfolio because they engage

in research and development or programming in

ways that violate the sanctity or dignity of human

life.”

In the end, the Knights of Columbus investment

strategy is motivated by morality, not money. Yet,

each year we remain profitable, increase our assets

and stay dedicated to this vision that will keep the

Order financially sound for generations to come.

But don’t just take our word for it. In 2014, the

Knights of Columbus was named a “World’s Most

Ethical Company” by the Ethisphere Institute. We

were one of only two life insurance companies to

earn the honor.

“Faithful Catholics have choices when buying life

insurance,” said the Supreme Knight. “But they

know that at the Knights of Columbus their policy

is supplied by an insurer that shares their moral and

ethical values and is guided in all of its investment

and sales practices by those values.”

Contact me today to learn more about our products.

. Please call Mark Mandel at 614-308-2294 or

email me at [email protected].

Some practical experiences

and underlying

considerations from a

father about married life

and family life.

Part Two of a Four part series

6. Notes on communication in marriage

a) “Presumption of Innocence”

If it is important in general to be inclined to think

well of people, it is essential for spouses to

cultivate this habit between themselves: “presuming

innocence” at family level. To say to oneself, for

example, “Even though he hurt me when he did that

or made that comment, I know that he didn’t want

to hurt me”; or “I’m not surprised that he forgot



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what I said, with all the things he has to do!” Or

“It’s understandable that he arrived late, somebody

must have caught him just as he was leaving!” etc.

As a general rule we have to think “My spouse

doesn’t hurt me because he intends to hurt”. This

open attitude enables the couple to face up to

negative situations in a more serene and

constructive way. If we are upset by the conduct of

our spouse we should understand that he or she

makes mistakes more out of clumsiness or

ignorance than out of bad will. We should not see a

negative intention in the way he or she behaves. We

also have to avoid sarcasm disguised as good

humour, because it ends up destroying trust.

b) Beware of those “hidden expectations”

Expectations are what one spouse expects to

receive from the other, sometimes thoughtlessly

under the influence of a cultural model or

advertising… It is important to bring them out into

the light because otherwise they will influence us

negatively when the other spouse does not behave

as we expected, and destroys our expectation.

Many people keep such incidents to themselves for

a long time, without talking simply to their spouse

about them, so that, if they are reasonable they can

continue the behavior, and if they are not

reasonable then they are dropped. There are various

reasons for this silence: sometimes we think there

is no need to talk about them (“He already knows

me and he knows what I want, and he’ll do what I

think”); at other times it is out of fear of

disagreement, a situation that arises when one of

the two is afraid of the other’s reaction and feels

insecure; and other times because they consider

that affection can do everything and if their

expectations are not met, their affection will be

great enough to overcome all difficulties.

c) Know the different ways of communicating and

emotional reactions.

A lot has been written about this. Here we only

mention some common situations.

- Questions. Women ask questions more frequently,

as a way of keeping up the conversation and of

showing that they are involved in things. On the

other hand men only ask questions when they want

to obtain some information. Sometimes the husband

tries in vain to solve the problems his wife raises

with her questions, when really she is not looking

for solutions – often she already knows them – she

just wants understanding and some affectionate or

personal comment.

- The way of keeping up a subject of conversation.

Once husbands have said what they have to say,

they have achieved their objective and they tend not

to go on any longer. Wives tend to establish

connections and they continue the conversation

until they get what they set out to obtain, often

coming up against the disagreeable surprise of not

having been listened to, because their husband

thought the matter had been settled.

- Each topic in great detail. The wife generally gets

satisfaction from sharing her thoughts and emotions

in detail with her husband. The husband, on the

other hand, tends to feel more comfortable talking

about politics, economics, sport etc. If they don’t

realize this, it may happen that the husband gets

impatient listening to so many details.

- The objective of each spouse’s communication.

Another tendency it is good to be aware of is that

the wife wants to comment on her experiences

simply to share them with her husband. The

husband may interpret this as her consulting him

about problems that need solving. The more

recurrent the subject and the more details she brings

to light, the more the husband worries; he begins to

see it as a difficult and complicated matter, so then

he tends to get sad, thinking that he has failed by

not getting his wife to stop worrying about things.

A husband forgets that it is a good sign that his wife

should comment on the details of her life, because



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it indicates trust. She is expecting interest, real

support, and is looking for serenity and stability.

When there are lacks of understanding between the

couple, misunderstandings tend to become more

noticeable if they don’t find a remedy. Wives may

over emphasize the negative aspects, comment on

details that annoy them (sometimes in spite of

themselves, since even though they don’t want to,

they can’t stop doing it) and they feel urged to let

out just everything they have inside. Husbands are

the opposite, when faced with a conflictive

situation they often keep quiet and shut themselves

up inside themselves, even though this does not

mean they are going to do nothing. Sometimes

when they do decide what they should do they fail

to inform their wife about their decision.

This path may lead to the risk of each spouse

radicalizing his or her own character and creating a

distance in the marriage. It is important to

understand that a person does not show his

emotions, or does not behave in a particular way

because he wants to annoy, but because he has not

learned any other way of doing things.

- Misunderstandings about sincerity. We need to

unmask two misconceptions with respect to

sincerity in marriage:

a) A false claim to integrity, which, taken to the

extreme leads to the neurosis of having to say

absolutely everything, not because it interests the

other spouse who may not even want to hear it, but

in order to place sincerity higher even than charity,

forgetting thatveritatem facientes in

caritatem (Eph 4, 15). It is not materially possible

to “say everything”; we need to find the right

balance and select. There is also a sphere, in part

incommunicable, that refers to our interior life and

our relationship with God. There are those

temptations and suggestions that everyone feels

they may succumb to and it would be indelicate and

counterproductive to speak about them outside of

spiritual direction.

b) A deceptive “emotional sincerity”. Some people

think erroneously that they are more sincere when

they say everything that comes into their head at

moments of annoyance of lack of control. It is a

mistake that leads to a lot of problems. What we

say when highly emotionally involved is sometimes

not what we think (and in this sense it is not

sincere). At such moments we can seek to hurt

rather than to tell the truth. We have to know how

to wait, to ask for forgiveness, and to take the sting

out of things.

- The myth of “spontaneity”. We generally think

that spontaneity comes without any effort. In

marriage we have to make an effort to form our

spontaneity. We need to know how to bring to the

home the courtesy and consideration for others that

we often practice outside the home. Courtesy must

be spontaneous to us, rather than thinking that

spontaneity in the home means giving free rein to

any whim or bad manners. For example: there are

husbands who refuse “to practice” paying their wife

compliments (“It’s not my way” “It doesn’t come

spontaneously”), but they have no difficulty in

learning how to play golf, in spite of that being

more difficult….

There are others who say they are unable to change

those little habits that do not help family life: (they

start reading the paper as soon as they arrive home,

sit in a particular armchair, speak in a tedious tone

to their wife…) and, nevertheless they can pass

from an automatic car to a manual one, or from

having the brake on the right on the bicycle to

being on the left on the scooter without any

problem… It is not so difficult to change our

routines: to get up earlier, to greet him (or her)

when they arrive home, to offer the best to our

spouse, to show wonder at his or her concerns… It

is the courtesy of love, loving decisively with the

will. A simple rule: the husband should consider

whether he feels a little uncomfortable sitting

reading the papers whilst his wife is doing the

housework (often after having worked outside the

home). The wife, on her part, should learn to sit



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down sometimes with her husband, even though

there are plenty of things that need tidying up.

Things in love which are done out of habit become

routine, as they are not the result of personal

decisions, but arise from comfort seeking which is

simply shared rather than passed through the sieve

of love. Very often this inertia is involuntary and

can easily be changed (otherwise, we would have to

call it by its name: selfishness). The mere fact of

knowing that it exists is already an important step

towards overcoming it. Then we need to make a

resolution and practice putting it into effect: that is

love.

d) We should learn to rationalize what it is that

makes us angry. Anger has a sequence, a

progression. First we perceive that we have been

hurt in some way. Then we get angry. Then we

want to return the hurt; and lastly we hit back.

We have to be convinced (not everyone is) that

giving way to anger is not a good thing in marriage.

It is irrelevant that sometimes it is the occasion for

a greater good – the reconciliation that comes after

the outburst. It is true that the marriage relationship

may be strengthened after reciprocal forgiveness

and it seems to be born again out of its own ashes…

But in itself it is not a good way of building up

marriage.

If we are to overcome our anger, we have to know

how it works. The first stage is the grievance or the

feeling of hurt. To get rid of it completely belongs

to experts, but to exercise a certain control is within

everybody’s reach. Especially if we are convinced

that the majority of grievances that we perceive are

not real, they are in the imagination, they are the

product of our touchiness. If we try to get rid of one

“each month”… (from tomorrow that habit of my

wife or my husband won’t annoy me…”; “from

now on it won’t annoy me if he doesn’t realize that

…”), the family will soon be far more cheerful.

The second stage is to lose our temper. If we have

overcome the first stage and don’t perceive the

grievance, we don’t generally get annoyed. And if

we do get annoyed? Don’t worry. Don’t give it any

importance; or we could try to understand why we

get upset: “Why am I annoyed?” “What is the real

reason for my annoyance?” “What circumstances

make me feel pressure?” It’s worth asking

ourselves this from time to time, because otherwise

we shift the problem over to our spouse. If we are

sincere with ourselves, we almost always find that

the real cause has to do with a number of internal

elements and that its origin is more in ourselves

(personal defects, tension at work, disappointment

with our own behavior…) than in our spouse.

Then comes the third stage: the urge to attack. The

experts coincide here, “Count to ten”. Another ten,

and then another. Because if we reach the last stage,

attack, then harm will be done. One temptation that

we can have is to think that if we control our anger

and our “spontaneous” tendencies, we will lose our

personality. It is just the opposite. Forging our

character and developing our personality consists

mainly in overcoming ourselves for love of God

and of other people. The person who masters

himself has character. The weak person is the one

who allows himself to be dominated by his

temperamental tendencies, which, paradoxically,

are often the least human tendencies in so far as

they are scarcely belong to our intellect and will.

Tony’s Trivia answers:

1. Answer: Mary, under her title of “The

Immaculate Conception.”

The decree of the First Council of Baltimore (1846)

electing Mary in her Immaculate Conception

principal Patron of the United States, was

confirmed on 7 February, 1847. - Feast: December

8. - New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia



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2. Answer: The Church was made manifest

to the world on the day of Pentecost by the

outpouring of the Holy Spirit...which

ushers a “new era” ...Christ now lives and

acts in and with His Church, in a new way,

appropriate to this “new age.” - CCC 1076

3. Answer: Vatican City (Eternal City) in

Rome

(St. Peter and St. Paul were both martyred

in Rome). The geopolitical area re

Answer: Vatican City (Eternal City) in

Rome

(St. Peter and St. Paul were both martyred

in Rome). The geopolitical area

recognized by the Treaty of the Lateran

(1929). Vatican (Latin: Vaticanus, name of

a hill in Rome) - the papal palace and the

pope’s residence since the 14th C. Before

that, the popes resided in the Lateran

Palace. - Catholic Source Book by Rev.

Peter Kleincognized by the Treaty of the

Lateran (1929). Vatican (Latin: Vaticanus,

name of a hill in Rome) - the papal palace

and the pope’s residence since the 14th C.

Before that, the popes resided in the

Lateran Palace. - Catholic Source Book by

Rev. Peter Klein

4. Answer: The Lord made Simon alone,

whom he named Peter, the “rock” of his

church. He gave him the keys of his

church and instituted him shepherd of the

whole flock. The “Pope,” Bishop of Rome

and Peter’s successor, “is the perpetual

and visible source and foundation of the

unity both of the bishops and of the whole

company of the faithful.” - CCC881-882;

Mt 16 :13-19 Feast day: June 29.

5. Answer: Paul is God’s minister in the plan

of salvation.

His specific ministry is to preach to the

Gentiles, telling them that they too are

called to be members of Christ’s body, for

that is part of God’s mysterious plan. -

Navarre Bible - Commentary on Ephesians

3:1-13 Feast Day: June 29

Work

Directory Matt Hundley-Automotive repairs- 614-906-0502

Jason Moine- Hannigan Memorials, Monument

Memorials - 614-679-1970

Paul Thompson- Thompson Tax & Accounting

62 E. Main St.

West Jefferson, OH

614-897-8992

Bill Hundley- Electrical

614-870-3645

Shadpoke T. Klown- Clown

614-432-4292

Christopher L. Englert- Attorney at Law

614-378-2400

Michael Smith-Snow removal

[email protected]



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Good of the Order:

Mary Reinhard

Lou Griffith

Lisa Krogwald

Jane Baines

Patricia De Victor

Rich Hartigan

Soul of Jerry Holland

Steve Rice

Please include all in your prayers.

Important Dates:

Next Council meeting: November 19th at 7:00pm in the meeting hall Youth Group Donut Sale: November 21-22 after every mass 1st Degree Dates: November 12th at 7:00pm at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, candidates arrive at 6:30pm Pancake Breakfast: November 29th after Sunday’s masses Arbors Christmas Tree setup: November 30th to Dec. 2nd Ladies Appreciation Dinner: Time and date to follow



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Father Sheldon Kelly

Council 11224

Meeting Minutes

October 15, 2015

The Council was called to order at 7:00

pm by Grand Knight Tony Sommer

Prayer was offered by Tony Sommer

ATTENDANCE

The roll of officers was called and noted as

follows (P-Present; A-Absent E-Excused):

Chaplin:

N/A

Grand Knight: Tony Sommer

P

Deputy Grand Knight: Michael Korson

P

Chancellor: Terry Mandel

E

Recorder: Dean Headley

P

Financial Secretary: Bill Penquite

P

Treasurer: Mike Reinhard

P

Lecturer: vacant

A

Advocate: Jerry Finnegan

P

Warden: Max Berchtold

A

Inside Guard: Matt Huffman

E

Outside Guard: Marvin Phipps

P

Trustee (3rd Yr.): Skeeter Nelson

P

Trustee (2nd Yr.): Mark Taylor

A

Trustee (1st Yr.): Vacant

A

Jim Bayer

Dan Cotter

John Bayer

Jim Ricker

Eric Casey

Mark Mandel

Tom Rasmussen

Larry Krist

The Minutes of preceding meeting

were:

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The Grand Knight read applications for

membership approved by the

Admissions Committee as follows:

N/A

1st Reading of Application; Cameron

Headley

2nd Reading of Applications; Cameron

Headley

The Grand Knight reported as follows:

Report is included in Unfinished and New

Business.

Tony thanked everyone for attending

tonight’s meeting and appreciates

everyone for taking the time to be involved

in a strong organization. Reminded

everyone to bring food donations for the

pantry.

The following communications were

read:

N/A

Financial Secretary’s report:

Reported we had a transfer of member

Kevin Anderson out of our council.

Turn in football czar money.

The Trustees reported as follows:

Update on Adopt a Highway will be

between mile post 6.6 and 8.6 on state

route 142.

The Chancellor reported on vocations:

He will start picking a Saint and discussing

during each meeting.

The following committees reported:

Skeeter Nelson reports, membership

quota, we need to add 7.Skeeter will

update us on the membership blitz during

our next meeting.

Unfinished business was taken up and

disposed of as follows:

Mark Mandel nominated Jerry Holland and

Bill Penquite nominated Dean Headley for

Knight of month.

Michael Korson nominated The Finnegan

Family, Family of month.

Dean Headley nominated Marie Korson,

Woman of month for her involvement in

the music program and playing the organ

during Sunday masses.

Reminder: Trunk or Treat will be at the

church on November 1st. We will have

snacks and hot dogs and drinks,

remember anyone helping needs to have

completed the “Protecting God’s Children”

course.

Reminder: Corporate Communion will be

on 10/18/2015 at the 10:30am mass.

Tickets for the football CRAZR are due.

The following New Business was

brought up:

Tony Sommers asked that the members

remember to bring food donations for the

food pantry to the meetings especially

during the summer months when many of

the children don’t get the food assistance

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Starting next month we will conduct an

officer’s pre meeting the Monday before

our monthly meeting.

Larry Eakins resigned his position as

Lecturer and Youth Director, Tony

presented the vacancies to the group

asking if anyone was interested in any of

our open positions. 1st year trustee

position is vacant, we discussed getting a

past Grand Knight to fill the role.

Jerry Finnegan made motion to have mass

offering for Jerry Holland, Max 2nd, all

passed.

Jim Ricker discussed “That Man is you”

program that is available to everyone,

what kind of interest anyone would have,

meetings held on Saturday mornings. Fred

Schafer will come and do a half hour

presentation once we get a date in mind.

The Insurance Agent reported as

follows:

Discuss the value of having insurance thru

the K of C, once you insure your child

there is no changes throughout the policy

not matter the medical changes that the

person has moving forward.

The District Deputy reported as follows:

Thanked everyone for outstanding

participation with the Johnny’s Helping

Hand corn hole tournament. Let everyone

know that the 2nd and 3rd degree on

10/25/15 and will be in the spring as well.

Regalia changes don’t get worked up

everyone is not happy with what going on.

Under Good of the Order:

Mary Reinhardt,

Closing Prayer was said by:

Tony Sommer

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