A Big Thank You

First off I want to give a huge thank you to everyone that helped tonight at the fish fry and made it a great success. Special thanks to our newest Knights, that this was the first time helping out. I hope you enjoyed it and will come back and help. A big thanks goes out to all that made a dessert for the pie auction, if it was your wife who made it please extend our gratitude. All the desserts looked so good and tasty. We had Justin Buchanan do the auctioneering for the dessert auction, he and his daughter did a great job. He would not take anything for his services, he said he lives to do the Lord's work. We had people lining up and paying before five but once the food got rolling we stayed on top of things well. We were able to raise over six thousand between the desserts, food, and donations for Daisy and her family. It is truly powerful to see so many come out to help those in need. 

Second, the Sleep in Heavenly Peace bed build that was coming up tomorrow morning has been canceled as they still have stock and want to wait till it's cooler. They are planning on doing one in September when there is more info I will pass it on to you. 

However we still have the ice cream social out in Conway tomorrow evening. Mass is at 4pm in Conway and the social will be after. Knights we need to pack the church and the social. I loved being part of the precision there and they appreciated us. I feel like we don't always do a great job supporting our brothers out there and this is one of those times that we can.  

A couple reminders: Knights have coffee and donuts after 10:30 Mass in Marshfield this month.  July 27th we are serving food out at camp renewal out by Conway. We also have a 5th Sunday this month, which means we will need Knights to serve at the Masses.

Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love. We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, and for the loving care which surrounds us on every side. 

We thank you for setting us at tasks which demand our best efforts, and for leading us to accomplishments which satisfy and delight us. We thank you also for those disappointments and failures that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on you alone.

Above all, we thank you for your Son Jesus Christ; for the truth of his Word and the example of his life; for his steadfast obedience, by which he overcame temptation; for his dying, through which he overcame death; and for his rising to life again, in which we are raised to the life of your kingdom.

Grant us the gift of your Spirit, that we may know Christ and make him known; and through him, at all times and in all places, may give thanks to you in all things.   Amen.

William Arehart