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Adoration @ Holy Trinity

Good evening brothers,

Brother Arehart brought to my attention  and would like for me to mention that Adoration begins Tuesday, November 29.  (Below you will find the schedule I copied from the church bulletin)

This is Holy Trinity's Schedule.  As soon as I receive Sacred Heart's, I will send a follow up email.

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:00 p.m.--6:00 p.m.

Wednesdays and Fridays from 8:00 a.m.--9:00 a.m. except for First Friday Adoration.  It will continue to follow the 9:00 a.m. mass with Benediction at 12:30 p.m.

There is a sign up sheet that can be found at the back of the church next to the baptismal font.  

On the first Sunday of each month, beginning on December 4th, Holy Trinity will have the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 9:00 a.m.--10:00 a.m.

Also, Tuesday, November 29th at 7:00 p.m. is our Fraternal Benefit Night.  Here is the address to register:   www.TinyURL.com/HegnaFBN           (Thank you to Carol Coleman for placing the announcement in the bulletin.)

Last, I would like for you to say a prayer of healing for my cousin who was breast cancer free for 22 years.  At Sheila's last checkup, it was discovered that the cancer had returned.  Thank you and as I have previously mentioned in my emails, I will pray for you, family and/or friends as I pray the Holy Rosary to work.

Have a blessed week as well as a blessed Advent season,

YBIC,

Gary

Coatrs for Kids Success

Dear Brothers,

 

Coats for Kids was a huge success!  Our Deputy Grand Knight, Mike Weigand, reported that we gave 154  kid coats and 75 used coats.  I tried to capture the moment, but photos did not do justice to the smiles of the children. Thank you Knights for your time, ethusiasm, and willingness to go the extra mile on a Saturday.  Once again you have proved our theme of charity, fraternity, and unity.  I proud to be your Grand Knight.  Enjoy the rest of your week and may God bless and protect you.

YBiC,

Gary

New Knights Gear

Winter will be here before we know it, stock up now for cooler weather!

Giving Tuesday

_________________________________   Winter is right around the corner bringing with it blustery cold days. If weather predictions come to fruition, it could be a record cold year for multiple regions across North America. If you’re fortunate to have a warm winter coat, count your blessings. But many children right in our own backyards don’t have this basic necessity, especially with the rising costs of food, gas, and heating. As families struggle to pay for these basic expenses, others ask: “How can I help?” Knights of Columbus invites you to join us on November 29th when we once again participate in Giving Tuesday – an international day of giving – to support our Coats for Kids campaign. GivingTuesday is less than a month away. Plan now to help as we begin building momentum! Please mark your calendar for GivingTuesday, November 29th and consider setting a fundraising goal for yourself or your council at our secure website. DONATE NOW   Sincerely, Patrick Diener Director, Knights of Columbus Charities   P.S. If you are not able to give this year, you can still help . . .  simply share this message with your local community and support us through raising awareness!     Knights of Columbus 1 Columbus Plaza New Haven, CT 06510 (203) 752-4000

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November Council events

Good evening brothers,

I hope you have had a chance to relax and enjoy this beautiful weather with family and friends.  You will find a tentative schedule of events that are coming up.  If you know of an event that I did not mention, please let me know.

First, THANK YOU to those who helped with...

     October coffee and donuts

     Dan Poirier for his presentation at the 4th degree social

      5th Sunday

      K of C Fish Fry (Oct 14) and the TLC fish fry (Oct 28)

November Events:

11/2  Memorial mass for Knights and auxiliary members.  If you know of a Knight that is deceased and would like to be remembered at this mass, please email me their name and council number.  The mass will be at Saint Joseph church in Springfield on Wednesday, November 3 at 6:30.

11/5  Peggy Carnahan needs the Knights to help to move furniture, because the contractors start work on Monday, Nov. 7. She will make a sizable donation to the Knights for our help, so her husband Bob doesn't have to do any heavy lifting. 

Basically, heavy furniture and boxes need to be moved from one end of their house to the other. We will need several dollys to roll the boxes and furniture. I have a small one and the church has two we can borrow. 

I think six or so guys would be enough to get the job done. I suggest we meet at her place at 9am on Saturday. Their address is 442 Hickory Hill Dr, Marshfield, MO, which is about 7.2 miles south of Marshfield on Highway A, or 0.3 miles south of the James River bridge to their ½ mile long driveway on the west side of the road.   Please email me if you are available to assist in this event.

11/6  Membership drive.  (John Tieskotter made a nice presentation at Saturday's mass about becoming a member.)

11/8  Mass at 6:00 and our meeting will be in the BASEMENT due to voting at the parish hall.  Our meeting will begin at 7:00

11/11  Thank a veteran, it's Veterans Day.  

11/12  Coats 4 Kids.  Distribution will be 2-4.  Setup for the event will begin 12:30

11/29  Fraternal Benefit Night  November 29, 2022 7:00 p.m.  I will have more information in the upcoming weeks.

I can not express how much I appreciate all that you do as a council, as individuals and all the untold/unsaid deeds you do, thank you!

Remember, if you would like for me to add a name to my rosary prayer list, please email me.  Take care and have a great week!

YBiC,

Gary

Mother Teresa Movie

 

IN THEATRES NOVEMBER 2 & 3! BUY TICKETS NOW   In Select Cinemas in Canada November 2 and 3!    MOTHER TERESA: NO GREATER LOVE, a documentary produced by the Knights of Columbus, tells the inspirational story of one of the world’s most revered saints, Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The movie was a box office hit in the US, earning over $1.2 million.   The film will be released in select U.K. cinemas on Wednesday, Nov. 2.  MOTHER TERESA: NO GREATER LOVE reveals not just who Mother Teresa was, but how her singular vision to serve Christ in the poor continues to be realized today through the religious order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity. “Mother Teresa taught us that there are no expendable people. Everyone we encounter is made in the image of God. So, when she was feeding the hungry or holding the hands of someone as they lay dying, she was treating them as she would the most important person in her life, Jesus Christ himself.”  - Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly The Knights of Columbus will allocate all its revenue from ticket sales to charitable purposes and efforts to advance the legacy of Mother Teresa     “I thought ‘Mother Teresa: No Greater Love’ was absolutely fantastic. It was moving. It was really well done. It was an enlightening portrait … about St. Mother Teresa. … It was really, really joyful to get to see it.” —Jonathan Roumie, star of “The Chosen” “This is a film that you can go to with your family. … I can learn something, and I can feel something, and I can be inspired to do something.” —Jim Wahlberg, executive director of the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation  “If you talk about the true, the good and the beautiful incarnate, it would be Mother Teresa … What I found particularly radiant about the documentary, was not just to show Mother Teresa, but her magnificent apostolate, her splendid service to the poorest of the poor still goes on because of the Missionaries of Charity. It’s not just a historical film. It’s past, present, and future. And that to me made it particularly effective.” —Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York   Help spread the word! Right-Click and Save the above image for use on social media!     Here’s a sample post you can use:  Get tickets to see Mother Teresa: No Greater Love, the inspiring new documentary about the life and legacy of St. Teresa of Calcutta. November 2 and 3 only! Find a theater near you:  https://hubs.la/Q01lHzxy0 #MotherTeresaMovie   Knights of Columbus 1 Columbus Plaza New Haven, CT 06510 203-752-4000

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Friday Fish Fry

Good evening,

Friday, October 28 is a fish fry for TLC.  If you can assist, please be there by 3:00.  We do not have to bring a dessert for the fish fry, but if you feel you have the need to bake or purchase one, knock yourself out.  

 Look forward to seeing you,

YBiC  Gary

Rosary

Brother Knights,

Here is the information Matt Sharp had sent to me earlier.  When you have a moment, please read.  I believe you will find this email very helpful and interesting.

Gary

Hi Gary,

I came across this article the other day and thought it might prove helpful to some of our Brother Knights. 

I started saying the daily rosary after attending the Phoenix Men's Conference "Into the Breach" in 2017. 

Both that conference and the Rosary have been transformative for me.  

YBiC, matt

Why Our Lady Constantly Requests the Daily Rosary

These constant reminders from the Blessed Virgin and the Catholic Church should bolster our confidence in the blessings of the Holy Rosary.

 

Father Stan Smolenski Blogs

 

October 7, 2022

 

If we realized all the benefits (both temporal and eternal) we get from praying the daily Rosary, we would not think twice about starting the practice right away in answer to our Blessed Mother’s constant requests.

Sister Lúcia of Fatima wrote and spoke with no doubt about the urgency of the daily Rosary. She made this evident in a brief communiqué to Pope Paul VI on May 13, 1965, at Fatima.

 

According to Lúcia:

The message of Our Lady of peace, mercy and supplication: In May 1917 Our Lady said: ‘Pray the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world and for the end of the war.’ That is why I beg your Holiness be obliged to intensify the prayer of the Rosary and if it is possible to arrange that on Sundays and Holy Days in all the Churches and chapels public and semi-public where there is no evening Mass, to pray the Rosary before the exposed Blessed Sacrament, ending with a blessing in a spirit of reparation, adoration and supplication.

 

Why? Because the power of the Rosary has been manifested in its many social and individual victories. The social includes the famous naval battle of Lepanto won on Oct. 7, 1571, which saved Christian Europe from an Ottoman takeover, after Pope St. Pius V called for a Rosary Crusade. That is the reason for the feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary on this date. On Oct. 13, 1917, in the sixth apparition at Fatima, Portugal, the Blessed Mother identified herself as Our Lady of the Rosary. Her message concerned the potential of the Rosary to prevent world wars and the restoration of peace. There were many other occasions verifying this, including the liberation of Austria, Brazil and the Philippines.

Something closer to home is the story of the approved apparition of Our Lady at Champion, Wisconsin, where she appeared to young Adele Brise in 1859 requesting her to catechize the neglected children. This indicated a general need for re-evangelization of the population. A small shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Good Help, a devotion that the Belgian immigrants brought with them, was built at the site of the apparition. Our Lady had warned them of an impending punishment if her requests were ignored.

 

In 1871 one of our nation’s greatest fires, known historically as the Great Peshtigo Fire, destroyed thousands of acres of dry forest and claimed at least 1,500 lives. People began gathering around the shrine praying the Rosary. That night a downpour of rain ended the fire. The blaze encircled the four-acre property without causing any damage to it. In fact, the white picket fence on the fire side was burned, while the side facing the shrine had no evidence of scorching. Trunks and stumps of the ruined trees were visible miles around but the grass was green on the shrine property. This miracle was attributed to the constant praying of the Rosary during this disaster.

 

An updated history of the Rosary was done by Father Donald Calloway of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception in his masterful book Champions of the Rosary. Besides century-by-century accounts of developments in the practice of praying the Rosary, Father Calloway also gives brief biographies of key promoters off the Rosary.

The artistically presented book The World of Marian Apparitions by the Mariologist Wincenty Laszewski records the stories of 48 locations around the world where Our Lady has visited since Fatima. These include places under Nazi and Communist control. Some type of ecclesial approval has been granted to each of them. Many of these include the importance of the Rosary. In 1986, at Belpasso, Italy, Our Lady revealed that “the Lord has touched many hearts. … He has made many understand how wonderful and marvelous prayer is, how fruitful is the recitation of the Rosary and my intercession before God.”

 

Individual Witnesses to the Rosary

There are innumerable accounts of personal blessings given through the Rosary. It saved the life of an intended victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. He victimized several girls in a sorority house but when he then tried to enter one of the rooms he was stopped by some force and ran out in terror. The frightened girl in the room later told a priest that her mother had asked her to pray the Rosary each night when she went to bed. When captured shortly after, Bundy confirmed what he experienced at that time.

The family of a soldier in the Korean War prayed a set of mysteries of the Rosary for him every evening. When the children went to bed, the parents prayed the other sets. One night the mother screamed and said she dreamed that a bomb was directed at their son’s bunker. In his next letter to them, he described how he suddenly awoke one night to the screams of a woman. That caused him to rush out to see what was happening. Then, suddenly a bomb hit his bunker killing everyone. He alone survived.

My sister kept a rosary under her pillow. One night she was awakened by a police siren going by. She realized that someone needed prayers and so said the Rosary. Shortly thereafter, the police came to tell her that her son was in an accident with some college buddies. The car was wrecked but no one was injured. My six-foot-plus nephew had only a chipped tooth. In remembrance of her, her grandchildren asked for one of her many rosaries.

Those social and personal accounts should inspire us to daily praying of the Rosary as Our Lady emphasized frequently in her many worldwide apparitions. Magisterial appeals have emphasized the same.

 

Magisterial emphasis on the Rosary

The Rosary was the object of papal praise, it seems, for centuries. Their more recent evaluations pertain to our circumstances.

In the late 1800s, during the building of the miraculous Basilica of the Rosary in Pompeii, Italy, Pope Leo XIII wrote 16 documents on the Rosary. The following quotes in a certain sense, summarize its importance.

In 1892 he stated:

This sequence of wonderful events the Rosary frequently and constantly recalls to the minds of the faithful and presents them almost as though they were unfolding before their eyes, thus flooding the souls of those who devoutly recite it with a sweetness of piety that never grows weary, impressing and stirring them as though they were listening to the voice of the Blessed Mother explaining the mysteries and conversing with them at length about their salvation.

The loss of faith was noted further in the same document:

The Christian is so preoccupied with life’s varied concerns and so easily distracted by futile concerns that unless he is frequently reminded, he little by little forgets the most important and the most necessary things. Eventually his faith grows weak and even dies.

And this was before our modern means of communication and transportation including television, computers, phones, cars and airplanes.

Such was the history of Israel as the Prophet Jeremiah laments. “Israel’s sons have perverted their way; they have forgotten the Lord their God” (3:21). The reason was “because there is none that considers in the heart” (12:11).

Mary, on the contrary, as Pope St. John Paul II emphasizes, “constantly sets before the faithful the ‘mysteries’ of her Son, with the desire that the contemplation of those mysteries will release all their saving power.”

Pope Leo XIII announced hope for perseverance in the daily Rosary as he continued in his document:

It can be said without exaggeration that for those persons, families and nations for whom the Rosary retains its ancient honor the loss of faith through ignorance and vicious errors need not be feared.

Also notable are the words of Ven. Pius XII, who proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, in his profound 1952 encyclical on the Rosary, Ingruentium Malorum (On Reciting the Rosary). There he emphasized the certainty of the preservation of Christian faith and morals on all levels of life by fidelity to the Rosary.

His successor, Pope St. John XXIII, opened his pontificate with an encyclical on the Rosary, Grata Recordatio (On the Rosary: Prayer for the Church, Missions, International and Social Problems). He emphasized the continued importance of the encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII wherein the Rosary is presented as a remedy for the troubled times the Church has been experiencing.

Trying to correct the theological, liturgical and devotional Marian upheaval caused by a wrong interpretation of the Second Vatican Council, Pope St. Paul VI issued several documents defending her rightful veneration in the Church. His landmark 1974 publication, Marialis Cultus, addressed the question of the rightful place of the Rosary directly. At the end of that Council, he declared Mary officially as Mother of the Church.

The full re-blossoming of the Rosary occurred during the long pontificate of St. John Paul II. His activities and writings usually had a Marian dimension. Every visit to a foreign country included a pilgrimage to a Marian shrine. All his visitors were given a rosary as a souvenir of that event. Besides his initial document on Mary, Redemptoris Mater (On the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Life of the Pilgrim Church) another notable Marian document was his 2002 Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae (On the Most Holy Rosary) in which he introduced the Luminous Mysteries to fill in the missing years of Christ’s public ministry. He declared 2003 the Year of the Rosary.

The Rosary helps us appreciate especially the Mass. Pope St. John Paul II centered on this in his Rosary document:

As Pope Paul VI made clear, not only does this prayer not conflict with the liturgy, it sustains it, since it serves as an excellent introduction and faithful echo of the liturgy, enabling people to participate fully and interiorly in it and to reap its fruits in their daily lives.

Pope Benedict XVI confirmed this in his Angelus message of Oct. 16, 2005:

The Rosary is not an obstacle to the meditation on the Word of God and liturgical prayer; it indeed, represents a natural and ideal complement to it, especially as a preparation and thanksgiving for the Eucharistic celebration.

The record of such experiences should bolster our confidence in the fidelity of Our Lady of the Rosary in answering our public and personal hopes, desires and needs.

 

Rosaries of Reparation

At Fatima Our Lady spoke of reparation to her Immaculate Heart, specifically through the Five First Saturday devotions revealed to Sister Lucy at Pontevedra, Spain, in February 1925.

 

This was repeated to a 15-year-old boy, Rosario Toscano, at Belpasso, Italy, in 1986. After Rosario’s cure, the bishop had full confidence in the apparitions and built the shrine there as Our Lady requested, later designating it the Marian sanctuary of the Diocese of Catania.

The significance of the five Saturdays is explained in this way. There are five kinds of offenses and blasphemies directed at the Immaculate Heart of Mary: attacks against her Immaculate Conception, attacks on her perpetual virginity, the refusal to recognize her as the Mother of God and of men, the actions of those who instill indifference and hatred toward her in people’s hearts and, finally, the actions of those who offend her in her holy images.

It is not necessary to wait for the First Saturdays to make such reparation. Since there are five decades to a Rosary, each one of these can be offered in reparation for one of the offenses, and thus a simple form of reparation can also be offered each day to keep the spirit of reparation alive in our hearts.

 

 

Father Stan Smolenski Father Stanley Smolenski SPMA, is a native of New Haven, Connecticut. A priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford, he was educated in the U.S., Canada and Rome with degrees in philosophy and theology with a specialization in spirituality. His various ministries included parishes, youth, the sick and handicapped, retreats, seminary professor, pilgrimage director, lecturer and author. Now a Baptistine canonical hermit in the service of the Diocese of Charleston, he is the director of the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Joyful Hope/Our Lady of South Carolina in Kingstree, South Carolina.

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