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GRAND KNIGHT’S MESSAGE

Our first month of action in the fraternal year is behind us. We have started on a positive note, successfully running a membership drive and getting three new members to sign up and many more interested, and selling donuts. I want to thank everyone who came to help out and participated. Our next major fundraising event is the Autumn Dance on October 15th, we still have lots of empty tables and I encourage everyone to attend and buy tickets.

We will also be selling Roses for Life on October 22nd and 23rd, please sign up to take a shift either Saturday evening or Sunday all proceeds go towards our pro-life initiatives. I would like to see some more brothers participating in our events, even if you can dedicate a few hours of your time it will go a long way. We constantly require help in the park especially now that the leaves are falling. Our service does not go unnoticed, people see the work we do and also become active in the community. Let's be good role models and encourage volunteering and service to our church and community. October month is dedicated to the Mother of God and her rosary – one of the symbols at the First Degree Exemplification. Please continue to keep this commitment. Besides prayer, we need to take time to ourselves to regroup and relax!.

Vivat Jesus

Mark Ruta

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THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ST. MAXIMILIAM KOLBE COUNCIL 9612 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER

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Calendar of Events

Friday, October 7

7:00pm

First Friday

Tuesday, October 11

8:00pm

General Meeting

Sunday, October 16

9:30pm

Bingo

Sunday, October 23

9:30pm

Bingo

Tuesday, October 25

7:30pm

Executive meeting

Friday, November 4

7:00pm

First Friday

Tuesday, November 8

8:00pm

General Meeting

Sunday, November 20

9:30pm

Bingo

Sunday, November 27

9:30pm

Bingo

Tuesday, November 29

7:30pm

Executive meeting

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2016-2017 EXECUTIVE

Chaplain Fr. Janusz Blazejak, OMI 905-848-2420

Grand Knight Mark Ruta 647-919-1544

Past Grand Knight Adam Rachwal 905-625-4155 Deputy Grand Knight Jan Hapek

905-276-3789 Chancellor Miroslaw Ruta 905-542-1237 Recorder Andy Makula

905-949-4979 Financial Secretary Mieczyslaw Gniotek

905-273-9245 Treasurer Michael Balawejder

905-206-9265 Advocate Robert Jagielski

416-528-5760 Warden Janusz Ostrowski

905-272-3795 Inside Guard Albin Trella

905-276-6360 Zygmunt Wardzela 905-647-8579

Outside Guard Ted Siuda 905-450-7606

1ST Year Trustee Henry Lopinski, P.G.K. 905-274-4660

2ND Year Trustee Joseph Zielinski 905-820-3299

3RD Year Trustee Joseph Studzinski 905-

Lecturer Eugeniusz Gwiazdowski 905-306-0470

KofC Insurance Agent Andrei Dias 416-839 5997

District Deputy Gary McDonald Membership Director Jan Hapek

905-276-3789 Program Director Jan Hapek

905-276-3789

Church Director Ted Siuda

647-786-6848

Community Director Henry Lopinski, P.G.K. 905-274-4660

Council Director Zygmunt Wardzela 905-647-8579

Family Director Miroslaw Ruta 905-272-3795

Youth Director Robert Jagielski 416-528-5760

From The Pulpit

There are a lot of peripheries ”in today’s gospel. Pope Francis often uses the word to translate the margins of society to which he urges us to take Christ’s compassion. Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee, whose populations of Samaritan and Jews were usually bitter enemies. Such frontiers were fraught with ethnic and religious tensions. Lepers were also people of the “periphery,” living on the edges of communities, isolated for fear of contagion. The Master who approached did not fear those on the margins, and indiscriminately lavished God’s mercy and healing on them. The lepers asked for mercy. Jesus offered it, and then wondered at the gratitude expressed only by one – the hated Samaritan. To all, Jesus had given life: he had re-created, healed and restored them to family, friends, and community. Jesus offers life restored to us too. Perhaps we imagine ourselves far from the margins, little in need of mercy. But in moments of utter honesty, we recognize that we too are marginalized We need healing. Jesus invites us to trust his word of power, and to surrender ourselves to God to be transformed and restored by his Spirit in this Eucharist so that, brimming with gratitude and joy, we may return to the margins as bearers of God’s mercy. Bernadette Gasslein, Edmonton, AB

Fr. Janusz

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In 1882 life for Catholics was very difficult, most were new immigrants and because, they were new and Catholic, the only jobs available to them were the ones no one else wanted, like working in the coal mines or factories. Attitudes to women working were very different then they are today, the wife and mother had to stay home and look after the children while the husband and father worked long hours in unsafe conditions. Many of these men died when they were very young and left the wife widowed and the children without their father and penniless, most times the State would step in and send these children to group homes, because the mother was not able to support the family financially. Fr. McGivney seeing the families of his parish being torn apart, decided to do something and the Knights of Columbus was born. What started out as a hat being passed around after meeting to create a reserve fund, has grown to one of the most secure and oldest financial institutions in North America. Life in 2015 is not that much different for Catholics, we are told not to wear crosses and display sacred images at work, we are no longer allowed to say the Lord’s Prayer during Mississauga city council meetings, we are even told to keep Christ out of Christmas and instead say happy holidays. But through all these adversities we have stood strong and our Councils and our Order has worked tirelessly to make sure that the Light of Christ shines through. Our 10th Supreme Knight Luke E Hart, championed and had “Under God” included in the U.S pledge of Allegiance, when Pope Francis visited America in September the Knights of Columbus gave over 3 million dollars to help offset some of his costs . But have you ever wondered how we have been able to fund these important achievements?

The answer Brother is the premiums you and I pay, to protect our loved ones. I could have been insured by any other Insurance company, but why would I, when I know my premiums are being used to promote our Catholic faith and values, there is no other insurance company in North America that can say the same. Since 1882 the Knights of Columbus have been protecting Catholic families, and when the days come when it becomes hard to pay my premiums and they do happen, I remember that those same premiums will insure that my children and my children’s children can walk down a street and proudly proclaim I am Catholic. The Knights of Columbus offer Permanent and Term life insurance, Tax Free Saving Accounts, Registered Retirement Savings Accounts, Long-term Care and Disability Income Insurance, speak to me today to find out how I can protect you through service. Terras Irradiant ( Go Enlighten the world) Bro. Andrei Dias

Family of the Year 2014-2015 Henry Lopinski Family

Family of the Month 2016 September Joseph Ztudzinski Family August Henry Lopinski Family

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July Andy Makula Family

Brother of the Year 2014-2015 Joseph Zielinski

Brother of the Month 2016 September Stan Janowski August Jozef Sadowski July Stan Janowski Happy Birthday Brothers

October 1 Tadeusz Suida 5 Edward Anczurowski 5 Bronek Mazurkiewicz 7 Marek Golec 9 Michael Warski 10 Jacek Mikowski 11 Bogdan F Mlynarczyk 12 Mieczyslaw Gniotek 24 Jerry Pszczolkowski 24 Marcin Saganek 28 Michael Balawejder 29 Slawomir Derus

Happy Birthday Ladies

October 3 Jennie Flis 17 Daniela Olszewski

October

3 Krystyna and Peter Klimek 10 Barbara and Maleszewski 16 Halina and John Niedziela 17 Krystyna and Jerry Pszczolkowski 17 Franciszka and Albin Trella 24 Jennie and Edward Flis 30 Kalina and Adam Rachwal

Are you excited enough about your experience to want to offer it to someone – like a brother, father, son, son-in-law, father-in-law, uncle, grandfather, grandson, neighbour, co-worker, and fellow-parishioner

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Brother Henry Lopinski is our Fraternal Director, if

there are any Brother Knights or family members that

are sick or in distress he should be contacted at 905-274-

4660. Ted Siuda can also be contacted at 905-566-0616

Our Council will make the appropriate gesture if we

know the situation.

Fraternally,

Brother Henry Lopinski

October Month of the Holy Rosary

The month of October each year is dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary. This is primarily due to the fact that the liturgical feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is celebrated annually on October 7th. It was instituted to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary in gratitude for the protection that she gives the Church in answer to the praying of the Rosary by the faithful.

The feast was introduced by Pope St. Pius V (1504-1572) in the year 1571 to commemorate the miraculous victory of the Christian forces in the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. The pope attributed more to the "arms" of the Rosary than the power of cannons and the valor of the soldiers who fought there.

Legend tells us that the Rosary as a form of prayer was given to St. Dominic (1170- 1221) by Mary, the Mother of Our Lord, who entrusted it to him as an aid in the conflicts with the Albigensians. The Dominican pope, St. Pius V, did much to further the spread of the Rosary and it thereafter became one of the most popular devotions in Christendom. It was the same Pope St. Pius V, who in 1569 officially approved the Rosary in its present form with the Papal Bull, CONSUEVERUNT ROMANI PONTIFECES. It had been completed by the addition of the second half of the "Hail Mary" and the "Glory be to the Father" at the conclusion of each mystery.

Current scholarship traces the development of the Rosary to the High Middle Ages where it came into being in various medieval monasteries as a substitute for the Divine Office for the lay monks and devout lay persons who did not know how to read. Instead of the 150 psalms, they would pray 150 "Our Fathers" counting them on a ring of beads known as the crown or "corona". With the growth of popularity of Marian devotion in the twelfth century, the "Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary" developed now substituting 150 "Hail Marys" in place of the "Our Fathers."

The 150 "Hail Marys" were subsequently subdivided into 15 decades by the young Dominican friar, Henry Kalkar (1328-1408), with each decade referring to an event in the life of Jesus and Mary. The Dominican, Ananus de Rupe (1428-1478) further divided the episodes in the history of salvation into the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries. He also attributed the origin of the Rosary , then known as the "Psalter of the Blessed Virgin" to St. Dominic and thus spurred the Dominican Order to make the Apostolate of the Rosary their special concern. The Dominicans

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have, since then, promulgated the Rosary with notable results.

The practice of dedicating the entire month of October to the Holy Rosary developed toward the end of the last century. Pope Leo XIII ( papacy: 1878-1903 ) strongly promoted the increase of devotion to the Blessed Mother by encouraging the constant use of the Rosary. Beginning on September 1, 1883, with SUPREMO APOSTOLATUS OFFICIO, he wrote a total of eleven encyclicals on the Rosary , ending with DIUTURNI TEMPORIS in 1898. We are currently celebrating the centennial of these papal encyclicals.

Many other popes have contributed to help increase devotion to the Rosary by their writings. In the recent past, Pope Paul VI ( papacy: 1963-1978) devoted the last section of his Apostolic Exhortation MARIALIS CULTUS to the Angelus and the Rosary (MC 40-55). In this document, he wrote that "the Rosary retains an unaltered value and intact freshness." (MC, 41)

The Rosary is primarily a scriptural prayer. This can be summarized by the traditional phrase used by Pope Pius XII (papacy: 1939-1958) that the Rosary is " a compendium of the entire Gospel" (AAS 38 [1946] p.419) . The Rosary draws its mysteries from the New Testament and is centered on the great events of the Incarnation and Redemption.

Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has called the Rosary his favorite prayer, in which we meditate with Mary upon the mysteries which she as a mother meditated on in her heart. (Lk. 2:19) (Osservatore Romano, 44; 30 Oct. 1979)

In this month of October, let us consider this beautiful prayer of the Rosary as a means that we too can use in order to draw closer to Jesus and Mary by meditating on the great mysteries of our salvation.

THANKSGIVING DAY - October 14th –

In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God Thanksgiving Day is fitting for God’s people to offer public thanks for all the gifts we have received. The bountiful produce of the earth is a visible sign of the many blessings God wants to shower on us through Christ. Our God also wants us to share the goods of the earth with all people.

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