Brother Knights, Wives, and Families
Thanksgiving
is fast approaching again. It is a good time to reflect on all that we
have been blessed with and to take time in
prayer to thank the Lord for these blessings.
It is a
wonderful time for family and friends to gather and share in a thanksgiving
meal, visiting, remembering our times together and praying for a happy and
healthy future. We can’t relive the past, but our memories will never be
forgotten. I hope each and every one will have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
I would
like to thank all Brother Knights, their wives, and families for the support
and time given to make our Council great throughout the year. A special
thank you all that participated in the work project for Habitat for Humanities.
Please plan
to attend our Council Meeting at 7:30 pm on Oct. 8th, 2013 beginning
with Mass at 7:00 pm. We will need Brothers to assist as an adult server,
reader and extraordinary ministers. Please assist in any of these roles if you
can.
This
article, provided with permission from Worthy Grand Knight Len Babyn Council
4249 Vegreville, came from their news letter, The Knights’ News. It is
something to think about.
“A
church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it
made no sense to go to church every Sunday. “I’ve gone for 30 years now”, he
wrote,” and in that time I heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for life of
me, I can’t remember a single one of them. So, I think I’m wasting my time and
the pastors wasting theirs by giving sermons at all.”
This
started a real controversy in the “Letters to the Editor” column, much to the
delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked 32,000
meals. But for life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of
those meals. But I do know this… They all nourished me and gave me the strength
I needed do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be
physically dead today.
Like
wise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead
today!” When you are DOWN to nothing…God is UP to something! Faith sees the
invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for
our physical AND our spiritual nourishment.
God Bless.
Morris Baraniecki
Grand Knight