Worthy Officers, Brothers and Sir Knights,

Firstly, please increase your prayers for Dick Labrecque and his family. Dick has been having some breathing difficulty. He has been in the hospital since Friday getting tests. Waiting on an MRI. He is in room Baird 328, but told me he hopes to go home tomorrow. More to follow. 

Here is the agenda for our Business Meeting on Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 6:30 PM.   

We are eating/meeting at St John Vianney and on Zoom.

Those who reserved a meal are paying $15 for a chicken curry dinner in support of St Paul's Seminary in India. Meals can be purchased from 5 to 5:45 PM in the parish hall. We will eat in the church basement as usual.

Sir Knights, please note that the Assembly will meet immediately after the council meeting to discuss an Assembly Budget, Patriotic Charities and to vote on the Ad for Vermont Catholic Magazine.  

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Blessings,

Mike

1.  Call to Order

2. Opening Prayer   The Lord's Prayer.

3. Pledge of Allegiance

4. Approve Minutes of Prior Meeting (Need to approve Minutes from August 8, 2024 Business Meeting)

5. Chaplain’s Message

See the Newsletter and last meeting minutes for details.

Next Officer Meeting is OCT 3. I would like to conduct our Officer Installation from 5:30 to 6 PM. Then have pizza before the meeting.

Next Holy Hour will be Friday, October 4, 2024, at 3 PM.

Next business meeting dinner is OCT 10, 2024, after Exemplification of Charity, Unity, and Fraternity. Team ready?  Ray has two candidates.

We have a planned membership drive this weekend at St Jude and OLMC.

COR Formation is September 21 at 10 AM with Coffee and donuts at ST. John Vianney. 

Chittenden County Right to Life dinner is also the 21^st beginning at 5:30 PM. (Jay and I plan to pu the food. The set-up is on Friday, the 20^th. Time? We need helpers. I think there is a helper dress code?)

Bingo is on September 19. We need workers.

The diocese is offering EM training on 22 SEP at 3:30 PM at St Jude taught by Josh Perry. There is EM training for those bringing the Eucharist to shut-ins on SEP 24 from 1-3 or 6-8 PM. Registration required. RegistrationEM 

7. Financial Report

Financial Secretary Report.

Treasurer report.  (Council, Bingo and Assembly)

8. Membership Report

9. Other Reports (As needed)

Super Bingo

SJV Bingo Committee

Insurance Agent (Dave Giuliani)

(The following reports are made as needed: Directors; Program, Faith, Family, Community, Life. Committees; Health, PR, Recruitment, Retention, Vocations, Insurance. Special; CTKT Super Bingo, Assembly 2106)

Our stone installation needs a bid for competition. 

We need to have the Council weigh-in on what to do with a $300 donation from the family of Bill Ladd. Three proposals have been discussed by the officers.

1.   Pay for a game at the Super Bingo next year in memory of SK Bill Ladd.

2.   Pay for supplies to re-stain the Chapel at CTKT.

3.   Use some of the money to pay for Jay’s expense to add spaces for Faithful Navigators on the plaque.

Knight of the Month: AUG Jay Benson, Joe Pranys, and Fr Tim Naples

Family of the Month: AUG Bill and Michelle Bessette

Our Worthy Lecturer Bernie Prendergast will talk about the life and virtues of St Robert Bellarmine (SEP 17) and sing the song Our Lady of Fatima.

BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front!) We need your help to make our events in the service of Christ successful. Will you answer the call?

If you need something or know of someone needing a visit, call one of us or call the office.

Make time to visit our Knights who are ill or shut in. 

If you are doing good work, let our Program manager, Ted Barrett know about it for our Star Council Award.  (Take a photo, please)

We will have a new quota for new members to qualify for the Star Council next year.

Please consider saying the Holy Rosary Daily.

The Assembly will meet after this meeting adjourns.

Before proceeding to the closing prayer, let me ask:  Does any brother know of a member of this council, or brother of the Order, who is sick or in distress?  (from last Officer Meeting/Newsletter).

Jacobi Roulette, Great-Grandson of Mike Audette, PGK Louis Lauzon of St Marks, Nathan Cookson, Kenneth Limoge, SK Joe Groleau (in hospital), a friend of Fr. Naples' whose daughter was recently diagnosed with leukemia, Mike and Pam Audette, Bishop John McDermott, Timothy O'Neill, Fr. Jeremias Tigga, Ben Fine (son-in-law of Ray Michaud), PGK Ray Miller,  General success of Catholic Radio, Mason and Elizabeth Bullock, Richard Labrecque, Leonard Robear, Chris Johnson, Arlene Michaud (Ray's sister), Gail Couillard, Marilyn LaCount, Friend of David Gravelin, Anthony Naples, Andre Ricard (Assembly 1157 Newport), Zak Bigelow and family, Pope Francis, Mrs. Jackie Crosby, An anonymous member in distress, Niko Limnos and Family, Mother-in-law of Ronnie Sweet, William Cannon and Family, Michael Gravelin, Mark and Paulette Noyes and Family (esp. Levi age 7), John O' Brien, Cheryl Allain, Claire Myers, Kelly Jackson (daughter of late PGK Jeff Jackson), PGK Bernie Hemond, Dick and Sandy Stevens, Beth-Ann Prendergast, Mariette Nadeau, Jeff and Kay Jarvis, Tom Gravelin, Chuck Schifilliti, Gerry Seney, Robert Gravelin, Keith Marston, Sue Cottrell, (23 year old woman fighting cancer), Kevin and Chad Limoge, Vickie Linton, George Stevens (Assembly 2106), James Read, Gene Tofferi,  Jeffrey Claude Danis and family, Stuart Fath, Wally Rooney, Ed and Theresa Curtiss, one anonymous brother knight, the people of Ukraine, Israel, Gaza and an end to the wars. All clergy and religious. All victims and families of COVID-19 and flooding. First Responders, police, and firefighters. For a just solution in the Middle East, that pregnant women will choose life and for new members to join the Order. 

For all the faithfully departed and their grieving families, especially Toni Hill, a devoted parishioner and Lector at St John Vianney, Beverly Newman, devoted wife of the late SK Ray Newman, Mary Robear, beloved wife of SK Leonard Robear, SK Richard Gamache, Council 297, and SK Norbert Vogl, Assembly 1148. May they rest in peace and may all the families of the deceased be comforted by the promise of everlasting life in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Prayer for Canonization of Blessed Michael McGivney

God, our Father, protector of the poor and defender of the widow and orphan, you called your priest, Blessed Michael McGivney, to be an apostle of Christian family life and to lead the young to the generous service of their neighbor. Through the example of his life and virtue, may we follow your Son, Jesus Christ, more closely, fulfilling his commandment of charity and building up his Body which is the Church. Let the inspiration of your servant prompt us to greater confidence in your love so that we may continue his work of caring for the needy and the outcast. We humbly ask that you glorify Blessed Michael McGivney on earth according to the design of your holy will. Through his intercession, grant the favor I now present (our sick or in distress). Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

16. Adjournment