Worthy Officers, Brothers and Sir Knights,

Our next Business Meeting is Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 6:30 PM in person and on Zoom.

We will be treated with Dave Martin's homemade Chili, with cornbread and dessert provided by Steve Shover, at 5:30 PM.

We will conduct the next Exemplification of Charity, Unity and Fraternity during our business meeting on December 12, 2024. at 6:30 PM .

Be sure to bring cash or check so you can buy a 300 Club Raffle Ticket.

Has your address or contact information changed? Please let the Worthy FS Ray Michaud know at sirequitem@gmail.com

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Blessings,

Mike

1.  Call to Order

2. Opening Prayer   Vespers

3. Pledge of Allegiance

4. Approve Minutes of Prior Meeting (Need to approve Minutes from October 10, 2024 Business Meeting)

5. Chaplain’s Message

See the Newsletter and Business Meeting Minutes for additional details.

The month of October was busy with Cor, Bingo, the Anchor Award and the Echoes of Grace cemetery walk with the Saints. November started off with Holy Hour and the Day of Prayer for Clergy. In December we have to Keep Christ in Christmas and host our Special People's Party.

Our next exemplification will be DEC 12 at 6:30 PM. Beforehand Ray Michaud is preparing Hispanic Shepard's Pie. I plan to bring dessert. Can someone volunteer to bring a salad? 

We have one warning tonight regarding a very generous donation from the family of SK Ray Newman. 

Our Lenten Fish Fry initiative is still being explored. We should have a good idea what the council needs to invest in to make it happen. Then we will vote. 

Thanks to all who continue to recruit new members. 

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)

The fryolator initiative.

OLMC Sign painting.

The K of C stone installation needs a bid for completion.  

Knight of the Month: OCT PGK Tom Gravelin

Family of the Month: OCT Roger and Cindy Fay, Jr.

Our Worthy Lecturer Bernie Prendergast will tell us about the faith and virtue of St Albert the Great (NOV 15) and sing the song Hail Holy Queen Enthroned Above

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)

Use CARE when approaching potential new members.  

Please consider saying the Holy Rosary Daily.

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).

SK Ali Nasab, Jimmy Monroe, cousin of GK with Melanoma, Robert Morris, nephew of GK,  Jacobi Roulette, 7 Mo old 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, hurricanes (especially Helene and Milton) 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 SK Edward F. Schirmer. May he rest in peace and may his family and 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