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The Knights of Columbus will be holding an insurance benefits seminar open to all members and interested men in the JP-II unit. The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom on June 23rd at 7pm and is available for registration via this Link. zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkc-6uqj0iEtdiaWVoUJCWlAR2I3yOqk8I
We would welcome your participation. The Knights of Columbus is hosting a Unit lobster supper on Saturday evening May 22 at Stella Maris Parish Center. Due to Covid19 restrictions on seating, there will be two settings, one at 5pm and one at 7pm. There is limited seating available. Reservations are required for the supper on a first come, first served basis . Signup sheets are located at the back of the church. The deadline for reservations is May 17th. Unfortunately we will be unable to do take outs. Cost of the meal is a goodwill offering and proceeds will be used for KofC faith in action programs. Please be generous.
Our next monthly unit dinner will be held April 25th at 4:45 pm in Stella Maris Hall.
The meal will be meat loaf with potato and vegetables followed by dessert along with coffee and tea. Provincial covid19 health regulations are in effect. Admission is a good will offering and proceeds are in support of Knights of Columbus Faith in Action programs. Our next monthly unit dinner will be held March 27 at 4:45 pm in Stella Maris Hall.
The meal will be roast beef with potato and vegetables followed by dessert along with coffee and tea. Provincial covid19 health regulations are in effect. Admission is a good will offering and proceeds are in support of Knights of Columbus Faith in Action programs. March 1, 2021
The First Surrender When I first started making prayer a part of my daily life, in the beginning, I would pray, I would have clarity about my day and my life. I loved that, and I would come back again the next day and pray. And those first few weeks were fairly smooth sailing and a time of great joy and great peace and great clarity in my life. But a few weeks into it, I found myself in a place where we find ourselves very often in life, and that is with a decision to make. I had to make a decision. I didn't know what to do. And I remember one morning, I'm walking to school, I stop in the back of church and used to sit way down the back, and I just remember saying to God, "Listen, God, I got a problem here. I got a situation here." And I remember describing the situation to God in just a conversation, just like you talk to a friend. This is the situation. These are the circumstances. This was what's going on. This is how it came to be. And then, unconsciously, I just tripped over this monumental question of the spiritual life, and I said to God, "God, what do you think I should do?" And it seems like just such an ordinary question, but it is a question that will change your life. God, what do you think I should do? It's interesting because we make a lot of choices in our lives. We make a lot of decisions in our lives. And when we have a bigger decision to make we usually seek counsel from people in our lives. What's interesting and tragic, is that we usually seek counsel from just about everyone who knows just about nothing about just about nothing compared to the Advisor that we leave on the bench in our lives. And that advisor is God, who knows everything about everything, whose got all the answers to all of our questions, but very often we don't consult him. We let him sit on the bench while we're talking to family and friends and colleagues and asking them for their advice. And Jesus is sitting on the bench and saying, "Put me in the game. I got the answers. I can help you. I want to help you. I want to help you make the best decision possible. I want to help you make the right choice." And so I stumbled upon this question: God, what do you think I should do? What do you think I should do? I don't know about you, but I've got a decision I need to make in my life right now. Most of the time we do. You've got a question that's preoccupying your heart right now. How are you going to deal with that question? How you going to wrestle with that decision? And who's going to be your best advisor to help you make the right choice, to help you make the best decision? And so today I just want to invite you to give that question a place in your life. Just turn to your God, sit with your God, step into the classroom of silence, and say, "God, what do you think I should do?" In this situation, in this relationship, in my career, with the rest of my life. God, what do you think I should do with the rest of my life? Because that question will take you on amazing adventures. Our next monthly dinner will be held on Saturday Feb. 27th at 4:45 pm in Stella Maris parish hall. The dinner offering is an open faced turkey sandwich with vegetables followed by desert. Coffee and tea will also be served. Seating is on a first come first served basis and all covid19 health protocols are in effect.
Admission is a free will offering in support of our many K of C initiatives with a emphasis this month on fostering a community of life. Check our faith in action page for our Life initiatives. The Knights of Columbus has been sponsoring a Marian prayer program since 1978. This is the 18th icon commissioned by the Knights of Columbus and is titled “Our Lady, help of persecuted Christians”. The purpose is to encourage devotions to Mary and to raise awareness to the plight of persecuted Christians throughout the world.
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