Notice. Our next meeting will be held Wednesday, January 24, 2018 At St. Scholastica Starting At 7:00 p.m. January 2018 Page Express

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1 January 2018 Page Express Robert P. Connelly Council # Woodridge, IL January Officers Grand Knight John Koys (630) Chaplain Deacon Tom Fricke (630) Deputy Grand Knight Jerry Munley (630) Chancellor Joe Gajc (630) Recorder Bill Yunker (630) Financial Secretary Steve Wagner (630) Treasurer Jim Schmidt (630) Lecturer Dennis Bik (630) Advocate Lee Wirth (630) Warden Eric Wood (773) Inside Guards Pete Gavlin (630) John Piotrowski (630) Outside Guards George Rieber Ed Fleming (630) Trustees Joe Testolin (630) Steve Fitzmaurice (630) Jim Leifel (630) K of C Insurance Field Agent Joseph R Spada The 5918 Express is a monthly publication of the Robert P. Connelly Council. The article submission deadline is the 10th of the month. Please send articles to: mjmggm@aol.com or for information on this newslettercontact:jerry Munley (630) Brothers: I hope many of my brother Knights plan on attending our Annual After Christmas Party on Sunday, January 28, in St. Scholastica s Activity Center. It runs from 4 to 7 p.m. and only costs $10, payable at the door. Please bring a gift card ($15 value) in an envelope to exchange and a dessert to share. Pizza, salad, wine, beer and soft drinks will be served. This is a great opportunity to share a good time with our brothers and potential new members of our council. We have a spelling bee scheduled for Tuesday, February 6, at Kingswood Academy in Darien. We still need a few volunteers to help with this event. Please contact me at if you d like to take part in this great youth event. Let s not forget the Chili Cook-off on Saturday, February 10, at St. Scholastica. This is a fundraiser for St. Scholastica and is always a tasty, fun-filled event. The Knights have volunteered to help with refreshments. At our January 24 meeting, we ll have a guest who will offer us samplings of coffees as part of the JustCoffee program. She will describe the program (Continued on page 4) Notice Our next meeting will be held Wednesday, January 24, 2018 At St. Scholastica Starting At 7:00 p.m.

2 January 2018 Page Express Dear Brother Knights and Ladies, Our crisp new wall calendar tells us that the Christmas season is over. We are settled down, the decorations are put away and we are still watching football games. Our liturgical calendar tells us we are in the second week of Ordinary Time. This means the liturgy follows the ordo or regular prayers. It refers to all that aren t included in the major season of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter. Two Sunday s ago, the Gospel was about John s account of the call of the first disciples. This reading brings up the subject of discipleship. What makes a person a follower of Christ? What does discipleship entail? In the gospel account, two of the disciples of John the Baptist followed Jesus. This of course means they did more than trail Him as someone special: they accepted him for what the Baptist declared him to be, the lamb of God. The basis of their reaction to Jesus when they first encountered him was an act of faith in Him. Having accepted him as having this special role in God s plan of salvation for the Jews, they then went a step further. They decided to throw in their lot with him, to join him in his mission, to become his disciples and followers. Briefly stated, it means that they agreed to let him be the influence in their lives that God wanted him to be: He is calling us, they thought, and we will answer that call. He is calling us to be something with him, they went on, and we will be, and do, whatever he asks of us. And that decision determined the course of their lives and activity. The Christian goes through the same process. He first makes his act of faith in Christ, acknowledging that he is sent by God to reveal God to him (and all men). And he decides that he will submit himself to Christ and obey him. While experiencing the extremely cold weather it comes to mind that only in a month we will be entering the season of Lent. Easter will soon be on us. This ought to be the time to think about this holy season and how we will prepare for it. Will we be ready for it? Vivat Jesus! Deacon Tom Leonard M. Jarka Memorial Scholarship Applications Available Students planning on attending a Catholic high School or accredited university, college, or trade school are eligible to apply for the Leonard M. Jarka Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship application and full eligibility requirements can be obtained from Christ the Servant or St. Scholastica parish offices, downloaded from our website: or by calling Scholarship Chairman Jim Schmidt at All applications must be submitted by April 15, Applications can be submitted via on our website, printed and mailed to our Post Office Box 5511, Woodridge, IL 60517, or given to any Council 5918 Officer or our scholarship chairman. The scholarships will be awarded at the end of May, 2018.

3 January 2018 Page Express Robert P. Connelly Council 5918 Cordially Invites You to Our ANNUAL AFTER CHRISTMAS PARTY Sunday, January 28, :00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. St. Scholastica Parish Activity Center 7800 Janes Ave. Woodridge, IL $10.00 per person. Pizza, Salad, Wine, Beer and Soft Drinks will be served Please R.S.V.P. by January 24, 2018 to Jerry Bevignani at GameGuru09@aol.com or call (630) Please bring a Dessert to share We will be having a Gift Card exchange this year. If you wish to participate, please bring a $15.00 gift card in an envelope You will receive a $15.00 gift card during the exchange

4 January 2018 Page Express (Continued from page one) and the coop that produces it. This is a potential fundraiser for us. Another fundraiser we re considering is through Portillo s Hot Dogs, through which the restaurant donates a percentage of sales to our council on a specified day and time. Stay tuned (and stay hungry) for further information. We delivered 24 children s coats to the West Suburban Community Pantry on January 13. Thank you Steve Wagner for ordering and bringing the two cases of coats to the pantry. The people at the pantry are extremely grateful for our donation, especially since we ve been having some very cold days this winter. We ll be planning more events for this year with possibilities including: Stations of the Cross during Lent, a Deaconate Sunday celebration in April, Fifth Sunday Rosary. the Global Wheelchair foundation, a blood drive, a KC Family Corporate Communion, a Memorial Mass, assisting a needy family in the community, Easter Egg Hunt, selling pro-life puzzles, a membership table at Hospitality Sundays, and Wayne Messmer s play Damien. Our council needs to recruit a few more members and get a few more insurance members and we ll be well on our way to achieving Star Council. February Birthdays Don Chilson 2/10 Dan Gracious 2/10 David Johnson 2/23 Michael Kurinec 2/25 James Leginski 2/17 Michael McAleer 2/28 Joseph Puthenpurakal 2/12 George Rieber Sr. 2/21 Rev Gerald Riva 2/24 Jeff Salvino 2/3 I hope to see many of my brother Knights at our next meeting, Wednesday, January 24, at St. Scholastica. Vivat Jesus! John Koys Grand Knight TROOP 512 SPAGHETTI DINNER ST. SCHOLASTICA Activity Center February 18, :00 pm 6:00 pm BROTHER KNIGHTS Please pray for our brother knights and their families who are ill. God of heavenly power, one word from you can free us from every weakness and disease. Kindly hear our prayers, free us from our sickness, restore our health, and give us the vigor to praise you unceasingly. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Gallican Liturgy

5 January 2018 Page Express Council 5918 Calendar February 2018 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Groundhog Spelling Bee Kingswood Academy, Darien 6:30 pm 7 4th Degree Meeting Holy Spirit Chili Cook Off St. Scholastica 6-10 pm 11 World Marriage 12 Lincoln s Birthday Ash Wednesday Valentine s Chinese New Year 17 Rosary At the Abortion Center 9:00 4th Degree Exemplification Troop 512 Spaghetti Dinner St. Scholastica 1:00 6:00 pm Presidents Washington s Birthday Stations of the Cross 7:00 pm Council Meeting 7:00 St Scholastica

6 January 2018 Page Express ST. SCHOLASTICA CHILI COOK A presentation of the JustCoffee Program will be given at this month s meeting, Wednesday, January 24. The goal of this presentation is to consider selling JustCoffee as a fund raiser. The presentation will introduce the product through tastes and discussion and introduce the coffee growers coop who produce JustCoffee KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SPELLING BEE Tuesday, February 6, 6:30 pm Kingswood Academy Darien, IL Contact GK John Koys if you are able to help.

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