Grand Knight Report

Congratulations to: Ron Zeigler on getting his Third Degree; and new Fourth Degree Sir
Knights: Sir Aaron Drury, Sir Cornelius Egwuatu, and Sir Darryl Mummert; and Kyle Miller on
becoming an Eagle Scout.
Welcome to our new Brother Knights Tom Kessinger and Jason Chilson.
2nd Degree coming up. Everyone needing their 2nd degree, contact me so I can submit your
name. So far I have John Angelo, Jose Zotomayor and Don Parker.
Mother's Day Breakfast ticket sale is scheduled for May 2&3. Call me and let me know the times
you can help. At the breakfast we will try to have two shifts to try to give you time to go to
church with your families.

If you plan to help the Baghdad Roundtable with supplies for the orphanage, school, and maternity
hospital, give them to Darryl or call him at 863-398-2007 so he can pick them up before May 8.
The Tootsie Roll Drive will be at the Publix on MLK from 8:00 to 5:00 on 5/30/09. We need lots
of help, so please volunteer for a time that is convenient. The more volunteers we get, the less
time each of us will have to work.
We have three candidates who will be at the next first degree. Thanks to all that came to the Open
House/Potluck Social. Thanks to Tom Cummings for serving as our speaker and bringing a
candidate for our council.
Fraternally,
Miguel Molina
Mary, Queen of the Knights, Pray for Us

FRATERNAL AGENT'S REPORT

Brothers,
We are in the home stretch, there are just two months left in the Columbian Year. If your Council
is to earn STAR COUNCIL, we'll need a few associate members to become insurance members by
June 30th.
Fr. McGivney's goal was every member an insured member and during his lifetime that was a
reality.
Unfortunately, today many Knights do not chose to protect their families and support the Order.
In May's Columbia there is an article about a priest who after serving the Church all his adult life
who left his estate to the Knights of Columbus and Holy Mother Church.
What about you? What can you do? What will you do?
Please help your Grand Knight and your Council to achieve the Star Council Award.
Fraternally,
Tom Cummings
813-625-2444

Chaplain's Report

The Year of the Priest
“The priesthood is the love of the Heart of Jesus.” So said St. John Vianney, the beloved Curé of Ars, in his “Catechism on the Priesthood.” The saint, whose own heart was so filled with the love of Christ that it remains miraculously incorrupt 150 years after his death, will be declared Patron of all the
Priests of the World by Pope Benedict XVI during a special Year of the Priest to be celebrated by the universal Church beginning June 19 – the
solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The Sacred Heart liturgy emphasized Jesus’ total self-gift – an outpouring of blood and water – and his role as the inexhaustible source of the springs of
salvation. Renewing – and celebrating – the priesthood with that in mind would benefit the entire Church, and its growth in the fundamental virtues of
faith, hope and charity.
The faithful priest, united to the Heart of Christ, declares the truth by who he is – a sign of contradiction. His self-offering points to God’s
love in a world of sin. The authenticity of a holy priest who knows his identity is rooted in his conformity to the Heart of Christ confirms
the faith of countless people entrusted to him.
A priest united to the Heart of Christ lifts our minds and hearts beyond this present world. The very person of a priest conformed to the
Heart of Christ inspires us to hope, because we see in his life of self-surrender the overturning of worldly self-preservation, inspired by his
goal of eternal happiness in heaven.
During the Offertory at Mass, we are invited: “Lift up your hearts!” In lifting our hearts up to the Lord, offering ourselves to God as full
and active participants in the Eucharistic sacrifice, we declare a readiness to imitate the Heart of Christ, so full of love that he was lifted on
the cross for our sake.
Growth in charity means learning to give. Fortunately, in all the sacrifices that leave us feeling emptied, we have the love of the Heart of
Jesus there for us, present in his sacraments to lift us up.
As St. John Vianney said, “When you see a priest, you should say, ‘There is he who made me a child of God, and opened heaven to me by
holy Baptism; he who purified me after I had sinned; who gives nourishment to my soul.’”
We should thank God for our priests and pray for them.

Excerpts from an article in Our Sunday Visitor
Fr. Christopher Fitzgerald


Upcoming Activity
May, 2009

02 VA Picnic 12:00PM
08 4th Degree Meeting
10 Mother's Day Breakfast 8AM-1PM
12 1st Degree at Brandon 6:30PM
16 2nd Degree at St Stephen 8:30AM
18 Business Meeting 7:30PM
25 Social Meeting at 7:00PM
30 Tootsie Roll Drive at Publix
8:00-5:00