Welcome to the holiday season! I hope that you and your loved ones enjoyed a blessed Thanksgiving. Among the blessings I remain thankful for are family and friends, including our wonderful parish and council.
November wrap-up
After our monthly meeting on Nov. 4th we opened the month by adding four new members to our ranks. Sam Puleo, Tom Sheppard and Joe Halle took their First Degree at Nativity on Nov. 9th, and Tim O’Connor shortly thereafter transferred in from Nativity. Each of them is eager to expand their faith and help others through their work in the council. When you get the chance, please make it a point to welcome them aboard!
On November 12th, we partnered with the parish’s Spanish community, the Legion of Mary, and others from the parish at the spaghetti dinner to benefit the Luz Fund – brother Chuck Mulhern’s charity which provides medical care and medicines to an impoverished region in Peru. While I don’t have a final count, we fed more than 150 paying customers, sold a lot of wine and beer, and also sold drawing tickets for a Caribbean island vacation. Most everyone considered the event an absolute success. If you were one of the many knights who helped out, please accept my sincere thanks.
Finally, we significantly replenished the council’s coffers with a successful sale of car magnets and Christmas cards in our annual “Keep Christ in Christmas” campaign. Over the second and third weekends of the month we sold $868 worth of magnetic car signs, Christmas cards and lapel pins, netting $532 after the cost of buying new inventory. We sold out of cards and pins, but still have a supply of magnets which we can continue to make available this Christmas season and sell next year, too.
On to December
With the last Friday of the November falling the day after Thanksgiving, we chose to cancel the social for November. We face the same situation in December, and so we have moved the December social to Friday the 17th, at 7pm. It will be pot luck as usual, and at this writing we are planning to make it another “family game night.” So, bring your family and your favorite game, and we hope to have a lot of fun.
Other than that, please plan to help out at “Feed the Needy,” from 2pm to 6pm on Wednesday, Dec. 29th at the church kitchen.
With that, please accept my family’s prayers and wishes that you and your family will enjoy a very merry and Spirit-filled Christmas! Thanks again for all you do through the Blessed Antonio Rosmini Council.
Fraternally yours in Christ,
John Wilbur
Grand Knight
P.S. – Below is the calendar of events coming up through February. The items listed are subject to change, and more may be added. Stay tuned! – JDW
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