JANUARY 2010 

Grand Knight’s Message 

            I wish all a Happy, Healthy and Holy New Year. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.   Well, a New Year is here! Lets all pray for a better year than last! Last year, a lot of people lost their jobs, or had to take less hours at work and some people even lost their homes. Let’s open our hearts and be ready to help others in their hour of need.     It has been very busy the last few months with getting ready for Christmas. I would like to thank all who helped with the many projects around the Church the past couple of months.  I have noticed the many hours The Knights and their families dedicate to our Church and community. We are truly blessed to have such caring, giving people in our community. With the New Year comes more projects and things to get done. So, please attend the business meetings and help out if you can.

Mark your calendars for the following dates.  Jan. 30^th Knight’s Fuel Assistance Dinner. We will need help with this. Please come to the meeting so we can plan for this dinner. The form for Fraternal Hours is due the end of January. You can give them to me or Pete Hubby. We will also need help with taking down the outside Christmas lights at the church. We will set the time for this at the business meeting. Thank you all another successful year. 

Vivat Jesus

Rick Cabral GK  

         BIRTHDAYS IN JANUARY

            HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! 

 

DATE              NAME                    DATE              NAME                        

 2                     Robert Thibodeau                     6         Brendan Splaine

10                    Timothy Acerno                        13        Gregory C. Dodge

17                    James Stratz Jr.                        18        Tona McCarthy

24                    Michael Cabral                        25        Edward Kroesser

24                    Stephen Ste.Marie                    27        Adam Munguia

28                    Michael Annis Jr.                      30        Ron Laurent

                                     

ACTIVITIES IN JANUARY 

            January 1st   Happy New Year!!

January 3rd  Squires’ Sunday Mass 8:00AM, Business Meeting 9:00AM

January 6th, 13^th, 20th, and 27th Rosary Devotion 7:00PM

January 8^th, 15^th, 22nd, and 29th Friday Adoration 8:00AM-7:00PM                    

January 9^th,  Squires dinner after 4:00PM Mass

January 10^th  Business meeting 9:00AM

January 16th  NH Right-To-Life March in Concord

January 20th  Planning meeting 8:00PM Church hall

January 24^th  Fourth Degree Assembly meeting 9:00AM

January 30th  Fuel assistance Dinner 5:00PM 

SQUIRES NEWS 

            The Squires helped with the Knights to deliver the Christmas Baskets. They also sold Christmas Trees. All of the proceeds from the selling of the Christmas trees went to Fr. Von for fuel assistance for the local communities. The Squires will be have a ham dinner on Saturday January 9th after the  4:00PM Mass. 

COUNCIL NEWS  

            Grand Knight Rick Cabral mentioned that the December 12th Squires dinner was cancelled since the Squires were helping out at the Raymond Christmas parade.  Rick is asking everyone to get their 2009 Fraternal Survey in ASAP so he can send the total hours to Supreme before the end of January. The form is in the bulletin or can be downloaded from our website. The adult Christmas party is December 18th and the children’s party is December 19th. Thanks to Peter Hubby for getting the basket together that the Council donated to the Church fair. Also, to Bob Faust for organizing the work at the Epping food pantry along with those who helped and Dave Biron and Mike Kappler for selling the Keep Christ in Christmas cards this year.

District Deputy Dave Hamilton presented the Knight in Shining Armor award to Steven Ste. Marie. Dave Biron read an article about Our Lady of Guadalupe. John Nasser brought the bills for dues for 2010. He mentioned the Council saved a lot on postage because of all the members who renewed at the meeting. John will mail the remaining bills. The Trustees had nothing to report. Mike Annis talked about needing help with the Children’s Christmas party on Dec. 19th and the Adult’s Christmas party Dec. 18th. Call Mike ASAP at 895-4713. The Council won First place at the Raymond Christmas parade for our float.

Mike thanked all who helped assemble and distribute the Thanksgiving baskets, food for the Christmas baskets will be picked up Saturday, December 19th and assembled then, too. They will be distributed after Mass on Sunday, December 20th. Dave Hamilton is co-chair for this project. Some gifts will be delivered along with the baskets. 

            Ron Metevier thanked all who helped at the Raymond Christmas parade Dec. 12th and setting up both the Raymond and Epping Mangers. The Council will be looking into setting one up in Fremont in 2010. Thanks go to Santa, too. Ron is ready to place an order for jackets in January.

            Dave Biron said help is need to finish the outside Church decorations, please contact Dave if you can be there. Leo reported our Seminarian asks us to keep him in our prayers and he will pray for us. He appreciates our support and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.

            Mark Hausmann said the Parish Pro-Life committee is getting very active, the Concord March for Life is January 16th, the March in Washington DC is the next week. Watch the Sunday bulletin. Something is being planned for Church January 21st. Bob Faust reported the donation to the Epping food pantry was matched and 24 Knights and their families helped sort the food donated at Church and to the Boy Scout food collection. Ed Parent said the Epping Crèche lighting was Friday, December 11th. A good tune was had by all, he purchased figurines and LED lights as well as Acrylic covers for the Crèche scene.

            John Ste. Marie motioned to donate $120.00 to the parish to cover the cost of supplies for the newsletter, 2nd and passed. Ed Parent said George Bryant wanted to join [or rejoin] our Council, John Nasser is checking to see if he ever actually transferred from our Council. Gil Burelle said there is an Air Show at Pease in 2010 and the Blue Angels will be performing. Mike Annis motioned to pay for supplies Ed bought for the Epping Crèche but Ed said he’s donating that, so the motion was withdrawn.

            John Ste. Marie said Regalia is needed for Midnight Mass and January 21st. The December Fourth Degree Assembly meeting has been cancelled.

            Fr. Von mentioned Christmas is fast approaching and the decorations look very good. He would like Regalia for Midnight Mass. The generator has been installed and tested. It is a 15kw generator.

            Paul Arsenault reported the balance at the end of November, 2009 is $7345.34, Committed Funds are $6646.37 leaving a Net of  $698.97, which is why we need to keep an eye on how we spend our money.

Notify Dave Biron at 580-2729 about any projects so they can be put in the bulletin. There is a planning meeting every 3rd Wednesday after the evening Mass.

 

FOURTH DEGREE NEWS 

            The 4th Degree Color Guard served the Midnight Mass for Christmas. I would like to thank all members of the Color Guard for the great showing. Job well done! Since our December meeting fell on December 27, the December 4th Degree assembly meeting was cancelled. See you the fourth Sunday in January.  

            Happy New Year to you and all your families. 

God Bless

Faithful Navigator

John Ste.Marie

DISTRICT DEPUTY REPORT 

            District Deputy Dave Hamilton reported on a new program from Supreme - Food for Families. If 25% of NH Councils participate in Food Bank efforts, Supreme will make a donation. If there is a degree, Councils need to report the number taking their First degree and their Council number. State wants Councils to hold 2 recruitment drives by June 2010. The Quarterly meeting is January 31st in Suncook. A sixth category, Pro-Life, is being added to programs. Badges are $8.50 ea. and those with more information on them are $13.50 ea.

A LITTLE HUMOR

            Little Bobby was spending the weekend with his grandmother after a particularly trying week in kindergarten. His grandmother decided to take him to the park on Saturday morning. It had been snowing all night and everything was beautiful.
            His grandmother remarked..."doesn't it look like an artist painted this scenery? Did you know God painted this just for you?" Bobby said, "Yes, God did it and he did it left handed." This confused his grandmother a bit, and she asked him "What makes you say God did this with his left hand?"
"Well," said Bobby, "we learned at Sunday School last week that Jesus sits on God's right hand!"  

THE SERIOUS SIDE 

            Please fill out and return your 2009 survey form to Rick Cabral ASAP. If you need one, a copy can be downloaded from our website. 

 If you have something you would like to place in the newsletter please contact Dave Biron at 642-8970 or by e-mail and he will try to get your input in the next newsletter.  Also, if you have any ideas for the newsletters talk to Dave or GK Rick Cabral.

                                    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!