Knights of Columbus 7880

February 2026
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	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
W K 0 6	01 PATRIOTISM is putting our trust in God	02 CHARITY is a father's deep compassion for his son The Presentation of the Lord	03 St. Blaise, Bishop & Martyr; St. Ansgar, Bishop UNITY is loyalty to Christ even in times of trial 6pm» Knights of Columbus Meeting - Tentative	04 FRATERNITY is putting another life ahead of your own	05 CHARITY is the grace of God St. Agatha, Virgin & Martyr	06 St. Paul Miki & Companions, Martyrs UNITY is sharing our lives and our dreams 6am» Father's Team/Men's Ministry Meeting	07 FRATERNITY is being a brother even to those who reject you
W K 0 7	08 PATRIOTISM is serving God and nation nobly St. Jerome Emiliani; St. Josephine Bakhita, Virgin	09 Song of Bernadette (Lourdes 1858)	10 St. Scholastica, Virgin UNITY is discerning and doing God's will	11 Our Lady of Lourdes	12 PATRIOTISM is national restoration	13 UNITY is witnessing proudly to our identity 6am» Father's Team/Men's Ministry Meeting	14 LOVE is a man and his maiden St. Cyril, Monk; St. Methodius, Bishop
W K 0 8	15 PATRIOTISM is honesty, loyalty and courage	16 CHARITY is choosing the best man	17 The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order UNITY is taking the risk to do something you believe in 6:30pm» Knights of Columbus Council Meeting	18 FRATERNITY is recognizing that all of us are brothers	19 CHARITY is believing in Jesus	20 UNITY is keeping love alive with little surprises 6am» Father's Team/Men's Ministry Meeting	21 FRATERNITY is valuing fatherhood over self St. Joseph's Assembly #2618 Monthly Meeting St. Peter Damian, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
W K 0 9	22 PATRIOTISM is affection for brethren who have served The Chair of St. Peter the Apostle	23 CHARITY comes in a plain brown envelope	24 UNITY is Knights gathered as one	25 FRATERNITY is seeing a brother safely through	26 CHARITY is a dream realized	27 UNITY is a jar of pickled cauliflower 6am» Father's Team/Men's Ministry Meeting	28 FRATERNITY is continuing the Master's work

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6:00am - 7:00am

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Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E Parker Rd, Parker, CO 80138, USA

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Hot breakfast at 5:45 am followed by discussion. Please join
us. For more information contact Brad Riddell at 303-548-
6184 or Bill Was serman at 954-817-5706.

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"There was no room for them to stay in the inn." ~ Luke 2:7

Dr. Charles Drew was an African-American Graduate of prest igious Amherst University. A surgical consultant for the U.S. Army, he dev eloped the process for preserving blood and using it for transfusion. incre dibly, he was not allowed to donate his blood to the Red Cross Blood Bank. because he was black. More incredibly and more tragically, after a car ac cident in 1950, he was refused his own discovery, at a North Carolina hos pital.

He died during the long drive to find a hospital that would treat black patients. ~ Mark Link, S.J.

What are Knights doin g to combat prejudice in the nation we love? What more might we do?

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but the re must never be a time when we fail to protest it." ~ Elie Wiesel

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"Praise God with trumpets.... Praise God with drums and danc ing." ~ Psalm 150:3-4

Julia Ward Howe was an American poet and a ctivist. She worked for the abolition of slavery, the vote for women, pri son reform, and world peace. She penned the stirring lyrics of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to provide more suitable words for the melody "John Brown's Body."

The hymn went on to become the marching song of the N orth, just as "Dixie" became the marching song of the South. ~ Mark Link, S.J.

What unique set of talents do we Knights possess and how might we better use them to greater service of God and nation?

"God se nt His singers upon earth
with songs of sadness and mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men
and bring the m back to heaven again." ~ Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

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St. Jerome Emiliani; St. Josephine Bakhita, Virgin

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"The Spirit.... will lead you into all the truth." ~ Joh n 16:13

In 1858, a girl named Bernadette reported apparitions of Ma ry at a hillside in Lourdes, France.
Sick people visited the site and w ere cured. Over, 1,300 cures are well documented.

In the 1930s, A lexis Carrel, a skeptical New York surgeon and Nobel Prize winner, went t o Lourdes to investigate the claims. While there, he witnessed a girl bein g cured. He stood in silence, totally stunned. That night, he went for a long walk. Ending up in a church, he prayed:

"I still doubt... Bene ath... intellectual pride a smothered dream persists... the dream of believ ing."

He returned to his hotel and recorded his observations. In The Voyage of Lourdes, he describes what then happened:

"A n ew coolness penetrated the open window. I felt the serenity of nature enter my soul with gentle calm. All intellectual doubts had vanished." ~ Mar k Link, S.J.

How do you understand such miracles...

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St. Scholastica, Virgin

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"Those who declare publicly that they belong to me, I will do the same for them before my Father in heaven." ~ Matthew 10:32
The preacher at F.W. de Klerk's inauguration made a disturbing point. He said that the South African president had the awesome responsibility of dis cerning God's will and acting on it.
This planted a seed in de Kl erk's mind that grew and grew. Slowly, it led him to pursue the dismantlin g of the dehumanizing apartheid system and granting citizenship to 35 milli on blacks. de Klerk said later that he knew that in pursuing this unpopular policy he would be rejected by his own people, but this did not deter him . ~ Mark Link, S.J.

In what areas can the Knights display the same political bravery?

'Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sl eep, we grow strong or weak, and at last some crisis show us what we have become." ~ Bishop Westcott

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Our Lady of Lourdes

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"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble them selves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then wil l I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." ~ 2 Chronicles 7:14

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and pr osperity .We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation ha s ever grown.

But we have forgotten God.

We have forgotten th e gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched a nd strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

Intoxicate with unbroken success, we have b ecome too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace., too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, so confe...

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"These are shadows of things to come; but the substance bel ongs to Christ." ~ Colossians 2:17

Tip O'Neill was a member of t he House of Representatives for 34 years. In the memoirs of his political l ife, Tip says that he'll never forget a day in Missouri in 1960 when he wa s with Jack Kennedy in a campaign parade. He wrote:
"Somebody mentioned that in the neighborhood we were driving through there was a good deal of c oncern over the Catholic issue. Then we passed a Catholic school, with all the nuns standing outside, holding their Kennedy signs. 'Stop the car,' said Jack. He gout out and shook hands with all the sisters, and I loved h im for it." ~ Mark Link, S.J.

How ready am I to witness to the goal s of the Knights even if it means risking my own popularity?

"He who sells principles for popularity is soon bankrupt." ~ E .C. McKenzie

Time:

6:00am - 7:00am

Location:

Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E Parker Rd, Parker, CO 80138, USA

Description:

Hot breakfast at 5:45 am followed by discussion. Please join
us. For more information contact Brad Riddell at 303-548-
6184 or Bill Was serman at 954-817-5706.

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"There are three things that are too amazing to me, four th at I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden." ~ Proverbs 30:18-19

How was it with you when you fir st fell in love with the girl you married? Or (if you feel that you never w ere in love), look at her now through another man's eyes. Think about thos e things that are attractive in her. Love her with a sensitive appreciation and watch her become beautiful as she reflects and radiates the love you h ave poured out to her.....

As Christians we can be sure that romanti c love is as old as Time itself, for it came into being in the Garden when the first man and woman gazed on each other. We must recognize that it was our Creator who gifted us with the capacity for the intense and passionate emotions required to fall in love. Clearly, God intended for or emotional potential to be fully developed in marriage and ...

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St. Cyril, Monk; St. Methodius, Bishop

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"Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you! For wherever you g o I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my peo ple, and your God my God." ~ Ruth 1:16

Once there was a war bet ween the birds and the beasts. The Bat was on the birds' side. When he saw defeat was imminent, he crept away and hid under a log until the fight was over. When the victorious beasts were going home, Bat slipped in among th em. The beasts noticed him and said, "Didn't you fight against us?" Bat replied, "Oh no! I'm one of you. What kind of bird has fangs like thi s? I'm a beast."

They said nothing more, and let Bat stay with them . Another battle ensued, but this time the birds prevailed. As soon as Bat saw his side was beaten, he attempted to switch allegiances once again. A nd so it was, Bat went back and forth throughout the war. Eventually, pea ce reigned. The two sides reconciled and realized the Bat's duplicity. They cast him out saying, "Hereafter, you will fly alon...

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"You have heard it said, 'Love your friends, hate your ene mies.' But now I tell you, 'Love your enemies.'" ~ Matthew 5:43

Abraham Lincoln succeeded James Buchanan as president in 1861. Ed Stanton , a member of Buchanan's cabinet, disdained and ridiculed Lincoln. A year into the presidency, Lincoln had to replace his Secretary of War. He chose Stanton, explaining, "I know the terrible things he said about me. But h e's the best man for the job."

Shortly thereafter, Lee surrendered to Grant, and Lincoln was assassinated. One of the first public officials to reach Lincoln's side was Stanton. When Lincoln breathed his last, Stant on said with heartfelt sincerity, "There lays the world's greatest ruler. Now he belongs to the ages." ~ Mark Link, S.J.

How do you respond t o ridicule? What keeps you from responding as Lincoln did? Have you ever wi tnessed the Knights of Columbus being ridiculed for their beliefs and pract ices? How did you react?

"Without lov...

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The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

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"Any country that divides itself into groups which fight eac h other will not last very long: a family divided against itself falls apar t." ~ Luke 11:17

Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "Divided H ouse Speech" at the Illinois State Convention in Springfield in 1858. Befor e doing so, he read it to several friends. One said it was ahead of its ti me. Another called it a fool utterance. A third predicted that it would dri ve away as many voters who had just come over to the Republican party. A fo urth did not agree fully with it, but said, "Deliver that speech as read and it will make you President." Lincoln did and the rest is history. ~ Mar k Link, S.J.

Can you recall a time when you risked a great deal bec ause of your convictions? Are the Knights called to take a stand on certain issues?

"If I had to.... erase my whole life... and I had one ch oice allowed me that I might save from the wreck, I would choose that spee ch and leave it to the world just as it is." ~ <...

Time:

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location:

Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E Parker Rd, Parker, CO - Dwyer Hall

Description:

Officers and Directors meeting at 6:00 PM, Rosary beginning at 6:30 PM, dinner and the meeting to follow around 7:30 PM in Dwyer Hall.

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"Forgive your brother from the heart." ~ Matthew 18:35
In the film, All Quiet Along the Western Front, a Germ an soldier is in a foxhole, taking cover from artillery fire. Suddenly, a n enemy French soldier leaps into the same hole to take cover as well. The German leaps on him and stabs him. But the Frenchman doesn't die immediatel y.

The German - hardly more than a boy - studies the French soldier' s dying eyes. Moved to pity, he makes him comfortable and gives him drink. When he dies, the German soldier feels great remorse. He speaks to the de ad Frenchman, saying:
"When you jumped in here, you were my enemy - an d I was afraid.... But you're just a man like me... If we threw away these rifles and these uniforms, you could be my brother.... You have to forgive me." ~ Mark Link, S.J.

How can we help our brothers discover the k ind of fraternity we have before it's too late?

"For giveness is the fragrance a violet sheds on the hee...

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"God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life." ~ John 3:16

A boy was born with on eye defect. He could see clearly o nly nearby objects. When the school told his parents that he needed glasses , they ignored it, saying "We didn't need glasses wen we were kids. Why s hould he?"

When the boy grew up, he went to a doctor. After fitting him with glasses, the doctor told him to look outside. "Wow!" the boy gas ped. "It's so beautiful!" Later, he told Father John Powell about the epis ode saying: "That was the second most beautiful experience of my whole life ." Naturally, Father Powell asked him: "What was the most beautiful experi ence?"

He said, "When I came to believe in Jesus and saw that God i s truly my Father... and felt the warmth of His Love. ~ A Reason to Live ! A Reason to Die, excerpted

How aware are you of God's love fo r you? How can our Council further promote this a...

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"Every husband must love his wife as himself." ~ Ephesia ns 5:33

Andy was married to a girl named Kim, and things weren't go ing well. He consulted a lawyer who had known him since he was a boy. After explaining the problem, he asked the lawyer to prepare separation papers. The lawyer peered over his glasses at Andy, whom he knew better than Andy thought.

He advised Andy to wait six months. In the meantime, he s hould call her from work on occasion, bring home small gifts, and take he r to dinner on special days. Then go through with the separati on. That'll show her what a mistake she made. Reluctantly, Andy agreed.

Six months later, the lawyer ran into Andy on the street and said, " Your papers are ready." Andy replied, "I intended to call you. I've decide d not to separate from Kim. You wouldn't believe how she has changed since I last saw you." ~ Mark Link, S.J.

Guess who changed - the Knight o r the Lady? How might this story apply to your life...

Time:

6:00am - 7:00am

Location:

Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E Parker Rd, Parker, CO 80138, USA

Description:

Hot breakfast at 5:45 am followed by discussion. Please join
us. For more information contact Brad Riddell at 303-548-
6184 or Bill Was serman at 954-817-5706.

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"Parents, do not treat your children in such a way as to ma ke them angry. Instead raise them with Christian discipline and instruction ." ~ Ephesians 6:4

General Douglas MacArthur led the Allies to v ictory over Japan in World War II. He once said, "By profession I am a sol dier and I take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. soldier destroys in order to build; the father onl y builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the othe r embodies creation and life... It is my hope that my son, when I am gone , will remember me not from the battle but in the home repeating with him o ur simple daily prayer, "Our Father...." ~ Courtney Whitney, MacArthur: Rendezvous With History

How can I carry the spirit behind Knightly fraternity into my family relationships?

"My fate hr didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." ~ < /i>Clarence Budington Killand

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Our Lady of the Visitation, 34201 Co Rd 33, Kiowa, CO 80117, U SA

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St. Joseph's Assembly #2618 Monthly Meeting

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St. Peter Damian, Bishop & Doctor of the Church

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"Humble yourselves before the LORD, and he will lift you up ." ~ James 4:10

General Washington carried with him, in his fie ld notebook, twenty-four pages of personal prayers he had handwritten. The following is his prayer for the United States of America:

"Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy Holy protection; and Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to c ultivate a spirit of brotherly affection and love for one another, particu larly for their brethren who have served in the field. And finally that Tho u wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our LORD. Amen."

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The Chair of St. Peter the Apostle

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"When you help a needy person, o it in such a way tat even your closest friend will not know about it." ~ Matthew 6:3-4
< br>The New York Times ran an amazing story. St. Jude's Childre n's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, get hundreds of donations - large and small - daily. One day they received a plain envelope with no ret urn address. Inside was a McDonald's Monopoly Sweepstake's ticket for a $1 million "Instant Winner."

St. Jude's called McDonald's. Officials ca me with a representative of the Arthur Anderson accounting firm. After chec king the board with a jeweler's eyepiece, he declared it a winner. McDonal d's and St. Jude officials agreed to respect the donor's apparent desire to remain anonymous. They made no effort to find out who it was. ~ Mark Link , S.J.

Is your participation in worthy Knights causes influenced y w hether or not you receive recognition?

"It is possible to give wi thout loving, but it is impossible to lo...

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"You are like light for the whole world.... Your light must shine before people."~ Matthew 5:14, 16

A teacher asked her stu dents, "What if an incredible explosion destroyed all life on earth except for those of us in this classroom? Where would the Church be? They thought a minute. Then a boy said, "It would be in this room. We would be the Chu rch."

This story makes an important point. The Church is not a place where people gather. It is the people who gather. To have Church we must g ather. It's like the bread that we use for the Eucharist. Hundreds of grain s of wheat must be gathered to make it. In a similar way, only by gatherin g do we make the risen Christ visible in today's world.

Jesus assured us, "Where two or three come together in my name, I am there wit h them." ~ Mark Link, S.J.

What can we as Knights do to unify our p arish and the Catholic Church?

"If you find a perfect church, by all means join it! Then it will no longer be perf...

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"Pray always that you will have the strength to go safely th rough and... stand before the Son of Man." ~ Luke 21:36

A very y oung man in a military hospital had lost a leg and was sinking rapidly. Abr aham Lincoln happened by, saw him, and offered to write a letter to his m other. When the boy finished dictating it, Lincoln added this postscript: "This letter was written by A. Lincoln."

When the boy read the lette r, he gazed at Lincoln and asked, "Are you our President?" The President nodded. Then Lincoln added, "Is there anything else I can do for you?" He said feebly: "I guess you might hold my hand and see me through." ~ Mark Li nk, S.J.

Lincoln was given a rare opportunity to comfort a fellow h uman being and seized it. Recall a time when you squandered an opportunity to display kindness.

"I shall pass through this world but once. A ny good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any hu man being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or...

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"Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." ~ Mark 12:30-31

Fifteen year-old Therese Martin entered the Carmelite convent in France. From the day she e ntered, she dreamed of doing "great" things for God. The years passed with out her dream being even remotely realized. Naturally, she was disappointe d.

Then one day she was reading Saint Paul, where he says the 'best ' way to holiness is not doing 'great' things for God, but 'loving' things (1 Corinthians 12:31-13:1-13). After reading this, she wrote in her journ al: "O Jesus.... at last I have found my calling - my calling is to love." ~ Mark Link, S.J.

What are some of the loving things your Knights C ouncil has done for God this month?

We cannot do great things,
only small things with great love." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutt a

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"The LORD says, 'Why spend money on what does not satisfy?' " ~ Isaiah 55: 1-2

In her book, A Marriage Made in Heaven, Erma Bombeck describes how she fantasized her 25th wedding anniversary . "I pictured a large white tent with hundreds of guests milling around. Th e orchestra was playing our song, as my husband and I swayed gracefully on the dance floor.

Actually it turned out quite differently. M y kids threw a couple of hamburgers on the grill, gulped them down, and s plit - leaving me and my husband to clean up. After my husband put away the last things, he came over and said affectionately, "Close your eyes. I h ave a surprise for you." When I opened them, he was holding a jar of cauli flower, paced in pickle juice. He said softly, "I hid it from the kids, because I knew you liked cauliflower packed in pickle juice."

Erma c oncluded, "Maybe love is that simple." ~ Mark Link, S.J.

Have you taken the time to show your lady that you love her?
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6:00am - 7:00am

Location:

Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E Parker Rd, Parker, CO 80138, USA

Description:

Hot breakfast at 5:45 am followed by discussion. Please join
us. For more information contact Brad Riddell at 303-548-
6184 or Bill Was serman at 954-817-5706.

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"(Jesus said to this disciples), Proclaim the gospel to eve ry creature."~ Mark 16:15

Composer Giacomo Puccini was stricken by cancer while working on his last opera, Turandot. He said to his students, "If I don't finish it, finish it for me." Shortly afterward, he died. His students carried out his wish. In 1926, Puccini's favorite st udent, Arturo Toscanini, directed the premiere in Milan. When the opera r eached the point where Puccini was forced to put down his pen, Toscanini s topped the music, turned to the audience, and cried out, "Thus far the M aster wrote, but he died." A reverent silence filled the opera house. ;

Then Toscanini picked up the baton again, smiled through his tea rs, and cried out, "But the disciples finished his work." At conclusion o f the opera, the audience broke into a tumultuous applause. ~ Mark Link, S.J.

How prepared and willing are we Knights to help finish our Mast er's work? Are we proving it with our Council activities?