"There is no greater love than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends" ~ John 15:13
As a child, Maximilian Kolbe (1 894-1941), had a deep devotion to Our Lady. On one occasion he had a visio n in which Mary offered him either a white garment, symbolizing purity, o r a red one, symbolizing martyrdom. "I choose both," the boy replied.
Following the German conquest of Poland in 1939, he was arrested, but soon released. Fr. Kolbe devoted himself to helping Jewish refugees; when the Nazis discovered this, he was again arrested and sent to the death ca mp Auschwitz in 1941. There he tried to set an example of faith and hope fo r the other prisoners. When a prisoner escaped from camp, the Germans chos e ten men at random and sentenced them to death by starvation; one of them was a Polish sergeant, Franciszek Gajowniczek. Fr. Kolbe left his place i n the ranks and asked permission from the commandant to take Gajowniczek's place. The shocked German officer agreed, and Kolbe a...
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"Your constant love reaches the heavens; your fai thfulness extends to the skies.... Your justice is like the depth s of the sea.... Your are the source of all life, and because of your light we see the lights." ~ Psalm 36:5-7, 9
In his play Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill has Edmund d escribe a mystical experience. Actually, it was one that O'Neill himself h ad one night on a square-rigger bound for Buenos Aires. He wrote:
"F or a moment, I lost myself... I became the white sails and flying spray, became the beauty and the rhythm, became the moonlight and the ship and th e dim-starred sky! I belonged... within something greater than my own life. ... To God if you want." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
What is the closest thin g I have ever had to an experience similar to O'Neill's?
"I was s natched up to the highest heaven... I heard things which cannot b e put into words." ~ 2 Corinthians 12:2-4
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St. Agatha, Virgin & Martyr
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St. Paul Miki & Companions, Martyrs
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"The apostles gathered frequently to pray as a group, toget her with Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers." ~ Acts 1:14 A Chicago businessman wrote about his years of sharing his faith in a group with seven other businessmen: "I am in a faith-sharing group that me ets every Saturday morning at seven. We have never yet missed a meeting. We share our insights and reflections from our daily meditations of the past week. As we grew together, we developed a lot of love, a lot of compassio n. We have shared with each other more than our faith. We have shared our j oys, our pains and worries, our dreams and our hopes. We have shared our lives... There is nothing I would not do for the members of our group. I fe el very blessed." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
Describe a similar unity you ha ve experienced with your Brother Knights. If you cannot recall any such exp eriences, why not?
"No machine can replace the human spark: comp assion, love and understanding." ~ Louis V. Ge...
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Officers and Directors meeting at 6:00 PM, Rosary beginning at 6:30 PM the meeting to follow around 7:00 PM in Brownstein Hall.
Covid -19 guidelines:
- No food will be served, however drinks will be allowed .
- Hall to be cleaned up and sanitized (by officers) after the meetings.
- Masks are worn at all times unless it is the main speaker.
If you a re uncomfortable with meeting in person despite the precautions, please do not feel obligated to attend. There will not be any streaming of the meeti ng at this time.
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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