We will soon be entering the last week of Football Mania!  Have you been able to sell your tickets yet?  Remember that the Knights will directly get the lion’s share of any $20 ticket that you are able to sell to family, friends or that you purchase yourself.

If you need more tickets, please let me know by e-mailing me at footballmaniatickets@gmail.com

If you have tickets that you have sold, remember that the sale is no good unless I enter it into our system. Make sure you get the purchaser’s information and money to me as soon as possible!!!  Tickets can be dropped off at the Law Offices of Edward P. Graham during normal business hours, or you can give them to me at the next Knights meeting on September 7.  If you have sold five or more tickets and live in the general  viscinity, I will award you by offering to pick them up personally after hours – e-mail me (footballmaniatickets@gmail.com) and I will arrange to do so.

FINALLY, we need people to help this weekend to sell tickets outside of Mass – particularly at 9:30 and 11:00am, when I cannot be in two locations at once.  Again, e-mail me with the Mass you attend if you go to SSPP and let me know that I can count on you to be there.

Vivat Jesu!

-Alex Rechenmacher

of Mary”. In honor of this, watch this video…

and then come to the pro life rosary/protest.

The Knights of Columbus (Council #1369) will conduct a pro life rosary beginning at 9:00 am in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic located at 3051 E. New York Street in Aurora. This will be an ongoing monthly event, that will be held on the 3rd Saturday of the month. The rosary will take about 20-30 minutes. Afterward, you may optionally join the monthly protest. The protest will last until 10:30 am.  By the grace of God, your mere presence and prayer could actually save a life.  Achieve,  at least,  a partial indulgence! Parking is right next door behind the Blockbuster store.  In Addition to this monthly event, there is also a weekly rosary every Tuesday afternoon (2:00 pm) at the same location. There is usually a priest or deacon in attendance for these services. For further information, please contact John Zabinski at 630-369-8439.

Are you ready to help with our annual Tootsie Roll Drive to benefit people with intellectual disabilities?  Our council needs many volunteers to help collect donations around the community — from Friday, September  17th, to Sunday, September 19th.

You can sign up here to volunteer!  To sign up find your desired date and location, then click the green time slot link to enter your contact information.

If you need help, or have any questions regarding this event, you can contact Michael Gach.

For other questions regarding our Volunteer Management System, please contact our Webmaster.

As in the past, many volunteers will be needed both as donors and workers to make the drive a success.  Sixteen Knights have already stepped forward and volunteered to call previous donors seeking donation appointments.  Additional workers will be needed on Friday, Sept. 17th to stuff fliers in Mass bulletins, at least two Knights will be required to sign up donors after each Mass at SSPP the weekends of Sept. 11 & 12, and 18 & 19, and a couple Knights are needed to work the event itself.  Twenty three 1369 Knights donated blood at our March drive.  Hopefully, an even larger number will donate at this drive.  Requests to fill each of these needs will be broadcast over our web site.  If you can help, please – please do so.  Don’t assume someone else has answered the call and ignore the request, because so often they haven’t.

Donating blood and working on the drive are some of the most important charitable activities that we as a council perform.  One unit of blood, when broken down into its components of red blood cells, platelets, and plasma has the potential of saving as many as three lives!  Those lives could be yours, that of a member of your family, a neighbor, or a brother Knight.  All of the blood collected by Heartland at our drive will stay right here in our area at Edward, Central DuPage, and Rush – Copley hospitals to name only a few.  Heartland has been the exclusive supplier of blood to Edward for years.

So, if you can, please sign up to make a blood donation.  If for some reason you will be unable to donate on Sept. 25, you can donate at Heartland’s center in the Market Meadows Shopping Center between Sept. 1 and Oct. 10, give the receptionist our sponsor code of 100918, and we will receive credit for your donation.  The need is great.  If you have any questions, or would like to volunteer to help with the drive please contact Darrell Hutton at 630-961-0526 or darrell.hutton@sbcglobal.net.

The Knights of Columbus (Council #1369) will conduct a pro life rosary beginning at 9:00 am in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic located at 3051 E. New York Street in Aurora. This will be an ongoing monthly event, that will be held on the 3rd Saturday of the month. The rosary will take about 20-30 minutes. Afterward, you may optionally join the monthly protest. The protest will last until 10:30 am.  By the grace of God, your mere presence and prayer could actually save a life.  Achieve,  at least,  a partial indulgence! Parking is right next door behind the Blockbuster store.  In Addition to this monthly event, there is also a weekly rosary every Tuesday afternoon (2:00 pm) at the same location. There is usually a priest or deacon in attendance for these services. For further information, please contact John Zabinski at 630-369-8439.

For more on-demand programming from the Knights of Columbus on the CatholicTV Network visit www.CatholicTV.com/Knights-of-Columbus.

Council 1369 held the monthly pro life Rosary at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora on July 17th. Please click on the thumbnail to view the full size picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4InajqdnGi8

and then come to the pro life rosary/protest.

The Knights of Columbus (Council #1369) will conduct a pro life rosary beginning at 9:00 am in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic located at 3051 E. New York Street in Aurora. This will be an ongoing monthly event, that will be held on the 3rd Saturday of the month. The rosary will take about 20-30 minutes. Afterward, you may optionally join the monthly protest. The protest will last until 10:30 am.  By the grace of God, your mere presence and prayer could actually save a life.  Achieve,  at least,  a partial indulgence! Parking is right next door behind the Blockbuster store.  In Addition to this monthly event, there is also a weekly rosary every Tuesday afternoon (2:00 pm) at the same location. There is usually a priest or deacon in attendance for these services. For further information, please contact John Zabinski at 630-369-8439.

The Knights of Columbus (Council #1369) will conduct a pro life rosary beginning at 9:00 am in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic located at 3051 E. New York Street in Aurora. This will be an ongoing monthly event, that will be held on the 3rd Saturday of the month. The rosary will take about 20-30 minutes. Afterward, you may optionally join the monthly protest. The protest will last until 10:30 am.  By the grace of God, your mere presence and prayer could actually save a life.  Achieve,  at least,  a partial indulgence! Parking is right next door behind the Blockbuster store.  In Addition to this monthly event, there is also a weekly rosary every Tuesday afternoon (2:00 pm) at the same location. There is usually a priest or deacon in attendance for these services. For further information, please contact John Zabinski at 630-369-8439.

Please join me in prayer for the Bogusz family.  Joe Bogusz is a 4th degree Knight in council 1369.  Joe’s daughter Rita fell in a playground accident on Friday, had surgery on her arm, and is now home recovering. Please pray that everything turns out well and she will have a full recovery and motion of her arm. Please ask our Lord to watch over her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmzIv6yCMs

and then come to the pro life rosary/protest.

The Knights of Columbus (Council #1369) will conduct a pro life rosary beginning at 9:00 am in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic located at 3051 E. New York Street in Aurora. This will be an ongoing monthly event, that will be held on the 3rd Saturday of the month. The rosary will take about 20-30 minutes. Afterward, you may optionally join the monthly protest. The protest will last until 10:30 am.  By the grace of God, your mere presence and prayer could actually save a life.  Achieve a plenary indulgence! Parking is right next door behind the Blockbuster store.  In Addition to this monthly event, there is also a weekly rosary every Tuesday afternoon (2:00 pm) at the same location. There is usually a priest or deacon in attendance for these services. For further information, please contact John Zabinski at 630-369-8439.

Below are upcoming Pro-Life events:

Friday, June 18 & Saturday, June 19, 2010, 9 AM- 5 PM, Rummage Sale: This is a fundraiser to help the needy pregnant women and children. A portion of the sales will go back to the church. The Rummage Sale will take place at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 1415 Lies Rd., Carol Stream. To make a donation to the Rummage Sale: drop off items on Thursday, June 17, from 8 AM – 6 PM. Items needed: clean, good condition – household furniture, lawn furniture, baby items, household goods, bedding sets, etc. No clothes accepted at this time.

Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM, “All Star” Breakfast Club, Be an “All-Star” for Life: Pray for greater reverence for life. Receive updates about Woman’s Choice Services recent achievements, milestones, and vision for the future, and be introduces to the mission and how to be a part of it! 8:30 AM Mass, 9:00 AM Sign-in (Donations accepted for event), 9:30 Breakfast served, 10 – 11 AM Guest speaker and Father Peter Jarosz, Woman’s Choice Services Spiritual Director. This event will take place at Christ the King Parish, 1501 S. Main, Lombard. Please RSVP by June 16 at (630) 261-9564.

Saturday, June 19, 2010, 9 AM, Monthly Protest at Planned Parenthood: Join the protest at Planned Parenthood, 3051 E. New York Street. Picket signs are provided. These monthly protests punctuate the ongoing Life Support effort, offering prayer and assistance for Planned Parenthood clients every hour the facility is open. For further information visit http://fvfapp.org

Saturday, June 19, 2010, 6 PM – 9 PM: Images for Life – An ultrasound initiative to benefit Waterleaf Women’s Center in Aurora. This event will help Waterleaf Women’s Center to purchase an ultrasound machine for their clinic. Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, this event will take place at St. Raphael Parish Activity Center. Cost is $50.00 per plate (cost includes a donation). For more information, contact Frank Kerkemeyer at (630) 983-3655 or Ian Wylie at (630) 340-2316.

Sunday, July 18, 2010, 10:00 AM: Laity for Life Mass will take place at St. Philip the Apostle, 1223 W. Holtz, Addison. All are welcome to attend.

Monday, July 26, 2010, 8:15 AM, Laity for Life Mass will take place at St. Elizabeth Seton, 2220 Lisson Rd. Naperville. All are welcome to attend.

Wednesday, July 28 – Friday, July 30, Receiving & Proclaiming the Gift: Hosted by Theology of the Body Institute at Normandy Farm Hotel & Conference Center in Blue Bell, PA. The National Theology of the Body Congress will bring together some of the most talented Theology of the Body teachers and lecturers in the world. These include Dr. Michael Waldstein, Dr. Pia de Solenni, Dr. Janet Smith, Fr. Roger Landry, Dr. Helen Alvare, Fr. Thomas Loya, Katrina Zeno and many others. For full details and updates visit www.TOBcongress.com. Early registration ends 05/22/2010.

Friday, July 30, 2010 – Wednesday, August 4, 2010, Youth for Life Pro-Life Boot Camp: Theme for this year is “It’s a Revolution – Theology of the Body”. Keynote speakers will be TOBET (Theology of the Body Evangelization Team), TOBET 4 Teens by Teens, and Fort Worth Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. Pro-Life Boot Camp offers students opportunities for daily Mass, praise and worship with a local band, prayer time at local abortion centers, and to create and perform pro-life skits. In addition, the youth do service projects for families in need through pro-life and pro-family organizations in the Metroplex. The Pro-Life Boot Camp will take place at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. Early registration price is $120.00 for the weekend or $210.00 for the whole Boot Camp! For further information or to register visit www.prolifedallas.org/bootcamp or call (972) 267-5433.

Sunday, August 15, 2010, 10:00 AM: Laity for Life Mass will take place at St. Philip the Apostle, 1223 W. Holtz, Addison. All are welcome to attend.

Sunday, September 12, 2010, 10:00 AM: Laity for Life Mass will take place at St. Philip the Apostle, 1223 W. Holtz, Addison. All are welcome to attend.

Sunday, October 10, 2010, 10:00 AM: Laity for Life Mass will take place at St. Philip the Apostle, 1223 W. Holtz, Addison. All are welcome to attend.

Sunday, November 7, 2010, 10:00 AM: Laity for Life Mass will take place at St. Philip the Apostle, 1223 W. Holtz, Addison. All are welcome to attend.

Saturday, November 13, 2010, 8:15 AM, Laity for Life Mass will take place at St. Elizabeth Seton, 2220 Lisson Rd. Naperville. All are welcome to attend.

Sunday, December 5, 2010, 10:00 AM: Laity for Life Mass will take place at St. Philip the Apostle, 1223 W. Holtz, Addison. All are welcome to attend.

FOR A SCHEDULE OF PRAYER OPPORTUNITIES VISIT www.dioceseofjoliet.org/life/calendarOfEvents.asp

In Christ, Rev. Thomas A. Milota, Director Mary Scholp, Administrative Assistant JoAnne Mehon, Administrative Assistant Diocese of Joliet Life Office 36 N. Ellsworth St. Naperville, IL 60540 (630) 718-2121 www.dioceseofjoliet.org/life/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqRLggwbEzQ

and then come to the pro life rosary/protest.

The Knights of Columbus (Council #1369) will again conduct a pro life rosary beginning at 9:00 am in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic located at 3051 E. New York Street in Aurora. This will be an ongoing monthly event, that will be held on the 3rd Saturday of the month. The rosary will take about 20-30 minutes. Afterward, you may optionally join the monthly protest. The protest will last until 10:30 am.  By the grace of God, your mere presence and prayer could actually save a life.  Parking is right next door behind the Blockbuster store.  In Addition to this monthly event. there is also a weekly rosary every Tuesday afternoon (2:00 pm) at the same location. For further information, please contact John Zabinski at 630-369-8439.