Knights of Columbus – Council 3205

The 6th Annual Corpus Christi procession will be Thursday, May 26 at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church.  A celebration of the Holy Eucharist will begin at 6:30 p.m. with the Corpus Christi procession immediately following.  The Msgr. Valenta Assembly will be front and center carrying the canopy over the Holy Eucharist.  Members of Council 3205 are encouraged to participate in the mass and the procession.  There will be a parish reception after the procession.

Pope Francis has named Fr. David Konderla, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Student Center in College Station, as the 4th Bishop of Tulsa, Oklahoma.  He succeeds retiring Bishop Edward Slattery.  Bishop-elect Konderla will be ordained and installed on June 29, 2016 in Tulsa.

The First Degree Team for Council 3205 will exemplify candidates into the First Degree on Wednesday, May 18, in Zurek Hall at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church.  Potential new members should attend a short orientation session beginning at 7:00 p.m.  The First Degree exemplification will follow immediately at 7:30 p.m.

Our Council has a new member goal of 17 this fraternal year.  Through April 30, we have recruited 9 new members and suspended 3 members for a net gain of 6 new members.  Our new insurance member goal is 6.  Year to date we have acquired 2 new insurance members and lost 1 insurance member for a net gain of 1 new insurance member. 

If you have a potential candidate for the First Degree on May 18 contact Brother Ron Gay, FSD, at 979-412-2750, or rgay@ims-securities.com.

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayer on behalf of your priests.  Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their priestly life.

In their loneliness, comfort them.  In their sorrows, strengthen them.  In their frustrations, point out to them that it is through suffering that the soul is purified, and show them that they are needed by the Church; they are needed by souls; they are needed for the work of redemption.

O loving Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your sons who are close to you because of their priestly ordination and because of the power which they have received to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs them so much.  Be their comfort, be their joy, be their strength, and especially help them to live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy.  

Council 3205 will elect new officers for the 2016-2017 fraternal year at our next business meeting on June 1, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Zurek Hall at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church.  The nominees are as follows:

• David Lamme – Grand Knight
• Ray Thomas – Deputy Grand Knight
• Richard Darnell – Chancellor
• Recorder – Vacant
• Elmer Schneider – Treasurer
• Emmett Smith – Warden
• Gus Romano – Advocate
• Art Barry – Inside Guard
• Ralf Trujillo – Inside Guard
• Ron Gay – Trustee
• Darrell Lovelette – Trustee
• David Gerling – Trustee

Jayson Naiser is appointed by the Supreme Knight as our Financial Secretary