All posts by Fred Struck

Hello, My name is Fred Struck. I live in Sacramento California. I am a member of St. George Melkite-Greek Catholic Church where I am know as Reader Fred. I have been the Reader at St. George's since 1988. I am also a Past Grand Knight in the Knights of Columbus Sacramento Council 953.
Church

Lenten Services

Please take an opportunity this Lent to join us for a time of prayer. Experience the spirituality of one of the Eastern Catholic Churches. The Melkite-Greek Catholic Church is one of the Catholic Churches of the Middle East and is in Communion with Pope of Rome. We have services every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights at 6:30 pm during Lent.

Monday we do the service of Lenten Vespers.
Wednesday we do the service of Pre-Sanctified. The service of Pre-Sanctified is Vespers combined with distribution of Holy Communion. Following the service there is a Lenten meal in the hall.
Friday we do the service of Akathist combined with Small Compline . The Akathist is a ancient hymn to the Mother of God.

St. George Melkite-Greek Catholic Church is located at 1620 Bell Street.

Council

Attitude

The following was read by our Worthy Lecturer Jesse Williams
at the February Business Meeting.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.

by: Charles Swindoll

Council

Thanks to All Who Helped Make Our Crab Feed a Great Success

Many thanks to all who helped make our Crab Feed a great success. In the kitchen were Dave Carboni, Darin Hunter, Frank Phillips, Al Piccardo and George Mills. Our setup crew included Frank Phillips and Ricardo Saldana with the rest of his team. At the door collecting tickets were Dick Cutting and his wife Lorraine Cutting. Serving at the bar were Tom Nulk and Terry Corcoran. Peggy Piccardo was our table coordinator, Dick Cutting was our raffle ticket seller and Floyd Wells was our seating chart coordinator. Thanks to all our sponsors for donating raffle prizes and to those who went out to our sponsors to solicit the raffle prizes. Also thanks to all who came out to have a fun time and enjoy a great meal while supporting the charitable work of our council.

Al Piccardo, PGK

District Deputy

Message from District Deputy Don Snow

Brothers,
Every Mass we attend we affirm that we “believe in one God”.  Most of us take this statement for granted, but it requires that, like Mary, we keep it and “ponder it” in our heart. Is this not the path to effective faith formation?  Men have formulated many gods.  Some worship Science, some politics and some elevate ego to divinity.  As Catholics, should not our model of formation be our Lord, Jesus?   A fourth grader was one quoted as saying that “Jesus was the best picture that God ever took”.  We believe that the Catholic Church presents the clearest print of that portrait.  As we enter the Lenten season let us remember the season with prayer, fasting , abstinence, and Confession.

Now that we have started our New Year, we must reflect back to 2012 and all of the accomplishments in your council. I want to personally thank each and every knight in your council who worked so hard at helping us achieve a successful year of charitable work. Our impact on Our church and community is difficult to measure, but the recipients of Our efforts are certainly aware of how great the men and their families are and how hard they work to make a difference in peoples lives.

God Bless
Don Snow
District Deputy #9

Council

Council 953 to Host a 2nd & 3rd Degree Exemplification

On Saturday, February 16, 2013 Council 953 will Host a 2nd & 3rd Degree Exemplification to be held at the Newman Center. Registration and lunch will be held at the Council Hall.

Registration for 2nd & 3rd degree:  9:00 – 10:45 AM
Exemplification of the 2nd Degree:  11:00 AM
Lunch (No Dinner) – 12:15 PM
Registration Closes for 3rd Degree at 1:15 PM
Exemplification of 3rd Degree – 1:30
No Host Bar – 4:00 PM

Dress Code is Business Causal (Collared Shirt and Slacks) nd be will strictly enforced

For reservations contact Ricardo Saldana at gk@kofc953.org or 916-712-7355 or PSD Richard Cutting.

Youth

Results of Council 953’s Basketball Free Throw Championship

This year, our Council held the contest at St. Mary’s and Sacred Heart schools.  Between the two schools 170 kids participated, and the ten Council winners were evenly split between the two schools. The ten winners will go on to participate in the district championship on February 2nd at St. Joseph’s school in North Sacramento.

My thanks to my Brother Knight helpers this year: George Mills, Frank Philips, Alex Kachmar, John Sheldon and Jesse Williams. Some of these are repeat helpers. Thanks again, I couldn’t do the contest without you.

Good news for our Council’s kids. Out of ten winners in the district contest, our Council had six of the winners. They were evenly split, 3 from St. Mary’s and 3 from Sacred Heart.

Dale Edwards, PGK
Youth Director