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From The Grand Knight August 2008 I hope you find it easier than I have this summer to get everyone in your family together for a vacation or at least some quality time. Seems like the older our children get the busier they are and their schedules are far too complicated. It used to be that we compromised and let them bring friends along on vacation just to get them to go, but after the teen years it gets even tougher because even if they want to go, they cannot seem to get days off at the same time. I hope you will make the effort to get your family together and not put it off-any summer you miss could be your last chance for a while! August will be a busy month for our Council and we will need lots of help to do everything on our schedule, but the month offers three opportunities for Knights and their families to participate and get together. On August 10 at Pebblecreek Clubhouse we will recognize our award and scholarship winners for the year, recognize our past Grand Knights and their service, and remember our brother Knights who have passed away. On Sunday August 17 we will have the ceremony to install our new officers, and on Saturday August 30, we will have our annual Council Picnic at the home of Mike and Joanne Bonelli. All of these events are family events. There will be a few others during the year, but why wait. Get your family together and join us. Our next meeting is Monday, August 4 and we will have a 1st Degree. I promise to do my best to keep the August business at a minimum so that we will have time to welcome our new members. Please come out and show your support as our Council grows, we would love to have a full house! “For just as in a single human body there are many limbs and organs, all with different functions, so all of us, united with Christ, form one body, serving individually as limbs and organs to one another” Rom. 12:4-5
Vivat Jesus,
A Message from Deacon Chris on God The Father The Creator Last month we discussed the Trinity and evidence of the Trinity in our lives and how God the Father is the person of the Trinity we associate with creation. I talked about how we cooperate with God in creation not only by bringing children into our families but also in things that we do for work or as students or in our recreation activities. So we cooperate with God in the creation of the world. The Biblical accounts of creation are not meant to be scientific, rather they are meant to be theological. These two different accounts of creation reflect the truth that God is the creator of the universe. We also reflect this theological truth in our creeds, the Apostle’s and Nicene. From the very beginning God’s creative powers have been at work and we each of us join in the power. We sometimes forget that all the creative genius with which man is endowed comes from God. We look at the things we create as ours and forget to give him credit for the ability he gives us. I was listening to something this past week that really got me thinking about this creation idea and how we look to God, or don’t look to God as the creator. In one of his monologues, Bill Cosby talks about the difference between what God created and continues to create and what we invent. Bill quotes the Bible, Genesis, about how everything God created was good. Genesis tells us that God created something, saw that it was good, said that it was good and it was good. He says that it doesn’t always say all three, sometimes it just says ”it was good” and it is implied that God saw that it was good and said it was good. Genesis doesn’t elaborate on everything God created but Bill gives some examples of God’s creation and of man’s invention. He says God created the Rabbit and God saw that it was good and God said that it was good and it was good, man invented the automobile and called it marvelous. God created the trees and God saw that the trees were good, said that the trees were good and they were good. Man invented the refrigerator and called it wonderful. He then offers this commentary on these things. The wheels fall off the car but the rabbit keeps on going. The refrigerator broke down but the trees keep growing. We sometimes take an inordinate amount of pride and credit for the things God creates through us and don’t recognize God’s creative genius in us. We need to stop and think about these gifts and say a little prayer of thanks for them. We also need to make good use of the gifts God has given us, to use them for the purpose for which God gave them. But these are not the only ways we cooperate with God. Not only do we profess a belief in God as creator we also profess the belief that we are made in the image of God. We believe that we are called to reflect that image not in our outward appearance but in the reflection that comes from the love of God that shines forth in our lives. It is also through God’s love that we share in the creative genius of God. For you see it wasn’t out of need that God created us, it was out of love and it is in our sharing of God’s love that we truly become co-creators with God. It was that love that created us, the same love that redeemed us and brought us new life and new hope. It is that same love that we are called to share in our daily lives and when we let that love shine forth in our lives we create all sorts of possibilities. We create not only the possibility of new life but the possibility of peace. We create the possibility of justice. We create the possibility of freedom. We create hope for individuals, for our community and for the world. St. Paul tells us that it is no longer he who lives but Christ who lives through him. We are also told through the Prayer of Saint Therese that Christ has no body now but ours, no hands, no feet on earth but ours. Ours are the eyes through which he looks compassionately. It is through our hands that God makes meals for the sick. It is though our feet and legs that God visits the sick and the lonely and it is through our arms that God reaches out to those in need. When was the last time we let God create through you? When was the last time we let God use or hands, our feet, our eyes to create, to create peace, to create justice, to create hope? Support our sponsors!
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