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MESSAGE FROM DISTRICT DEPUTY

TIM COE

Worthy Brothers of District 76 in the State of California.

We are now finished with all our summer activities, have

the kids (or grandkids) back in school, and ready to get

back down to do what we do best, supporting our church,

families and community as we can do as Catholic men. We

have proven over the years that we have done so, we just

need to make sure that we do not slip-up. There are many

ways we can do this, but we need more men like us to

help. We see things that need to be done but feel we do

not have the manpower available. The answer is

recruiting. We often have events where non-Knights

eagerly help us, why not ask them to join. Many are

willing to become a Knight if only there asked. Not

everyone out there is qualified to be a Knight, we just need

to find those who are. We have many challenges ahead of

us, but together we can make the difference. Each

assembly has their own special projects as well as

participating in larger order wide programs. Check with

your Faithful Navigator how you can make that difference.

Tim Coe, District Deputy #76 “Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pray for Us”

CALENDAR

Sept Dinner Meeting 21 Sept

October Officer’s Meeting 5 Oct

Installation of Officers 10 Oct

Blue Mass and Dinner 19 Oct

OneLife LA 23 Jan

DINNER MEETING IN

SEPTEMBER

We will have our Dinner Meeting

on 21 SEPTEMBER beginning with a

“social hour” at 6:30 PM and dinner

will be served a little after 7:00 PM.

BIRTHDAYS FOR

SEPTEMBER

The following Sir Knights will

celebrate a birthday during the

month of September.

Giuseppe Arnoldi 7 Sept

Rev. Richard Kayizzi 8 Sept

George A. Bourgeois 17 Sept

Thomas Bauer 22 Sept

Horace J Schooter 25 Sept

Carlos C Valenzuela 28 Sept

William C. Fuhrer 29 Sept

Daniel P. Knauss 30 Sept

FOR SUBMISSIONS OR TO RECEIVE

THE NAVIGATOR BY E-MAIL

contact SK Mike Betliskey at

745-1009 or email

[email protected]

INSTALLATION OF 2015-16

OFFICERS

The joint Officer’s Installation will be held at the San

Buenaventura Mission on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH. MASS is at

5:15 P and DINNER is at 7:00 P in the Parish Hall.

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FAITHFUL NAVIGATOR – SK James Garland

FAITHFUL ADMIRAL – SK Raphael Cardenas

FAITHFUL CAPTAIN – SK Richard Scholl

FAITHFUL PILOT - SK Ed Barrier

FAITHFUL COMPTROLLER – SK Paul Coyne

FAITHFUL PURSER – SK William McNamara

FAITHFUL SCRIBE – SK Frank Donohoe

FAITHFUL INSIDE GUARD – SK Ed Page

FAITHFUL OUTSIDE GUARD – SK Dn Mike

Betliskey

FAITHFUL TRUSTEE III – SK Jack Turney (PFN)

FAITHFUL TRUSTEE II – SK William Fuhrer

(PFN)

FAITHFUL TRUSTEE I – SK Jim Bradbury (PFN)

The installation of officers has been set

for SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 at SAN BUENAVENTURA

MISSION. The Ventura Assembly #82 is the

host. Time determine later.

KEEP IN YOUR PRAYERS

Pauline Brokaski, wife of SK Fred

Brokaski, Bro. Don Sweet, open

heart surgery, SK Robert J. Gauthier,

Bro. Teo Nungaray, SK Ray

Centeno’s father, SK Garvan Kuskey,

SK James Delarvin, Lee Alfano

widow of SK Sam Alfano, SK Brian

Klinge, Terry Pugh , wife of SK Earl

Pugh; SK Larry Torres, SK Bill

McNamara, SK Felix Sanchez, Bro.

Fritz Cahill and his son Tom Cahill,

SK Joseph Connolly (Council 1684 &

Color Guard), SK Al Meckelborg,

Bro. Roy Fong who has Parkinson’s

Disease, Camille Moynihan, widow

of SK John Moynihan, Carol

McLafferty, widow of SK Bill

McLafferty, Denise Swiacki wife of

SK Walter Swiacki, Donna Abels wife

of SK Jim Abels, Anita Pullens

sisters-in-law to SK Felix Sanchez,

Sr. Teresa Meza, Sister of SK José

Meza, Joe Vampola, brother of SK

Mark Vampola, Nancy Herrera,

widow of SK Pablo Herrera, SK Roy

Schrader, and David, son of SK Roy

Schrader, SK Joe & Ruth Duwel,

Daughter of PFN Jim Garland,

Christian Franzen, nephew of SK Dn

Wayne, Bro Dan Engler (Council

1684), Eileen Pando, widow of SK

Joe Pando, Frances Diani, wife of

Bro. Frank Diani, Fr. Dennis,

Collins, Fr. Bruce, who is having

some medical issues, Fr. James, who

is having some medical issues, Fr.

David Velasquez of St Joseph who is

dealing with many medical issues, Fr.

Frank Colburn, and Fr. Tom Ellis, SK

Dn Mike Betliskey.

VOCATION PRAYER

O God, Father of all Mercies, Provider of a bountiful Harvest, send Your Graces upon those You have called to gather the fruits of Your labor; preserve and strengthen them in their lifelong service of you. Open the hearts of Your children that they may discern Your Holy Will; inspire in them a love and desire to surrender themselves to serving others in the name of Your son, Jesus Christ. Teach all Your faithful to follow their respective paths in life guided by Your Divine Word and Truth. Be that path to the single life, married couple, consecrated religious person or ordained minister. Through the intercession of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, all the Angels, and Saints, humbly hear our prayers and grant Your Church's needs, through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

OneLife LA invites all people on SATURDAY 23 JANUARY 2016 to

join us in declaring a commitment to valuing and

protecting all human life, particularly the most vulnerable

in our community to which every Catholic and Knight

needs to uphold and does whatever one can to protect the sacredness of life.

PASSING OF PATRICIA SCHRADER

For the repose of the soul of Pat Schrader, wife of SK Roy F.

Schrader, Jr., who passed on to her Eternal Reward on August 26.

Pray for Pope Francis, our bishops, priests and deacons who are our spiritual leaders in our spiritual community.

Blue Mass

Is being sponsored by the Knight of Columbus

honoring the Police, Firefighters, Coast Guard, Forest Service,

Army and Navy recognizing them for all the service

they provide to the community

Monday October 19, 2015

St. Raphael Church

5444 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93111

6:00 pm

Blue Mass

7:00 pm

Social hour and entertainment

No host cocktail bar

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres

7:30 pm

Dinner and Reception

$20 per person

Dress Code

Men – Formal or Business Suit Attire

Ladies – Appropriate Attire

Please RSVP by October 11, 2015

Ed Barrier – 805-886-0190

St. Raphael’s Rectory – 805- 967- 5641

Make Checks Payable to:

Junipero Serra Assembly

The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court ruled on June 26, 2015 that the 14th Amendment requires states to issue marriage licenses to

two persons of the same sex and recognize same sex “marriages” that were contracted in another state. “Mandating

marriage redefinition across the country is a tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among

us, especially children” (Archbishop Kurtz).

The big picture

Marriage is a great gift to men, women, children, and society. The Church serves and strengthens marriage by

providing pastoral care to engaged couples and marriages at all stages, and in any difficulty. The Church promotes

and defends marriage by preaching and teaching about marriage’s authentic meaning.

Challenges facing marriage

Marriage needs to be strengthened, not redefined.

Cohabitation, divorce, and contraception all erode marriage’s meaning as a public, total, lifelong, and fruitful

communion of persons between husband and wife. The latest challenge to marriage, the proposal that sexual

difference doesn’t matter, removes the very basis of marriage’s meaning as a one-flesh communion, open to children,

making the definition of marriage in law (and thereby culture) open to limitless variation and ultimately meaningless.

The Catholic Church supports marriage

What we stand against is its redefinition. Marriage is and can only be the union of one man and one woman. It is the

only institution that unites a man and a woman with each other and with any child who comes from their union.

Sexual difference matters

Sexual difference is essential for marriage. Only through sexual difference can a man and woman “speak” the

language of married love in and through their bodies: the complete and total gift of self to the other, a gift that is

open to the further gift of the child. The difference is the difference.

Marriage is natural

Marriage is a natural institution. It predates both religion and government and is grounded in the nature of the

human person. Despite cultural variations, every human society in the entire history of the human race has

understood that marriage is a sexual union of man and woman with the purpose of procreating and educating the

next generation, and so marriage has with reason been given a unique status in the law. While Jesus elevates

Christian marriage to a sacrament, the complementarity of the sexes and the natural meaning of marriage can be

known through reason without appealing to scripture.

Equality and Rights

Affirming the true definition of marriage denies no one their basic rights. On the contrary, protecting marriage

affirms the basic rights and equal dignity of women and men and safeguards the basic rights and equal protection of

children.

Children

Every child is a gift. Every child has a mother and a father. Every child has a basic right to a mother and a father

united in marriage. While circumstances may prevent a child being raised by his or her own mother and father,

marriage is the way society provides for children’s needs in ordinary circumstances.

Mothers and fathers matter

Only a man can be a father; only a woman can be a mother. Both men and women – fathers and mothers –

bring irreplaceable gifts to the shared task of child-rearing. A child should not be deliberately deprived of a

married mom and dad. Parenting is gender-specific, not gender-neutral.

SK Mike Betliskey

5750 Via Real Sp 307

Carpinteria CA 93013-2612

One Nation, Under God

The Navigator

INTERCESSION TO APOSTLE OF CALIFORNIA PADRE JUNIPERO SERRA

O Lord Jesus Christ, reward the apostolic zeal of Your servant, Padre

Junipero Serra, who departing his native Spain, labored for the salvation

of souls in Mexico and California. Graciously deign by evident signs and

prodigies to glorify him, so that for the exaltation of Your Most Holy

Name, he may be elevated to the honors of the altar. Through Padre's

intercession kindly grant the special favor, I request.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father

Sacraments of Initiation Of the seven sacraments, Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist are referred to as the “Sacraments of Christian Initiation” It is by

reception of these three Sacraments that a person is fully received into communion with the Church. Baptism and

Confirmation can only be received once. In the Eastern Catholic Church, an infant receive all three Sacraments. In

the Western Catholic Church, an infant receive Baptism, at a later age a child receive Eucharist then Confirmation.

In the Western Catholic Church, when an unbaptized person reaches the age of reason (age 7) through the RCIA, a

process of initiation, one receives all 3 Sacraments at one time usually at the Easter Vigil.

Baptism

Baptism is often called the door to the other sacraments and is the first sacrament a person receives. The word

“baptize” means to plunge or immerse. The “plunge” into the water symbolizes the burial into Christ’s death, from which

one rises up with Him as a “new creation” (2Cor. 5:17). Essential for a valid celebration of Baptism is the threefold

immersion or pouring over the head of water while saying, “I baptize you in the name of the Father, of the Son and of

the Spirit”.

Baptism was prefigured several places in the Old Testament. In creation, the Holy Spirit, the breath of life, hovers

over the water (Gen. 1:2). In the Flood, Noah with his family “were saved through water” (1Pet. 3:20). In the

crossing of the Israelites through the Red Sea, the people were set free from Egyptian slavery (Ex. 14). In the

crossing of the Jordan River by the Israelites, the People of God entered into the Promised Land, foreshadowing

Christ opening the Heavens at His baptism in the Jordan River to offer God’s people the gift of eternal life (Jos. 3). In

the cleansing of Naaman the Syrian in the Jordan River (2 Kings 5:14), “It was not for nothing that Naaman of old,

when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [this served] as an indication to us. For as we

are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as newborn babes.” (St. Irenaeus, Fragment 34, A.D. 190).

Baptism of Jesus

There are several reasons why Jesus consented to a baptism by John the Baptist that He did not need. His Baptism

expresses His self-emptying and another way He identifies with humanity, which stands in need of God’s grace and

forgiveness (CCC 1224). It begins His Public Ministry, wherein He is anointed by the Spirit for His ministry (Luke

4:16-20). (See also: CCC 536) In His Baptism, Christ sacramentally sanctifies the waters for us. His baptism reveals

what occurs spiritually every time a person is baptized. When one comes to the Holy Font, the heavens are opened,

the Spirit descends, and the Father pronounces, “You are my beloved son or daughter.”

Effects of Baptism

With Baptism, there comes the initial outpouring of Holy Spirit with His sanctifying grace making one’s soul His

Temple. Baptism opens a Christian to graces to live out the Baptismal Promise to live for God and goodness, to

share His love and to avoid evil. One becomes an adopted child of God, the beginning of one’s relationship with the

Triune God. Baptism confers a special character, an indelible mark of being an adopted child of God. Baptism

removes all sins including Original Sin and actual sin as well as any effects, any stain, and any impact of those sins. At

Baptism, the virtues of faith, hope and love are placed (infused) in a Christian soul. While entering the Church, one

forms a spiritual bond with Christ and other Christians.

Confirmation

From the time of the apostles, in fulfillment of Christ’s will, they imparted to the newly baptized by the laying on of

hands the gift of the Spirit that completes the grace of Baptism. (CCC 1288) In addition to the laying on of hands,

sacred oil (Chrism) was very early on added to the rite in order to better highlight the name “Christian,” which means

“anointed,” sealed with the Holy Spirit. Any baptized person who has not already been confirmed can receive

Confirmation. One must be in a state of grace to receive Confirmation thus the need for an honest sincere

sacramental confession. Usually, the Bishop confirms because as the shepherd of the (arch)diocese and successor to

the apostles this provides a link to the universal Church for the one being confirmed. A parish priest may confirm a

person, especially at the Easter Vigil.

Effects of Confirmation

The reception of Confirmation brings a further outpouring of the Holy Spirit to increase and deepen baptismal grace.

Gives a Christian special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the Faith by word and action as true

witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the cross. Increases the gifts

of the Holy Spirit in us. God deepens His relationship with the Christian as one enters more fully into being an

adopted child of God. Unites more closely to Christ and His Church. Like Baptism, it confers an indelible spiritual

mark, the “character,” or sign that a person is marked with the Holy Spirit by Jesus Christ.