Dear Brother Knights,

“EVERY LITTLE SOUL MUST SHINE”: These are the apt words as we enter into the month of November which is filled with lot of sweet and at time tears filled memories of our departed dear and near ones and at the same time honor all the saints, known and unknown, who now enjoy the beatific vision with God. We are well known and applauded often for the great respect, reverence and importance that we give to our departed souls by offering a lot of prayers and Masses for them.

As we remember all the saints and souls it is also a gentle reminder for us that we need to safe guard our own little souls and it must shine with all the Christian values.

It also provides us with the opportunity to give thanks for all the great saints for their heroic witness to Jesus and our departed souls both of whom have shaped our lives and continue to give a meaning to our existence.

Let us say a prayer for all the departed souls every day in the month of November. Let us also say a prayer daily to all the saints for their intercession and blessings.

Fr. V.Irudaya Paul Raj SAC
Council Chaplain

Dear Brother Knights,

We are back from our summer holidays and entered into another important year which is once again filled with a lot of new activities and old commitments.

We have just completed our Stewardship Sundays in our parish with a lot of success filled with many future challenges too. What was amazing and beautiful sight for me in those two weeks of Stewardship was: it was filled with Knights, Knights and Knights.

I noticed a powerful presence of Knights in most of the ministries in our church. I take this opportunity to thank every Knight’s dedicated ministry and service that you render for our parish. May God and Mary our Mother bless you and your family.

We have also a fresh and new challenge before us. Since we have lot of new people, who have signed up during Stewardship Sundays, for various ministries in our parish, it is our first duty and responsibility as a Knight, to make these new volunteers to feel at home, comfortable, wanted, respected and most importantly entrusted with some responsibilities in their own respective ministries, that they have volunteered to, so that they can commit themselves fully and experience God’s grace in their lives.

As a Knight, let us continue to bring more and more people closer to God.

Fr. V.Irudaya Paul Raj SAC
Council Chaplain

Dear Brother Knights,

We are in the month of May, which is sweetly and piously called the month of Mary or Marian month, purely and fully dedicated to Mary our Mother. This Christian custom of dedicating the month of May to the Blessed Virgin arose at the end of the 13th century. The Popes have especially recommended this pious practice of honoring Mary during the month of May. In this month, “the benefits of God’s mercy come down to us from her throne in greater abundance” said Pope Paul VI.

We feel a special protection of Mary the mother of God that extends to all the faithful. We feel a special joy that shines and illuminates our hearts expressing the indispensable patronage of our heavenly mother which becomes even more tender, more loving and more full of visible mercy and grace during her month of May.

This devotion consists then in giving and consecrating ourselves entirely to the Blessed Virgin through an increased devotion, a keener confidence and, so to speak, such an increased intimacy with Our Lady that in all the vicissitudes of life, in order to belong entirely to Jesus through her and to become a child of Mary.

Let the hands of Mary be a pair of pure wings that will carry us with certainty to the throne of God.

May Mary our Mother intercede and pray for us , your children.

Fr. V.Irudaya Paul Raj SAC
Council Chaplain

Dear Brother Knights,

“I am the resurrection, and the life: he who believes in me shall never die.”

JN 11: 25

“Jesus is risen Alleluia” are the words that is echoing the whole world during this holy season of EASTER. Many people love you, many people like you, but there is only one person who DIED for you…THE RISEN SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.

Easter is about JESUS’ resurrection…It’s about elimination of slavery…elimination of darkness… elimination of sin… elimination of evil… elimination of fear and at the same time to rejoice, be thankful, and be assured that all is forgiven. Easter is the celebration of holy love…the day of peace…the day that brings us new hope, new aspiration, new light and reminds us that God is so good for he shared his own son to us. Let’s learn to share our love, peace, joy, to others. That’s the real meaning of Easter.

Through the RISEN LORD – May the angels protect you…May the sadness forget you…May goodness surround you…and may the Risen Lord Jesus always bless you…Live your life to the fullest! It cost Jesus’ life for us to live.

Happy Easter to you and your family!!! Have a blessed and meaningful Easter!!!

Fr. V. Irudaya Paul Raj SAC
Council Chaplain

Dear Brother Knights,

Once again God has given us another great opportunity to come back to Him with all our hearts during this Holy season of Lent, a time in which we must try to re-unite ourselves more closely to the Lord Jesus Christ, in order to share the mystery of His passion and resurrection.

Our Lord never ceases to have mercy on us, and desires to offer us His forgiveness yet again, inviting us to return to Him with a new heart, purified from evil, to take part in His joy. We have to humbly accept this invitation and be reconciled to God. That is to say, we must admit our human imperfection and failure, as well as our insignificance before God, by repenting and repeating day-in and day-out, at all times and in all  places during this season of Grace.

WHAT IS EXPECTED OF ME DURING THIS HOLY SEASON OF LENT?

Feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit those in prison, shelter the homeless, and visit the sick OR Help the sinner, teach the ignorant, give advice to the doubtful, comfort those who suffer, be patient with others, pray for the living and the dead.

YOU CAN PRAY.
YOU CAN FAST.
YOU CAN READ SCRIPTURE.
YOU CAN DEVELOP A CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE.
YOU CAN SERVE OTHERS.
YOU CAN FORGIVE.

Fr. V. Irudaya Paul Raj SAC
Council Chaplain

Dear Brother Knights:
The time has arrived again when we have to think of buying presents for the people who are dear to us and persons we need to give a present to. For many, that is the extent of Christmas, to give presents and to receive from others the same. Actually, Christmas when we look at God’s intentions has nothing of that in it. God by his friendliness and generosity had planned to bring the troubles of humankind to an end. He sent his Son born in Bethlehem but in reality the savour of humankind. By God’s will he wanted that each and every one should receive Him with all that He offers and be a friend with God again.

I would like to invite you to look closer at this matter. Christmas is actually the celebration of God’s generosity and the invitation to be his children. If we work on the relationship with God we cannot but be friends with people around us. The friendliness of God will spurt out of us and make others happy. When we look closely at the birth of Jesus we recognize that Jesus Christ was doing the same.

He was born a child and his name Emmanuel expresses that God is among humans, the savour, the one who offers life, the only one who loves us truly, and the way by whom we can go back to our father in heaven.

FR. Frank Feldmann, S.A.C.
Chaplain

Dear Brother Knights:

All of us are invited to be part of the kingdom of God to which Jesus Christ gave instructions and an understanding, which and where it is. Most of the time, Jesus Christ uses parables to explain things and situations, which we very often do not fully understand.

He teaches us that there is for each an invitation to be part of it. Everyone is welcome to join.

A second statement in this parable teaches us that it is not up to us to interpret the invitation and make things in our own life more important than the invitation of God. It is a very strong realization to see that people dare to work against His invitation. Then He sends servants out to call people from the streets, to take part in the wedding banquet and the unimportant heed the outreach. We all have to prepare ourselves to notice what God wants of us and there is no exception.

It is worthwhile to think about this matter and to learn to interpret what belongs to God and what we interpret to be ours. This last sentence I just formed has already a fault in it, namely when I said, “interpret to be ours”. It is an oxymoron because even what we interpret to be ours, is actually a gift from God.

Let us pray for each other, that all our faces are turned to God and learn to value every word of God taught by Jesus Christ, which are interpreted by the church.

Fr. Frank Feldmann, SAC
K of C Chaplain

Dear Brother Knights:

On Friday the 29th of August, we celebrated the feast day of St. John the Baptist and his beheading. When I wrote the sentence for the first time and looked at it, I thought how could we be celebrating a beheading. John, who always did the will of God, left this world in a terrible way. To work for God, and witness to his teaching, was never a security for life on earth. The promises of God are directed towards the other side and He will never forsake people who witness to Him.

Even the Son of God who never did anything wrong in his life had to embrace a thorny crown and the cross. What counts here on earth is to do the will of the father in heaven and to love Him above everything. And I mean everything!

Do you have the courage to take that fate of Jesus and John? It takes a lot of prayer and patience to do the will of God and to let Him lead our life. The killer of that kind of life is selfishness and the interpretation that my life belongs to me and nobody else.

One should realize the people who have that kind of understanding, are the people who will be able to carry the parish and its future life.

Fr. Frank Feldmann, S.A.C.
K of C Chaplain

Dear Brother Knights:

Fifty days after Easter the apostles and some ladies are ready to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They had gone through desperation, unbelief, rejection, and cluelessness. There was actually nothing left for them to do but to go on to their knees and pray. We believe in fact, that they started to pray on the 40th day after Easter, as one thing they had not tried yet was to find a solution for crucifixion, and resurrection. Nine days it took to open their mind and heart to such an extent that the Holy Spirit could do its work. All of them in the upper room were filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, because they were ready for it and nothing stood in the way that its blessings could work.

Imagine, Peter goes out, who had never taken a course in public speaking, and gives a great sermon so that three thousand people asked for instructions. They get baptized as Jesus had ordered them to do.

My dear brother Knights, it is worthwhile to meditate on the happenings of Pentecost because it also brings God’s blessings into our lives, and a Pentecost experience can be renewed at any time.

Fr. Frank Feldmann, S.A.C.
K of C Chaplain

Dear Brother Knights:

I would like to take the gospel of the Fifth Sunday of Easter. In this reading Jesus Christ introduces to the apostles their future home and happiness. He is only speaking of relationships and not of a building, which we normally call our home. This relationship opens up many places to dwell in. The apostles naturally, want to see the place and want to know the way to this home. And Jesus Christ bluntly says, “I am the way, the truth and the life, no one can come to the Father except through me. If you know me you know my father also. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

Jesus is with us in the sacraments and especially the sacrament of the altar when he shares himself with each of us who receives the Bread of Life. The most futuristic activity is to be in contact with our Lord and to make him the governor of our activity. To look at ourselves, and to make us the means of decisions and future, leads to an existence without happiness and home.

Any relationship is strengthened by one activity, namely to be in contact with the person and have meaningful talks. This must be a lifelong activity to be sure of success. The difficulty we encounter very often, in spite of not feeling or seeing, doubts may arise whether we are on the right road.

Dear brother knights, one has to remind oneself that our life is built on faith and not visible security; to accept Jesus Christ’s words more so, than things we can see and touch.

Fr. Frank Feldmann, S.A.C.
K of C Chaplain