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A NEWSLETTER FOR OUR LADY OF THE HILLS COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES
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MEETING DAYS ARE 2ND AND 4TH WEDNESDAYS
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Please reply with your updated or loved one's email address to receive this publication in different or additional email inboxes, our phone number is 929-459-5950.
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Next council meeting: Wednesday, June 26, 2019, Room 14
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June 23, 2019 - Escort Lyons Veterans to Mass
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GK Vincent Scafuto
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Grand Knight's Message
Mary and I would like to wish you all, on behalf of your Council a blessed Fathers Day!
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As planned, the KofC storage room clean-up was done on Wednesday, June 12 - Thank you to those of you who so generously gave up your morning to help the council. See the after picture included with Brother David Brennan sweeping the floor. Thank you Brother John Fus for the help and the picture.
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The Blood Drive was a total success. The official results from the Red Cross Blood Bank are:
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44 precious pints collected=about 132 lives saved!
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Special Needs Drive Next Weekend - Saturday, June 22 and Sunday, June 23 - we need 4-5 Knights for each Mass to cover the Front and Back doors. If you haven’t had the opportunity to serve your Knights of Columbus, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for to provide help where it is needed most, these funds are directly donated by Your Council to 1) State Council for State of NJ Special Olympics and 2) Special needs organizations in our own area. Please click to signup
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Our Lady of the Hills, Council 5959
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PGK F. Joseph Beotsch
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Thank you for you great effort over so many years to keep our Blood Drive program alive and thriving!
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BABE RUTH –THE BALTIMORE CONNECTION
Back in the day it was fashionable for a little league baseball player to point to center field mimicking Babe Ruth’s iconic, 1932 World Series pointing gesture. In the fifth game of that series with the count two balls and two strikes the beloved New York Yankee, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, smashed a towering home run deep in the center field seats. To the chagrin of the Chicago fans, “The Babe” delivered the home run exactly where he pointed. Although most copycat little leaguers failed to follow through with their audacious predictions, they usually managed to receive appreciative cheers and applause from the parents.
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After completing his studies at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, December 22, 1877, Michael Joseph McGivney was ordained at the Cathedral of the Assumption by the newly appointed Archbishop of Baltimore, James Gibbons. Gibbons served 44 years (1877-1921) as Archbishop of Baltimore. He was a stalwart advocate of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor (KoL). The Knights of Labor was an American labor federation active in the late 19th century. Five years after being ordained, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus.
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On June 13, 1902, George Ruth Jr., age 7, was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore. His parents, unable to care for the "incorrigible" youngster, placed him in the Catholic Reformatory under the tutelage of a Matthias Boutlier of the Xaverian Brothers, the school's disciplinarian. Although Matthias was teacher, mentor, coach, and friend to the young Ruth, it was St. Mary’s strong religious values that Ruth eagerly embraced. Young Ruth celebrated Mass, prayed, and received Communion by Archbishop James in the Cathedral where 25 years earlier the same Archbishop ordained Father McGivney. Later in life, Ruth would share his fond memories of Christmas and Easter Mass at the Cathedral of the Assumption celebrated by the illustrious Archbishop of Baltimore, James Gibbons. The Archbishop was a popular figure at the boys’ baseball games and was undoubtedly the first person to speak to the boys about the benevolence of the Knights of Columbus and its founder, Father McGivney, a St. Mary’s Seminary alumnus.
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One hundred years ago Babe Ruth joined the Pere Marquette Council 271 of the Knights of Columbus in South Boston. It was a partnership made in heaven. The Knight of Columbus Councils would sponsor The Babe’s post season barnstorming tours playing exhibition games for charity. Long before major league teams were based in western states, barnstorming tours offered an opportunity for fans to get a glimpse of professional ballplayers. Babe Ruth’s barnstorming tours helped to grow the national pastime and the Knights of Columbus. (Columbia May, 2019).
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Babe Ruth’s connections to Archbishop of Baltimore James Gibbons, the Baltimore Cathedral of the Assumption, and Father McGivney, alumnus of St. Mary’s Seminary of Baltimore, impacted his life in countless ways. St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore was The Babe’s home for 12 years. That is where his life found meaning and structure. When “The Babe” was in Baltimore, he would celebrate Mass at the Cathedral of the Assumption then take the ”incorrigibles” from the Reformatory to the ball game.
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Held every 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, except as periodically announced. All members of the Knights of Columbus in good-standing are invited to attend, please arrive no later than start time.
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Meeting Time: 7:30 PM for the meeting, or 7:10 PM to pray the Holy Rosary
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Meeting Location: We meet at Blessed Sacrament Parish, in rooms 1&2 (off the church lobby).
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Publisher: Knights of Columbus, Our Lady of the Hills Martinsville NJ Council No. 5959
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USPS Mail to: Blessed Sacrament Parish
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1890 Washington Valley Rd
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