Brother Knights,

It looks as if we finally have a break from the blistering heat! We are beginning to feel the coolness of fall and football! Another season of Pius football where our council runs the chain gang and down marker for the varsity football games. Brothers Matt Schafer, Ryan Wesolowski, Brad Behne, Brian Callan and myself can be seen on the visitor’s sideline during the Pius home games. We are always looking to get other knights involved so if this is something you might be interested in, please contact one of us.

We have, and continue to do, many great things for our parish and school. We recently donated money for the ASAP program and the St. Teresa’s Conference of St. Vincent DePaul. We hosted a burger/hot dog meal for our school’s Jayhawk Jumpstart, purchased bibles for our 4th grade students, donated money to support the Pink Sister’s 50th anniversary celebration and presented roses to the mothers of babies baptized in our parish. This is just a snapshot of what we do and we do it because we love Christ and our parish.

We have many things yet to do and like I mention in every newsletter, we need YOU! We will be conducting a membership drive this month, and in October we have our Tootsie Roll Sunday to raise funds for persons with developmental disabilities. These are events you can help with after masses with the giving of just a few minutes of your time. Please consider!

Our council meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month at our Knight’s of Columbus Hall, 6044 South Street. Stop by for a meeting, a beverage and some pizza once. We would love to have you!

May God continue to bless us all,

Ron Schinkel
Grand Knight

Brother Knights,

Where O’ where has the summer gone??!!! It is hard to believe that we are almost into the 2nd week of August already! School begins in a little over a week and before long the leaves will be changing colors, and maybe Nebraska football will win a few game! We can only hope.

As the school year begins, our council is starting a new event that hopefully will become an annual tradition. We are going to be cooking and serving hotdogs and hamburger to St. Teresa families during the Jayhawk Jumpstart night. This is on August 10th. We will need some volunteers to make this a success so if you have any time on Thursday please reach out to Matt Schafers and let him know you can help for an hour or so. He can be reached at 402-540-8254. Thanks for considering!

Many of you have received emails from our FS Tony Schafer or myself about how successful our fireworks tent was this 4th of July. I want to thank all of the knights and parishioners that made this such a success! This will allow us to continue to help financially support our school and our church. Without all of you this wouldn’t happen, so once again, Thank You!

My wife and I took a short vacation to Kansas City on August 3rd. While traveling we received a text from one of our daughters. My daughter had copied a text she had received from a good friend of hers, and a friend of our family, to us. The text stated that the priest that had married her friend and her husband had passed away in a car accident the previous day. This happened in Louisiana. Included in the text was a link to Father Mark Beard’s last homily three days prior. I feel it is an amazing homily and I felt obligated to share it with you. It was as if Father Beard knew he might soon meet the Lord. If you would like to watch, here is the link.

https://fb.watch/mfXMLKgOVt/

If you ever have questions, comments, or suggestions I can be reached via email at schinkelr@gmail.com

Thank you and may God continue to bless all of us,

Ron Schinkel
Grand Knight
Council 833

Brother Knights,

We have hit the “dog days of summer”! The heat is rising, as is the humidity! The baseball College World Series concluded this past week and what a great series it was! So many traditions at this time of year that bring people together……just like our FIREWORKS stand that is coming up this Sunday, Monday and Tuesday! This too brings people together, and for a great cause! If you haven’t already signed up please do so. The weblink is https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090a48adaa2aa13-fitzgerald#/

Bring your kids, your spouse, your mother-in-law, we welcome everyone!

We also have some congratulations to send out this month. Congratulations to our Knight of the Month, Garett Malan! Garett helped with the Corpus Christi Procession and feeding the Totus Tuus attendees! He has really gotten involved in our council happenings and we thank you Garett!

The Knight Family of the Month is Nikki and Josh Shasserre family. Nikki spearheaded the organizing of the Corpus Christi Procession and what a beautiful, successful event for our parish family! Thank you to the Shasserre family for your time and dedication to our parish!

Congratulations also to some new Knights in our parish! Benjamin Andreasen and Ethan Behne recently joined our council! What a blessing it is for Fitzgerald Council 833 to have these young men join our council. We pray that you two men thrive in the Charity, Unity and Fraternity that the Knights offer.

The alter servers outing will be on July 29th. Look for more information to come. The servers will have a pizza dinner and then attend the Saltdogs baseball game! This is a fun event that we like to do to show our appreciation for the service and dedication our alter servers do for the masses.

As always, we have our meetings on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at the Knight’s Hall. Please come and see what we do and why we do it. Many Knights that aren’t active in our council would probably want to get more involved if they knew everything we do for our school, church and parish family.

If you ever have questions, comments, or suggestions I can be reached via email at schinkelr@gmail.com

Thank you and may God continue to bless all of us,
Ron Schinkel
Grand Knight
Council 833

Dear Brother Knights,

Happy Summer Brother Knights!  What a great time of the year it is!  Children (and teachers!) are on summer break!  The days are longer, the warmth is constant and the humidity is starting to climb up!
We all know God is Great, but wasn’t the inch of rain we had on Thursday morning a blessing from Him!  I read somewhere that it had been since last July Lincoln has received more than an inch of rain.  Please keep praying for rain for our farmers and our lakes and streams!

I would like to congratulate Father Beardslee on being the Knight of the Month for June!  Father spearheaded a membership drive at Pius for the graduating senior men.  There was a tremendous turn out for the event!  Father was helped by our trustees, James McCarville and Marvin Burbach.  Without their help this wouldn’t have been able to succeed.  Thanks to all three of you for building the Knight’s future with this recruitment drive.

The Knight Family of the Month is James and Lisa McCarville.  James and Lisa provided desserts for the Pius event along with organizing the luncheon that was served.  Thanks James and Lisa for your ongoing commitment to Council 833.

As I mentioned above, summer is here and with that we have a lot of upcoming events.  July 2-4 we will have our Fireworks tent at the Hy-Vee on 52nd and O Street.  We will need volunteers to help with this endeavor!  Please be open to sharing some of your time this fireworks season by giving back to our council.  Please look for more information in the church bulletin as we get closer to the middle of June.
June 11th our parish will have the Corpus Christi procession from St. Teresa’s church to the Pink Sisters Chapel.  Our council is in charge of the sound system for the event and also for manning the canopy that covers the priest during the procession.  Please contact me if you are willing to help.  The procession takes place after the 8 AM mass.  It would be spectacular if we had a huge Knight presence at the event.  We are the protectors of the church and with today’s unrest, our greatest deterrent is numbers.

Before the General Meeting on June 21st we will host an exemplification at the Knight’s Hall.  At this time we will enter into our council the young men that signed up at the Pius event.  I believe we have 5 or 6 new knights to welcome.  Please arrange to attend.  The starting time will be 7:00 PM and last approximately 30 minutes.

June 23rd will be the Fish Fry Appreciation Dinner at the hall for everyone that helped with the fish fry.  All are invited.  After the event we can go to the Patriot Pete’s Firework Show.  Location to be announced.

The last event I will mention is the Alter Server outing to the Saltdogs baseball game.  This will be on July 29th.  Servers will attend the 4 PM mass, enjoy pizza and then head to Haymarket Park to cheer on the Saltdogs.  There is no charge for this.  More information will be shared later in the summer regarding this.

Once again thank you for service our council.  Continue praying for our priest, praying for rain and praying for each other.

May God continue to bless us all.

Ron Schinkel
Grand Knight

Brother Knights,

I hope everyone had a Blessed Easter spent with family and friends! Spring is one of my favorite times of the year! The Resurrection of our Lord, the way the grass starts to green up, the blooming of the flowers and the increased amount of sunlight we see every day. It is all so refreshing! Another thing that is refreshing is what our council accomplishes every Friday during Lent with our fish frys! I am in awe of how we do this week in and week out!

Every Thursday I start texting or calling brother Knights asking if we are going to have enough help to pull this off again the next day, and most all of you step up and come through for our council, our school and our parish! I can’t thank you all enough! It is each one of you that gave a hand this Lenten season that makes our council, and our fish frys the best in the Diocese!!

I want to extend an invitation to your Knights that have not become 3rd degree Knights yet. We will be having an exemplification ceremony in the near future for you to obtain the 3rd degree. At this ceremony we will also be bringing new Knights into our council. Please be on the lookout for emails and communications about this event.

May God continue to bless us all,

Ron Schinkel
Grand Knight