Happy New Year to all knights.
What a fantastic year for council 8576.
We have many officers who are generous with their time.

How about you?
It is AN EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME.
Join in.

2009 --
We will have our 25th anniversary celebration on Jan 31.
Fr Breen and Fr Bob have both agreed to come.
Joe Steigelman has agreed to be head up the kitchen and his suggestion of Prime Rib will head up the menu with more.
Mike Horten will be our MC.
We will read a necrology of deceased members at the 5:30 Mass.
There will be a rose for each spouse of deceased members.

There will be a charge for this event----$10.00 per person, wine included.

We do, however, need some help with this major event.

Please e-mail eric@ejpelton.com to offer any help/small or large
**Set up crew needs 5 more men
**Kitchen needs 2 men and a clean up man.
**Servers--need 4
**Clean up--need 4

Any brother knight who works on the committee will have his meal and his spouse FREE of charge.

Arrangements are by the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home.

The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. on Thursday with a prayer service at 4 p.m. at the funeral home.

A Mass of Celebration for Theresa will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday at St. Jude Catholic Church.

Please continue to pray for Don Fritts, PGK and family and for the repose of the soul of Theresa.

Further information can be found at http://chattanoogan.com/articles/article_140944.asp.

Theresa Fritts, wife of PGK Don Fritts passed away suddenly last night of a heart attack.  Your thoughts and prayers are requested for her and her family.  Additional information will be passed along as details are known.

Saturday 13 Dec—9:00 am (after morning mass)

We will be joining Mona Bombassi’s cleaning team to give the church a “new year’s” going over.

We have asked Tom Picard to attend to show us how to take care of some of the big stuff like replacing ceiling lights, polishing the crucifix, etc.  Please bring your tool boxes, ladders, cleaning materials, and vacuum cleaners so we can get the job done faster in conjunction with Mona’s team using the church equipment and materials.  Depending on how many Worthy Knights show up, we can either set up the Nativity Scene during the church cleaning or after the church cleaning.  We should be finished by lunch time.

Sunday 14 Dec—10:30 am mass

Reminder that this is our normal second-Sunday mass where Knights serve as altar servers, reader, extraordinary ministers, ushers.

Brother Knights---here it is ---December 2008. Tempus Fugit...

Dec 7 SUN Breakfast with Santa after Masses 8, 10:30
                        (we need a Santa's helper).
                        --still looking for a photo printer, camera hook up
Dec 8 MON meeting to start AFTER Mass
                        Feast of the Immaculate Conception
                        Mass at 7 pm...meeting to follow
Dec 13 SAT Nativity Scene set up 8:30 am or
                        join in after 8:15 Mass
Dec 22 MON no meeting
Dec 25 Merry Christmas

***note** Dean Warlick is looking for Ushers at Masses.
                        call 423-316-0677 to help

We are selling Adventure Books
great gift item ---call Mike Baskets 423-875-2049

Good of the Order        Pray for all brothers sick or in distress
                                    We offered prayers for Art Provenzano
Pray for the soul of deceased brother knight Richard McEvoy.

Looking ahead......
Jan 12 business meeting
Jan 17 midyear meeting
Jan 19 council meeting
JAN 31--SAT 25th anniversary of council dinner

VIVAT JESUS!

Eric Pelton,
Grand Knight