Worthy Chapter President and Brother Knights,
I bring you greetings from our State Chaplain, Bishop Mulvey, and our Associate State Chaplain, Fr. Chen, whom I am in contact.
I am blessed to have served with Austin Chapter President Victor Medina these past two years. He has done a wonderful job as a leader and I am grateful for his commitment to our Order on so many levels. I thank him for his time, as well as Lady Melisa Medina and their family, for supporting him and allowing him to serve.
Tonight, before the Chapter Meeting, President-Elect Ramiro Bali asked if I could stay on for another two years as the Spiritual Director of the Chapter. I humbly accepted and told him that I will continue to serve my brother Knights as long as they would have me. I thank God for this opportunity to serve and I am grateful to my wife for her love and support.
I want to thank Chapter President Victor and the outgoing officers for their commitment in leading the Chapter these past two years. I congratulation Chapter President-Elect Ramiro Bali and the incoming officers and look forward to working with them. I spoke with Brother Ramiro before the meeting to let him know that he has the support of his predecessors and Brother Knights as he prepares to take the helm next month.
This leads me to my next point, which is, the Knights have a wonderful succession plan. At the Council level, the Deputy Grand Knight, under the guidance of the Grand Knight is prepared to take over as Grand Knight after two years. As our Diaconal Formators always reminded us, we must always be looking for and training our replacements in ministry. If we look in our Councils and parishes, we will find that there a many men who desire to hive their faith in action.
This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to serve as Chaplain for the Exemplification of Charity, Unity, and Fraternity (C.U.F.) where four men from Saint Albert the Great became Brother Knights. I had a chance to talk with three of them before the C.U.F. started and, in my brief conversations with each other them, I sense their great desire to serve Holy Mother Church as members of the Knights of Columbus. One man came home to Rome at the Easter Vigil and is getting married in a couple of months. He is on fire with his newfound Catholic faith. Another man had been away from the Church and the practice of his Catholic faith for several years. He desires to practice his faith and serve the Church. The third man has been at St. Albert the Great for 4 years but now he belongs to a community of believers. Finally, the fourth man came up to me after the Vigil Mass and was holding the Rosary that he received during the C.U.F. He was so excited to pray the Rosary once again.
There are many other men like them in the pews of our parishioners. Let's bring them into the Order and help them to put their Catholic faith in action.
Vivat Jesus!
Here is a link to my previous report from the Chapter meeting in March:
"Walking Wounded" - KC Austin Chapter - A Report of the Spiritual Director (3/24/2025) https://dcnphuc2019.blogspot.com/2025/03/knights-of-columbus-austin-chapter.html
Deacon Phúc’s challenges for all Knights for the month of July
- PERSONAL & FAMILY: Pray. Pray. Pray.
- COUNCIL: Same as above,
Pope Leo XIV's Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Lord, I come to your tender heart today,
to you who have words that set my heart ablaze,
to you who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor,
on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.
I desire to know you more, to contemplate you in the Gospel,
to be with you and learn from you
and from the charity with which you allowed yourself
to be touched by all forms of poverty.
You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure
with your divine and human heart.
Grant all your children the grace of encountering you.
Change, shape, and transform our plans,
so that we seek only you in every circumstance:
in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.
From this encounter, send us out on mission,
a mission of compassion for the world
in which you are the source from which all consolation flows.
Amen.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.
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