4th Degree News
PFN Night for Stritch Assembly will be on Sunday, October 25th @ Lansing Council. Price is $20/person. Dress Code is black tie or suit. FC John Walker is the chairman. If you plan on attending, call Bill Burke.
Email from the Faithful Comptroller
Good morning one and all!
On occasion I will send out an e-mail like this to everyone on our mailing list in order to inform you of some upcoming events that you might want to be aware of that our Assembly is or has been asked to be involved in. I hope that this will continue to help our lines of communications with all of our Assembly members and keep you active in all areas of our endeavors. Please share this information with all of our Brother Knights!
*** A special request for an Honor Guard has been made through Terry Dybas, Grand Knight of Our Nativity of Our Lord Council, from Saint Jerome Croatian Parish for the Knights of Columbus 4th Degree Honor Guard to lead the procession in the neighborhood for the Feast of the Assumption of Mary on Saturday, August 15th at 10:00 AM. St. Jerome?s is located at 2830 South Princeton in Chicago (Bridgeport Neighborhood).
*** Attached to this e-mail are two letters in regards to our upcoming Past Faithful Navigators Night which will be held on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at Lansing Council. We will honor Past Faithful Navigator Joseph Matlon and we encourage you and your families to attend this fun filled event.
EDIT: This will be a separate page
*** We have received the following information in regards to the Annual Chicago Columbus Day Mass and Parade and all Sir Knights in Regalia are invited to participate.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Mass will be at 9:00 AM at Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei located at 1224 West Lexington Street, Chicago and will be followed by the wreath laying ceremony at Arrigo Park approximately 2 blocks from the Shrine. We will board a bus which will take us to the parade route and return us to the Shrine immediately after the parade.
*** Please note that our next Business Meeting will be Wednesday, September 2, 2009 hosted by General Pulaski Council which is located at 13323 S. Greenbay Avenue in Chicago.
*** I have received several requests from Brother Sir Knights inquiring if there is any used regalia available for sale. If you do have, or know of any regalia in good condition that you are no longer in need of please contact let me know and I will forward your contact information to the requestor(s).
*** As always, please check our Website www.stritchassembly.com on a regular basis for a complete listing of meeting dates, step out requests and many other useful items of information. Brother SK Paul Piraino does a fantastic job of updating the site on a very regular basis and we encourage you to use it as a source of some great information.
Thanks for reading this little message and have a great day!
Paul D, Isherwood, PFN
Faithful Comptroller
Point of Information concerning honor guards and cremations
Due to a call from one of our new Hon. Life members and newly minted 4th degree SK, I feel that
posting this information will be of interest. Please make a note of this if you
have decided upon cremation.
The question was posed: "If a SK from our council dies out of town, can he have
an honor guard even if he is to be cremated?"
The answer is from the Marshal of the 4th Degree for Cardinal Stritch Assembly, Paul Isherwood:
"Greetings. You are correct in stating that it would be up to the local Assembly
to assist in the Honor Guard at both the wake and funeral if requested. If he is to
be cremated then please note the following rule in regards to cremated remains etc.:
"If there is to be a wake and/or funeral and the deceased has already been cremated,
if he wants an honor guard his remains should be present and there should be a picture
of him at the funeral home or at the mass. If the remains are not present then there
is no need for an honor guard as he really isn't there at all in any fashion."
My thanks to the Worthy Marshal in defining this point.