KoC Lecturer’s Note
For April 2019

Dear Brothers,

Through this Lenten season, we are called to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. In Matthew chapter 6 verses 1-18, we are taught:

Teaching About Almsgiving.^* 1“[But] take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them;^a otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. 

Teaching About Prayer. 6But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

Teaching About Fasting.  17But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18so that you may not appear to others to be fasting, except to your Father who is hidden.

As Knights, our charitable works are not meant to garnish attention to ourselves, but to serve all of God’s people. Our prayers, like the rosary before Council meetings, are done in private for those around us. Our fasting is an interior penance and voluntary self-denial to lead us to a conversion of the heart (CCC 1430, 1434, 1438), to make us better men, better Catholics, and better Knights. Vivat Jesu!

Patrick Nakagawa, Lecturer