A Message From Your Current Grand Knight
We all know that the Knights of Columbus is a Catholic Fraternal Service Organization, and since we get up every morning to serve God and to secure the wellbeing of our families, let’s start there – with
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Service. YOU, meaning you and your families, have volunteered in excess of 12,000 hours in 2013. The significance of this number is not that we gave all of these hours to the Knights of Columbus or to the Parish directly, the significance is that most of you volunteered based upon your own interest. Something inspired you to drop what you are doing in order to give to those in need. Keep up the good work.
Secondly, Fraternal, defined as men. Is our Council only about the men? Not in my opinion and probably not yours either. Why? Because The Lady Knights are so important to us.!!! The Ladies charge our spirit and our commitment. Thank you Ladies for your special love, energy and support of your husbands. Your efforts, which may go unmentioned, NEVER go unnoticed. Your spirit flows within your husbands much further than you could possibly be aware of.
Our Fraternal year (July) started off with a great challenge – the loss of our dear Brother Josh. That was a setback but we continued on as he would wish us to do. Then came the challenge of frozen peach orchards in Palisades. But thanks to Gary, Joe and Tony, we reached our peach sales goal too. No challenge has stopped us from doing what we do as Knights at Pax Christi.
The Tootsie Roll Drive raised thousands of dollars which we gave to those with intellectual disabilities
Our college scholarship award will give thousands of dollars to a deserving high school student to help them pay for college.
Our spaghetti dinners, family hikes, Sunday Donuts, Lenten Fish Fries, Beer ‘n Brats, Air Force football & Rockies baseball games and monthly pancake breakfasts offer our parishioners a safe place to gather with likeminded people. This work is important as supporting Catholic Values.
Our cash donations to the seminarians that we support, Nathan Hinds, Roy Recio and Justin Nelson remind us of the luxury that we have to freely attend Pax Christi whenever we so choose. Pray for these seminarians in their pursuit of the Priesthood.
The Adopt-A-Family Thanksgiving Basket Drive was our most successful yet. Thanks to all the volunteers who helped made this a success/
Please click the link below to see Bob in action. Hats off to you Bob. http://www.kofc.org/un/en/knightsinaction/detail/1401West.html
Finally, as always, thank you to the Officers that we elected in July and for the Program Directors creativeness and drive to bring our programs to fruition. And thank you to our Trustees and past and present Financial Secretaries for your leadership.
And within the direction of Supreme, if you need insurance or annuities, please consider speaking with our new field agent, Lou Lesser.
And as always, JUST ASK.
May God Bless You,
Joe Musso