2024 Memorial Day Car Cruise Final Financial Report

 

Check Presentation to Representatives of PA Hero Walk. Presented by our Grand Knight, Robert Heinle and District Deputy, Don Granata on July 10, 2024

 

Don Granata, our District Deputy presented a check donation to Clelian Heights. Accepting the check on behalf of Manodale Valley Council 4226 was St. Benjamin of Clelian Heights.

 

 

From Your District Deputy

As I was researching what Knights are faced with today as compared to yesterday.  I found this article from Patrick Kelly taken from a recent conversation with the Pope and our Supreme Chaplin Archbishop Lori. In the early days, as today Knights are called to fill the Breach. By filling that Breach, were part of the “Church Militant” working with the clergy. Today we are faced with the fight to save the unborn and putting our faith into action on Mainstreet, supporting the Church, families and our community. In the early days the Church was under attack from the Klan. The K of C were at the forefront in the battle against the Spanish Flu and defending the Church in Mexico in the twenties. I would recommend taking time there is so much rich history about our order at Kofc.org. Also, you may not have noticed that our Supreme Knight is often in meetings with the Pope.

Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly - In conversation with the Holy See

During my meeting with Pope Francis in April, I spoke about some of our remarkable charitable work, and I also discussed the increased focus that we’ve been placing on evangelization and the formation of men as husbands and fathers. I explained that this is an extension of the active sense of “co-responsibility” between clergy and laity that Blessed Michael McGivney built into the Knights of Columbus — some 80 years before the Second Vatican Council underscored “the responsibility of the laity in the Church” (Lumen Gentium, 37).

The Holy Father responded with great conviction, saying that our example of co-responsibility is extremely important. He urged me and Archbishop Lori to talk more about it — and so we will! When Blessed Michael McGivney founded the Order 141 years ago, he didn’t envision his Knights simply as helpful men in the community, but rather as men who embraced a real responsibility — alongside their priests — to advance the mission of the Church. This is one reason Father McGivney entrusted the Order’s leadership to laymen. Throughout our history, this co-responsibility can be seen in our commitment to works of charity, especially the care of widows and orphans. Co-responsibility also led us to defend the Church from threats such as attacks from the Ku Klux Klan, nativist attempts to prohibit Catholic schools, and the persecution of the Church in Mexico in the early 20th century. When Blessed Michael McGivney founded the Order, he didn’t envision his Knights simply as helpful men in the community, but rather as men who embraced a real responsibility to advance the mission of the Church. More recently, Knights have modeled leadership and co-responsibility in the pro-life movement, the defense of religious liberty, and countless works of charity in our communities and around the world. For most

Knights, our co-responsibility involves simply being available to the parish — being ready to help “Father” with anything he needs. And today, it increasingly means creating opportunities for men to deepen their faith, such as through our new Cor initiative . Our cultural circumstances have changed. Christianity is no longer the formative basis of our society that it once was, which is evident in the large number of people who have the Church is to thrive, each and every baptized Catholic — bishops and priests, religious, catechists, moms and dads — must engage actively in our shared responsibility to evangelize. In other words, our co-responsibility for the mission of the Church is more vital than ever.

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Blessed Father McGivney Celebration

Founder of the Knights of Columbus

Feast Day Tuesday August 13, 2024

All Brothers, Family Priests & Religious

please come join us for a Votive Mass followed by Buffet Dinner & special viewing of Parish Priest following dinner

Clelian Heights

MASS TIME: 7:00pm

Buffet Dinner following

Free Will offering

RSVP Don Granata  granms@outlook.com  412-215-3473