The Holiness of a Knight
Brothers, there comes a time in the life of every Knight when he must ask himself a question deeper than why he joined, how many meetings he attended, or how much good he accomplished: Am I becoming a holy man? Not an impressive man. Not an important man. Not merely a good Catholic man. A holy man. Because one day, brothers, all of this will end. There will be a final meeting. A final Mass. A final time we put on the regalia of a Knight. Someone else will sit in our chair. Someone else will do the work we once thought could not be done without us. And eventually, our name will be spoken mostly in memory. When that day comes, very few people will remember how many meetings we attended. But our wives will remember how we loved them. Our children will remember whether we had time for them. Our grandchildren will remember whether our faces lit up when they entered the room. And our brother Knights will remember whether, when life became difficult, we stood beside them. That is where holine...