Knights of Columbus
John Clare Council #15485

A member of our parish that I've asked to be a Knight, but who has never gotten back to me, Mike Brown, owns a T-shirt printing shop. I think we should get some T-shirts printed up for our little roundtable, we could probably get them done pretty cheaply through Mike. Got any suggestions on what to put on them? Emblem of the Order, that sort of thing? Comment below. Update! We now have our council number. The T-shirts will be blue pocket T's, with the Emblem of the Order silkscreened on the back, and on the front, opposite the pocket: Your Name John Clare Council #15485 Charter Member Let me know if you want your name to appear different than it does on our charter.

Jim Van Domelen turned me on to a great biography of our Founder, Blessed Fr. Michael J McGivney. Parish Priest was published a few years ago as the canonization process started for this young American pastor- who died all too soon at only 38. Jim made the suggestion that we get a few copies to have on hand, maybe for the Blitz informational meeting and to put in the adult library at the parish. The floor is open for comments.

KofC Membership Blitz Mass Announcement for St. Clare's. On Oct. 2, 1881, a group of men met in the basement of St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Connecticut. Called together by their parish priest, Blessed Father Michael J. McGivney, these men formed a fraternal society that would one day become the world’s largest Catholic family fraternal service organization. Blessed Father McGivney started the order because he was faced, over and over again, with prejudice against Catholicism and the breakup of families upon the loss of a job, illness, or death of the breadwinner. Today, our Fathers in the Spirit are often taken for granted- left alone in their ministry. Today, in a culture that tells us fatherhood and men are unimportant and unnecessary, the Knights stand together in unity with our fellow fathers- both in the Holy Orders and in the Sacrament of Matrimony. Today, in a culture that tells us that some lives are worthless because of poverty, young parents, old age, or disa...