On Sunday October 23, St. Mary of the Hills Council 13950 hosted an Exemplification of Charity, Unity and Fraternity in their Church Chapel for District 111. A total of 5 new Members were welcomed into the Order, 3 for Council 13950 and 2 for Sacred Heart Council 8659.
Welcome to our new Brother Knights and their families.
SDRR Detroit Archdiocese East
St. Mary of the Hills Council #13950
Brother Knights, here is some information.
As we work on submitting our form10784 for Special Olympics now that Columbus Day is over, I encourage you to take some additional steps:
1 - contact the local volunteers for Special Olympics in your community
2 - invite them to your meeting or schedule a separate time to meet
3 - take a few photos at your formal check presentation
4 - share with local media, social media, church bulletin, etc.
This link will take you to a list of area volunteers for Special Olympics Michigan, SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN (mikofc.org)
This link, SOMI Area Map (mikofc.org), will provide you a map of their service areas. If you have any difficulty contacting them, please let me know - I am happy to assist!
Vivat Jesus! State Director of Special Olympics
B 989-774-1427 C 810-444-8277
Fr. Owens Council 11114 in Battle Creek received a trio of awards at their October meeting from Supreme and Michigan. Pictured on the left holding their Double Star Award for achieving 225% of their membership quota is DD 401 Bob Budesky. Center is GK John Lindsay holding a plaque for being the September Council of the Month in the Kalamazoo Diocese and on the right is SDRR Jim Highfield holding their Star Award. After a great 2021-2022 year, the council has already earned the quick start award for this year.
LANSING — Christians of different denominations gathered at the steps of Michigan's capitol building Saturday, Oct. 15, to raise their voices to God in prayer and raise awareness about Proposal 3.
Prayer rally emphasizes sacredness of life, necessity of prayer in overcoming evil presented by abortion proposal.
The three-hour prayer rally was as much about action as it was about prayer, one of the event organizers, Dan Devine, told Detroit Catholic in a phone interview. “We are bringing Christians together of all denominations to pray, but we also have to instruct people that they have to vote,” Devine said. “You can't just trust the Lord and walk away from our Godly duty of voting and getting other people to vote no. It is all about prayer and action.”
Pastor Ralph Rebandt, who ran for Michigan governor in the Republican primary in August (Tudor Dixon won the primary), also spoke at the event and led a prayer, emphasizing the importance of pastors and priests using their voices to speak up for the unborn.
Fr. Gordon Reigle, pastor of St. Thomas Student Parish, which covers all of East Lansing, was “delighted” to see people of different denominations unified in their pro-life stance. Proposal 3 is written by the abortion lobby for the abortion lobby, Fr. Reigle said, adding he hopes voters can recognize its extremity.
In addition to ministering to students, Fr. Reigle started a 54-day rosary novena for life in the Diocese of Lansing. Leigh Heskitt, a parishioner at the Church of the Resurrection in Lansing, briefly came to the rally from the Catholic Women’s Conference taking place down the street. Heskitt said most people she knows in the Diocese of Lansing are participating in the novena.
You may read the entire article by Gabriella Patti in Detroit Catholic HERE.
SDRR Jim Highfield presented the August Council of the month to Queen City Council #575 in Battle Creek for reaching 60% of their membership quota and qualifying for the quick start award.
Pictured Left to right is Fr. Christopher Ankley, DD401 Bob Budeski, GK Ryan Hoch, SDRR Jim Highfield, and KDPD Dan Dahmen.
Brothers,
St. John Paul II was Pope from 1978 to 2005 and gave a powerful witness to the world about the transformative power of Christ. He also had and continues to have a powerful influence on the Knights of Columbus. While his feast Day is Saturday October 22, pray the Novena to St. John Paul II during the remaining month of October.
NOVENA TO ST. JOHN PAUL II
O Blessed Trinity, we thank you for having graced the church with Saint John Paul II and for allowing the tenderness of your fatherly care, the glory of the Cross of Christ and the splendor of the Spirit of love to shine through him. Trusting fully in your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession of Mary, he has given us a living image of Jesus the Good Shepherd. He has shown us that holiness is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life and is the way of achieving eternal communion with you. Grant us, by his intercession, and according to your will, the graces we implore, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
" A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little"
St John Paul II
Taken from our Companion Booklet Vivat Jesus and EWTN
On Sunday October 16 a CUF Exemplification was performed at St. Adalbert Council 15213 by one of our travelling Exemplification teams. Held in a wonderful setting, the Basilica of St. Adalbert in Grand Rapids, 11 new members were initiated into our Order.
Pictured are new members.- Anthony Amoroso Council 15213, Michael Curry Council 15213, Andrew Koerber Council 15213, Karl Schulte II Council 15213 , Michael Zomwelei Council 7487, Tom Lane Council 3104, Ray Chambers Council 3104, Kevin Komwinski Council 3104, William Smith Council 3104, Scott Strain Council 3104, Steve Kengon Council 8117.
Also in the picture is staff- GK Earl Burhans Council 15213, Ted Wright Council 8117, Ron Carlotti Council 8117, Gene Gutting Council 8117, DD310 Randy McGoerge, DD311 Jack Sablan, DGK Bob Swift Council 15213, PGK Jim Uzarski Council 15213, GRMDS Larry Adams, GRDPD Tom Farley, SDRR Marty Brown, Fr. Ron Hutchison FSC.
It was a big night for St. Sebastian Council #14642 in Byron Center on Thursday October 13. Prior to the meeting they held an Excemplifaction initiating 5 new members into the Order.
During the council Membership meeting SDRR Marty Brown and DD 306 John Veneklaus had the plesure of presenting awards.
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Detroit East State Deputy Regional Representative Paul Thorn and Detroit East Archdiocesan Program Director Joe Brenner presented the August Council of the Month Award to Grand Knight Michael Mandziuk of Pope St. John XXIII Council 5436 in Waterford.
Congratulations to Council 5436.
