Reg 3 Council of the Month for January in the Grand Rapids Diocese is Sacred Heart of Jesus Council #13641. SDRR Marty Brown presented the award at the Council’s General meeting on Monday February 13th. Pictured is Grand Knight Jason Bargenquast excepting the award from SDRR Marty Brown.
Marty Brown SDRR Reg 3
Happy New Year! I hope all is well with all of you as we start 2023. This is a reminder that tickets are still available for this year’s Tribute Banquet which will take place on Saturday, February 25, 2023 at Zuccaro's Banquet and Catering 46601 Gratiot Ave. Chesterfield Twp.
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This year’s banquet will be honoring our State Chaplain Rev. Aidan Logan.
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For those of you who have purchased your tickets already I thank you for your support. For those of you that are still interested please use the attached form to reserve your seat/s or table. FYI tables of (10) may be reserved by individual Councils, Assemblies, or groups. The cost is $35.00 per person.
We hope to see as many councils represented at this event. Grand Knights, invite your council membership director and his wife. I also encourage you extend an invitation to your council chaplain.
Quick Start and State Chaplain Tribute Awards will be presented to qualifying councils.
We normally have a big turnout for this event so don't be left out, order your tickets as soon as possible. No tickets will be sold at the door.
ADMITTANCE BY RESERVATION ONLY!
Thanks, and Fraternally,
Lawrence T. Grabowski State Executive Secretary
Family... This is a word that can carry different meanings, depending on who you ask. What does that word mean to you? Traditionally, we consider our family, our parents, our siblings, and everyone that we’re related to. Personally, I consider some friends closer than some of my actual family. These friends are truly my ‘brothers,’ that I met in the Knights of Columbus. I don’t think I’m alone in this.
We are a very unique fraternity. Traditionally, we are a men’s organization. However, we increasingly devote our time and attention to include the entire family. This is a positive change! Our family is what makes us. This change also broadens our worldview. We all have family and friends that aren’t affiliated with the Knights for a variety of reasons. It’s important that we don’t exclude our non-fraternal family. We shouldn’t ask those close to us to pass a litmus test.
In this spirit, we need to examine our role in the family of Christianity. We need to open our hearts and be willing to embrace all of our brothers and sisters, regardless of station, creed, or race. We should look to the example of Blessed McGivney for inspiration. Our organization exists to help care for everyone, widows, orphans, and the less fortunate. Blessed McGivney opened his heart and his doors to everyone. We have to do the same thing. When we conduct Coats for Kids, deliver Christmas baskets, and raise money for the mentally impaired, we are helping our Christian family. We can’t demand they agree with our worldview- we need to unconditionally love. Unconditional love is truly at the heart of family!
I'm very proud of my state board family. I'm very proud of my Council family. I'm very proud of every brother Knight that does things throughout the state for different families. That's what family is all about. You should be proud too.
An opportunity to fraternalize with our State Family is March 23rd when we will be having Michigan Knights of Columbus Fraternal Night at LCA. Detroit Red Wings vs St Louis Blues
Chief of Fraternal Activities Michael Kozakiewicz
Thursday, March 23, 2023 @ 7PM
$30.00 per Ticket
Send checks and form to: Michael Kozakiewicz
7030 Bison Westland, MI 48185
Westland MI 48185. Memo: Red Wings
Make checks payable to: Michigan State Council
Memo Line – Red Wings
Use form below and mail along with your check to address above
or call 313-779-1348.
The Cathedral of St. Andrew Council #16199 hosted a C,F,& U Exemplification on Sunday February 12 at the Cathedral in Grand Rapids.
There were 5 candidates which received the honors of membership in the Third Degree.
The traveling team from the Lansing Diocese performed the Exemplification.
Pictured in the front row from left to right are Jamie Berlin, Danny Holzgen, Antonion Chan, Victor Prez and Ben Chisholm.
Back row Dan Reineke, Cliff Farr, Don Kill, Dave Ludkey, and Pat Donlan along with Father Bill Edens.
Faith & Family First
Rg 3 GR State Deputy Regional Representative
616-560-0479
The traveling St. Joseph Icon is currently making its way through the parishes of District #517. Council #7545 hosted the icon at St. Mary in Williamston this past week.
In the photo, Council #7545 Lecturer Deacon Steve Hilker leads the Saint Joseph prayer service on Tuesday, February 7.
The icon will next be hosted by Council 7816 at St. Thomas Aquinas in East Lansing followed by Council 10006 at St. Martha in Okemos.
DD #517 Kevin Duffy
DONOR SOUGHT
Roman McCormick needs a kidney. The high school freshman from Toledo has a genetic renal condition that has gotten worse through the years.
Today he’s in stage 4 kidney failure and has just 25% kidney function.
Roman, 15, is the son of Jamie Redd and Dan McCormick. His dad is originally from Monroe and is a 17-year member of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Council 8902, Knights of Columbus in Temperance. Roman’s family and the Temperance K of C are actively seeking a kidney donor.
Diagnosis and aftermath Roman was born with branchiootorenal, or BOR, syn[1]drome, a condition passed on from his dad, who is a carrier, but who doesn’t have the disease. “Roman was born with two divots on the side of his ears. That’s a sign,” Redd said. “He also had an opening in his chest when he was born. He had branchial in his ears and chest.” At just 6 months old, Roman had surgery to remove the cysts from the sides of his ears and chest. At first, doctors thought he just had the branchial portion of BOR, but then, during a routine checkup at 12 months, he was diagnosed with BOR syndrome. “This came with the malformation.
To learn more about getting tested and the possibility of becoming a kidney donor, call the University of Michigan Transplant Center at 734-615-2040.
“If you are committed to donating a kidney, they will take it. You would give your kidney to another child in need with your blood type, and their family/friend with Roman’s blood type would give their kidney to Roman.”
Find the Complete story in Monroe News - Family, Temperance Knights of Columbus seek kidney for boy (monroenews.com)
On Tuesday, February 7, District Deputy Harry Wisniewski Jr. presented the Detroit East November Council of the Month Award to St. Paul on the Lake Council #12121 in Grosse Pte. Farms to Grand Knight Richard Sandifer during the recent Council meeting.
On Tuesday, February 7, District Deputy Harry Wisniewski Jr. presented the Detroit East November Council of the Month Award to St. Paul on the Lake Council #12121 in Grosse Pte. Farms to Grand Knight Richard Sandifer during the recent Council meeting.
Congratulations to St. Paul on the Lake Council 12121!
State Deputy Regional Representative
Detroit Archdiocese East
St. Mary of the Hills Council #13950
Knights of Columbus
'Faith and Family First'
Two men were inducted into the Knights of Columbus, though a Charity, Unity and Fraternity Exemplification at Dr. Thomas A. Dooley Council #5492 in Clinton Twp. on Thursday February 9th.
left to right, Tom Jacket GK, John Massman, Douglas Atha and John Galindo PGK.
The two men attended their first meeting and were very impressed with all of the programs that where discussed.
Welcome John and Douglas
Fraternally and Vivat Jesus
Richard Shelt
State Deputy Regional Representative
Detroit Archdiocese West
734-812-0645
FAITH AND FAMILY
Coming to St. Kieran Catholic Church Shelby Twp, MI 48316. Informational Presentation by Deacon Bob Tremmel Tues, March 21, 2023, 7:00 p.m. Self-guided Exhibition featuring a full-length canvas replica of the Shroud and a large, crucified corpus.
See www.stkieran.org for more details.
Vivat Jesus,
Recorder
St. Kieran Council #13983
586-484-1904
Michigan family’s adoption of two children with special needs leads to a medical mission in war-torn Ukraine
Joe and Tiffany Ampe pray the rosary with 10 of their children and a family friend at their home in Gwinn, Mich. Photo by Bryan Rehmann
Joe Ampe and his wife, Tiffany, were raising a bustling family of eight children in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula when, in February 2018, they saw a photo of a Ukrainian newborn.
“My wife and I have always been open to children,” said Joe, who is a member of Msgr. Nolan B. McKevitt Council 689 in Marquette. “Our home was a foster home for a while and we wanted to remain open to the possibility of adoption.”
Tiffany was scrolling through an advocacy website for orphans with special needs when she caught sight of the baby.
“It was a picture of a newborn boy in a pink outfit of all things,” she recounted. “I showed it to Joe and he said, ‘You don’t just show me a picture of a baby and then close the laptop.’ And I said, ‘OK, does that mean you want to investigate adoption?’ He said, ‘Yes.’”
In August 2018, the couple traveled to Ukraine, adopting not only the boy, later named Cazimir, but also an infant named Henrik, both of whom have Down syndrome. By this time, Tiffany was also six and a half months pregnant with another child, Isadora.
“It was similar to what I imagine it must be like to have triplets,” Joe said. “We suddenly went from eight to 11 children, and the blessings never stopped pouring out.”
But this was just the beginning of the Ampe family’s connection to Ukraine. In April 2022, less than two months after the Russian invasion, Joe and his son Evan flew to Poland with essential goods for Henrik’s birth family and medical supplies for a besieged hospital. With fundraising and support from Joe’s brother Knights and the wider community, members of the Ampe family have since made four more trips to deliver urgently needed aid to Ukrainian hospitals struggling to serve victims of the war.
Read the entire article, Ties that Bind, from Columbian HERE
