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MANITOBA NEWS
Manitoba State Council  October, 2014
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most councils participate in. Remember to complete the
“Food for Families” report.
State Deputy’s
During the month of October all councils were
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asked to hold a church drive. If you have completed
your church drive, please report results to your District
Paul Dupré
Deputy. If you haven’t had a church drive, please
consider holding one this month!
A wonderful new program was launched in
October. All Grand Knights should have received the
booklet “Building the Domestic Church – The Family
Fully Alive”. This program will help both our families
trength, ntegrity,
idelity and parishes grow in the faith. This program will help
Knights and their families prepare for the 8th World
We are already starting the fifth month of the Meeting of Families to be held next year in
Philadelphia. It offers opportunities for daily prayer,
2014-2015 Columbian Year. During the last three
scripture reading, charitable projects and social activities
weeks we have travelled throughout the Province
and have seen and heard of some of the good works that can be done together as a family. I would ask all
councils to please implement this great program in your
being accomplished by our councils in Manitoba.
Our regional seminars are now finished and I would parishes. If you haven’t started the program in October,
start with the November activities!
like to thank you for your hospitality and
Recruiting new members seems to have taken a
fraternalism during our visits. We would also like to
“back seat” this year. Intake of new members is not
thank you for taking the time away from your
families to attend the seminars. I hope that you will happening. During September only 4 new members
were welcomed into our order and October has been
make use of the information provided. New
very slow. Please schedule first degrees. Remember
recruitment tools were launched which I hope will
recruitment is not about numbers but a matter of
be utilized. Anyone who missed the seminars can
survival for our councils. Many councils are having
contact their District Deputy or a member of the
difficulty filling positions on their executives. Last year
State Board to get the information. Some of the
information can also be found on the State Website there were 54 councils that didn`t recruit one new
member. Please brothers your councils have to recruit,
www.manitobastatecouncil.ca
recruit, recruit!
While traveling throughout the Province we
All the District Deputies should be asking a
heard of some wonderful programs conducted by
council in their district (every month) to schedule a first
councils. This is a reminder to write up a report on
any activities and events held by your council. Our degree. All councils in the district should then be
attempting to recruit a new member for the degree.
Program Director and his team will be pleased to
Councils should also be working towards
assist you in preparing reports. Do not wait until the
qualifying for STAR COUNCIL. Grand Knights should
end of the year to do this; write them up as you
complete an activity. As we approach winter now is ensure that all reports are submitted in a timely manner.
the time for councils to consider ordering coats for To be eligible to earn the Star Council Award, a council
children needing warm clothing. The order form is must qualify for the Father McGivney, Founder's, and
Columbian awards.
available on the MB Website. Collecting and
distributing food to needy families is an activity
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To qualify for these awards, a council must have
submitted:
Survey of Fraternal Activity (#1728) -Service
Program Personnel Report (#365).
Other eligibility requirements are:
Complete and submit the Columbian Award
Application (SP7) Completed applications must
reach the Supreme Council office by June 30.
Manitoba should have at least 22 Star Councils this
fraternal year.
We should all be evaluating the results achieved to
date and what actions we can do to make the year a
success!
Vivat Jesus!
State Chaplain’s
Message
We are all called to proclaim the Gospel to those around
us through our lives each day, and the privileged place
for most of us to do so is within our own families. St.
John Paul II said, “The family has the mission to guard,
reveal and communicate love.”
In fulfilling this
mission, the Christian family is itself called to be an
image of the loving communion that exists among the
three Persons of the Trinity.
The Catholic family is able to reveal and communicate
this love in a special way because it is founded upon
sacramental marriage. Christian spouses first receive
this love as a divine gift, but they also receive this love
as a task. Their task to live and communicate this love
first to each other and their children and then to others is
at the center of the family’s mission in the world.
Recently, Pope Francis reminded us that Christian
families “are the domestic church where Jesus grows in
the love of a married couple, in the lives of their
children.” The family stands at the heart of the
Church’s mission of evangelization. Strong, faith-filled,
loving families, is the way the Church is evangelized
and also the way the Church engages in evangelization.
Dear brother Knights in Christ, When Father McGivney founded the Knights of
Columbus in 1882, he was seeking to respond in both a
temporal and spiritual way to the crisis in family life
With October - month of the Rosary - which is affecting Catholics of his time. In our day, the Knights,
quickly passing, the Columbian year is unfolding at faithful to our founder’s initiative, still strive to respond
a good pace. Soon it will be Halloween! Then in to the difficulties and challenges which our Catholic
November we will remember and pray for our families presently face.
faithful departed (brother knights, family members,
friends…) And already, we will have in mind Throughout this Columbian year, as we cultivate the
virtues of quiet strength, integrity and fidelity, may we
Christmas and the festive season!
strive to build-up our families and deepen their
At the beginning of October, the Knights of relationship with the Lord. In this initiative, let us rely
Columbus launched a yearlong, multi-dimensional in a special way on the Holy Family and make our own
program designed to help families and councils the prayer of St. John Paul II that “every family may
prepare for the 8th World Meeting of Families, to be generously make its own contribution to the coming of
held in Philadelphia (Sept. 22-27, 2015). Titled his kingdom in the world,” and “through the intercession
“Building the Domestic Church : The Family of the Holy Family of Nazareth, the Church may
Fully Alive”, this initiative coincided with the synod fruitfully carry out her worldwide mission in the family
of bishops on the family held in Rome (October 5- and through the family.”
16). The purpose of this program is to strengthen
families so they can more fully realize their mission
to be authentic domestic churches through daily
prayer, catechesis and Scripture reading, as well as
through monthly charitable and volunteer project
they can do as a family.
Brothers in faith, may we walk in the footsteps of Christ
and of his faithful follower, Father Michael McGivney.
Dear brother Knights, as we continue our Columbian
year, may God bless you and your families, and render
fruitful your many works for his greater glory.
Vivat Jesus! Father René E. Chartier
Chers frères chevaliers,
Avec octobre - le mois du Rosaire - qui s’envole,
l’année colombienne se poursuit. Bientôt ce sera
l’Halloween! Ensuite en novembre on se souviendra
et on priera pour nos fidèles défunts et défuntes
(frères chevaliers, parents, amis…) Et déjà, on aura
en tête Noël et le temps des fêtes!
façon dont l’Église est évangélisée et aussi la façon dont
l’Église s’engage dans l’évangélisation.
Lorsque l’abbé McGivney fonda les Chevaliers de
Colomb en 1882, il cherchait à adresser de façon
temporelle et spirituelle la crise qui affectait la vie
familiale des catholiques de son temps. De nos jours,
les chevaliers, fidèles à l’initiative de leur fondateur,
travaillent toujours à répondre aux difficultés et aux
En début octobre, les Chevaliers de Colomb, défis qui assaillent présentement face nos familles
lancèrent un programme multidimensionnel qui se catholiques.
déploiera sur un an. Ce programme a été conçu pour
aider nos familles et nos conseils à se préparer pour En cette année colombienne, tout en cultivant les vertus
la 8e Rencontre mondiale des familles qui aura lieu de la force, l’intégrité et la fidélité, travaillons à affermir
du 22 au 27 septembre 2015, à Philadelphie. nos familles et à approfondir leur relation avec le
Intitulée « Construire l’Église domestique : la Seigneur. Tournons-nous aussi d’une façon spéciale
famille pleinement vivante », cette initiative, qui vers la Sainte Famille et faisons nôtre la prière de Saint
coïncida avec le synode des évêques sur la famille Jean- Paul II pour que « chaque famille puisse
qui se déroulera à Rome (5-16 octobre), aidera nos généreusement apporter sa propre contribution à la
familles à embrasser pleinement leur mission d’être venue de son royaume dans le monde » et que, « par
d’authentiques églises domestiques par la prière l’intercession de la Sainte Famille de Nazareth, l’Église
quotidienne, la catéchèse et la lecture de l’Écriture, puisse avec fruit réaliser sa mission mondiale dans la
et par des projets mensuels d’œuvres caritatives et famille et par la famille ».
de bénévolat qu’ils peuvent faire en famille.
Frères dans la Foi, emboîtons les pas de Jésus et de son
Nous sommes tous appelés à « proclamer » fidèle disciple l’abbé Michael McGivney. Chers frères
l’Évangile aux gens qui nous entourent chaque jour chevaliers, poursuivons l’année colombienne et que le
à travers nos vies et, le lieu privilégié pour faire cela, Seigneur vous bénisse, vous et vos familles, et rende
pour la plupart d’entre nous, est au sein de nos fructueux vos travaux pour sa plus grande gloire.
propres familles. Saint Jean-Paul II a dit, « La
famille a la mission de garder, révéler et
communiquer l’amour ». En vivant cette mission, la Vivat Jesus! L’abbé René E. Chartier
famille chrétienne est elle-même appelée à être une
image de la communion d’amour qui existe entre les
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trois personnes de la Trinité.
November 8 - Fourth Degree Exemplification
En effet, la famille chrétienne est capable de révéler ICCD Early Bird draw - January 24
et communiquer cet amour d’une manière State Curling Bonspiel - April 17-19
extraordinaire car elle est fondée sur le mariage ICCD Major Draw - April 18
sacramentel. Les époux chrétiens reçoivent d’abord
cet amour comme don divin – mais ils reçoivent
aussi cet amour comme tâche. Leur tâche de vivre et
“One Member Per Council Per Month”
communiquer cet amour, premièrement entre eux et
leurs enfants et, ensuite, aux autres autour d’eux, est
au centre de la mission familiale dans le monde.
Upcoming Second and Third Degrees
Récemment, le pape François nous rappelait que les November 15 - La Broquerie 4595 (French)
familles chrétiennes « sont l’église domestique où November 16 - St. Lawrence Council 7071
Jésus grandit dans l’amour du couple marié, dans les November 22 - St. Peter’s 12319
vies de leurs enfants ». La famille se tient au cœur January 17 - A&J Kulawy 9020
de la mission d’évangélisation de l’Église. Des February 28 - Our Lady of the Prairie 5264
familles qui vivent leur foi et qui s’aiment, c’est la
Parade on November 15.
Knights of
Columbus Fourth Degree
Manitoba District
Cardinal McGuigan
Province
There is no need to delay the advancement to the Fourth
Degree level. The next opportunity is just around the
corner. On the morning of November 8, at the St. John
Brebeuf Church in Winnipeg, several Third Degree
Knights will be exemplified to the Fourth Degree
Knighthood. Yes, there is still time to fill your
application for this memorable and dignifying event; at
a very reasonable cost. Brother Knights, come to join us;
you will never regret you did.
Vivat Jesus!
The Fourth Degree is the highest level of the
Knights of Columbus. It is only a natural
Karel Moravek
progression of the full Knighthood process. Truly
Master
devoted Knights are joining the Fourth Degree
sooner or later in their lives. The Fourth Degree
widens our view on the mission we Knights have to
fulfil. We were given a lesson on Charity in the First
Degree; we have realized the importance of unity in
our Order in the Second Degree, the need for
Fraternity in the Third Degree and (not of less
significance) our call for Patriotism in the Fourth
Degree.
First Degrees
November 13, 2014
December 11, 2014
January 22, 2015
February 12, 2015
March 12, 2015
April 9, 2015
May 14, 2015
June 11, 2015
What is the mission of our Order? It is to embrace
all four components: charity, unity, fraternity and
patriotism. We aim to serve the community and our
church, strengthen our Catholic faith, to support our
priests and to promote active citizenship and love for
our country. One example would be to encourage All above first degrees will be held at the Manitoba
eligible citizens to vote in the municipal, provincial State office at 7:00 pm.
and federal election.
By becoming Fourth Degree Knights, we don’t
cease to be Third Degree Knights. On the contrary,
we are always proud members of the Knights of
Columbus Order, with our main concern for our Thank you Knights of Columbus in Manitoba.
Councils, Districts and the Manitoba State. Fourth (From one of the recipients in Lyviv, Ukraine.)
and Third Degree members enhance each other’s
activities, cooperate with program executions and
participate together in various events. Furthermore,
when we appear in Regalia in public, our Order is
being recognized and in most cases apprized. Along
with Brother Knights and their families, will
commemorate the Remembrance Day on November
11 at the St. Joseph’s Ukrainian Church in Winnipeg
and will participate in Regalia at the Santa Claus