MANITOBA NEWS Manitoba State Council  October, 2014 L01-1311 Portage Avenue  Winnipeg MB R3G 0V3 mbstkc@mts.net  www.manitobastatecouncil.ca T: (204) 663-8022  F: (204) 669-2477  ICCD line: (204) 669-7947 most councils participate in. Remember to complete the “Food for Families” report. State Deputy’s During the month of October all councils were Message 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 S I F 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 Calendar of Events 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