FYI Father Clem Flaherty our parish priest asked me yesterday at Mass if we could have as many knights as possible attend this Red Wednesday prayer session at St Pius X church on Wednesday November 21/18 at 7 PM as this event is very much supported by all Knights world wide. Please see below the history on this sent to me by Monsignor Puddister.
Monsignor Puddister and Father Earl Smith too would like to see as many knights in attendance as possible. We will have a knight in our council do one of the readings at this prayer session. All knights are asked to wear their baldrics so parishioners from our zone recognize our knights.
Our general meeting as you have probably figured out is on the same night. Father Flaherty acknowledged this and told me that the prayer session ends at 7:45 PM. So I said how about we substitute our normal rosary with the prayer session and start our general meeting at 8 PM and social at 9 PM. Father Clem was delighted and appreciated this compromise as he would like to attend both.
I spoke with some of our fellow knights this morning asking if the St Pius X Parish Hall is available we could go right from the church into St Pius X parish Hall for our general meeting as it would be more convenient. Also convenient for our padre Father Bill Browne who lives at the residence for St Pius X parish. All said yes by all means. I called father Earl Smith. He checked it out and said it is available and he also said he was delighted to have our knights attend the prayer session and avail of St Pius X parish Hall. So a great spirit of partnerships in our zone!!
I will have Peter Whittle get this email message out to all of our members via email and also as advised by some of our fellow Knights this morning put a sign up on the door at St Paul’s church Wednesday evening letting anyone who misses the email to go to St Pius X Church for prayer session at 7 PM and general meeting at 8 PM in St Pius X parish Hall and social to follow at 9 PM. I also ask all knights to call your brother knights to make sure they know the schedule for this coming Wednesday and the change in venue for our general meeting and social.
Peter will also email out the minutes of the last general meeting in October prior to Wednesday.
Please see the following from Monsignor Puddister:
Red Wednesday is observed on the third Wednesday of November as a day of prayer for persecuted Christians.
The Christian faith has been present in the Near and Middle East since the second third centuries. In most places there, they are a minority group. In recent years, Christians have been persecuted and murdered because of their religion by Islamic terrorist groups such as ISIS in Iraq, Syria and Libya. Also, churches have been attacked, vandalized and burned in Pakistan. Christians in Egypt have experienced discrimination.
The Knights of Columbus is actively engaged in calling attention in western countries to this persecution, and has lobbied the United States government to address this issue with countries where such persecution is occurring. This issue was the subject of a cover story in COLUMBIA about a year ago.
It would be appropriate for Knights to attend the prayer service for persecuted Christians at St. Pius X church this Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. This event is sponsored by the St. John’s East area parishes: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Paul’s, Mary Queen of Peace and St. Pius X.
Thank you all.
Look forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday November 21/18 at 7 PM at St Pius X Church and then Parish Hall after prayer session.
Cheers!
Gerry
WGK
