Pope John Paul I Council 7565
• Trooper, PA, 19403 •
Spiritual Opportunities
The Pertual Adoration Chapel located behind the convent at Visitation BVM is always open for your prayerful visits. Take time out from your hectic schedule to spend a few moments with the Our Lord. You will be suprised what peace of mind will come your way.
Spiritual Notes- by S.K. Father Richard Jacobs, O.S.A
This year's Knights of Columbus membership campaign highlights three oftentimes taken-for- granted gifts that we, as brother Knights, should celebrate each and every day. "Faith," "Family," and "Fraternity" are the most valuable and cherished gifts God has entrusted to us. By celebrating these gifts, our lives communicate our heartfelt conviction that, absent faith, family, and fraternity, life is more of a sterile existence than participation in an unfolding divine mystery. As our words and actions reflect that heartfelt conviction, the Knights of Columbus witness to the central role that faith, family, and fraternity should play in the life of every Catholic man.
This year's membership campaign, emphasizing the need to celebrate faith, family, and fraternity, focuses our attention and presents a great challenge. It focuses our attention upon who we are as Knights of Columbus and who we must become. The campaign also challenges us to be mindful of and to celebrate these gifts each and every day. Lacking this focus and failing to accept the challenge, our lives as brother Knights may be more like a mausoleum -- beautiful to behold on the outside but full of dead bones within. And, our fraternity will then neither interest nor motivate other men to join us in being of service to the Church, in protecting and promoting strong families, and joining in solidarity as brother Knights and families who promote the New Evangelization.
Jesus told us that "the harvest is plenty but laborers are few." There are many Catholic men yearning to open their lives to the unfolding mystery of the divine than to plod along in a sterile existence.
They are looking to mature in adult faith and desire spiritual direction. They also want to be fathers who protect and promote strong families, beginning first with their own. Lastly, they seek companions who will provide the solidarity they need to support them in their daily endeavors as well as to challenge them to bring the message of faith, family, and fraternity to the world.
The year's membership campaign is a challenge to "make ourselves anew," as St. Paul said to the Galatians, calling this "the only important thing." The Knights of Columbus have a great deal to offer to Catholic men in this generation. The challenge is to allow faith, family, and fraternity to make ourselves anew so that we might witness powerfully to these gifts fraternity. Then, and only then, can we join the Lord in harvesting new brother Knights.
