Become A Knight

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 23:34

Written by Walt Atzert

Imagine being part of an organization that fills your heart and your mind with the joy of giving to others and the feeling that comes with making a difference.

Knights are Catholic men, 18 years of age and older, who are committed to making their community a better place, while supporting their Church. Being a Knight is more than camaraderie; it is being involved with your community; it is supporting your local Catholic Church, while enhancing your own faith; it is about protecting and enhancing your family life. To hear more, contact our Recruitment Commitee.

Ted Dixon - Membership Director
Tony Caruso - Recruitment/Retention Committees
Alex Sobtzak - Recruitment/Retention Committees
John Steele - Recruitment/Retention Committees
Chris Smoke - Retention Committee

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• Participate annually in the Order’s RSVP (vocation) support for seminarians program.vContributing at least $500.00 to each identified seminarian. Our most recent support went to Fathers Dominic Corona and Dayan Machado who were ordained into the priesthood on May 15, 2010.
• Keep Christ in Christmas. Providing religious Christmas card sales to parishioners as a fund raiser for the RSVP program.
• Providing Catholic Bibles to RCIA members.
• Provided funding support for the St. Mary Movie Ministry.
• Raised funds and purchased a Marian Chasuble for St. Mary Parish.

• Group outings have included our most recent collaboration with Fourth Degree Knights in their cruises to the Caribbean, participation in the Knights’ Day at the Ballpark, attending Lightning Hockey games.
• Numerous dinner/dances including the “Red, White and Blue” salute to veterans to foster the ideals of fraternalism. Christmas cookie exchanges and sing-along parties along with pot-luck gatherings for special occasions.
• Sponsor the Florida Bloodmobile visits to St. Mary Church achieving more that 148 pints of life-saving blood donated in 2009.

• Pro-life - Our council has erected a memorial remembering all the innocent victims of abortion. The statue located in the St. Mary Church gazebo was dedicated on December 8, 2004. It is a ‘one of a kind’ depiction of The Visitation of Mary and Elizabeth and is a testament to how our Knights came together and raised more than $17,000 in less than 9 months to achieve our memorial to the unborn.
• Adopt-a-Road - Council members gather at the call of our leader and pick up trash along the designated roadway; i.e. North Boulevard. Our council has been involved in this program since the first year of existence.

• The council recognizes every month a Knight of the Month and Knight Family of the month for their contributions to the council and Order. Members are presented with a certificate during ceremonials held at business meetings.
• We remember our deceased brothers by dedicating a memorial Mass in November and praying for them at each council meeting.
• Joined with our brothers of the Fourth Degree, we have conducted a family picnic and help with the parish’s annual family picnic and Marian Festival in January.
• Conduct a annual Golf Tournament open to male and female golfers. This event has become one of the Council’s biggest fund raisers. Attendance has grown over its 13 years of existence.
• Provide carnations to “Moms” on Mother’s Day.

• Gather school supplies and backpacks for distribution at the Santa Maria Mision.
• Support Faith Formation Program through funds and/or assisting in providing refreshment during youth activities.

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