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The Bishop Fitzgerald Council has produced this refrigerator magnet to help keep this Lenten season prominent to you and your family.

Please email chancellor@fitzknights.org to order for your group or council.

Brother Knights,

It is that time of the year for the “Keep Christ in Christmas” promotion and fundraiser. A table will be set up in the narthex this weekend and next weekend after all the Masses.

Thank you to those who have already signed up for a Mass. The list of volunteers is attached. There is currently no one signed up for the 5:00pm SUNDAY Mass either weekend. It would also be preferable to have at least two Knights after each Mass, if possible.

Remember: this was the very first fundraiser and activity that our council held after it’s formation two years ago, and it is an important reminder to our parish community to remember what Christmas is really about–a remembrance and celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Faithfully yours,

Bob LeMay,
Community Committee Chairman
Bishop James E. Fitzgerald Knights of Columbus council #14649

All FitzKnights, and anyone thinking of joining our council, are encouraged to meet on Tuesday November 16th at Another Round in Downers Grove at 7:30pm.

email Officers@FitzKnights.org for further details.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, JUNE 8, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Knights of Columbus are reporting that last year’s charitable contributions broke all previous records, by some $1 million.

In 2009, donations from the organization totaled $151,105,867, $1 million more than the previous year. The organization’s Supreme Council gave $34,627,530 of this total, and $116,477,971 was contributed by the state and local affiliates. As well, the organization gave over 69 million hours of volunteer work to charitable causes, which was some 500,000 more than the previous year. About 228,000 of these hours were given to Habitat for Humanity programs.

Supreme Knight Carl Anderson reported these results of the Catholic fraternal organization’s annual survey in a presentation to its leaders at the international headquarters in New Haven.

He noted that the Knights of Columbus held over 413,000 blood donations last year. Looking at the cumulative figures, Anderson stated that the organization has given more than $1.367 billion to charity over the past decade. In that time period, an estimated 640 million hours of volunteer service were given to charity.

The Knights of Columbus, founded by Father Michael McGivney in 1882, has some 1.8 million lay members worldwide working in North and Central America, the Philippines, Guam, the Caribbean islands, and Poland.