Newsletter: November 2020

In This Issue:

• Message from our Worthy Grand Knight
• Meeting Hall Clean Up
• Blessed Mother Statue Refurbishing Fundraiser
• Meeting Minutes for November 5th, 2020
• Order Wide News: Blessed Michael McGivney, Programs, and Free Year membership
• Diocesan News
• Upcoming Events

Message:

OUR MISSION 

We are Catholic men building a bridge back to faith. There is much good and necessary work to be done in this world, and that's what Knights do every day. Thank you to my brothers for your devotion to our wonderful order!

God Bless,

Worthy Grand Knight Neal Cullen

Clean Up for New Meeting Hall

We started the process of moving into our new hall. Here are a few photos of the new hall.

We are offering two dates for us to get together for the cleaning and painting of our new hall. Please let Neal Cullen know if any of these dates work. If they are bad dates please offer another suggested date.
Wednesday night
November 18th at 5:30 till TBD
Saturday, November 21st, 9 am bagels and coffee provided may be provided
Let Neal Cullen know your thoughts

Stay posted for our dedication date.

Blessed Mother Statue Refurbishing Fundraiser

Do you know someone who has a Marian statue that could better show the world the beauty and glory of Mary? Assumption 3397 is refurbishing Marian statues as a fundraiser for the Council. Please contact Jim at 856-630-1263 for more information.

Meeting Minutes

Meeting Highlights From November 5th, 2020 business meeting. In the Good of the Order, we reflected on the meaning of the upcoming Advent season. Our council discussed potential activities and programs for the Advent season, both personal reflection and service for our parish. Here are compiled notes from Good of the Order:

• The goal of this Good of the Order was to inspire our council's pursuit of programs and activities for the Advent season as well as prepare for a deeper discussion with our guest speaker at the December meeting.
•  Brothers shared what the Advent season means to them and how it has been celebrated in the past.
• We watched two videos on Advent one related to spiritual life and the other a challenge to oneself this Advent. A third video is included in this email.
• Brother Mike Walsh suggested listening to the Talking Catholic Podcast episode "Advent - Fr. Robert Sinatra" which you can listen to online or with Apple podcast or similar platform.

The following programs and activities were discussed as potential initiatives:

• Posada: See this program for more information. The Hispanic community has done this in the past. We would like to support this and have it be Bilingual.
• Retreat for Brother Knights: A retreat to grow the faith and spiritual life of our brother Knights. We moved to start a committee for this. Stay tuned for more information.
• Keep Christ In Christmas (KCIC): We may help judge the KCIC poster competition with the Clayton council. We may also offer KCIC items at St. Bridgets UP.
• We would like to have prayer cards available at the church so parishioners can learn more about the KofC as well as our council.

We also discussed  the new Hall work (see Clean up for new meeting hall)

Download the November business meeting minutes to review more meeting details.

Order Wide News

Blessed Michael McGivney 

Columbia Special Issue: Blessed Michael McGivney 

The November 2020 issue of Columbia honors the life and legacy of our founder, Blessed Michael McGivney. It features an updated design and includes the story of the miraculous healing attributed to Father McGivney’s intercession, which paved the way for his beatification on Oct. 31. This commemorative issue can be read and easily shared online at kofc.org/columbia. Invite your friends, neighbors and prospective members to read about the Order’s founder — and America’s newest Blessed.

Community: Coats for Kids

Knights step into the breach in their communities to ensure that no child goes without a coat during those cold winter months. For more information on how your council can help provide coats to those children in need, please visit kofc.org/coats. 

Life: March for Life

Step into the breach and start planning for the March for Life near you by visiting marchforlife.org or kofc.org/march for important updates and resources.

Free Year membership

Limited Time Offer! Free Online Membership

Invite men to join online for free using the promo code MCGIVNEY2020. We all know men who know about the Knights but haven't stepped into the breach and joined our ranks yet. Share the news of our Founder's beatification and offer them free online membership!

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Diocesan News

To learn more about what is going on in Camden Diocese check out https://www.camdendiocese.org/

Upcoming Events

About Assumption Council 3397 

Thanks to the efforts of Father Michael J. McGivney, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s Church in New Haven and some of his parishioners, the Connecticut state legislature on March 29, 1882, officially chartered the Knights of Columbus as a fraternal benefit society.  

Assumption 3397 chartered January 07, 1951. The Order is still true to its founding principles of charity, unity, and fraternity. Assumption 3397 was formed to render aid and assistance to sick, disabled, and poverty-stricken parishioners of St. Bridget’s along with our council’s members and their families. Social and intellectual fellowship is promoted among members and their families through educational, charitable, religious, and public relief works.  

Our membership stays strong with growth up to 67 members with a strong core of devoted catholic brothers living the mission of Father McGivney. Our order is stronger during these trying times than ever before. As you can witness in our weekly mass, parish events, donations on a community and larger level, during trying times, we come together in unity for the betterment of each other.  

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