Our KofC Grand Knight Hank Lindgren sent this picture of the renewed parish kitchen with this note:Here are two photos of a presentation made to Father Iura on February 6, 2017, by Allyn Temple, State Master of the Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree in Connecticut. In the photos with Father Iura are members of our parish Hank Lindgren (Grand Knight of our KofC Council) and Chris Komody.
The Knights of Columbus Blessed Andrey Sheptysky will hold its next regular meeting on Monday, January 16, 2017 at 7:00 P.M. in the church hall.
All men of parish are invited to attend to see what the Knights are all about and what can do for our parish.
Andrey Sheptytsky Council will meet in the church hall on Monday, December 5th at 7:00 p.m.
All men of the parish are invited to attend.
Andrey Sheptytsky Council will meet in the church hall on Monday, November 7th at 7:00 p.m.
All men of the parish are invited to attend.
John Burger, a member of our parish with his wife Angeles, is also a member of the parish Knights of Columbus Council. He submitted this presentation for our consideration:
I was invited to represent St. Michael’s and the Knights of Columbus at the Post-Sobor meeting regarding the Vibrant Parish, at St. Basil’s Seminary in Stamford, Oct. 8, 2016. Unfortunately, because of a family commitment, I could stay only for an hour at the beginning of the daylong program, which gathered pastors and parishioners from various parts of the Eparchy of Stamford. I was not able to deliver my presentation, so here it is, for your information:
I’d like to briefly introduce you to an initiative that we believe is making St. Michael’s more of a vibrant parish, and that is the new Knights of Columbus council there.
The Knights of Columbus is an international fraternity of Catholic men, committed to serving the Church on the local level and growing in holiness and becoming better Catholic men, husbands and fathers. Founded in New Haven in 1882, the Knights are now approaching 2 million members and have in recent years become active in several countries, including Ukraine.
His Beatitude Sviatoslav has said of this new development, of Knights councils becoming active in Ukraine: “The cherished and practiced ideals of the Knights of Columbus resonate deeply in the soul of a Church and a people experiencing a vivid resurrection in its spiritual and moral life.”
It wasn’t long after the establishment of the first new councils of Knights in Ukraine that they experienced a “baptism by fire,” so to speak: Members of a council that met just five blocks away from Maidan during the protests of 2013 set to work tending those wounded in clashes, providing food and warm clothes, interceding for those who were arrested, and assisting families of people who died. Knights also set up a prayer tent at Maidan to offer spiritual support.
In our own country, in recent years, the Knights have developed new councils in Eastern Catholic parishes, particularly Ukrainian parishes. In 2015, at the instigation of our pastor, Father Iura Godenciuc, St. Michael’s became the first Ukrainian parish in the state of Connecticut to initiate a K of C council. It didn’t take us long to decide what to call our group: Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Council.
Andrey Sheptytsky Council will meet in the church hall on Monday, October 3rd at 7:00 p.m.
All men of the parish are invited to attend.
