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Pro-Life Newsletter

I hope this message finds you and your family continuing to immerse yourselves in the many joys of the Christmas Season and looking forward to the unfolding new year.


January is an especially busy time for engaging in Pro Life issues, especially the efforts to save the unborn.  Key events and associated details are listed below.  Please make sure everyone at every council is aware of and encouraged to participate in these life changing and life saving opportunities.  

    • Crosses in memory of the unborn:
      • Knights will gather at 9:00 am for marking out the space for placing over 3000 crosses on the front lawn at St. Mark's on Saturday, Jan. 14th.  
      • Parishioners from all parishes in the valley are invited to gather at 10:30 am the same day to begin erecting crosses.  St. Mark's will provide coffee, hot chocolate and donuts.  This project will conclude with the Angelus at the statue of Mary at noon. 
      • Crosses will be removed on Sunday, Jan. 29th at noon (following the 11 am mass.)
    • Life Mass - the annual mass at St. John's Cathedral begins at 11:00 am, on Saturday, Jan. 21.  
      • Bishop Driscoll will be celebrating and there may be several other priests concelebrating.  
      • Deacon Pierce Murphy (a brother knight) will be the homilist. 
      • St. John's Social Justice ministry will host a reception in their social hall following the March for Life Rally.
    • March for Life sponsored by Idaho Right to Life:
      • Begins at 1:00 pm on Saturday, Jan. 21 at Julia Davis Park and ends with the rally at the Capitol.  
      • 100 Signs will be distributed at the park and we hope to need a whole lot more.   Plan to bring signs or banners left over from a previous march.  

In addition, plans are in the works for a "Legacy Life Sunday" education and fundraising event to occur at 3-4 of the largest parishes in the valley (to start with) in the late January time frame.  More information will be provided as plans are finalized.

May God bless you and your families this new year and beyond!
 

News from the Knights of Columbus

News Releases issued by the Knights of Columbus News from the Knights of Columbus
  • Archbishop Lori Begins Leadership of America's Premier See

    Serving as main celebrant of a Pontifical Mass in the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, and joined by papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano and a number of American prelates, Archbishop William E. Lori, Supreme Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus, was installed May 16 as the 16th bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the nation’s Premier See.

  • Installation Homily Archdiocese of Baltimore Most Reverend William E. Lori, S.T.D.

    My thanks to the Cardinals who are with us today and, in a special way, to the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, thank you for representing our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, and please convey to him the sentiments of loving communion of all here today. My greetings and thanks to the many Archbishops and Bishops who join us today, as well as the priests, deacons, religious, and laity of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and honored guests from the Archdiocese of Washington, the Diocese of Bridgeport, my dear parents as well as family members and friends from Southern Indiana, and many other places, together with interfaith and ecumenical representatives, and those who represent both State and local government, welcome one and all!

  • Vespers Homily Basilica of the Assumption Most Reverend William E. Lori, S.T.D.

    Serving as main celebrant of a Pontifical Mass in the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, and joined by papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Archbishop William E. Lori, Supreme Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus, was installed May 16 as the 16th bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the nation’s Premier See.

  • Our Lady of Guadalupe in Poland

    Thousands of Catholics throughout Poland continue to gather for services held as part of the Order’s Our Lady of Guadalupe prayer program. The jurisdiction’s framed image is scheduled to visit all 39 Polish councils.

  • What Mexico Teaches Us

    The witness of Knights during the persecution of the Church in Mexico provides lessons as we defend religious freedom today