JULY 28, 2022 - INSTALLATION OF COUNCIL 7121 OFFICERS
FOR THE 2022-2023 FRATERNAL YEAR
From front to back, the tree of the cross is composed of GK Brian Foy, DGK Tom Kelly, Chancellor Dennis Tucker, Financial Secretary Rick Cozby, Trustees Dave Morrison, Bill Remy, and Tom Alexander, Lecturer John Alexander, Inside Guard Steve Barthelmes, and Outside Guard Kevin Dooner. Forming the arm of the cross, left to right, is Treasurer Tim Buckley (excused), Advocate Chuck Nitsch (stand-in Ken Scher), FS Rick Cozby in the center, Recorder Frank Merenda, and Warden Pat Petrick
AUGUST 19, 2021 - INSTALLATION OF COUNCIL 7121 OFFICERS
FOR THE 2021-2022 FRATERNAL YEAR
Officers for Fraternal Year 2021-22, left-to-right: Trustee/PGK Bill Remy, Inside Guard Jim McIlhenney, Trustee Dave Look, Advocate Chuck Nitsch, Warden Pat Petrick, GK Brian Foy, Chaplain Fr. Tim Lindenfelser, Recorder Kevin Monroe, Chancellor Dennis Tucker, DGK Tom Kelly, Treasurer Tim Buckley, Financial Secretary Rick Cozby, Bob Wesselman (standing in for Trustee Tom Alexander, not present), and Outside Guard Anthony Iafrate.
AUGUST 13 – FEAST DAY OF BLESSED MICHAEL McGIVNEY
The Knights of Columbus honored their founder, Blessed Father Michael J. McGivney, by attending the 9 AM Mass as a group on Friday Aug. 13, the liturgical memorial observed annually on the day in-between his birth (Aug. 12) and death (Aug. 14). In March 2008, Pope Benedict XVI declared Father McGivney “a Venerable Servant of God,” citing the “remarkable accomplishment of that exemplary American priest” in founding the Knights of Columbus in 1882. On October 31, 2020, Pope Francis declared him "Blessed".
The statue of Father McGivney in the narthex was obtained through the efforts of the late Brother Knight John Leahy, and dedicated August 18, 2013. Click here to read the report of the dedication (left) which appeared in the St. Augustine Record on August 30, 2013.
Below: some of the Knights who hung around after Mass for a photo-op in front of Fr. McGivney’s statue. Left to right: GK Brian Foy, PGK Bill Remy, Ed O'Sullivan, Fr. Tim, Rick Cozby, Tim Buckley, and Dave Look.
COUNCIL RECEIVES AWARD AT STATE CONVENTION
Bishop Verot Assembly 0166 Faithful Navigator Mac McGowan receives the Bronze Sponsor Award from the state Ultrasound Initiative for the Assembly and all four councils in District 16 for our donations to provide a new ultrasound machine for St. Gerard Campus. The awards were presented to Mac by General State Programs Director Lorenzo Rodriguez in an awards ceremony at the Florida State Convention held in Orlando May 28-29, 2021
