Category: Grand Knight

Canada’s recent victory over the United States in the NHL’s “4 Nations Face-Off” seemed like a moment of jubilant affirmation in a long winter of disbelief and worry. Truly, there are many challenges facing our country and people around the world today. But as a Priest remarked in response to my concerns, when times are…

As we approach the midpoint of the fraternal year, our successful membership drive and the ongoing work of our retention committee has caused me to reflect on why men join the Knights of Columbus, why some drift away, why some grow in their commitment to the principles of the Order, and what all this means…

On 26 July, following the 12:10 pm daily Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral and our presentation to Father Shawn Hughes of a large cheque in support of Veronica’s Veil Overnight Shelter and St Rita’s Drop-in Centre (please see Brother Troy Roques’ article on the Mary Campeau Memorial Charity Golf Tournament in this issue), Father Shawn…

Brother Knights of Council 9652, It has been an honour to serve the past two years as Grand Knight of this council. I want to thank each and every one of you for your support over the last two years. These past two years have been a blessing and I have learned a great deal…

Brother Knights, Tempus Fugit, Memento Mori. Time Flies, Remember Death. These are the watchwords of our order and since my last article they have featured prominently in our council and in my life. Brother’s Gerrard Tuepah, Val Dumais, Tim Seitz, and Gerry Steenburgh have all passed from this life into the eternal light of our…

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Quickly we will find ourselves approaching the season of Lent again. We seem to move rather quickly from celebrating the birth of our Lord and Saviour to His death on the cross. For me personally I find that at the beginning of Advent I have an…

Brother Knights, I would like to thank everyone for the successes of the last few months with our council. There were many things that we were involved in within our community. We had Brother Knights help at St Marguerite Bourgeoys with their welcome back event, a barbeque at St. Teresa of Calcutta school, a barbeque…

Brother Knights, I was recently reminded of something that I do not always think about – changes in assignments within our own clergy. Our parish recently underwent some changes with our Associate Pastor Father Paul Mawalla being reassigned to Perth and Father Michel Quenneville returning to our parish for the first time since being ordained…

Brothers, I would like to thank all of you for your support in my first year as Grand Knight. I have learned a lot in this last year. Just before I took on this role, our council had experimented with our first “event” in a few years, an after-mass coffee social, to knock the rust…