Affiliate Member Initiative - Training Session
Your council is invited to participate in the pilot phase of Supreme’s Affiliate Member Initiative (AMI). This initiative will enable the Supreme and State Councils to manage the engagement of members who are not engaged at the local council level.
The pilot phase, which runs from January 1 – 31, will allow you to recommend qualified members to be designated as Affiliates. When processed, these members will no longer appear on your roster. This will not be treated as a negative in your eligibility for council awards.
There will be a special briefing next Thursday, December 16, at 9:00 PM EST. Everything you need to know will be covered and the necessary resources will be distributed. If you are unable to attend, you may watch it later on demand. You may invite other officers from your council to attend by sending this registration link to them:
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Feast Day of Our Founder
August 13 is the recently designated Feast Day of Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus. Fr. McGivney was born on August 12, 1852 and died on August 14, 1890. I May 2020, the Vatican gave the official recognition of the miracle healing of an unborn child in the United States, who in 2015, was healed in utero of a life-threatening condition, to which prayers were offered by his family to Fr. McGivney.
For those that do not know about this great man, Fr. McGivney was the Irish-American priest who noticed the continual economic and personal struggles of Catholic families in his home town of New Haven, Connecticut, particularly those whose fathers had died leaving large families without a money earner. Also noticing the discrimination against Catholics throughout American society (then predominately of the Irish background), particularly in the areas of employment, he would be moved to take action.
As a result of these injustices, Fr. McGivney would found the Knights of Columbus in 1882, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organizations, with over 2 million members who are part of more than 16,000 local Knights of Columbus councils around the world (primarily in North America), including over 300 on college campuses.
Fr. McGivney also set up the Knights of Columbus insurance program, one of the largest life insurance programs in North America today.
Today, millions of Knights worldwide serve the wider community while defending Catholic traditions and values.
