Are You a Knight of Columbus?

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RCIAGraduate said:
Also, do you think the Knights (idea that’s a stretch) can work on going back tot heir original charism
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The Knights are not a religious order. They don’t have a “charism” to which they are called.
The Knights are a service organization and can adapt their mission to the changing needs of society.
 
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Not a bad idea. It will help with hospital bills when I inevitably get stabbed during said street fights.
 
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Fourth Degree here. I’ve been a member for almost 10 years. Not masonic in any way, shape, or form. It is a good organization which acts in accord with Church teachings. I have noticed that there is a difference in Councils based on how long they have been in existence.
Newer Councils are more dynamic. The members are more energized and engaged in doing acts of charity and service. Often times their entire families are involved in activities. Pretty cool.
In my area, older Councils tend to turn into more of a Men’s Club. Often times, cliques form and it is difficult for new men to “fit in” with those cliques. Infighting and ‘politicking’ start to seep in and a general apathy develops. It also becomes more difficult to engage members in Council activities due to this.
This is only my personal experience in the area I live in. It is a great organization when its members are engaged.
 
I’ve been a night for two years and it’s a good service organization that supports local pro-life charities, a local shelter, local scholarships, helps with many church projects, and is a go to place for families needing assistance if an unexpected financial emergency occurs. It is somewhat cliquish, so I haven’t gone beyond first degree. But I enjoy what I do participate in.
It is in no way part of the masons.
 
Well, in the council that I belong to the majority are 65 plus. Now I used to be the baby at 44 years of age but we recently got two new members who are much younger than me Yay, I am no longer the baby!!! Haha.

By the way I’m a 4th Degree Knight in Michigan.
 
Yes we got two new guys, younger than me. I was the baby at 44y in my council.

I think the age of the members probably have more to do with location and parish. College have young members and parishes like Mine have older members because there are not a lot of young guys at my Church. We are affiliated with a bigger Catholic Church so a lot of the younger Knights belong to the council over at the main Church.
 
In December we added 4 new guys all (finally) younger than me…3 in early 20’s, 1 in 30’s…and had a 5th guy there who was a 1st there while his son did 1st + 2nd…so 4 totally new thru 2nd, 1 up from 1st to 2and.

It seems now they can do 1 thru 3 at same ceremony…
Interested to see how that change works out.
 
I have been a Knight for a little over 25 years.

While I certainly take exception with some of the things Supreme insists upon, I am not a Knight because of Supreme. I am a Knight because we do a lot of good in our community, both general and Church community.

Supreme should stick to selling their insurance and leave our local Councils alone IMO.
 
RCIAGraduate said:
Congrats! Maybe the next step would be building brick and mortar operations (or just supporting them)?
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I suspect that we can make a bigger difference with contributions at the edge like the machines, rather than trying to bear the entire budget for an agency.
RCIAGraduate said:
How’s the Pro Life Movement in Nevada, if you don’t mind me taking a political turn for this moment, I heard the GOP gave up that on their platform (well officially) so that seemed discouraging?
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A large active group, and many activities. More detail would end up being too partisan these days.

It used to be the case that the normal party lines were rather blurred here: when I moved here, the governor was a pro-live democrat that had beaten a pro-choice republican . . .

(and then we had the curiously deadlocked assembly one year, as they had a two vote majority. They hadn’t looked farther on one, apparently, than that she had been a single mother on welfare. It turns out that she had worked to get off of that and become successful, thought that welfare should be temporary rather than open-ended, with the purpose of getting people back on their feet, and . . [drumroll] . . . also happened to be a member of the John Birch Society 🤣 . . . I had a chance to talk to her a year or two later. She recounted the assembly speaker [who I also knew] shouting at her, asking why she didn’t just become a republican. She shouted back “Because they raise taxes too!” 🤣 😆])
RCIAGraduate said:
I know this is spreading doom and gloom but is there going to be a generational bottleneck for the Knights (not I know would keenly know (non practicing) but aren’t a lot of members rather old)
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The last figure I heard (several years ago) was that the KofC was the only fraternal organization that was actually growing rather than shrinking.
FrancisFan43 said:
I can’t spoil the details of what happens during the degree ceremonies,
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As of last month, that’s changed. Degrees can now be open to family, the parish, etc. I think there was one here last weekend after Mass at a parish in which the first three were conferred in sequence . . .(here, we historically did the second and third together).

For a year or two, it’s been possible to join online without taking the first degree (this was rolled out a state or two at a time over a year or so).
 
Haha! Well when you get to 4th degree you can join the Color Gaurd and get a cool sword 😉

I’m 4th degree.
 
I obviously did 1st degree on its own. Then about a year later I did 2&3, then not long after 4 degree. Yes they have been making some changes, like now I believe the degree are open to the public to watch?
 
I like that the degrees are open to the public. It would help alot disspell the lies and misinformation floating around about the Knights. Sure it may take away from the luster and mystery, but it won’t be taking away much. What matters, imo, is that it reinforces Church teaching and makes us all want to dive deeper in our faith.
 
Love it. It all makes sense now…

We’re through the looking glass people!
 
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