Building Domestic Church
Our Mission to Build the Domestic Church and Strengthen Parish Life
 Supreme Knight's Message on Building Domestic Church
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Worthy State Deputy:
Please click HERE to review the current edition of the District Deputy Reminder and I call your attention to the article titled "Columbian Award Changes for the 2016-2017 Fraternal Year." The article details changes to the Columbian Award in light of the Building the Domestic Church While Strengthening Our Parish initiative. Please ensure that this change is promoted to all councils in your jurisdiction. A paper copy of the updated Columbian Award Application (#SP-7) will be mailed to all councils with a cover letter explaining the change, which is effective this fraternal year.
Fraternally,
David J. Nowak, FDD, PGK
Deputy Director, Fraternal Mission Department
Supreme Council
Knights of Columbus
203-752-4620
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As we begin to implement the Building the Domestic Church While Strengthening Our Parish initiative announced at the Midyear Membership Meeting in San Antonio, I want to advise you of two new related activities that will be announced in my February Columbia column.
First, the Supreme Chaplain has composed a Consecration to the Holy Family. A new prayer card featuring this consecration is being developed and samples will be sent to you in the coming weeks.
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As we continue Implement the Building the Domestic Church While Strengthening Parish Initiative, am writing to ask every State Council to expand our Holy Family 
Prayer Program by hosting a diocesan-wide "Holy Family Celebration.
These celebrations should be based on the existing, rosary-based Holy Family Prayer Program (#5050) already In use by councils, but should also be expanded to Include the Consecration to the Holy Family (#10371) and period of adoration and solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The program can also be supplemented In other ways, such as by Inviting a Knights of Columbus family - perhaps your jurisdiction's Family of the Year - to give a witness talk. These celebrations could be held In a cathedral, major church other suitable to facilitate the greatest participation posslble, both by brother Knights and their famllles, by the broader Catholic community
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Because God is the Father of orphans and widows, we want to reach out to all those who are lonely and abandoned.
For Families
God takes care of us; he is our guardian. In a special way, he is the “Father of orphans and Defender of widows” (Ps 68). In the ancient world, orphans and widows were the weakest elements of society. Without parents or a husband taking care of them, they were defenseless. God takes care of us by sending us Jesus Christ, his only Son. Like the Good Samaritan, Jesus was especially close to the sick, hungry, lonely and poor. In this way, he gives us the answer to Cain’s question: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Gen 4:9). Every man is his “brother’s keeper.” God has entrusted us to one another.
