March 12, 2026, 2:39 pm
13904
Family
The St. Patrick's Day Dinner and Fundraiser is an annual Family event conducted by Council 13904 in collaboration with the Immaculate Conception Church community in Nashua. The event itself includes a traditional Irish dinner, prize raffles, live music, step dancers, and a lot of happy attendees.
The 2026 Dinner hosted 250 attendees in the Bishop Guertin gymnasium and took four months of planning to pull together. The months proceeding the event are spent organizing, getting sponsors, soliciting donations for the prize raffle, advertising, getting supplies, deciding on children's activities, selling tickets, and recruiting volunteers (including potential new Knights). Our Kitchen Crew prepares the food on the days prior to the event. The event itself was staffed by Knights, our spouses and children, plus parishioners who wanted to contribute. Clergy and members of religious orders are invited to attend at no cost, as are Knights that are mentally or financially challenged.
We consider the Patrick's Day Dinner and Fundraiser a Family event because it draws our families together to execute and attend the event, draws our parish family closer together through social interaction, and it raised the $2,250 of scholarship aid we donated this year to four parochial schools in southern New Hampshire. Our weekly planning meetings during the months prior to the event also start and end with prayer, so we always remember we are doing this work in His name.
