At the 4th degree exemplification held in Louisville on August 28th, over 30 men joined the ranks of the 4th Degree of the Order of the Knights of Columbus. We were honored to have Archbishop Kurtz as the Keynote speaker at the banquet. He also celebrated the 4:00 pm Mass at St. Michael Catholic Church where the new Sir Knights and their Ladies were in attendance. Congratulations to our newest Sir Knights. Any Knights of Columbus members that would like to join the 4th degree should contact their grand knight or District Master, Bill Schmidt PSD (billschmidtpsd@comcast.net).
Hispanic Recruiting Event
Dwight Frank and Tony Carmona, Bilingual Field Agent, representing the Schachle Agency, joined the members of the Hispanic and Latino faithful who gathered Sept. 4 at St. Rita Church, Louisville, KY for the Archdiocesan VIII Encuentro. It started with the celebration of Mass with by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz. Following the Mass, the Schachle Agency presented a $500 donation on behalf of the Knights of Columbus to the Office of Hispanic Ministry. Thanks to Jose for helping set this all up.
Archdiocese of Louisville newspaper The Record wrote an article about this event that can be read here.
Council cooking for the Church Picnic
On Saturday August 28, St Joseph council from Mt Washington KY fried over 1600 pieces of chicken for the St Aloysious church picnic in Sheperdsville, KY. St Joseph council had approximately 24 volunteers ready to sort, bread, and fry the chicken. This event was one of the biggest annual fundraisers for St Aloysious. After 2020 and most of 2021, the chick fry was a refreshing taste of normalcy.
PGK Alvan Mann and PGK Glenn Greenwell getting ready to fry 
Mike Bridwell, Bob Easton and PGK Mike rippy cleaning up 
Recording secretary Matt O’Connor doing dishes 
PGK Alvan Mann and GK Eric Guy at the fryers 
GK Eric Guy dumping chicken 
GK Eric Guy and Worthy Chaplain Father Terry Langford 
4th Degree Exemplification August 28th
On Saturday, August 28, 2021, there will be a 4th Degree Exemplification held at St. Michael Catholic Church in Louisville. Details can be found in the links below.
Knights of Columbus retire old flags in burning ceremony
The men’s organization at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church conducted the retirement ceremony on Monday for Flag Day.
- June 14, 2021
The Knights of Columbus at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church observed Flag Day on Monday by retiring several hundred American flags that were in poor condition.
Using the traditional retirement method of burning the flags, several members of the Knights participated in the ceremony. They built a fire in a large metal barrel and took turns dropping flags into the flames.
Hundreds of small flags that needed to be retired came from Green Hill Memorial Gardens, where the Knights place flags at all of the veterans’ graves every year on Memorial Day.
“Fellow citizens, we have here these flags of our country, which have been inspected and declared unserviceable. They have reached their present state in a proper service of tribute, memory and love,” master of ceremonies Joe Mezzoni said to begin the service.
“A flag may be a flimsy bit of painted gauze or a beautiful banner of the finest silk. Its inherent value may be trifling or great, but its symbolic value is beyond price. Fort it is a precious symbol of all that our veterans have worked for, lived for and died for.
“A nation of free men and women, true to the past, devoted to the ideals and practice of justice, freedom and democracy. Let these flags of our country be retired and destroyed with respectful and honorable rites and their places be taken by bright new flag.”
The Rev. Richard Meredith, priest at Saints Peter and Paul, led the group in a prayer.
The Knights of Columbus will continue to accept old flags from anyone in the community who wants to have them respectfully retired. Anyone interested in turning over old flags should call Mezzoni at 270-305-4701.
“We’ll make arrangements to pick them up,” he said.
Flag Day is observed on June 14, the day in 1777 that the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, approved the stars and bars design for the national Flag. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issues a presidential proclamation establishing the national observance.
The 13 red and white bars represent the original 13 colonies. The white stars on a blue background represent the states.
The current flag, the 27th version, dates to July 4, 1960, when Hawaii became the 50th state.
