Activities:
Living Rosary, Blue Mass, Monserat Retreat
Information from Supreme for this committee:
- Provide assistance to your pastor by promoting attendance at all parish devotions.
- Arrange for the celebration of Mass within the council home or individual family homes to cele- brate special events.
- Sponsor living rosaries on or near Marian feast days.
- Establish a perpetual family rosary program under which council families pledge to pray the rosary at home each day during a week of their choice in honor of our Blessed Mother.
- Organize a family adoration of the Blessed Sacrament program with the cooperation of the local pastor and parish.
- Inaugurate an annual or semiannual K of C council retreat to allow members a chance to step back from their daily routines to examine through prayer, meditation and the sacraments what God intends for them.
- Distribute rosary prayer cards (#1877 E, F, S), available from the Supreme Council Supply Department, to promote more frequent recitation of the rosary. Councils ordering rosary prayer cards on a Requisition Form (#1) will be charged $3 per hundred.
- Give out the wallet-sized Eucharistic Devotion Prayer Card (#4194 E, F, S) to help promote devotion to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. This collection of prayers can be used before the Blessed Sacrament and during Communion.
- Pray the rosary in English, French or Spanish by obtaining a cassette tape available from the Supreme Council Supply Department. The rosary cassette (#4436 E, F, S) is available for $3.50. This is also available on compact disk (#4439 E, F, S) for $3.50.
- Order and distribute the informational card “A Guide to Confession” (#2075 E, F, S) to help combat the neglect of this powerful sacrament. Councils ordering penance cards using a Requisition Form (#1) will be charged $3 per hundred.
- The Prayer for the Beatification of John Paul II Card (Item #9528) encourages Knights, their fami- lies and parishes to pray for the special intention.
- The Prayer for Pope Benedict XVI Card (#9530) encourages Knights, their families and parishes to pray for His Holiness.
- The Prayer to the Mexican Martyrs (Saints) Card (#4229, English; #4229S, Spanish) and the Prayer to the Mexican Martyrs (Blessed) Card (#4535, English; #4535S, Spanish) encourage Knights, their families and parishes to pray to these martyrs who were Knights.
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