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Fab

The Grand Knight is Fab Durnin. You can contact him by email at durnin@bellsouth.net.

Brothers,

The Knights of Columbus is the greatest catholic men’s organization in the world has been the driving force behind most all catholic charities. We help the disabled, veterans, clothe and feed the needy, and most of all give spiritual inspiration to all who are willing to believe that Jesus Christ is our savior. The Brother Knights of Switzerland Council 12664 are fortunate to be blessed as a group of men willing to donate countless hours helping our parish community in need. One need just to take a look at the many activities we performed during the month of September. Activities such as our ongoing commitment to monthly 24 hour Eucharistic Adoration, Blue Mass on 9/11, highway clean-up, church landscape, 40 days for life vigils, soccer challenge, 1st degree and 4th degree exemplifications and Festa Italiana all filled the calendar in September. Our Sir Knights also had the privilege of providing the honor guard for Bishop Filipe Estevez during the Feast of St. Vincent Mass at San Juan Del Rio. During October it gets even more hectic for Brother Knights. We have scheduled hosting a 2nd degree exemplification, the annual spelling bee and cooking for the homeless at Sulzbacher Center. We have many more events on the calendar as we move into November. On November 20th after the 11:00 am Mass we will be cooking Hamburgers and Hot Dogs as a fundraiser. During the fall leading up to Christmas we are most busy. I want every Brother Knight to check the calendar and attend the meetings and set aside time to lend a hand. I also want to let every Brother Knight in our council know what a great privilege it is to serve in a leadership role with men who are the most unselfish and the most caring men on the face of the earth. God Bess each of you and your families.

Vivat Jesus, Fraternally Yours,
Fab Durnin, Grand Knight


 
Project Moses

Key Objectives

To Make God's Ten Commandments:

• More widely known
• More deeply understood
• More ardently revered
• More faithfully followed

Project Moses was inspired in the summer of 2000, when a Ten Commandments monument was removed from the Wyandotte County Courthouse lawn in Kansas City after the American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue over what it claimed was a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Over the last 25 years, respect and admiration for God’s sacred Commandments have fallen victim to both apathy and hostility. Under a distorted interpretation of the founding intent of “separation of church and state,” God’s laws are being systematically torn from the fabric of American culture.

This is a dangerous direction for the United States, leading our nation to a deeper state of subjective morality and individual license.

Project Moses wants to establish 7000 Ten Commandment monuments at churches, synagogues, religious schools and private properties to fund the completion of a $10 million memorial, similar in scope to the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, to the Decalogue in Washington, D.C. 

A 6.5 acre site on private property, in Washington D.C., has been identified and made available to Project Moses, however, the National Park Service has been contacted in an effort to secure a site on the National Mall.  No matter which site is chosen, Project Moses and the memorial organizers hope to have the national memorial ready for visitors by 2009. The center pieces of this memorial will be an 18- to 24-foot bronze statue of Moses and an enormous stone slate of the commandments. 

God proclaimed the Ten Commandments to provide direction for his people to live a better life, grounded in the love of God and neighbor. Project Moses was founded to promote a clear understanding and strong adherence to the Ten Commandments and to assist all people in embracing the essential duties of living a life of truth, charity and justice.

Take this opportunity to place the Ten Commandments at San Juan del Rio in the form of a Mt. Sinai White Marble monument  with the Ten Commandments (front) Beatitudes (back) Monument This monument is 40” W x 24”D x 64”T and requires a concrete slab to support its weight (850 lbs.) Lettering is engraved and colored black with edging engraved and colored black. The base is engraved with the Two Great Commandments.

Donations of $25 .00 or more will receive a Ten Commandment  French Limestone 8” x 8” plaque with mahogany wood stand - available in the St. Augustine (Catholic), King James (Protestant) or Jewish numbering.

Donations of $250.00 or more will receive a miniature  Ten Commandments (front) Beatitudes (back) Monument – This monument is 10” W x 6”D x 18”T and weighs 35 lbs.  The monument is available in Mt. Sinai Tan Marble, Mt. Sinai White Marble, Red Granite or Black Granite.  The base is engraved with the Two Great Commandments and would make a great desk top or yard ornament

For information contact Joe Bishop at mozzs@comcast.net
 

Information about our Council

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Switzerland Council was founded in 2000 through the efforts of the Father Edward Booth. It is named after the community in which San Juan del Rio Parish is located. Our two major projects during the year are the Garage sale to benefit the San Juan Del Rio School, and the Family Picnic. We also sponsor youth activities such as the Spelling Bee and Free Throw contest. The Switzerland Council works closely with the Parish, providing funds and manpower to assist in various projects. Manny Knights are actively involved with the men’s club and many of the other ministries in the parish.

Switzerland Council meets at San Juan del Rio Catholic Church 17714-3 State Road 13.

Business meetings occur the second Tuesday of each month, 7:00 pm. Knights Social occurs the Fourth Tuesday of each month, 7:00 pm.