Italian Festival 2024
Now taking Vendor Applications
Saturday September 21
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Flag Installs
| Location | Install | Pickup |
|---|---|---|
| Alloway Township | 15-Apr | 2-May |
| Holy Spirit | 25-Apr | |
| Folsom Township | 9-May | 3-Jun |
| AC Electric | 13-Jun | 11-Jul |
| Absecon Township | 24-Jul | 22-Aug |
| 177th Fighter Wing | 29-Aug | 30-Sep |
| Barrette Fence Co | 28-Oct | 22-Nov |
Rain Date is the following day
John DeMarco will send out emails with times (usually start at 10AM), dates, meeting places, car pool locations etc., a week before the install.
Usually Charlie Lott and Hap Stanwood pick up all the Flags, supplies and banners at the Ann Seton shed. If you wish to help them please contact them first.
John is looking for help to coordinate this much needed program in the future.
Please call him at 973 229 4211.
or email him at jadbklyn@gmail.com
God willing he will care for all of us and bless the work we are doing. Please pray that this suicide crisis will end soon.
Knights of the Month
A Dynamic Duo: Dominick Centrone & Charles Messina
Always there to help
Men of Action
Motivated through Faith
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Projects Throughout the Year
Please Join Us
January
- Blood Drive
- Pro Life Bus Trip to DC
- Spelling Bee
February
- Basketball Free Throw Contest
- Strove Pancake Supper
- Pro Life Awareness
March
- Lenten Prayer & Rosary
- Good Friday Fish Dinner
- Flags for Forgotten Solders
May
- Mother’s Day Roses for Life
- Corn Hole Tournament
- Memorial Day Parade- Absecon
June
- Field of Dreams
- Pancake Breakfast
- Corpus Christi Procession
July
- 4th of July Parade- Galloway
- Installation of Officers Mass
August
- Blessed Michael J McGivney Mass
- Scholarship Awards Announced
- Blood drive
September
- Italian Festival @ Smithville
- Sept 11 Community Tribute
October
- Golf Tournament
- Pride in our Priest Dinner
- Pancake Breakfast
- Pro Life Awareness
November
- Nov 11 Veteran’s Day Tribute
- Winter Coats for Kids in Need
- Thanksgiving Food Baskets
December –
- Mass for our Deceased Brothers
- Keep Christ in Christmas Items for Sale
- Christmas Food Baskets
- Christmas party
Throughout the Year –
- Flags for Forgotten Solders – a suicide awareness program
- Roses for Mothers – at every Catholic baptism, we present the child’s mother with a rose.
- Wake Service- at every Knights passing, we attend the wake and pray the rosary
Leah King takes 3rd place in Spelling Bee State Finals
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Supporting 2 Christmas Bazaars
Keeping Christ in Christmas
While Raising Funds to support our community
Another Successfull Pancake Breakfast
Scholarship Winners
The Knights of Columbus Villa Marie Council #6342 is pleased to announce it has awarded eight scholarships for the 2023-2024 school year from its Edward J. Walls, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund.
The award recipients chosen by the Scholarship Committee are:
- Eve Amalfitano, attending Holy Spirit High School
- Gwen Amalfitano, attending Holy Spirit High School
- Vaughn Amalfitano, attending Holy Spirit High School
- Lauren Cella, attending Holy Spirit High School
- Marina Hughes, attending Holy Spirit High School
- Julianna Reynolds, attending Holy Spirit High School
- Rebecca Madden, attending Bishop Shanahan HS
- Shannon Madden, attending Bishop Shanahan HS
To be eligible for a scholarship,
- the applicant must be the child, grandchild, niece, nephew, grandniece, or grandnephew of an active member in good standing of Villa Marie Council #6342,
- must attend a Catholic high school, and
- must maintain at least a “B” average or numerical/GPA equivalent.
All these students maintained outstanding academic achievements well above the minimum requirements.
4th of July Parade
Aid and Support After Pregnancy (ASAP), describes the Knights of Columbus’ efforts to support pregnant women, mothers, and their new children by serving pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes.
These pro-life, non-profits are lifelines to women and babies in need and offer essential services that make the difference between a baby being aborted and a baby being born in a supportive environment.
Pregnancy resource centers provide assistance to nearly 2 million clients each year. In 2021, Knights donated
- $4.6 million and 469,000 volunteer hours to support these centers and the women and children they serve through cash donations and community service activities such as baby and maternity item drives.
- Through its Ultrasound Initiative, the Order also donated $5.6 million to centers for the purchase of 163 ultrasound machines in 2021 bringing its total donations since 2009 to more than 1,550 machines valued at over $75 million.
These life-saving organizations would not be able to provide the level of assistance women and children need without support from our Order and collaborating parish communities.
Eucharistic Procession
Winter Coats
Flags for Forgotten Solders
Blood Drives
4th of July Parade
