Breakfast with St. Nicholas Dec 2015 [dropcaps] W [/dropcaps] hat a colossal effort by the Knights of Columbus during the “Breakfast with St. Nick” celebration this past Sunday December 13th at […]
An early start of the general business meeting brought many Knights of Columbus to room 212 in the Community Center this past Tuesday December 1st. They were there to show […]
Christmas Tree Tinsel [dropcaps] S [/dropcaps] everal years ago, my wife started her career as an elementary school music teacher. One of her first hurtles was to prepare a program for the school […]
The Daniel Rosales family For the sake of clarity, we’ll refer to the father-son council members here as Daniel and Junior. No matter the names, they are valued contributors to […]
Larry Balagna Larry is a tireless contributor to council activities. It seems like we don’t scramble an egg or set up and take down a room without him pitching in. […]
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Luis “Tony” Gonzalez was encouraged by his brother Elio Gonzalez to join the Knights of Columbus. And so it was on Tuesday November 24th that Tony was inducted into the […]
Remembering Bennie Sikorski, 1931-2015 It is with our deepest regret that we must share the news of the loss of our Brother Knight Bennie Sikorski. We extend our condolences to his […]
The Fall little league baseball season concluded this past Sunday with the “Strike Out for Hunger” tournament benefiting the Cedar Hill food pantry held on November 14th and 15th at […]
The Knights of Council 8157 demonstrated our respect and appreciation for the Veterans’ military service at the VA Hospital in Dallas once again this past Saturday November 14. We served a […]
The Hike for Life 2015 managed to get off the ground thanks in large part to the efforts of Andy Goza and Jim Russell. Although the weather did not cooperate (it […]
Brother Knights, The new year is quickly approaching so it’s time to pay our 2016 annual dues. For every member in our council, we have to pay per year approximately $24 out […]
The Fourth Degree [dropcaps] O [/dropcaps] ur Worthy Deputy Grand Knight and the Faithful Navigator of Assembly 2799 has spoken tonight about the Clergy Appreciation Dinner to take place on Thursday, […]
Andy, Susan and Madison Goza If you didn’t notice Andy, Susan or Madison hard at work at some point during the parish’s recent fall festival, you weren’t looking hard enough. […]
Ed O’Brien Ed is one of many past Grand Knights of 8157 who continue to be active in council activities. Before you know it, it will time for Lenten fish […]
October 2015 turned out to be a very busy time for Knight Hands; we completed 11 projects during the month. Most memorable was replacing a fence at Gabriele Hardin’s home; […]
Edmond Cordova III and his family have been a member of this parish for the past 7 years and have lived in Grand Prairie for the last 4 years. Edmond […]
At the conclusion of the 1st degree induction ceremony on October 27, Dan Keough said “you guys have been chasing me for 10 years”. And with the recruiting efforts of […]
All the Council events and activities of the past three quarters. [button type=”churchope_button” url=”http://kofc8157.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/knights-life-newsletter-edition-22-23-24-oct-2015.pdf” target=”” ]Download Newsletter Oct 2015[/button]
[dropcaps] T [/dropcaps] he “Strong Right Arm of the Church” again had its considerable hand prints all over this year’s Holy Spirit fall festival, which took place during its traditional final […]
[dropcaps] O [/dropcaps] f all the community activities we perform in our council, the bi-annual St. Joseph’s Residence Cookout seems to be consistently one of the more spiritually rewarding for the Knights who participate. Maybe […]
[dropcaps] S [/dropcaps] election as Council 8157’s Knight of the Year is typically the result of outstanding commitment and service. Jim Richardson, our 29th annual honoree this past summer, sees it […]
TO ALL ASSEMBLY 2799 SIR KNIGHTS I would like to respectfully request that all Sir Knights from Assembly 2799 to personally make their best effort to attend our next Assembly […]
This past weekend the Fourth Degree held another outstanding Exemplification Ceremony on Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 at the Marriott Hotel at the Dallas North Tollway and Belt Line. It gives us […]
Assembly 2799 Receives “Provincial Award for Excellence” It gives me great pleasure and honor to announce that the Msgr. James F. Burnes Assembly 2799 received the prestigious Our Lady […]
On Bible’s Letter of St. James [dropcaps] I [/dropcaps] don’t usually delve into theology, preferring to leave that to those better educated in the subject. But I could not pass up this […]
Jack and Juanita Ramsden The Ramsdens again played a quiet-but-substantial role in the success of the parish’s recent Fall Festival. They coordinated pickups of furniture and other large and heavy […]
Dan Murphy Dan has been very active lately both within and beyond his duties as our director of community activities. He is organizing the next semi-annual cookout at St. Joseph’s […]
In the readings this past Sunday, St. James says it is not enough to hope those who are in need will find help. It is not ecough even to pray […]
[dropcaps] T [/dropcaps] his past Friday September 4th the Duncanville Knights headed out to Holy Trinity Seminary of Dallas once again to show our appreciation for the young men who are […]
