Worthy SKs and Fellow Brothers,
It is an honor to share the following official announcement:
LOCAL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 953 RECEIVES TOP AWARD
Sacramento Knights of Columbus Council 953 has received the distinction of Star Council, the international organization’s top award for local councils.
The Star Council Award recognizes overall excellence in the areas of membership, promotion of
fraternal insurance benefits, sponsorship of faith formation programs and service-oriented
activities.
During this challenging year, Council 953 adapted and continued to stand in the breach, serving our brothers, families, parishes, and communities. The Supreme Council recognizes these achievements and acknowledge the hard work of the brother knights under Council 953.
Throughout the 2021-2022 year, Council 953 has worked diligently to achieve STAR Award under the Spiritual guidance of their Chaplain Father Davy of St. Mary’s Parish.
Some of the Council’s highlights of the Columbian Year include ProLife Fundraisers, March for Life, Novenas, Intellectual Disability, RSVP for Seminarians, Habitat for Humanity, Vocation Dinner assistance, Veterans Benefit Dinner, Sacramental Gifts, Family of the Month, Sacred Heart Altar Society Cookie Drive, Bishop Gallegos Home Gift Drive and Prayers in The Pew to name just a few!
Our council’s award plaque will be shipped to our Worthy District Deputy Mike Amparan for a later presentation.
For information on joining the Sacramento Knights of Columbus contact local Membership Director Bob Willett at (916) 485-7939 or bob@sacramentohomes.net .
As our New Columbian Year has just began, we started the month of July with our PGK/Ol Timer’s Dinner and Installation with our Chaplain Father Davy in attendance with new Pastor to Sacred Heart, Father Richards. We celebrate our Knight of the Month Devin Rodgers and Family of the Month Ricardo Saldana who’s wife Monica was the First Lady honored to lead a Chapter Rosary in it’s history! The donation check from the last Cookie Drive was made out to the Sacred Heart Altar Society and delivered by our ProLife Director Al Fernandez. We also presented Bishop Soto with our annual donation to the Bishop’s Fund during the State Chapter Dinner in Vallejo.
I also wanted to take this moment to say thank you to our Brother Steve Mills who has served for years as our Hall President and to congratulate our new incoming Hall President Brother Tom Nulk!
Thank you Brothers for your continued inspiration and work in the name of our Lord as Catholic Men! May we continue to make proud our past Brother Knights and continue on the legacy began by our founding Council of 1905!
Marco Ferrero, Grand Knight
Knights of Columbus Council 953

Hello SKs and Fellow Brothers,
We celebrate two great saints today, Saints Peter and Paul. Saint Peter is often considered the Apostle to the Jews and Saint Paul to the Gentiles (based, most probably, on his extensive travels among the Gentiles). Together they witnessed to the budding of Christianity, and both laid down their lives for the faith.
Peter, who was also known as Simon Peter of Cephas, is considered the first Pope. Despite his papacy, Peter had humble beginnings and became one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was ordained by Jesus in the “Rock of My Church” written in Matthew 16:17-18, which says, “Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a blessed man!
The Apostle to the Gentiles, St Paul was the greatest missionary in history. A Pharisee converted to Christ, his concern for expounding the faith to those, who heard him, would make him the first Christian theologian. His martyrdom is remembered on June 29, together with that of St. Peter.
For more on St Peter and Paul:
www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5358
www.vaticannews.va/en/saints.html
Thank you to SK Ricardo who has taken charge of running our new Facebook page for Council 953! Post of new and past images have been going up over the last few months for all to see!
As we are rebuilding followers can you please log into Facebook and “like” our new page and share with family/friends at:
www.facebook.com/KofC-Council-953-114423367932281/
You can also search FB by using “KofC Council 953”.
Vivat Jesus!
SK Marco Ferrero, GK Knights of Columbus Sacramento Council 953

Hello SKs and Fellow Brothers,
As we wrap up the final month of the Columbian Year knowing we have made STAR Council, 953 still keeps moving forward full steam!
I have submitted for the New Columbian Year our 365 report of Program Directors and sent our FS the completed 185 for new officers to be signed and submitted before the month’s deadline. We are once again on track to meet reporting requirements as we did for 2021-2022! We also have a new Brother Knight looking to join 953 which we will vote upon in July!
Thank you for those that volunteered to assist our Chaplin Father Davy this month with both the Rectory work, The Corpus Christi Procession and last weekend’s Masses as greeters.
We also held NorCal’s Chapter DD retreat on the 18th and received some wonderful compliments from our Worthy Elect CP, the DDs to also Father Memo. With great success we could not have pulled it off without Brother Richard helping with setup the night before and Brother Devin who volunteered all morning and afternoon while your GK prepared the meals. We also had Brother Matt assist with the plating which help us get the plates served personally all out at the same time.
After the retreat was over, many of the guests had to change at the hall and rush over to the Vocational Benefit in Elk Grove.
I am happy to share the Vocations Event was sold out and was a great success. 953 sponsored 2021 and helped cochair 2022 with SK George Bagley who was recognized with an award for all his years of service to this wonderful event to benefit our Seminarians.
Please remember to RSVP SK Ricardo as soon as possible for our PGK Dinner on July 14th!
Vivat Jesus!
SK and Brother Marco Ferrero Knights of Columbus Council 953, GK

Hello SKs and Fellow Brothers,
I am excited to announce we have finalized a date for the PGK/ol’timers Dinner & Officers Installation which will be on July 14th!
Please save the date and RSVP SK Ricardo as soon as possible so we can have an accurate count of attendees for dinner preparation.
RSVP SK Ricardo at: (916)712-7355. Please remember to indicate meal selection as Tri-Tip or Chicken!
For more details, you can find the information on the flyer below:
Looking forward to seeing all our Brothers able to attend in July!
Blessings!
GK Marco Ferrero Knights of Columbus Sacramento Council 953

Hello SKs and Fellow Brothers,
Today as we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I would like to thank Brothers Ricardo, Miguel and Bryan for being able to last moment assist our Chaplin Father Davy. We were able to get much of the furniture moved back into their rooms with great care as the Rectory was undergoing painting and new wood floors. We are happy to say Father Davy is back in his home!
Sacred Heart Update: Monsignor Walton’s last Mass will be Thursday, June 30th, at 8:00 am. Monsignor’s last Sunday’s Masses will be on June 26th.
Thank you Brother Al Fernandez who has picked up a card which will be from all of us at 953! We will also have a very nice bottle of wine as a retirement gift from our Council.
The attention of Christians was early attracted by the love and virtues of the Heart of Mary. The Gospel itself invited this attention with exquisite discretion and delicacy. What was first excited was compassion for the Virgin Mother. It was, so to speak, at the foot of the Cross that the Christian heart first made the acquaintance of the Heart of Mary. Simeon’s prophecy paved the way and furnished the devotion with one of its favourite formulae and most popular representations: the heart pierced with a sword. But Mary was not merely passive at the foot of the Cross; “she cooperated through charity”, as St. Augustine says, “in the work of our redemption”.
In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior’s Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the *Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.* This is not a new devotion. In the seventeenth century, St. John Eudes preached it together with that of the Sacred Heart; in the nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius IX allowed several churches to celebrate a feast of the Pure Heart of Mary. Pius XII instituted today’s feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as to obtain by her intercession “peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtue” (Decree of May 4, 1944).
For more information on The Immaculate Heart of Mary please visit:
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2022-06-25
Vivat Jesus!
SK & Brother Marco Ferrero Knights of Columbus Council 953, GK