North Myrtle Beach Times Serving our Community and the Grand Strand for over 50 years
Number 7122 from Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church in North Myrtle Beach continues serving in North Myrtle Beach and the surrounding areas.They raise money in various ways to help those in need. One of the ways is the food pantry that is located at the church. Proceeds are raised through their pasta dinners which are hosted every first Tuesday of the month.
The next pasta dinner will be held on July 2 from 4:00-6:30 p.m.
The annual Christmas dinner dance and going out into the public at Walmart, etc. to accumulate funds for disabled children, coats for kids and helping seminarians with tuitions. Funds raised have also paid for several mammogram machines for local doctor’s offi ces. They have also raised money for ultrasound machines for the pro-life organization and Special Olympics.
The Knights of Columbus don’t lack in compassion for those who are in need in one aspect of life or another. It’s the single most largest fraternity order of men within the Catholic churches worldwide.
The Knights of Columbus have been raising money for those in need and it all began in 1882 with venerable Father Michael J. McGivney.
Father McGivney was born on Aug. 12, 1852 and died Aug. 4, 1890. He was an American priest based in New Haven, Connecticut. He founded the Knights of Columbus at a local parish to serve as a mutual aid and for a fraternal insurance organization, particularly for immigrants and their families.
It developed through the 20th century as the worlds largest Catholic fraternity order. Michael was the son of Irish immigrants, Patrick and Mary McGibney. He was the oldest of 13 children. His father was a molder in Waterberry, Connecticut, at a brass mill. Michael McGivney attended school locally at Waterberry district schools. He quit school at the young age of 13 to work in the spoon making department at one of the brass mills. At the age of 16 he attended the seminary of De Saint Hyacinvthe in Quebec, Canada.
His study continued at our Lady of Angels seminary near Niagara Falls, New York. Following the death of his father he returned home to help raise his siblings. McGibney returned to his studies at St. Mary’s seminary in Baltimore, Maryland. He was ordained a priest in December 1877. In 1989 the York Catholic District School Board in Ontario, Canada, founded and named Father McGivney Catholic Academy in his honor. It is located in Markham and currently has over 1,400 students.
The Knights of Columbus was designed to not only allow the members to be proud of both their Catholic and American Heritage, but it instilled a model of Catholic man that held its members to higher standards. The order of the Knights grew exponentially beyond Connecticut and New England with the first international Council established in 1905.
The fourth degree, patriotic degree, was established in 1903. Serving as a Catholic anti-defamation society, the order battled the Ku Klux Klan and has worked toward racial and religious harmony and continues to date. This is the annual Knights of Columbus picnic that took place on June 15, 2019. The turn out was good with many Knights and their families present.
