STATE DEPUTY MESSAGE FOR JUNE 2025

Worthy Brothers,

In preparing the month of June’s State Deputy message I couldn’t help but reflect on the entire 2024-2025 Columbian year.  Thank you to all of you for making it a memorable one.  We have, once again, changed and saved lives, helped our Parish and priests, evangelized Catholic men to join the order, supported our community through our faith in action programs and strengthened our own faith through Cor. 

As a State jurisdiction, our councils have raised over $280,000 to give the gift of mobility to the poorest of the poor through the American Wheelchair Mission this year.  And we will be delivering wheelchairs to the Philippines in February, and we have plans of sending wheelchairs to Mexico and keeping some right here in California for those in need.  We have raised $500,000 this year to support those with intellectual disabilities.  We have given out over $220,000 in grants to those in need from the wildfire disasters this year.  We have three international winners in youth programs.  We conducted Mexican Martyrs and Blessed McGivney relic tours in northern California and in southern California.  We have supported farmworkers up and down the State with the Campesino program.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

As this is our last month of the Columbian year, every council is encouraged to strive for star council and every council should submit the SP-7 (Columbian Award Application).  We recommend you submit your application immediately.  Our Star Tracker Chairmen are on hand to help in submitting this form to Supreme (Tom Davis in the south, tomd68@gmail.com and William Wagner in the north, wfw_2001@hotmail.com). You can always email Larry Dietz at the State office for help as well, larry.dietz@californiaknights.org.

Remember, the safest way to assure approval of your SP-7 is to fill four programs into each of the four categories (faith, community, life and family).  If you have four in each category, check the NO featured program box for each program.  Safest way for approval, 4×4 and check NO. 

As we get close to the end of the Columbian year I have to remind all of you that the year is not over.  We go straight up to June 30th and then we carry that energy into Worthy State Deputy–Elect Ken Rose’s year.  I highly encourage you to keep inviting new men to the Order.  By doing so you strengthen your base and provide needed manpower who then become our future leaders.  Our present goal is now Pinnacle, 120% of the quota set by the Supreme Council for California.  Shooting for the stars Brothers, always aiming high.

Again, I want to thank all of you.  The real work is done at the Council level.  Believe me when I say you are doing God’s work.  Thank you, God bless and God is good, all the time, all the time, God is good! 

Yours in Christ,

Jim Larson
California State Deputy
2024-2025

STATE CHAPLAIN MESSAGE FOR JUNE 2025

Dear Brother Knights,

In a few days, we will celebrate the Pentecost- the descending of the Holy Spirit and the birth of our Church. We have seen the work of the Holy Spirit amazingly and surprisingly in the election of Pope Leo. We never thought before that we will have an American pope, but of course the Holy Spirit has prepared him with the heart for the poor as he spent most of his ministry in Peru.

The Holy Spirit has been working in our Colombian year as the Spirit touched the heart of many people to donate for our wheelchair programs, helped the wildfire victims and migrant farmers, participated in Special Olympics and many parish involvements.

We are now achieving the goal of Circle of Honor. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to bring more men close to Christ and his service by inviting and recruiting them to be the Knights. Hopefully, we can achieve Pinnacle award.

I thank you to God also for current beautiful year to work together with each of you. We also want to welcome the new incoming State Chaplain Fr Dan Avila from Diocese of Fresno for year 2025-2026. Of course I am not leaving the Knight, I will continue to help for any thing to help Fr Dan Avila and all of you.

Also kindly reminder that we have the big National Eucharistic procession on Sunday June 22 at LA Cathedral. Please see www.Eucharisticrevival.org go pilgrimage section. Hope many of us can attend this closing of 3 years Eucharist Revival.

Come Holy Spirit and renew the face of the earth! May we continue to be the Knight of Eucharist, Knight of Prayer and Actions!

Vivat Jesus,
Rev. Budi Wardhana

 

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