Congratulations for making California Strong, Active and Engaged Jurisdiction for the 1st Quarter of the Fraternal Year 2026-2027…. we brought over 1000 new members to our jurisdiction. More knights, more “hearts to serve!”
Thank you, “Team California”, for your hard work, patience and enthusiasm in helping to grow the Order and to our hardworking Membership Director Polly Camana, congratulations. We are a team…. your Chapter, District and Councils success is everyone’s success…. California Knights of Columbus success! Let’s congratulate each other for a job well done. But this is only the beginning, this 2nd Quarter let us invite more men to the Order to help and serve the needs of others. To be a knight and a Man for others. It’s our job to seize the moment and move forward together as a team. And as we move to the second quarter and closer to the holidays, let us not lose focus on what’s ahead and of our goals. Let us start planning our membership drives for October, November and December. Together we can all do it and reach our goal.
Our Charity Programs or Faith In Action and Membership are really linked with one another. They go hand in hand…they complement each other. This October is Respect Life month and I urged you to support Aid and Support After Pregnancy (ASAP). The Annual Fund Drive for People with Intellectual Disabilities will be on October 16, 17 and 18, 2026. The State Council will distribute wheelchairs in Mexico on October 19-23, 2026. The Gift of Mobility and Hope. Also, this October 31, 2026, the Orange Chapter will host the first Knights of Columbus Men’s Formation Day with our EFF Director Vince Vazquez.
May God guide and protect us.
Thank you and Vivat Jesus!
Vladi Rivera
State Deputy
STATE CHAPLAIN MESSAGE FOR OCTOBER 2026
Dear Worthy Chaplains and Worthy Brother Knights,
On this month of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, allow me to share the Marian devotions of our brother Knight, Blessed Fulton J. Sheen, whose beatification was held last September 24th in St. Louis, and Saint Francis of Assisi, whose 800th year of his death we observe on October 3rd.
Blessed Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was a long-time member of the Knights of Columbus. He belonged to Council 178 located in Rochester, New York and where he became a Fourth Degree Knight. He addressed the Knights of Columbus delegates at several Supreme Conventions during the 1970s. When he was the national director of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith from 1950-1966, he inaugurated the “World Mission Rosary.” Blessed Sheen claimed that praying the World Mission Rosary would assist the Holy Father and the Society of the Propagation of the Faith by providing not only financial support but also prayers for the poor mission territories of the world. He explained that each decade of the World Mission Rosary calls to mind an area where the Church extends her mission: the Green beads are for the forests and grasslands of Africa; Blue for the ocean surrounding the islands of the Pacific; White for Europe, the seat of the Holy Father; Red calls to mind the fire of faith that brought missionaries to the Americas; and Yellow, the morning light of the east, for Asia. Blessed Fulton Sheen said, “Peace will come only when the hearts of the world have changed. When the World Mission Rosary is completed, one has embraced all continents, all people in prayer.” His deep personal love of Our Lady moved many others to go to Jesus through His Mother. Here’s a link to download Blessed Fulton Sheen’s World Mission Rosary: Download a pamphlet of the World Missions Rosary mysteries.
Saint Francis of Assisi was among the greatest Marian devotees in the history of the Church. Many believe that his love for Mary was because “Mary bore the Lord of majesty, our Brother.” Saint Francis himself chose Mary as the patroness and the Queen of the Franciscans. He exhorted his brothers to always possess a true and living devotion to the Mother of God.
May these two holy men, Blessed Fulton Sheen, our brother Knight, and St. Francis of Assisi, also our brother, help us deepen our devotion to our Blessed Mother on this month of the Holy Rosary.
Vivat Jesus,
Reverend Father Raymund M. Reyes
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