Family Week

Dedicate a week to celebrate our families. Councils plan a special week for their parish celebrating family life. Activities presented in this program will strengthen the parish community and affirm the central importance of Catholic family life (The Guide Sheet can help you with this).

Knights of Columbus councils will dedicate a special week of the year to recognize the vital importance of families as the foundation of our domestic church and to promote Catholic family values. When choosing a week, councils should consider factors that might affect parishioner schedules such as school vacations, holidays and other local events.

Though traditionally celebrated in the summer to commemorate the birth and death of the founder of the Knights of Columbus, Venerable Michael McGivney, this program can take place anytime during the year.

Action Steps:

  • Working with your pastor, obtain his recommendations on organizing a Family
  • Designate a specific week for your family Choose a time that allows as many people as possible to participate. Be mindful of schedules of both area youth and adults and other events such as school vacations, holidays and local activities.
  • Plan a schedule of fun events that affirm faith and strengthen family Ideally, the week of activities should begin with Mass on Sunday and conclude the following Sunday.
  • Order the Family Week Program Kit (#FW-Kit) through Supplies
  • Prior to the start of your Family Week, use the sample press release as a model to create and distribute a tailored release to local
  • Build public interest for the week’s events! Promote the Family Week activities in your parish and larger
    community through a variety of efforts:

  • Celebrate your Family Week! Remember that family prayer should play an important role in all of the activities that your council conducts during the
  • At each event, wear Knights of Columbus-branded apparel and have the council membership director set up a table with brochures and membership documents (including Prospect Cards #921A). Do not forget that this event is a recruiting opportunity!
  • Enlist a fellow Knight or community member to photograph each
  • Following your Family Week, update the community on the success of all of your activities by amending the Family Week sample announcement and distributing it to the local media, along with energizing photographs from the
  • To gain credit for your program, complete the associated reporting forms and submit them to the Supreme Council Department of Fraternal Remember to retain copies for your council records.
James E. Hart, Chairman
(661) 878-2183