KOVAR Collection

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    Kovar collections will be held Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17 at Green Top Sporting Goods, 10150 Lakeridge Pkwy, Ashland, VA . There will be two hour shifts with two doors to staff.
Hours of collection: Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
    To sign up, please call Brother John Welker at 804-298-5653.
    If you can not collect you may send your donation to our treasurer Michael Rozaro, 10720 Peterfield Lane, Glen Allen, VA 23059-8031
   Makes checks payable to OLL Council 9953 and write KOVAR on the memo line.

Pray FOR Blessed Michael McGivney​

About Father McGivney
    The founder of the Knights of Columbus, Father Michael J. McGivney was a central figure in the growth of Catholicism in America, and he remains a model today. His example of charity, evangelization and empowerment of the laity continues to bear fruit and guide Knights of Columbus around the world.
​    Born of Irish immigrant parents in 1852 in Waterbury, Connecticut, Father McGivney was a central figure in the dramatic growth of the Church in the United States in the late 19th century. Ordained in Baltimore in 1877, he ministered to a heavily Irish-American and immigrant community in Connecticut. At a time of anti-Catholic sentiment, he worked tirelessly to offer practical solutions to their many problems — spiritual and temporal alike. With a group of the leading Catholic men of New Haven, he founded the Knights to provide spiritual support for Catholic men and financial resources for families that had suffered the loss of their breadwinner.
    Father McGivney died of pneumonia on Aug. 14, 1890 — two days after his 38th birthday — after falling ill amid a pandemic.
    In March 2008, Father McGivney was declared a Venerable Servant of God by Pope Benedict XVI, who during his visit to New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral cited the “remarkable accomplishment of that exemplary American priest, the Venerable Michael McGivney, whose vision and zeal led to the establishment of the Knights of Columbus.”
    On Oct. 31, 2020, he was declared blessed by Pope Francis, who cited Blessed Michael McGivney for his “zeal for the proclamation of the Gospel and generous concern for his brothers and sisters” that “made him an outstanding witness of Christian solidarity and fraternal assistance.”