Fort Howard Knights

I came across this article today about what some Carlsbad, New Mexico Knights are doing in the distribution of over 6,000 rosary rings to our troops overseas.  You can read the rest of the artical here: Rosaries to military in Iraq;  just a wonderful story, the portion I found most interesting was some of the history behind the rosary “Ring”, here is an excerpt:

Ring rosaries became a very special symbolic Christian item since religious persecution of Catholics began in England and Ireland under Henry VIII in 1540 and continued until about 1731.

During what has been called the Penal Times, death became the common penalty for attending a Roman Catholic Mass or harboring a priest or gathering to recite the rosary. Small, easily hidden rosaries were used to avoid detection.

The ring rosaries have since become known as soldiers’ rosaries, because soldiers often took them into battle, most notably during WWI. These single-decade rosaries can be worn as a ring or carried easily and are still popular.  A rosary ring is a ring worn around the finger with 10 indentations and a cross on the surface, representing one decade of a rosary.

Fort Howard Council started a similar program some years ago (distributing rosaries, not the rings), and to date we have distributed over 35,000 rosaries to various missionaries, local nursing homes, hospital chapels and anyone asking for them.

Interesting article about what our brother Knights north of us are doing: 

OTTAWA, ON, July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)

In a letter sent to the Canadian Govenor General yeasterday, Natala Gallo, the President of the Canadian Association of the Knights of Columbus demanded that the Order of Canada, which was awarded to abortionist Henry Morgentaler on Canada Day (July 1st), be “rescinded immediately.”  In addition, the Knights have called on all their 230,000 members and families in Canada to lobby to demand that the decision to award the Order to Morgentaler be revoked . . . to read the here:

Welcome to the Fort Howard Knights Blog, we are excited about our new look, so please make yourself at home.  We are a Catholic men’s orginization located in Green Bay, Wisconsin.  Like most Councils, we follow “Robert’s Rules of Order” during our business meetings and under “the Good of the Order” section of our meetings members have a chance to express their thoughts on various topics regarding the membership, the world in general, things that we should or should not be doing, almost anything under discussion is available.  Technically, under Roberts Rules you can not have a discussion unless a motion has been made and seconded.  Under Good of the Order, you can have a discussion on anything without a motion ~ so, with this in mind, we hope our blog will become a sort of “Good of the Order” blog to share our thoughts and discussions about our organization and the world at large.

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