Knights of Columbus #8022, St. Mary of Vernon Catholic Church

04/16/2026

Altar Server Appreciation - Saturday April 25th after 5PM Mass in the parish center.

04/07/2026

04/06/2026

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2026 Easter Bunny

03/09/2026

03/08/2026

At approximately 8 p.m. local time March 4, a drone struck McGivney House, a 140-unit apartment complex in Erbil, Iraq. Built in 2018 with help from the Knights of Columbus, the complex opened the following year to house Christian families displaced from the Nineveh Plains by persecution and violence carried out by the Islamic State group. The apartment building was unoccupied at the time of the strike, having been evacuated due to its proximity to Erbil International Airport.

“We will continue to stand with the families who called McGivney House their home,” said Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly in a statement to the press March 4. “We join with our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, who has encouraged us all to ‘pray for peace, work for peace.’”

Featured: Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil, Iraq, stands in front of McGivney House in 2018. (Photo by Claire Thomas)

12/17/2025

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2025 Breakfast With Santa

11/09/2025

Fall Fest 2025.
Kudos to PGK Steve Cerve for coordinating that fine event! Rain prohibited the outside activities, but 82 people were served Costanza Family's secret spaghetti sauce dinner, while we were entertained by the ThiseWereTheDays Radio Players in a radio performance of "A Christmas Carol".

08/22/2025

Photos from the 2025 Silver Rose adoration.

08/04/2025

Click on link to participate: https://kolbeshrine.org/st-maximilian-kolbe-nine-day-novena-prayers

07/31/2025

Blessed Stanley Rother’s Story

On May 25, 1963, Stanley Francis Rother, a farmer’s son from Okarche, Oklahoma, was ordained for his home diocese of Oklahoma City-Tulsa. Having flunked out of the area seminary due to his difficulty with Latin, Fr. Rother finally accepted an invitation to attend Mount St. Mary Seminary in Maryland, where he finished his studies and was approved for ordination.

After serving in his local diocese for five years, Fr. Rother joined five priests, three religious sisters, and three laypersons to staff a Guatemalan mission in Santiago Atitlán serving the Tz’utujil people. The Oklahoma City diocese heard the call of Pope John XXIII to send missionaries to foreign lands, especially Central America. These twelve individuals felt the call, and with their bishop’s approval, left the comforts of the United States to live and work in Guatemala.

By 1975, Fr. Rother was alone at his parish in Santiago Atitlán, the others having returned home for various reasons. He served the Tz’utujil people for 13 years and won their hearts and souls. Ever the farmer, and always unpretentious and mild mannered, Fr. Rother experimented with various crops as well as fulfilling his heavy pastoral duties which included as many as five Masses in four different locations on a given Sunday and as many as 1,000 baptisms a year.

Guatemala’s civil war reached the highlands and Lake Atitlán by 1980. Government troops camped on the parish farm and Fr. Rother witnessed the assassination of a number of his parishioners, including the parish deacon.

Warned of imminent danger, Fr. Rother returned to the United States for three months early in 1981, to visit with his family and friends. Against the advice of his family and the local bishop, Fr. Rother returned to Atitlán to be with his people. He remembered a Sisters’ community who had fled the country and later tried to return but the people asked, “Where were you when we needed you?”

On the evening of July 28, three masked men entered the rectory and shot Fr. Rother to death. His beloved parishioners mourned him repeatedly crying, “They have killed our priest.”

Pope Francis declared Stanley Rother a martyr on December 2, 2016. He was beatified in Oklahoma City on September 23, 2017.

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