A Higher Purpose
Help strengthen families and revitalize our parishes. Knights of Columbus councils will invite each family unit in their parish to consecrate themselves to the Holy Family and to devote themselves to the ideal model of familial honey set by Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Overview
To aid families live out the joy of Christ, Supreme Clergyman Archbishop William Due east. Lori has equanimous a prayer through which families volition come together to consecrate themselves under the protection of the Holy Family. In this prayer, nosotros inquire for the aid or intercession of the perfect son Jesus Christ, Mary the perfect mother, and Joseph who is a model for every father. Councils volition guide their parishes and community to understand and offer this important and impactful prayer. Preparing for the Consecration to the Holy Family is not a unmarried result. It is choosing a style of life for your family. Through this consecration, each participant is consciously choosing to be a buoy of God's love through his Church.

Required Program
A council must conduct this required program in the Family category to be eligible to receive the Columbian Award.

Action Steps

  1. Working with your pastor, obtain his permission and recommendations on conducting a Consecration to the Holy Family in your parish.
  2. Guild a skilful quantity of Induction to theHoly Family Prayer Cards (#10371) through Supplies Online, the supply ordering portal bachelor on Officers Online.
  3. Prepare a date for the consecration and announce it to your parish a month earlier the official solar day.
  4. Distribute Consecration to theHoly Family Prayer Cards (#10371) at Masses the week before the induction. Also place a adept supply of prayer cards in your church building and council hall.
  5. Although the formal consecration will occur at all Masses on a chosen Sunday, serious and mindful preparation for at to the lowest degree a week prior is a major aspect of this program. To ensure that all members of your parish are fully participating and readying themselves for the induction, your council should consider:
    • Asking your pastor to brand an announcement at all Sun Masses the week earlier the consecration. Enquire him to explicate what a consecration is, why it is beingness undertaken, and how to properly prepare.
    • Suggesting that each family pray together each day for the week before the consecration. Ideally, this will lead them to continue the practice, at least on a weekly footing, subsequently the consecration has occurred.
    • Encouraging each family unit to intentionally fast from something ahead of the induction. This fast should concluding at least a calendar week leading up to the induction. Information technology is strongly encouraged to fast from something that would normally be consumed or an activity that is regularly washed. Fasting helps to subject our minds and hearts and moves us to be more focused on God.
    • Strongly encouraging each member of all parish families to go to confession before the consecration.
    • Hosting an consequence in the middle of the week prior to the Dominicus consecration. One idea for this result is to invite a invitee speaker to discuss the importance of consecrating oneself to the Holy Family, the model of the Holy Family, the significant and impact of consecrations, or related themes. Be sure to set bated fourth dimension at your event for prayer in community. Consider praying the rosary together and be certain to recite the consecration prayer together in preparation.
  6. Build public interest! Promote the Consecration to the Holy Family unit in your parish and larger community through a diversity of efforts:
    • Prominently display promotional posters (which can exist ordered through Supplies Online)
    • Bulletin announcements
    • Pulpit announcements
    • Posting on your council and parish website / social media pages
  7. On the chosen twenty-four hours, distribute Induction to theHoly Family unit Prayer Cards (#10371) over again. Under the direction of your pastor, recite the Induction to the Holy Family Prayer together equally a parish family unit at all Sunday Masses. If he is willing, inquire your pastor to besides comprise themes relating to the consecration and the Holy Family in his homily.
  8. Following the consecration, host an upshot in the parish or council hall for all parish families to celebrate the consecration together! Take family-friendly games ready for everyone to savor. Remind all nowadays that this consecration holds lasting impacts. Although the time of grooming has ended and the consecration has occurred, devotion to the Holy Family continues, and we should always strive to resemble their ideal model of a loving family unit.
  9. At the celebration event, be certain to clothing Knights of Columbus-branded apparel and take the quango membership director set a tabular array with brochures and membership documents (includingProspect Cards #921A). Do not forget that this event is a recruiting opportunity!
  10. Enlist a beau Knight or community member to photograph the upshot.
  11. Post-obit the consecration and celebration, update the community on the success of your program by distributing an declaration to local media, forth with energizing photographs from the event.
  12. To proceeds credit for your program, complete the associated reporting forms and submit them to the Supreme Council Department of Fraternal Mission. Remember to retain copies for your council records.
    • Immediately afterwards your event is finished, complete theFamily Written report Form (forthcoming)
    • At the cease of the fraternal year, complete yourColumbian Laurels Application (#SP-7)