Aviston KofC

06/01/2026

They're here!
Get yours early!
Support our Knights of Columbus Vocations program.
Tickets are $5 each, or get a book of 5 for $20.
Contact a local Knight or Venmo us your funds with the requested number of books and we will fill the stubs out for you.

05/18/2026

Congratulations to our Brother Knights at Breese Council #2869!

They received seven individual awards at the annual state convention this past weekend.
Way to go guys!
Keep up the good work!

They were awarded the following awards for Division AAA, which is the largest division in the Knights of Columbus in Illinois:

1. 1st Place Highest Percentage Membership at 213%

2. 1st Place High Net Membership Gain
3. Gold Award - Illinois in Action

4. 1st Place Vocations Program

5. 3rd Place Intellectual Disabilities Program

6. 3rd Place Charitable Assistance Fund

7. 3rd Place Newman Apostolate Program

03/27/2026

We welcomed a new member to our order and council this evening. If you see Craig Lappe around town congratulate him and welcome him into our council.

03/03/2026

Our coucil had two first place winners at the District Free Throw Championship. The First Place winners, Wren Hollenkamp and Alden Voss, will continue on to the Regional Free Throw Championship to be held at Mater Dei Catholic High School on Sunday, March 8, 2026, with Registration at 12:30pm and competition to follow. We would like to congratulate Wren an Alden and look forward seeing them win the Regional contest also. Come out and cheer them on!

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02/12/2026

A message from Fr. Godfrey Mullen, OSB

Live it up.

These words were standard fare when I was in high school. And as Lent hovers near on the horizon – Ash Wednesday is February 18 – maybe they’re words that deserve our attention. Lent is not meant to be a punishment, but a time of retreat for the Church – all of us. Lent is a time of hopeful renewal and repentance, of turning away from darkness and death toward the light of the resurrection. Before Lent begins, we might live it up with a paczki or a movie or maybe a nice meal. But let’s truly live it up during Lent, as well, in the spiritual sense: welcoming more regularly, more completely the Word of God.

Lent is a time for better hospitality to God’s presence in our life. Will we welcome Him more consciously? Lent is a time for us to pray more intensely, speaking from our needs and listening to God’s desires for us. Lent is a time for us to be formed by God’s good grace. In the words of liturgical musician Ed Bolduc, we must “be merciful, just as our God is merciful.” That takes formation in the ways of Jesus! And finally, Lent is a time for service: attending to the needs of our brothers and sisters (Jesus’ brothers and sisters) and responding freely with the gifts we’ve been given.

This Lent, while giving up those things that aren’t necessary, let’s become avenues of grace for others. By our way of life, may we find in this holy season every opportunity to share the love of the Lord with others.

Rule of St. Benedict, from Chapter 49 on the Observance of Lent: We urge the entire community during these days of Lent to keep its manner of life most pure and to wash away in this holy season the negligence of other times. This we can do in a fitting manner by refusing to indulge evil habits and by devoting ourselves to prayer with tears, to reading, to compunction of heart and self-denial. During these days, therefore, we will add to the usual measure of our service something by way of private prayer and abstinence from food or drink, so that each of us will have something above the assigned measure to offer God of our own will “with the joy of the Holy Spirit” (1 Thess 1:6). In other words, let each one deny themselves some food, drink, sleep, needless talk and idle jesting, and look forward to holy Easter with joy and spiritual longing.

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02/12/2026

https://youtu.be/RpZcw5aFpEA

Returning to Mass is more than coming back to a place, it’s coming home. In the celebration of the Eucharist, we encounter Christ Himself, receive the grace ...

02/09/2026

Here are pictures of the winners of the Council free throw contest. Below are the winners at each age group and thanks to Matt Netemeyer and Dustin Timmermann for running it. District competition is March 1 at 3 PM at Mater Dei.

Girls
Age 9: Aubrey Waltsgott
Age 10: Alayna Hemann
Age 11: No entrants
Age 12: Wren Hollenkamp
Age 13: No entrants
Age 14: No entrants

Boys
Age 9: Alden Voss
Age 10: Braxton Uhring
Age 11: Blaine Toennies
Age 12: Kellen Timmermann
Age 13: Easton Timmermann
Age 14: No entrants

01/28/2026

The council wishes to thank all of the students of Aviston Elementary for participating in the Knights of Columbus spelling bee. In the photo below Darrell Strieker and Steve Schrage flank the winners of this year's contest.

Grayson Borowiak 1st
Eli Thole 2nd
Kellen Timmermann 3rd

A total of 40 contestants from 5th through 8th grade participated, requiring 5 rounds to get to the final 3 winners.

A special thanks go out to the teachers and staff for their cooperation in this event.

01/24/2026

Attention Council Members!

The member breakfast scheduled for Sunday January 25th has been POSTPONED until Sundat February 1.
Same time, after 9:30 mass. Same location.
Your annual membership dues get you and your family in the door.
Dues may be paid as you arrive or use our Venmo link to pay in advance.
See you NEXT Sunday!