Knights of Columbus - St. Jude Council 1043

04/05/2025

Thank you to all who came out to tonight’s fish fry and came early!

04/04/2025

Reminder that this is tonight! Hope to see you there!

We have our KofC Fish Fry next Friday, April 4th from 5:-7:00 at St Thomas school in the gym.
Tickets will be available for purchase after Mass this weekend and can be purchased at the door the night of the event.
Spread the word and come join us for some great fish, coleslaw, mac n cheese and a new twist.
We will have all the fixings to make your own fish tacos.

03/29/2025

We have our KofC Fish Fry next Friday, April 4th from 5:-7:00 at St Thomas school in the gym.
Tickets will be available for purchase after Mass this weekend and can be purchased at the door the night of the event.
Spread the word and come join us for some great fish, coleslaw, mac n cheese and a new twist.
We will have all the fixings to make your own fish tacos.

12/05/2024

Knights of Columbus Council 1043 has prayed the Rosary on the First Friday of every month for 499 consecutive months! (Over 41 years!).

Tomorrow, Friday, December 6th at 7pm at St. Vincent's Catholic Church in Elkhart, we will pray it for the 500th time! Come join us!

Please plan to stick around for cookies and light refreshments afterwards!

11/08/2024

The Knights of Columbus are hosting a spaghetti dinner for the women's ministry Kingdom Builders this Saturday from 5:00 to 7:00.
The Knights will be preparing spaghetti and meatballs, garlic toast, salad, applesauce and desserts for a donation.
$11.oo for adults
$6.oo for children ages 12 to 6
5 and younger free

The location is the St Thomas the Apostle School gym off of North Main Street. Tickets available at the door. Dine in or carry out is available.

Come join the Knights in supporting this new ministry and if you can't dine in take a great spaghetti meal home for the family and enjoy the Notre Dame game starting at 7:00 ish.

Hope to see you there,
Jeff Robertson, Grand Knight

05/31/2024

This Sunday, June 2nd our parishes will be having the annual Corpus Christi Procession departing at 4:00pm from St. Thomas parking lot. The procession concludes at St. Vincent's church and is followed by Benediction.
I hope to see you there.

YBIC,
Jeff Robertson, Grand Knight

05/30/2024

Come pray the Rosary with us!
Every First Friday of the month! See image below for more details.

05/21/2024

Attention class of 2024 HS graduates:
We are offering two renewable $500 scholarships for any 2-year college, 4-year college, trade school, or vocational school. Check out our website for the application which is due by Sunday, May 26th.

Application are available in English and Spanish!

Charitable Works of Council 1043 Knights of Columbus

04/01/2024

We are not hosting a Dyngus lunch or dinner as we sold building on Lexington over a year ago.

03/20/2024

Bring your families to our council 1043 Knights of Columbus Fish Fry this Friday, March 22nd at Saint Thomas the Apostle school. Doors open at 5:00pm

"All you can eat Fish until the kitchen runs out" plus coleslaw and mac&cheese. Desserts available for a donation.

Good food, fellowship and music.

Tickets available at the school door H on North Main Street.
Adult ticket is $12.50, Kids age 6-12 are $8.00, Under 5 eat for free.

There will be a live Stations of the Cross in the church beginning at 7:00, performed by the 8th grade class of Saint Thomas School.

01/04/2024

Congratulations!!
Knights of Columbus - St. Jude Council 1043 was presented the Star Council Award for the 2022-2023 Fraternal Year. The council was 1 of 27 Councils in Indiana who received Star Council Award. Indiana has 200 councils in the state. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in membership, insurance and programming. In order to achieve the Star Council Award, a council must earn the Father McGivney, Founders’ and Columbian Awards.

To join the Knights, please reach out to one of the Knights or you may signup online at KofC.org/Join and enter Council 1043.

Shown in the picture above from left to right are Membership Director Jim, Grand Knight Jeff, District 11 Deputy Ryan and
Program Director Chris.

08/09/2023

Sunday, August 6th, St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Churches were each presented with a $10,000 check from the Elkhart Knights of Columbus, St. Jude Council 1043. This marks the beginning of a long-term plan for the Knights to give charitably each year from investment income resulting from the sale of the Columbus Club in downtown Elkhart.