Knights of Columbus Father Richard J. Lyons Council 5357

Knights of Columbus Father Richard J. Lyons Council 5357 Father Richard J. Lyons Council 5357 in Sanford works closely with All Souls and Nativity parishes in Seminole County, Florida. The Father Richard J.

Lyons Council 5357 was founded on November 8, 1962. It is named after Father Richard J. Lyons, who founded All Souls Catholic School in 1954. Lyons Council works closely with All Souls Parish in Sanford and Nativity Parish in Longwood, providing assistance for clergy, parish ministries, and being active members and participants in their parishes and communities.

03/27/2026

No one had a more impactful influence on All Souls Catholic Church, All Souls Catholic School and Fr Richard J Lyons Council 5357 of the Knights of Columbus than Donald and Winkie LeFils. For most of us, Fr Richard J Lyons is just the namesake of our Council. For Don and Winkie he was the pastor of All Souls when the church decided to build the school that stands alongside of All Souls Catholic Church to this day. We lost Winkie last week as she joined her beloved Don and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May God grant her peace and rest in Jesus’s loving embrace.

Post by John Frazer Grand Knight. On Saturday February 7th, we held another Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ event. A few of us arriv...
02/21/2026

Post by John Frazer Grand Knight. On Saturday February 7th, we held another Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ event. A few of us arrived at 4:45am and got the smoker heated up, along with getting everything else set up like - tables, pans, meats, rubs, and cutting foil sheets for wrapping. During the day, we had anywhere from 3 to 10 Knights supporting. We cooked 31 racks of Baby Back ribs, 2 beef Briskets and I believe 32 Pork butts. The majority of the pork butts are for upcoming charity events like - 4 weekends of Habitat for Humanity Lady’s build lunches, Nativity’s Welcome retreat luncheon and the food booth at the Lap 4 Life event. We had everything smoked, wrapped, marked, stored or picked up and everything clean up by 4:30pm. We even had a good time doing it.

Thanks to everyone that ordered meats and/or donated to this event!

Also, Thank You to all the Knights that came out and supported.

Without the purchases/donations and man hour support, we would not be able to do the charity work we do.

John Frazer GK

Late post by John Frazer Grand Knight - on the 22nd of December, the Knights conducted a RARE Monday Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. ...
02/05/2026

Late post by John Frazer Grand Knight - on the 22nd of December, the Knights conducted a RARE Monday Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. There were major impacts to doing our normal Saturday cooking. We smoked/cooked a variety of meats. Including 40 Pork Roast that were going to families in need for Christmas. The pork roasts average 7lbs which should be enough for a couple of meals. Thanks to donations from Knights, Family, Friends and co-workers, we were able to include $100 gift cards so the families could get other side dishes to make complete meals. Sorry I didn’t get pictures of the entire event. We did get a picture of us delivering some of the pork roasts to St Vincent de Paul for distribution. Picture taken by SVDP. Thanks to everyone that worked the BBQ and all the donors. 15 were delivered to the Nativity food pantry and 25 to All Souls St Vincent de Paul food pantry.

Anyone that is not currently on the BBQ email list and wants to join, can request to be added by emailing [email protected]

Emails are sent out when we are having a BBQ. The email will include the date, which meats we are cooking, mandatory preorder date, costs and approximate pickup times.

John Frazer GK

John Frazer Grand Knight - On Saturday January 31st we held another 3rd degree Exemplification. 3 new members and 4 cur...
02/05/2026

John Frazer Grand Knight - On Saturday January 31st we held another 3rd degree Exemplification. 3 new members and 4 current members were sworn in as 3rd degree. 3 current members were 1st degree and 1 was a 2nd degree. One of our new members invited his family and we found out his Dad was a 1st degree. We invited him to obtain his 3rd degree while his son was becoming a new 3rd degree member. The ceremony was followed by lunch and socializing. Congratulations to the new members and those moving up to the 3rd degree!!! Also a big thank you to those that took photo’s!
John Frazer GK

At our October 21st meeting, our District Deputy, Dr Patrick Coggins present Council 5357 with our 2025-2025 STAR Counci...
11/03/2025

At our October 21st meeting, our District Deputy, Dr Patrick Coggins present Council 5357 with our 2025-2025 STAR Council Award. The Award comes with a plaque for the Council as well as 3 pins. 1 each for the Grand Knight (John Frazer), the Membership Director (Larry Kennedy) and the Program Director (Nick Baggio). A special shoutout was given to our Financial Secretary (Michael Borkowski) for all the work he does tracking the STAR award requirements and sending in the proper forms to get us the credit. Thanks to the Knights for doing such a good job to get us the Award.

It’s done!!! Council 5357 voted to paint the Bingo Hall interior and to replace the carpet. I didn’t get the date the ...
11/03/2025

It’s done!!! Council 5357 voted to paint the Bingo Hall interior and to replace the carpet. I didn’t get the date the interior was painted. But, Monday 10/6, we had about a dozen Knights (and one spouse), help with removing all the tables and chairs from Bingo, and stack them in 2 trucks. Tuesday and Wednesday, the carpet company replaced the old carpet with carpet squares. Thursday about 10 of us Knights reinstalled everything. The refurbishment looks great. Shortly after that the Bingo crew was already at work gettingthings ready for Sunday Bingo. All completed without Bingo skipping a beat. Then on Sunday the 19th, our Council Chaplin did a Dedication and Blessing of the Bingo Hall.

A big thank you to all the Knights for approving this work and your help. A special thanks to the Columbus Club President Mark (and his wife Mary) for making this happen.

Come on by on Sunday to see the changes and play some Bingo.

From our web page - Doors open at 2:30 · Regular BINGO at 4:30
Three packages & extras · Guaranteed payout
Snack bar · Full meals

On October 11th, Council 5357 held another Exemplification. We had 3 Men that became 3rd Degree Knights and one the mov...
11/03/2025

On October 11th, Council 5357 held another Exemplification. We had 3 Men that became 3rd Degree Knights and one the moved up from 1st Drgree to 3rd Degree. Congratulations to all of them.

Your donations, and your actions in the form of walking during our Laps for Life helped to make this moment possible!
09/10/2025

Your donations, and your actions in the form of walking during our Laps for Life helped to make this moment possible!

Saturday August 30th, the Knights had another Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. We started at 5 am pulling out the tables and supplies...
09/02/2025

Saturday August 30th, the Knights had another Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. We started at 5 am pulling out the tables and supplies. We then put our different rubs on 36 bone in pork butts, 2 Briskets, 2 Corned Beef briskets (Pastrami flavoring), 44 lbs of boneless pork (approx 15 chunks - for slicing) and 1 9lb Prime Rib. After all that meat was on the smoker, we turned out attention to the baby back ribs - 54 racks. We prepped them all with our rib rub, placed them in racks and got them in the smoker. At different points in time, we rotated the meat to try and get even smoke and temperature on everything. At the appropriate times we also pulled the meat and wrapped them in foil, then placed them back in the smoker until their ideal internal temperatures were achieved. We then cleaned up, and I believe the last of us were out of the Hall around 5-5:30 pm. Another successful BBQ is done. I tried to get pictures of each stage of the work. I ended up pulling the ribs out for wrapping and was not able to get pictures of that. We had a good group of Knights helping out and I think everyone had a good time doing it!!! Last pictures are of the Pastrami flavored corned beef brisket I purchased. I split it in half with Mom/Dad. Then I cut each half in 4 pieces. Each chunk is about 1.5lbs. I then sliced one of my chucks for eating on Labor Day. Yes, it tasted as good as it looks. I wasn’t invited to the meeting, but I got a picture of it. Maybe Neil was telling the other Knights the benefits of retiring?

Thanks everyone for the orders and helping make this happen. This is one of our money makers, which helps pay for the charity work we do.

John Frazer Grand Knight Council 5357 Sanford

Friday August 8th was the Back to School Bash at the All Souls Catholic School. Knights of Columbus Council 5357 were as...
08/11/2025

Friday August 8th was the Back to School Bash at the All Souls Catholic School. Knights of Columbus Council 5357 were asked to provide the food for the event. Knights provided hamburgers, hotdogs, buns, plates, cups, napkins, condiments, chips and cookies for the 300 estimated participants. Knights met at the Hall and loaded two grills, food, propane, and tents onto trailer and delivered all of it to the All Souls Chapel Social Hall. School sta& and volunteers from CCW set up the Hall with serving stations. The Knights cooked the burgers and hotdogs under our tent in the Historic Chapel’s parking lot. Two grills were kept busy for over an hour. A couple of Knights shuttled the cooked meats to warming trays in the Hall. A few Knights along with the CCW and school sta&, worked the serving line in the Hall. Our District Deputy also came over to support our e&orts. We served 310 meals and ran out of burgers and hotdogs. Some that arrived later or wanted seconds could not be accommodated. Previous years we had leftovers. We will have to budget for additional meals next year. I’ve only seen one photo from the event, so apologies to anyone that didn’t make it in the photo. We then cleaned up, packed up and brought all our equipment back to the Knights Hall.

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