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Fr. Philip O'Hern Council 10776
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The Knights of Columbus is an international Catholic fraternal service organization. Membership is open to all men of the parish over the age of 18. Members put our faith into action with acts of charity, unity, and fraternity to strengthen our parish, school, and community, and beyond. Learn more about the Knights in this video (less than 5 min).
Our Knights meet on 1st Wednesdays, from 7-9 p.m.
For membership information contact Paul Lewis at 512-302-4722.
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About Our Council's Namesake
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Father E. Philip O'Hern, CSP, was born August 6, 1906 at West Point, New York, where his father, Colonel O'Hern, had taught Generals Patton and Eisenhower as cadets. As a boy, he expected to follow the military career of his father and maternal grandfather (O'Hara), but a physical injury turned his thoughts to the priesthood of his uncle, Paulist Father Louis O'Hern. In 1924 at the age of 18 Phil was received into the Paulist community. He was in the first class to make a canonical novitiate at Ridgefield, Connecticut. He completed his college and theological studies at The Catholic University where he received the BA, STB, and MA degrees. He was ordained a Catholic priest on June 11, 1932, by his uncle John Francis O'Hern, Bishop of Rochester.
Father Phil's first assignment was to Old St. Mary's parish in San Francisco, followed by appointments to Good Shepherd in New York and Winchester, Tennessee. In 1942, he became an army chaplain, serving from Alaska through the European Theatre of Operations at forward field hospitals. Upon the liberation of the Nazi death camp in Ebensee, Austria, he saw the gas chambers and the furnaces; he buried hundreds and prayed over the sick and the dying. He probably participated in more combat action than any other Paulist during World War II, as indicated by his reception of four battle stars. (From Findagrave.com)
Read more about Fr. Phil.
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The Knights Serve a Meal at Micah 6
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Knightly News & More About the KCs
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Our sausage wraps were a big hit with parishioners attending the dedication ceremony last Sunday. We received many favorable comments – Thank You!Read More
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On Saturday September 9th, five Knights of Council 10776 provided the weekly meal for the Micah 6 Street Youth Drop-In Center at the University Baptist Church.Read More -
With Labor Day behind us, we are now starting the fall activity season even if the temperatures remind us that summer isn’t over yet.Read More
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What better way to start the new school year than with our Teacher and Staff Appreciation Luncheon in our new school!Read More
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Several Council members have been reading the book titled Parish Priest, Father Michael McGivney, and American Catholicism and discussing its book club style at Council meetings. The book is a historical account of Fr. McGivney’s life and that of immigrant Catholics in New England in the late 1800’s. Fr. McGivney was assigned to St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Connecticut where he founded the Knights of Columbus with 9 other men in the basement of that church in 1882. That parish has been known as St. Mary’s until this month when the Archdiocese of Hartford merged it with 7 other parishes in New Haven into one unified parish named Blessed Michael McGivney Parish, in honor of the founder of the K of C. The history of our Founder is still being written!Read More
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