Brother Michael Akinrele re-elected as the Supreme Knight for 2025/2026.
Supreme Council has re-elected Brother Michael Akinrele as the Supreme Knight for 2025/2026.
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Happy 106th Birthday to the Order of Knights of St Columba
1070 miles to Lourdes for Fr Damian Cassidy
Fr Damian Cassidy, HCPT’s Trust Chaplain and a member of the charity’s Board of Trustees, will begin a remarkable fundraising challenge on 1 October 2025. He will take on a virtual prayer walk of 1,070 miles, the distance from his parish of St. John Vianney, in Newcastle, to Lourdes in France. The goal of Fr Damian’s Big Prayer Walk is to raise £70,000 to mark the 70th anniversary of HCPT, the charity which takes thousands of children and adults with disabilities and life limiting conditions to Lourdes on life changing pilgrimages each Easter.
National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Winefried 2025
Photo Credit: AdamT https://www.rcdwxm.org.uk/
On 22nd June 2025, Brothers of Province 2037 – Wales, accompanied by our Supreme Knight, Brother Michael Akinrele, joined His Lordship Peter Brignall, Bishop of Wrexham, for the annual National Pilgrimage to Holywell – often referred to as “the Lourdes of Wales.”
Holy Island of Lindisfarne – Saturday, 12th July 2025
Invitation – Holy Mass for the Knights of St. Columba
Holy Island of Lindisfarne – Saturday, 12th July 2025
A special Holy Mass for the Knights of St. Columba will be celebrated on Saturday, 12th July 2025, on the historic Holy Island of Lindisfarne, arranged earlier in January 2025. This sacred event marks a moment of spiritual unity and reflection for the Order, held in a place of profound Christian significance.
Jubilee Year 2025
Fr. Stephen Wang Says
We are ready for the Jubilee pilgrims who are converging on Rome this year. We have turned the Salotto into a Welcome Centre so they can orientate themselves before having a tour of the College. We've bought a new TV so we can show visitors the EWTN documentary about the life and history of the College.
“Is our man a miracle?”
In August 1993, a front-page article in the Catholic Pictorial appeared under the banner: “Is our man a miracle?” It was a reference to the cure of John (Jack) Traynor at Lourdes in 1923, and the possibility that this cure might officially be declared miraculous. The article added that, “Ever since the World War I veteran was cured instantaneously and dramatically during the first archdiocesan pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady… many have believed unquestioningly that the event was miraculous.
Order loses two stalwarts
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of two esteemed members of our Order:
- Past Supreme Knight Pat Layden, K.C.S.G., K.H.S., of Council 429, who passed away on December 2, 2024. - Brother George Smith
of Council 150, Past Director and Past Supreme Warden, who passed away on November 24, 2024.
We ask that you keep their families in your prayers during this difficult time.
+ May they rest in peace +
KSC Daily Mass Scheme 2024 – 25
Throughout the year 2024, the Knights of St. Columba are united in a profound spiritual journey as Mass is joyously celebrated by devoted brothers in every council across the United Kingdom.