SAN MATEO, Rizal – Installation of the new Knights of Columbus San Mateo Council 6259 officers recently took place at the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu. The new Knights of Columbus officers took their oath during the 7:30 am community mass which was celebrated by Rev. Fr. Lopito Hiteroza, Shrine Rector and Parish Priest, and was preceded by a program at the parish formation center last July 29, Sunday.
District Deputy SK Miguel B. Talaue and District Warden SK Charley B. Lovendino, supervised the 49th installation of the new San Mateo Council 6259 officers where Luzon South Vocation Chairman SK Charlie P. Maghanoy was also present.
SK Rolando P. Gabriel is the newly elected Grand Knight (Head) for the Columbian Year 2018-2019 who will lead the organization in applying their order wide theme, “Faith in Action” to their duties as knights.
The Knights of Columbus is actually a fraternal service organization which takes part on the sociological service work of the parish. In part of their evangelical mission, the council organizes community-based activities like feeding program, free ultrasound, jail visitations and more.
Serving as the right hand of the church, the San Mateo Council 6259 with its newly installed officers enthusiastically calls for their brothers to join and take part of their vocation for charitable, religious and social welfare works.
Mariele Aquino
Junior Writer, Website Team, Media Ministry
Mariele R. Aquino is a member and website writer of the NSDA’s Media and Public Information Ministry, an aspiring future medical specialist and currently a STEM senior high school student in the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas. Her principle in life is that genuine success is something achieved through a path and battlefield of dodging a thousand bullets without the course of self-centered desires and conducts for temporary existential accomplishment. As a form of simple youthful religious fervor, Mariele used her skills, talent and dedication in writing to serve her Lord but also to grow not only intellectually but more on spiritually.
