A vendor representing 200 Christian families in the Holy Land came to Holy Family Parish to sell olive carvings. Given the difficulty or impossibility for tourists and pilgrims to visit the sacred sites, the Palestinian Christians are coming to us.
Our patronage can make a big difference for them. The Christian population is rapidly shrinking in the Holy Land. If we want the remnant to remain as witnesses to our Lord then we have to help them.
Many parishioners and knights bought the beautiful religious items to consecrate their homes and to help our courageous brothers and sisters caught in the middle between the local Muslims and the Israeli Jews.
O great and glorious God, You imbued Your holy priest. Father Michael J. McGivney, with deep priestly virtue and especially with pastoral concern for the poor, the orphan, the widow, for the Christian education of youth, for the protection of the faith of the working man of his day.
Now that his priestly ministry continues to spread to countless millions throughout the world, through the efforts and influence of the Order of the Knights of Columbus, which Father McGivney founded, we beseech Your, Heavenly Father, to raise Your faithful servant, Michael, to the honors of the altar. We ask this favor through our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother, Mary and our Mother, Amen. 
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