{"id":7924,"date":"2025-04-16T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/?p=7924"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:31:30","slug":"knights-of-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/discipleship\/knights-of-columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights of Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Council 587 of the Knights of Columbus serves at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church. The Knights are a fraternal organization of practicing Catholic men who are committed to strengthening our faith while building up the parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council 587 membership meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Office, followed by the Rosary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions or you would like to join the Knights, please contact the current Grand Knight, Financial Secretary, and\/or Membership Director at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gk5&#56;&#55;&#64;&#109;&#105;&#107;o&#102;c.&#111;r&#103;\">&#103;&#107;58&#55;&#64;&#109;&#105;&#107;ofc&#46;&#111;r&#103;<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:fs587&#64;&#109;iko&#102;c.&#111;&#114;g\">&#102;s&#53;8&#55;&#64;m&#105;&#107;&#111;fc&#46;o&#114;&#103;<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:&#109;&#100;5&#56;&#55;&#64;mi&#107;o&#102;c.&#111;rg\">&#109;d&#53;&#56;7&#64;m&#105;k&#111;&#102;&#99;.&#111;&#114;&#103;<\/a>&nbsp;respectively.&nbsp;Fill out an application at<a href=\"http:\/\/kofc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;kofc.org.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, our council\u2019s charitable efforts have focused on visiting with and entertaining veterans of America\u2019s armed forces, and raising funds to support intellectually disabled persons at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stlouiscenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">St. Louis Center<\/a>\u00a0in Chelsea by way of the annual Columbus Day weekend MI Drive (featuring Tootsie Rolls).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council 587 of the Knights of Columbus serves at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church. The Knights are a fraternal organization of practicing Catholic men who are committed to strengthening\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":7925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discipleship"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9533,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions\/9533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}