To:
Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of Columbus
Chaplains, Knights & others as soon as possible.
From:
Steve Lovison, 4th Degree Knight,
Pope John Paul I Council 6020/El Camino Real Assembly 85
President/Founder, Adoration Servants a 501(c)(3) Entity
7631 Quebec Dr. Huntington Beach, CA. 92648 (714) 943-1038
Date: Saturday December 8, 2012, Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Subject: Request to Help the Knights of Columbus Achieve a Stated Goal
Worthy Supreme Knight,
On this the feast of our country’s patron, the Immaculate Conception, I ask you not only to consider but act upon with all urgency this proposal that the Knights of Columbus, who you have said are also the “Knights of the Eucharist,” become the true champions of Eucharist Adoration especially in the United States. If we act immediately, we will be in time for the March 2013 U.S. Supreme Court Marriage hearings and the Court’s anticipated June decision. With your endorsement, I am confident that Councils around the country would act on this call and within a matter of weeks, establish new Perpetual Adoration chapels across the United States, and strengthen existing chapels. We could then continue to grow adoration in a most inspiring and fruitful manner. I have the experience to help lead this and the Knights have the resources.
We Knights have spent millions supporting the Catholic definition of marriage, most of it related to proposals on election ballots. In 2008 California Proposition 8 won by a small margin only to be rejected in the courts while Connecticut courts legalized same-sex marriage. In 2012 all four state ballot measures went against Christian moral principles.
Standard political weapons alone will not bring victory. A spiritual renewal is needed. You stated in 2007 that we Knights “are providentially positioned to take up the challenge of a leadership role in the renewal of parish life” and that “we must reach out into more parishes with an active presence.” EUCHARIST ADORATION IS THE KEY TO THAT RENEWAL. That same year Cardinal Marc Quelet said there is “a great Eucharistic movement now under way in the Church” but Eucharistic Adoration is in decline since 2007 and was arguably in decline then as well.
You have made it clear that the goals of Blessed John Paul II should be made reality. In 1993 he called for “the establishment of perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in all parishes and Christian communities throughout the world.”
Without an extreme renewal of spiritual life among American Catholics, pro-life efforts will not be victorious. You have pledged we Knights will “do everything in our power to end abortion, protect innocent life and traditional marriage.” The Knights have the resources and I will dedicate my life to this cause. When the Knights champion Eucharistic Adoration all heaven will rejoice.
Steve Lovison
lovison@adorationservants.org
www.adorationservants.org