10,000 reasons to pray
“It is good and healthy for men to come together and pray”, according to Adrian O’ Boyle, a young married man who is a member of the Knights of St. Columbanus in Mayo.
The Knights was founded in Belfast in 1915 by Fr. James O’Neill who was greatly influenced by the social teaching of the Catholic Church. The group has four main objectives, one of which is to promote the extension of a practical Christianity in all phases of life.
And what could be more practical than prayer and indeed their new Holy Communion booklet ‘Lord hear my Prayer’, with over 100,000 copies being currently distributed throughout Ireland?
According to Adrian King, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights, the booklet is very user friendly and designed so that children can pray with their parents. Mr King explains that one of the objectives of the publication is to “bring prayer into the family and into the community”.
For Adrian O’Boyle, along with bringing prayer into the family and community, it is also important for people to be instructed in the faith and so his group of Knights in Mayo are organising courses on apologetics to help their members be “better equip[ped] to argue for the faith”.
The Knights was founded in Belfast in 1915 by Fr. James O’Neill who was greatly influenced by the social teaching of the Catholic Church. The group has four main objectives, one of which is to promote the extension of a practical Christianity in all phases of life.
And what could be more practical than prayer and indeed their new Holy Communion booklet ‘Lord hear my Prayer’, with over 100,000 copies being currently distributed throughout Ireland?
According to Adrian King, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights, the booklet is very user friendly and designed so that children can pray with their parents. Mr King explains that one of the objectives of the publication is to “bring prayer into the family and into the community”.
For Adrian O’Boyle, along with bringing prayer into the family and community, it is also important for people to be instructed in the faith and so his group of Knights in Mayo are organising courses on apologetics to help their members be “better equip[ped] to argue for the faith”.