 Fourth Degree Exemplification, Sunday, November 16, 2025, Honoree Reverend Piotr Pawlus, Faithful Friar and Pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Ware, Massachusetts |
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Ann Lebrun Obituary: Belchertown, MA -Ann Elizabeth (Connally) LeBrun, passed away on February 12, 2026, at the age of 63. Born on August 17, 1962, in Holyoke, MA, Ann enriched the lives of many with her warmth, compassion, and unwavering commitment to family and community. She was preceded in death by her beloved infant son, Sean Michael and her par loving wife of Will Lebrun, PFN passed away on Feburary 12 2026. Amongst he husband family and friends she wilents, John “Jack” Josph Connslly and Ann (Flanagan) Connally. She will l be dearly missed by her husband of 42 years Will LeBrun and their three children: Hilary of Westfield, Courtney LeBrun and Tom Marks of Windsor Locks, CT. and John Lebrun and Sara LeBrun of Quincy. Click on the link below for entire obituary: Faithful Navigators Report-January 2026 Election Notice:
January 25, 2026
Important Notice:
The Faithful Admiral position is currently vacant. Nominations began in January and will continue through February, with elections scheduled at the February meeting. The term runs from the 2025 to 2026 fraternal year. Your current term as Admiral of the Archbishop Williams Assembly will conclude at the June meeting. If you are interested in this role, please contact me or another officer.
Position: Faithful Admiral
The Faithful Admiral supports the Faithful Navigator and Faithful Captain, encouraging member engagement in assembly activities, and acts as presiding officer when both the Navigator and Captain are absent.
The Admiral advises the Faithful Navigator, serves as a key resource for the officer team and assembly, and participates in opening and closing ceremonies that reflect our core beliefs and responsibilities.
When the Faithful Friar is absent, the Admiral performs the duties of the Faithful Friar at assembly meetings.
The Admiral is considered a senior officer of the assembly; as such, in order to qualify for this position, the following requirements must be met:
• Must have served as Faithful Navigator.
• Must have and continue to demonstrate loyalty and dedication to our order.
Fraternally,
Jacob Bennett
Faithful Navigator
Archbishop Williams Assembly
(413) 575-1366
Faithful Navigator Report- October 2025 Subject: Request for Council Event Information & Upcoming Events Summary
Sir Knights,
I hope this message finds you well. As part of our ongoing commitment to strengthening our assembly and fostering an informed, engaged community, we are excited to introduce a new initiative: centralizing the promotion of all council events on our assembly website. By creating a single, comprehensive source for event information, we can increase visibility, encourage greater participation, and celebrate the vibrant activity across all our councils.
What We Need From You:
To achieve this, each council is asked to submit:
Our Aim:
Action Required:
Please send your event information to me, or directly to our webmaster, Time Paige, at tpaige@numbos.com. The sooner we receive your submissions, the sooner we can share them online and in our assembly communications. If your council has a recurring event schedule or a full-year calendar, feel free to send the whole list at once.
Below are examples of how to format your submission, using upcoming St. Mary’s Council 5406 events as a model:
St. Mary’s Council 5406 Pancake Breakfast
St. Mary’s Council 5406 Thanksgiving Day Pie Sale
Holy Family Retreat Center
Wreaths Across America
Tips for Submitting Your Events:
By working together and sharing our news, we can ensure that every event receives the attention it deserves and that our assembly remains strong and united. If you have questions about this new process, need assistance with formatting, or have ideas for improving our communications, please reach out to me or to Time Paige directly.
Thank you for your cooperation and ongoing dedication to our councils and community.
Fraternally,
Jacob Bennett, PGK
Faithful Navigator
Archbishop Williams Assembly
413-575-1366
Faithful Navigator Report- September 2025 Sir Knights, My Name is Jacob Bennett and I will be your Faithful Navigator for the Fraternal year of 2025 – 2026. Some events that I would like to bring to your attention are: Sunday, September 28, 2025, 4:00 PM Jubilee Mass honoring the Knights of Columbus. Bishop Byrne is inviting all the members of the Knights of Columbus from the Diocese of Springfield to join him for a special Jubilee Mass on Sunday, September 28th at 4:00PM at St. Michael’s Cathedral. He would like to acknowledge the great work being done by the Knights throughout the diocese in the parishes, deaneries and beyond. All the Knights of Columbus families are invited to join us. All members of the 4th Degree Honor Guard are invited to dress in their uniforms and participate in the Mass. A plenary indulgence is granted for those who attend and fulfill the prescriptions for the indulgences. Sunday, September 28th, 20025, 4:00PM. 52nd Annual Massachusetts Citizens for Life Banquet Boston Marriott Newton at 2345 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, MA. Kayleigh McEnany, former White House Press Secretary and Fox News Co-Host will be the Keynote Speaker at the Massachusetts Citizens for Life Banquet. The Emcee of the event will be Raimundo Rojas. The evening includes a three course dinner. Tickets can be purchased through the Massachusetts Citizens for Life website.
Vivat Dejesus,
Jacob Bennett, PGK Faithful Navigator Archbishop Williams Assembly
Faithful Navigator Report – March 2025 A very special thank you to David Luna and the Whip City Council 100 for providing us with a meal and their facility for our meeting. You are very much appreciated. Assembly Main focus is: (Please ask Our Holy Spirit for help and guidence)
(Currently we are offering to help by providing a uniform at no cost for knights who cannot afford one. However, if you can afford one, please consider purchasing one on your own. Also, if you want to go ½ and ½ we can do that as well. Finally, if you get a free uniform, please take an order form, and see if you can promote it at your parish. We Need help selling the wooden flags!
Here is the progress we have made, and what we need to work on from last month:
Prayer Encouragement: Oh Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything. (Repeat 10x) Vivat Jesus! Faithful Navigator Report – February 2025
This year, 2025, our Assembly main focus is:
(Currently we are offering to help by providing a uniform at no cost for knights who cannot afford one. However, if you can afford one, please consider purchasing one on your own. Also, if you want to go ½ and ½ we can do that as well. Finally, if you get a free uniform, please take an order form, and see if you can promote it at your parish.
Here is the progress we have made, and what we need to work on from last month:
– However, I am always willing to take a phone call. During the council meetings, if you would like to reach out to me, I would be happy to speak to your council members via phone / speaker / video call.
Prayer Encouragement: PSALM 63: 1-12 (The relationship between the worshipper and God)
It is you I seek! For you my body yearns. In a land parched, lifeless, And without water.
To see your power and glory.
My lips shall ever praise you!
I will lift up my hands, calling on your name.
With joyous lips my mouth shall praise you!
I remember you through the watches of night.
And in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy.
Your right hand upholds me.
They shall go down to the depths of the netherworld!
become the prey of jackals!
All who swear by the Lord shall exult. But the mouths of liars will be shut! Vivat Jesus! |
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Faithful Navigator Report – December 2024
This year, 2024, our Assembly main focus is:
Currently we are offering to help by providing a uniform at no cost for knights who cannot afford one. However, if you can afford one, please consider purchasing one on your own. Also, if you want to go ½ and ½ we can do that as well. Finally, if you get a free uniform, please take an order form, and see if you can promote it at your parish. We Need help selling the wooden flags! Here is the progress we have made, and what we need to work on from last month:
– However, I am always willing to take a phone call. During the council meetings, if you would like to reach out to me, I would be happy to speak to your council members via phone / speaker / video call.
Prayer Encouragement: Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born Of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother. Amen. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Worthy Sir Knights! Vivat Jesus! Faithful Navigator Report – November 2024 A very special thank you to Grand Knight, Richard Brohman III, and Council 376 – St. Thomas the Apostle, for providing our Fourth Degree Assembly a wonderful dinner. You are very much appreciated. Thank you very much to Wil Lebrun for constructing the Wooden flags, and for all of those who participated. You are helping our assembly honor guards, and our local veterans. Thank you very much to all who attended the Pro-Life Mass this past Sunday November 17, 2024 at 10:00AM. The knights were very well received, and it was a very refreshing experience to know our charity is in full support of human life from conception to natural death. Tempus fugit memento mori. This year, 2024, our Assembly main focus is:
(Currently we are offering to help by providing a uniform at no cost for knights who cannot afford one. However, if you can afford one, please consider purchasing one on your own. Also, if you want to go ½ and ½ we can do that as well. Here are some important Fourth Degree Assembly Events / Dates:
Wreaths Across America will be at Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery – Agawam to Remember and Honor our veterans through the laying of Remembrance wreaths on the graves of our country’s fallen heroes and the act of saying the name of each and every veteran aloud. Please help our location lay wreaths at as many graves as possible by clicking the red “Sponsor” button. All wreaths sponsored for this location will be placed on a Veteran’s headstone at the Agawam Veterans Cemetery or other nearby Wreaths Across America location if we exceed the 100% goal for Agawam. The Wreath Laying will be open to the public. THERE IS NO SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER. Parking will be off-site at Six Flags New England (1623 Main Street, Agawam, MA). Shuttle buses will be provided. Shuttles will start at 8AM. Wreath placement will take place after the ceremony. Here is a link to the Agawam page: https://wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/16181/Overview/?relatedId=0 Here is the progress we have made, and what we need to work on from last month:
– However, I am always willing to take a phone call. During the council meetings, if you would like to reach out to me, I would be happy to speak to your council members via phone / speaker / video call.
Prayer Encouragement: Thanksgiving is next week. Please pray a Holy Rosary for families to find peace. Reach out to a family member and / or friend, and let them know how thankful you are for having them in your lives. I am thankful for you all, and am very blessed to know you all, and I will be praying for you. Finally, please remember all of the Holy Souls in Purgatory. God bless America! God bless you all very much! Please accept my heartfelt thank you for your support and participation in our Fourth Degree Assembly. Vivat Jesus! Faithful Navigator Report – October 2024 A very special thank you to the Grand Knight, Jose-Luis Arroyo, and the rest of the 13043 – St. Tomas Aquino Council, for providing our Fourth Degree Assembly a wonderful dinner. Also, thank you very much to Fr. Jeff for allowing them use of St. Catherine of Sienna’s Parish Center for our meeting place. We are keeping busy, and a good pace for the direction of the Fourth Degree Archbishop Williams Assembly #388. Our main focus points are membership, and honor guard recruitment. In order to get this done, we need to have better communication. We have fallen short with our communication. Here are some important Fourth Degree Assembly Events / Dates:
Wreaths Across America will be at Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery – Agawam to Remember and Honor our veterans through the laying of Remembrance wreaths on the graves of our country’s fallen heroes and the act of saying the name of each and every veteran aloud. Please help our location lay wreaths at as many graves as possible by clicking the red “Sponsor” button. All wreaths sponsored for this location will be placed on a Veteran’s headstone at the Agawam Veterans Cemetery or other nearby Wreaths Across America location if we exceed the 100% goal for Agawam. The Wreath Laying will be open to the public. THERE IS NO SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER. Parking will be off-site at Six Flags New England (1623 Main Street, Agawam, MA). Shuttle buses will be provided. Shuttles will start at 8AM. Wreath placement will take place after the ceremony. Here is a link to the Agawam page: Wreaths Across America – Agawam Here is the progress we have made, and what we need to work on from last month:
Prayer Encouragement: Along with your daily Holy Rosary, please pray to your Guardian Angels. Pray they protect you, guide you, and keep you safe. If you know someone is struggling to get to Church, pray to your Guardian Angel to communicate with their Guardian Angel to bring them to church. IT WORKS! God bless America! God bless you all very much! Please accept my heartfelt thank you for your support and participation in our Fourth Degree Assembly. Vivat Jesus! Faithful Navigator Report – September 2024 A very special thank you to the Grand Knight, Paul Harper, and the rest of the 183 – Ware Council for providing our Fourth Degree Assembly for a meeting place, and a wonderful dinner. We had a very productive July, and August regarding the direction of the Fourth Degree Archbishop Williams Assembly #388. Here are some important dates: We have almost all of our meetings set for 2024 to 2025, with the exception of the month of November 2024. We are still trying to get the Hispanic Council to host the meeting for November. I haven’t been successful in reaching the Grand Knight. I am pursuing this until a week before the October Meeting. Otherwise, we will take a different avenue. We missed an honor guard event for the Big E. Usually, they have a Mass the first weekend of the Big E, and the Bishop is the celebrant. We need to be on top of this for next year. I am doing my best with our Faithful Captain to secure this ahead of time. We had a wonderful event with the Ludlow Our Lady of Fatima candlelight procession. Thank you very much to Tony, who helped our assembly honor guard with parking, and securing us a spot during the Mass, and in the parade. There were some hiccups with this at first, but hopefully, this is a secure event for every year in the future without any confusion. We have an event coming up that is very important to our assembly. It is on Saturday, October 5, 2024. It is the Installation & Blessing of our Assembly Officers. It is imperative to have your support, and the support of each council. This invitation is open to all Assembly, Councils, and any parishioner’s families, who wish to attend. The main goal is our assembly exposure. I have reached out to the Grand Knights for the councils, regarding a count of how many people will be attending as we are catering the event with really delicious food. October 5, is also Divine Mercy in the morning. Jack is looking for honor guards for the Mass. Also very important to our Assembly. October 19th, and 26th, both Saturday mornings, we are constructing wooden Flags at Wil Lebrun’s home. Wil has a gigantic shop with 2 floors, and he usually makes a nice lunch for afterwards. It’s a wonderful time to share with our Brother Knights, and to help our Honor Guard with uniforms, and most importantly our veteran’s home. November 24, 2024 is our Fourth Degree Exemplification at the Castle of Knights in Chicopee. The cost is $70 for new members coming in. Wear a dark suit and tie. There is also a ladies luncheon, $30, and dinner is $55 for them as well. Please let your councils know, and see me or Stanley for forms to fill out. Make checks payable to Stanley. December 14, at 10am -Wreaths Across America. The Honor Guard is needed. Please see Jack Seaver, our commander, to let him know you can make it. Here is the progress we have made: With the help from the assembly members, we have created a google spreadsheet for The assembly officers, council grand knights contact info, honor guards, assembly meetings calendar, and coming soon, important assembly dates for honor guards. This will help with communication in uniting our councils together so we will know what is happening in each council, and how we can support them. To help with Meeting flow, we are changing a couple of aspects of our meeting. The meeting minutes will be available on our website ahead of time. You will have to sign in in order to view the minutes. If you don’t have access to a computer, the minutes will be available at the meeting as well. When it comes time for the meeting, we will motion for the minutes, second the motion, and during the discussion, if there are any changes, our faithful scribe will make those changes, and update the minutes, then move on. The Faithful Navigator’s report will be the same, then move on. The good of the order will consist of signing our loved one’s names on the signup sheet before the meeting begins. Once we get to the good of the order, Father Jeff or Faithful Admiral, will read off all of the names, and then we will pray. Stanley mentioned during the Officers meeting about gaining more assembly members will require programs. He gave me a form regarding Patriotism. The first thing I thought of was the wooden flags, as Stanley mentioned the submission never went through in the past. So to carry on from Wil Lebrun’s legacy with the assembly, I resubmitted the form on behalf of our assembly, and hopefully, this year, it will get submitted, and our assembly will receive an award. Finally, we need a new Faithful Admiral. Dr. Kelly has stepped down, and we need to fill his position. This year, our focus is to unite the councils with each other. Our focus is to seek more council from Fr. Jeff from a Catholic perspective in getting some Divine Wisdom to succeed in getting more members to our assembly. Even though we are looking for younger members, we will take any members as well. I still have a lot to learn. I am going to make some mistakes, so please forgive me, and come to me with any thoughts or concerns, and we will adjust them appropriately. I am humbled still, and praying for you all, remembering you in my daily Rosary. Please do the same. May The LORD bless you and keep you! The LORD let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you! The LORD look upon you kindly and give you peace! Vivat Jesus! A WORD FROM OUR FAITHFUL NAVIGATOR: |
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Faithful Navigator Report – July 2024 I stand here with all of our faithful brotherhood in the Diocese of Springfield honored and humbled, because in my heart know I am unworthy of this position. Seven years ago, I was praying to Our Lady begging and pleading for her intercession to lead me towards Christ, to help me stay on the right path to Our Lord. Through the Holy Rosary, the Miraculous Medal Novena, and the Prayer of the Seven Sorrows of Our Blessed Mother. I was lead to the Knights of Columbus. She placed a special worthy sir knight in my path, who told me he would always support me and the faith we share in God. Our Lady’s intercession was later fortified when I became a 1st degree knight. How truly blessed we all are to have been appointed Knights for God, Knights for Our Blessed Virgin Mary, Knights for rock solid faith! Our founder, Blessed Fr. McGivney, is headed for Sainthood. Is this fact not enough of a reason to want to be a worthy sir knight? In Blessed McGivney’s time, he noticed the church falling apart. Father’s were dying on the job trying to make ends meat to provide for their families. Their widowed wives had no financial support and had no choice but to give her children up for adoption. How is this different today in our time? Today there are developed school and media programs that are forcefully influencing our acceptance of pedophilia, pornography, transgenderism, abortion, and worst of all abortion for minors without parental notice or consent. Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta once said, “Jesus said, “Anyone who receives a child in my name, receives me.” By adopting a child, these couples receive Jesus but, by aborting a child, a couple refuses to receive Jesus.” The demonic influences do not stop with abortion and infanticide. The demonic is also out there for legal euthanasia, which is no longer called legal assisted suicide. It is now called, “Physician-assisted death (PAD).” These are communist influences. Communism goes directly against our Roman Catholic Church. Worthy sir Knights, we must stand together in this holocaust and pray. We need to ask Our Almighty and ever-loving Father to preserve us, protect us, and guide us to protect our families, our children and grandchildren, and our beautiful country, which our brothers and sisters fought and died to protect. May The LORD bless you and keep you! The LORD let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you! The LORD look upon you kindly and give you peace! Happy Fourth of July, and may God bless America! Vivat Jesus! Faithful Navigator Sources: |
A very special thank you to Fr. Jeff and Rose from St. Catherine of Sienna for putting this meeting at the last minute for the Assembly. You are very much appreciated. This is a gentle reminder for this assembly as it’s very nice and generous to want to donate to all kinds of folks who are in need, however, it’s important to remember that this is a Patriotic Degree, and we can do a lot in our communities by bringing what we have learned in our assembly meetings to our council meetings. Right now, our focus (with the help of the Holy Spirit) should be on MEMBERSHIP, HONOR GUARD, and WOODEN FLAGS. If we focus on these, we can do more for our brother Knights by having the chance to make sure we are available for not only patriotic events, but for our fallen brother 4th degree knights, whose family members would like the honor guard present. I would like to thank Jack Seaver for consistently coordinating honor guard members to show up to important events when needed. We all know how challenging this is with the few honor guards we have. 
