New Knights of the Holy Temple

The Knights of the Holy Temple celebrate Mass in the woods

With all the activities surrounding Bishop McFadden's installation, some other parish news just got pushed to the back burner.  Now, I have a chance to catch you up on what's been going on.

Back in early August, the Knights of the Holy Temple, our high school boys group, took a 3-day retreat/camping trip for some R & R, some "guy time" and in preparation for an initiation ceremony.  We spend several days tent camping at Cowan's Gap State Park where we were kayaking, swimming, and enjoying sitting around the campfire.  We also reflected on our responsibilities and role as young, Catholic gentlemen. Fr. Collin Poston, of Saint Mary's in Hagerstown, MD, and 4 of his Knights joined us for the camping trip/retreat.

(L to R - Row 1) James Clement, Joey Barvir, Austin Maurer, Philip Bautista, John (of St. Mary's), Robert Lison.  (Row 2) Fr. Bateman, Nate Wunderlich (of St. Mary's), Ben Hartung, Andrew Hartung, Alex Bowman, Fr. Poston

After returning to the parish, and getting cleaned up from several days out in the wilderness, we held an initiation ceremony for 3 young men from Waynesboro and 2 from Hagerstown.