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Chicago Region Remembers Deceased Members

Darren Milanowicz, KM
12/18/2025

Last month the Chicago Region celebrated the Annual Mass of Remembrance for deceased members and malades at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii in Chicago, attended by more than 35 members, and family and friends.

The Very Rev. Richard N. Fragomeni, rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of ...

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Day of Healing in DC

Richard Landfield, KM
12/18/2025

On a Saturday in late October, knights and dames at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, DC, hosted a Day of Healing and Reflection after a six-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The project is intended ...

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Malta Spirituality Retreat

Patrick Burns, KM
12/18/2025

Last month the Charleston, South Carolina Developing Region held its first retreat at Camp St. Christopher on Seabrook Island, with the theme “An Introduction to the Spirituality of the Order of Malta."

The retreat was ...

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Advent Reflection Leads to Christmas Cards for the Homeless

Corey Grimley, KM
12/18/2025

Knights, dames, candidates and applicants, along with their spouses, children and grandchildren, gathered at the St. Mary Mother of the Church parish hall in Lafayette, Louisiana on December 13 for an Advent Morning of Reflection ...

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Chicago Region Remembers Deceased Members

Darren Milanowicz, KM
12/18/2025

Last month the Chicago Region celebrated the Annual Mass of Remembrance for deceased members and malades at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii in Chicago, attended by more than 35 members, and family and ...

read more

Day of Healing in DC

Richard Landfield, KM
12/18/2025

On a Saturday in late October, knights and dames at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, DC, hosted a Day of Healing and Reflection after a six-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The project is intended ...

read more

Malta Spirituality Retreat

Patrick Burns, KM
12/18/2025

Last month the Charleston, South Carolina Developing Region held its first retreat at Camp St. Christopher on Seabrook Island, with the theme “An Introduction to the Spirituality of the Order of Malta."

The retreat was ...

read more

Advent Reflection Leads to Christmas Cards for the Homeless

Corey Grimley, KM
12/18/2025

Knights, dames, candidates and applicants, along with their spouses, children and grandchildren, gathered at the St. Mary Mother of the Church parish hall in Lafayette, Louisiana on December 13 for an Advent Morning of Reflection ...

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Chicago Distributes Winter Supplies to Homeless

Donald Hempson, KM
12/18/2025

As winter engulfed Chicago in December 2021, members of the Chicago Region began an annual tradition of traveling to the encampments of the city’s homeless community to place Malta winter coats and socks into ...

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Lancaster Goes on Retreat

Kathy Kingston, DM
12/4/2025

The Lancaster Region held its annual retreat with Bishop Ronald Gainer, retired from the Diocese of Harrisburg, in early November at the Mariawald Retreat Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. Our lives were enriched by discussion of ...

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Houston Retreat Offers Insights Into Beatitudes

Michele Malloy, DM
12/4/2025

The Beatitudes serve as the compass for the spirituality of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Malta. Fittingly, they served as the theme of the Texas Tri-Region Retreat in mid-November.

Eighty people from Texas, Louisiana ...

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The Real Presence: An Invitation to the New Evangelization and Charisms of our Order

The Federal Association Spirituality Committee
12/4/2025

Knights and Dames of the Order strive to live out our charisms of “defense of the faith” and “care of the sick and the poor” which are sometimes manifested in ways not readily thought of ...

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Regent of the Subpriory of Our Lady of Lourdes Speaks in Washington, DC

Hugh Dempsey, GCMOb
11/13/2025

On November 1, 2025, the Subpriory of Our Lady of Lourdes, Federal Association members gathered to welcome the Subpriory Regent, Ambassador Peter McGuire to Washington, DC. Celebrating Mass was the Subpriory’s Chief Chaplain and ...

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Lancaster Commemorates Its Dead

Gerald Ganse, KMOb
11/13/2025

On November 3, the Lancaster Region held its 5th Annual Mass of Remembrance for deceased malades and deceased region members at their spiritual home, St. Joseph Catholic Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Guests included Lourdes pilgrims ...

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Boot Up Philly 2025 Yields Record Results

Robert Macri, KM
11/13/2025

For the fifth consecutive year, members of the Order of Malta from across the Delaware Valley came together in Center City Philadelphia on Saturday, October 25th for Boot Up Philly, sponsored by Catholic Charities ...

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Mission to Our Lady of Guadalupe & Her Daughters

John D. McKenzie, MD, KMOb, Anne C. McKenzie, DM, and Colleen Sullivan Opack
11/13/2025

In September, members of the Jacksonville Region ventured to Mexico City, where they toured the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and visited the Sisters of Mary World Villages for Children Girlstown School in Chalco ...

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Growing Bluffton Region Takes on New Projects

Diana Shertenlieb, DMOb
10/30/2025

Thanks especially to the leadership of Drs. Ed and Cora Arellano, members of our Bluffton Region began a campaign to assist the Sisters of St. Francis on St. Helena's Island, South Carolina by replacing ...

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Investiture 2025

Elizabeth Stoner, DM
10/16/2025

During the weekend of September 26-28, 2025, the Federal Association welcomed 55 new members of the Class of 2025.  This year’s Investiture activities were held at The Madison Hotel and the Cathedral of St ...

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Sponsoring a Malade on the Lourdes Pilgrimage

The Lourdes Medical Leadership Team
10/16/2025

The Federal Association has issued the Lourdes Malade Application for the 2026 Pilgrimage and encourages Members of the Order to sponsor malades for the International Lourdes Pilgrimage in May 2026. 

What will each of us ...

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Chicago Prepares for Lourdes with first Annual Transfer Training

Doug O'Brien, KM
10/16/2025

Over the course of centuries, the Order of Malta has sought to live its commitment to our Lords, the poor and the sick.  From its original manifestation in the Holy Land, tending to the needs ...

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Retreats in the Roman Catholic Tradition

Ambassador Peter McGuire, GCMOb
10/2/2025

At the end of May those members of the Subpriory of our Lady of Lourdes who are professed Knights of Justice; those who have taken the Promise of Obedience and those who are considering taking ...

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Regions Collaborate in Support of Holy Family Hospital

Barbara Ritschel, DM
9/18/2025

Christmas in August? Absolutely!

Forty-two members of the Montgomery County, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia regions, alongside volunteers from Saint Ann’s Parish in DC, came together August 24 to spend time in prayer and ...

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Lancaster Joins in Works of Mercy

Peter Scudner, GCM
9/4/2025

Members of the Lancaster Region gathered in July at St. Mary’s Church in Lancaster to support teens participating in the annual Works of Mercy Week. This summer initiative, organized by St. Mary’s, brings ...

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International Malta Camp 2025 Complete!

Domenico Musso, KM
8/21/2025

For the Federal Association – Team USA, this year’s International Malta Camp was a radiant encounter with joy, resilience, and fraternity. Set against days filled with prayer, celebration, and shared discovery, the Camp became a ...

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