Guidelines for the Fathers for Good Award

Each Council is encouraged to submit one candidate for this award.

A candidate for this award may be a member of your council or a member of your parish. The entrant should embody what it means to live as a Catholic father. He should connect his faith to everyday life and pass his beliefs and virtues by example and deed to his children and/or grand children. The candidate should exemplify the following excerpt taken from the Fathers for Good website:

“ Just as we call Mary ‘Mother of the Church’ because she is mother of Jesus who is head of the Church, so we look to St. Joseph, who was foster father of Jesus and his protector, as the ‘Patron of the Universal Church, Protector of the Church.’

“ We can rejoice that St. Joseph through his marriage to Mary was caught up in the mystery of spiritual fatherhood and became a model of marriage, care of one’s child, and an exemplar of the Holy Family. St. Joseph is a model to every believer and particularly for men in their role as father.

“ We are called to be actively engaged in our vocation, our calling from God, in a way that quietly but effectively spreads the faith and extends God’s kingdom in every place and age.”
A one page summation of the council’s nomination should be submitted to the State Family Life Director no later than the 1st of April. All entrants will be recognized and presented a certificate during the state convention.