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Father Michael McGivney will be beatified on October 31st! Watch our latest documentary on his life, legacy and the miracle that has brought us to this momentous occasion! Click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRbjAWHvyy8

¡VIVA CRISTO REY!LONG LIVE CHRIST THE KING! BLESSED MIGUEL PRO AND THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING The Feast of Christ the King will be celebrated this coming S...unday, October 25, according to the traditional calendar. An article (linked at the bottom of this post) by Michael P. Foley at New Liturgical Movement points out the connection between the first time the feast was celebrated and Blessed Miguel Pro, the young Mexican Jesuit who was martyred during the popular uprising against government oppression of the Catholic Church during the Cristeros revolution. In December 1925, Pope Pius XI announced a new Feast of Christ the King in his encyclical Quas Primas. Pius XI instituted the feast so that the kingship of our Savior should be as widely as possible recognized and understood. "The first time that the Feast of Christ the King was celebrated was October 31, 1926. In Mexico, 200,000 faithful went to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, among whom was the Jesuit priest and future martyr José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, S.J., better known as Blessed Miguel Pro.' Pro wrote: "On October 31st, the Feast of Christ the King, we had the biggest, most sublime demonstration that the entire world has seen in the last four centuries. The pilgrimage to the Basilica started at four in the morning and ended at 7:30 at night" At around five p.m., he was about to return home when he saw "a resolute group of housemaids who arrived with some one hundred industrial workers. They approached, singing along the streets leading to La Villa; but the singing was a little bit of a mumble. Then I . . . pushed my way into the group". . . and "following the leading voice of my partner I sang Thou Shalt Reign at the top of my lungs." . . . "Blessed Miguel Pro only lived to celebrate two Feasts of Christ the King before giving his life for the Lord. After being arrested in November 1927 on the bogus charge of conspiring to assassinate the president of Mexico, Pro was executed without trial on the 23rd of that month. As he faced the firing squad, the holy priest extended his arms cruciform and shouted ¡Viva Cristo Rey!'Long Live Christ the King!' "Pius XI’s feast had become the inspiration for the battle cry of the Cristeros rebellion against atheistic tyranny and the motto of martyrs." In the new calendar, the Feast of Christ the King is celebrated on the last Sunday of the liturgical yearthis year on November 22and the liturgical memorial of Blessed Miguel Pro is always celebrated near the feaston November 23. To read more:

"Our primary objective is to prevent our people from entering Secret Societies by offering the same if not better advantages to our members. Secondly, to unite ...the men of our Faith. ...that we may thereby gain strength to aid each other in time of sickness; to provide for a decent burial, and to render pecuniary assistance to the families of deceased members." - Father McGivney Learn more about our founder by joining the Father McGivney Guild: https://www.fathermcgivney.org/en/index.html

DAY 2 of the Novena before the Beatification of Father McGivney Prayer Intention: For vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life: https://bit.ly/2TgGcuf #FrMcGivney

Beatification Weekend starts October 30! Main events will be broadcast on EWTN, Salt + Light Media and Catholictv! All other events from the #FrMcGivney festival will be streamed at www.KofC.org/Beatification

Here are 10 facts you probably don't know about Father McGivney: https://bit.ly/2FLMvD8

Save the dates! Join us to celebrate Father McGivney Halloween weekend. Learn more at kofc.org/beatification

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This is the story behind the miracle attributed to Father McGivney's intercession #FrMcGivney

"Whose Father is He?" A beggar came asking for food. I told him to come around to the back door and asked him to sit on the floor while I went in to bring the l...eft over food. I brought him food & said, let's pray. Now repeat after me, "Our FATHER in Heaven". He said, "Your Father in Heaven". I said."No, say OUR FATHER in Heaven". He again said, "Your Father in Heaven"!!! This extremely Irritated me! I asked why do you say 'Your' father when I say 'Our' FATHER?' He said, "Sir, it's like this. If I say Our FATHER, then we both become brothers. If we are brothers, you would invite me in through the front door and not the back; you would ask me to sit at your dining table not on the floor; you'd also not give me stale food! Sir, somehow it's not possible that we are sons of the same father!" He may be your Father, but he can't be OUR father! Whose FATHER is He? It took a beggar to teach me the truth!!! GOD becomes our FATHER when we treat one another as brothers and sisters. GOD Bless us all....