About Blessed Miguel Pro, Priest and Martyr

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The Feast of Blessed Miguel Pro is on the 23rd of November.  ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

Too often this feast gets overlooked in the USA because of the secular national observance of Thanksgiving Day.   It is a blessing that this year the feast day of Blessed Miguel Pro falls on the Saturday before Thanksgiving Day.  

Christ the King, 

through the intercession of Blessed Miguel Pro, 

I beg you to answer my prayers. 

Give me the grace and the strength necessary 

to follow his heroic example, 

and to live my Catholic faith.  Amen.

On the Church's liturgical calendar the 21st of November is the Commemoration of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The 22nd of November is the Feast of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr. And then on Saturday we have the feast day  of Blessed Miguel Pro, Priest and Martyr.

“We ought to speak,

to shout out against injustices

With confidence and without fear.

We proclaim the principles of the Church, 

the reign of love,

without forgetting that it is also 

a reign of justice.”

Blessed Miguel Pro

A Prayer of Blessed Miguel Pro

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¡Viva Cristo Rey!

A Prayer of Blessed Miguel Pro

I believe, O Lord, 

but strengthen my faith…

Heart of Jesus, 

I love Thee;

but increase my love.

Heart of Jesus, 

I trust in Thee;

but give greater vigour to my confidence.


Heart of Jesus, 

I give my heart to Thee;

but so enclose it in Thee

that it may never be separated from Thee.

Heart of Jesus, 

I am all Thine;

but take care of my promise

so that I may be able to put it in practice

even unto the complete sacrifice of my life.

Amen.

Blessed Miguel Pro, pray for us.

Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos

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Todays the feast of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos of New Orleans.  Please visit the website for the Seelos Shrine in New Orleans: http://seelos.org

The Joyful Ascetic

O God,
who made your Priest Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos 
outstanding in love, 
that he might proclaim the mysteries of redemption 
and comfort those in affliction, 
grant, by his intercession,
that we may work zealously for your glory
and for the salvation of mankind.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you 
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.