In Honor of the Social Reign of Our Divine Lord

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 8, 21 February 1924, Page 41

In Honor of the Social Reign of Our Divine Lord

APPEAL TO THE POPE. J Over 341 cardinals, archbishops, bishops, and superiors; general of religious Orders have addressed an appeal to> the Holy Father asking the establishment of a feast in; honor of the Social Reign., of Jesus Christ. This appeal! states that so far back as 1899 the same desire was expressed: by five cardinals, one of whom was the future Pius X.. Eighty-nine archbishops and bishops of Italy and South; America also joined in the petition. The request was favorably received by Leo XIII., and transmitted by the Cardinal': Vicar to the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The same Episcopacy also asked the Holy Father for a Mass and Officer in honor of the Social Reign of Jesus 7 Christ. The idea; of the Social Reign of Jesus Christ has been in continual! progress for half a century, and it has been studied underevery form, from a doctrinal point of view as well as in its: practical realisations at the International Eucharistic Congress. The feast was specially petitioned for in three reports of the International Eucharistic Congress of Lourdes held in July, 1914, at which the Papal, Legate presided, and 189 cardinals, archbishops, and bishops assisted. The feast, if established, would be an acknowledgment of the sacred and inprescriptible rights of Our Divine Lord over mankind and a homage from Christian hearts as well as a just reparation for the apostacy of nations.— lrish Catholic..