FR. MCGIVNEY GUILD
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MAY 2023
A CAUSE FOR SAINTHOOD for thee everlasting joy and eternal from the family burial plot in peace. Waterbury, Conn., and reinterred in a polished granite sarcophagus in St. PLACE OF PRAYER & Mary’s Church in New Haven, PILGRIMAGE where he had founded the Order. There the faithful could visit his tomb, pray for his intercession and invoke his spiritual strength. Following years of preparation, the canonization cause was officially opened December 18, 1997, in the At a memorial service for Father chancery of the Archdiocese of McGivney, with delegations Hartford, under the care of then attending from nearly all of the 57 Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin, and local councils that had been the Knights of Columbus became the chartered in the Order’s first eight leader or actor of the cause. years, this tribute was given by a Dominican Father Gabriel B. brother Knight who later became a O’Donnell was appointed as the priest: postulator ( promoter) . With approval from the Vatican (“nihil He was a man of the people. He was obstare”), Father McGivney was zealous of the people’s welfare, and all given the title “Servant of God,” the the kindliness of his priestly soul first step toward sainthood. asserted itself more strongly in his On the occasion of the centennial of unceasing efforts for the betterment of the Knights of Columbus in 1982, Father Michael J. McGivney Guild | their condition ...Oh, Reverend Founder. initial steps were taken for the Knights of Columbus . .that act alone which gave life to the canonization cause. The body of (fathermcgivney.org) Knights of Columbus has surely secured Father McGivney was exhumed A MAN OF THE PEOPLE
God, our Father, protector of the poor and defender of the widow and orphan, you called your priest, Blessed Michael McGivney, to be an apostle of Christian family life and to lead the young to the generous service of their neighbor. Through the example of his life and virtue, may we follow your Son, Jesus Christ, more closely, fulfilling his commandment of charity and building up his Body which is the Church. Let the inspiration of your servant prompt us to greater confidence in your love so that we may continue his work of caring for the needy and the outcast. We humbly ask that you glorify Blessed Michael McGivney on earth according to the design of your holy will. Through his intercession, grant the favor I now present (here make your request). Through Christ our Lord. Amen
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