On the annual Feast of Christ the King, which occurs traditionally on the last Sunday of the month of October, the apostolates of the Institute offer solemn Masses and Eucharistic processions, as well as social celebrations in the family spirit of the Institute.

Old St. Patrick's, Kansas City

Christ our King was honored from coast to coast in the Liturgies held in the California apostolates of the Institute at Saint Margaret Mary in Oakland and at Our Mother of Perpetual Help Oratory in the Diocese of San Jose to St. Anthony of Padua Oratory in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey. From St. Gianna Oratory in Tucson, Arizona, to Old Saint Patrick Oratory in Kansas City, Missouri, to St. Mary's in Wausau, Wisconsin, the faithful prayed the consecration to the Most Sacred Heart of Christ our King. At the Shrine of Christ the King in Chicago, Pontifical Mass was offered by His Excellency, the Most Reverend Joseph N. Perry.

St. Anthony of Padua, West Orange

At the Saint Francis de Sales Oratory in St. Louis, the Masses which honored Christ the King were followed by the second annual Seminary Society Breakfast, attended by over 350 faithful. The popular event at the Oratory brings the Institute's St. Phillip Neri International Seminary closer to the faithful and encourages both prayer and material support for the Seminary. Throughout the hearty breakfast, the assembly of families was treated to a slide presentation of activities at the Seminary.  Many faithful took this opportunity to sign up to pray for individual seminarians for this coming year. Overall, this event raised over $3,000 for the Seminary.

Excerpts from the Encyclical Quas Primas of Pope Pius XI, 1925

St. Gianna, Tucson

22. History, in fact, tells us that in the course of ages these festivals have been instituted one after another according as the needs or the advantage of the people of Christ seemed to demand: as when they needed strength to face a common danger, when they were attacked by insidious heresies, when they needed to be urged to the pious consideration of some mystery of faith or of some divine blessing...

St. Margaret Mary, Oakland

23. The festivals that have been introduced into the liturgy in more recent years have had a similar origin, and have been attended with similar results. When reverence and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament had grown cold, the feast of Corpus Christi was instituted, so that by means of solemn processions and prayer of eight days' duration, men might be brought once more to render public homage to Christ. So, too, the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was instituted at a time when men were oppressed by the sad and gloomy severity of Jansenism, which had made their hearts grow cold, a