Month: October 2017
Enfield NS
We were a small family group but we were located at a busy intersection! We even had a friendly honk and wave from a driver which was very encouraging! May Our Lady of Fatima touch the hearts and souls of those who passed by her holy image!
Mississauga
Rosary Rally 2017 Mississauga, ON
https://youtu.be/dFbh6ZJWT6s
This video is about a public Rosary Rally held Oct.14th, 2017 in Mississauga ON at Burnhamthorpe/Hurontario. It was orchestrated by Canada Needs Our Lady. It commemorates the 100th Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima apparition, Oct 13, 1917. Its part of 21,570 Rosary Rallies that were done across North AmerIca.
Mississauga
This was the first public rally held at St. Gertrude’s Parish. Attendance was by word of mouth since I was not able to get the announcement in the church bulletin. We had 11 people attending and everyone participated in the event. Everyone is looking forward to next year, and with advertisement we will make it a bigger event.
Star of the Sea Parish
Saint Catharines – Montebelllo Park
There were around a hundred people in total. It was great.
The kit arrived just 3 days before Oct 14, 2017. I had just 3 day to bring this to life. With the support of a parishioner and a friend we managed to draw in a huge crowd. The church I belong to was very supportive.
St. Dunstan Catholic Church
Albertville
Okotoks Alberta
We held a successful rally on Oct. the 14th. with 41 people in attendance.
God bless and take care,
Saint Anne Des Lacs
Vancouver
Thornhill
My rally location was in Thornhill. Yes, it started cloudy but halfway through the rosary the sun peeped up reminding all that our Lady was watching us.
We received some car honk support and one TTC bus driver slowed down to read the banner, make the sign of the Cross and then drove off.
We had a successful Rosary Rally in Annieville Lions Park, Delta, B.C.
Approximately 50 people attended from Immaculate Conception Parish, Delta
and St. Joseph Parish, Richmond, B.C. Our Lady has blessed us with good dry weather and great participation from the parishioners.
Saint Anne Church
North York
Helped by my neighbors, Legion of Mary Presidium and other friends, the Rally was held at the major intersection of Don Mills and Sheppard in North York. About 50 people attended. Some people passing by got drawn to the rally and joined us willingly and with a smile on their faces.
Hay River Northwest Territories
Yesterday, October 14th, between 12 noon and 1pm, we had 30 people attend the Rosary Rally, at the corner of St. Joseph and Orleans Blvd in Orleans. This included representatives from the Divine Mercy Cenacles as well as the Rosary Team and the CWL all from Divine Infant Parish. Representatives from other Parishes who heard of the event by word-of-mouth also joined in.
There were beautiful hymns and prayers printed out to sing and recite, including the Angelus, the Rosary, the Litany to Our Lady, etc. We had several honks and smiles. Remarkably, a jogger who was passing by stopped and joined us in the Rosary. What a powerful witness!
Our Lady Queen of Fatima did something remarkable; the moment we finished singing Ave Maria and say the Angelus, the rain stopped drizzling, the sun shone up in the sky and the procession was wonderful.
Public Square Rosary Rally held at Francis Park near the Surrey Fleetwood Library, Surrey, British Columbia. Around 40 people approximately attended our Rally. The lady who came with her four little children in the last picture, really touched our hearts.
It was a very good day for us. We had approximately 72 attendees. Unfortunately, not all of them signed the Attendance Sheets nor stayed for the pictures. We were fortunate to have with us Fr. Maurice Okolie of the Holy Family Parish and Deacon Don Logan with us.
South Surrey-White Rock,
St. Mary’s Church
Armstrong
Mississauga
Medicine Hat
It was a windy but beautiful, sunny day on October 14, 2017 when we held our third annual Rosary Rally. Praying the Rosary and singing to our Blessed Mother with an accompaniment of a guitar was very
moving. This year we had 26 people in attendance, and are hoping to make our Rally ‘bigger and better’ by looking for a more “public” place next year and to advertise more!
God bless you and your work!
St Francis Xavier Parish
Battleford
On October 14, 2017 we celebrated the 100-th Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima Apparitions at St. Anne’s Roman Catholic Church, with the kind permission of Pastor Father Raymond Peter, the generous help of custodian Bruce, parish secretary Nellie, and with the presence of a special guest – Our Lady of Fatima, a four-foot-high beautiful statue courtesy of the Sisters of Mount Carmel Monastery in St. Agatha, Ontario. This Public Square Rosary Rally was an initiative of the Canada Needs Our Lady organization, a special campaign of the Canadian Society for the Defence of Christian Civilization, which predicted a total of 600 such rallies to be held across Canada at the same time, during this special centennial anniversary. Mary, the Mother of God appeared to the 3 shepherd children Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 – a total of six times, with the final apparition on October 13, 1917. On the same day the Miracle of the Sun also occurred to prove the authenticity of Mary’s apparitions and to strengthen people’s faiths, where the sun unnaturally began to spin in the sky and to fall towards the earth – a miraculous spectacle that was witnessed by 70,000 people. Mary’s messages to the children of prayer (especially the rosary), repentance, self-sacrifice, reparation and peace are messages that our world needs to hear today as well. This considering: widespread abortions (100,000/year in Canada alone), frightening natural disasters of apocalyptic proportions (i.e. recent hurricanes in the Caribbean and the U.S.), nuclear threats, and rampant attacks on the sanctity of marriage and families by most western governments and institutions.
This was a celebration with various ethnic groups attending, with songs of praise and various prayers, especially the rosary, which was said in four different languages, English, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. Afterwards a beautiful feature film about the Fatima Apparitions entitled “The 13-th Day”, was shown in the church hall, with stunning images of the visions and the final miracle, that was never before fully realized on screen. The audience also enjoyed very delicious refreshments of coffee, tea and cookies during the film, courtesy of the ladies of the parish (Doris and Pat) and delicious pastry baked by generous outside volunteers (Tina and Grace).
A special thank you to everyone who contributed to make this a very special and blessed celebration of God’s message of hope for mankind, as revealed by the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima.
“Tell everybody that God grants us His graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, that they should ask her for them, that the Heart of Jesus wants the Immaculate Heart of Mary to be honoured along with Him, that they should ask the Immaculate Heart of Mary for peace because God has placed it in her keeping” – Saint Jacinta Marto
Everything went well, and we had almost 35 people attend. Thanks be to Our Lady, there was no rain and the temperature was good. We had the privilege of having with us Father George from Saint Mary’s basilica, and we had him crown the Blessed Mother who oversaw our rally. After having read the intentions of the rally, I asked him to add any intention he may like. He simply said, “The banner says it all, to pray for Christian Civilization.” He had the RR invitation posted in the church. The first picture you view is that of Prof. Edward Vrscay, a good friend of ours, who was very instrumental in organizing the rally. It was held at the clock tower in Queen Victoria Park.
Rideau River Pathway
Heart’s Desire, NL
The location of our rally was Heart’s Desire, Newfoundland. We are a very small community, with the only Catholic Church, Sacred Heart, in our area. Our Sacred Heart CWL sponsored our Rally, and we held it at our “Lady of Lourdes” grotto which is outside our church on the main street.
It was windy and very cold, and we didn’t expect much of an attendance, but there were about 25+ attendees, including local parishioners and ladies from other CWL councils.
Because of the distraction of a death in our community that morning, and the weather, we neglected to get the attendance sheets filled out, but I will fill out and send as many as I can with my report.
The attendees were very enthusiastic and we did the whole program including a short homily in spite of the cold. From now to next year our focus will be on getting more youth involved.
Thank you to “Canada Needs Our Lady” for this rally. May God bless you and may he bless your important work.
Sincerely, Kathleen Langer
Our Rosary Rally was held in Cardston, Alberta, along with the Blood Tribe Reservation.
Markham, Hwy 7 and McCowan Rd.
About 150 people came to pray the Rosary.
A very busy intersection.
We split in groups of about 20.
Our Lady was really there with us.
Mississauga
Antigonish
Miramichi
May the Holy Face of Jesus shine upon you;
May He be ever gracious to you
May He bless you all the days of your life.
St John Fisher Parish, Brampton
The Rosary Rally was a great success over 100 attendees. We had live Marian Hymns. We sent up helium balloons in honor of Mother Mary’s 100th anniversary we also served cake in Mother Mary’s honor. Great success weather was also good.
Peterborough, Ontario
Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic School in Peterborough
St. John’s
St. Isidore Parish in Kanata
Lac des Huit Milles
Neilburg
Held the Rosary Rally on main street Neilburg, Sk. We were blessed by a couple of town people who were non-Catholics, who came to listen to some of it and had good conversation with them about God. It was a blessing and look forward to doing it again next year.
We live in a very small village and 3 people turned out for our rally including myself, but we enjoyed praying together. Here’s a picture for you Lorraine Badry
Our Lady of the Angels RC church
We held our rally outside on this beautiful oct. day, outside Our Lady of the Angels RC church on the main road, which is also the main hiway through our little village, so we were in public sight. I gave scapulars and rosaries to our parish priest who blessed them, and gave them out to who attended or needed them, everyone really appreciated them, they all went and they were asking for more! We had a little lunch get together afterwards.
It was a good day, everyone really enjoyed themselves and were happy that they attended and look forward to promoting and getting more people involved next year.
Thank you Canada Needs Our Lady for all the supplies and the opportunity to be part of this great rally.☺️
Brampton, ON Chinguacousy Park
It was so amazing my “Yes” to our Lord did not disappoint me. I trusted our Lord and said Yes to the call without going much into details. First week I told people about CanadaNeedsOurLady Rosary Rally by word of mouth. When I got my banner and the program materials I was so excited and began to find ways to advertise my Rally. I got in contact with the local municipality, our Church and also through emails.
5 families came together and we had an awesome time with our Lady. It was raining in the morning and when almost time to start our Rosary the cloud enveloped us. I prayed that the rain be delayed until later. Our Lady heard the prayer and sun came out and stayed until we finished our rosary.
It was a beautiful experience as this was my first time doing anything publically. I thank and praise God for this opportunity to meet new people I never knew before, and the grace he provided us
to together as a small community.
Celebration square
Jackson Park, Windsor
Participants were very happy after the rally, they found happiness peace and they want to know when is the next rally will take place so that they can bring their families and friends. They felt that the athmosphere within the group changed to very pleasant and relaxing. They stayed about 30 minutes after the rally and many participants were not able to sign in as they came late.
There were 29 people in attendance and everyone received a “Canada Rosary” which we, the members of Our Lady of Peace Rosary Guild had made for the Rally. There was a very light mist, but everyone had either an umbrella or a raincoat. Two priests attended as well, and our Parish priest, Fr. John Burchat led the Divine Praises.
Nous croyons que tout ce qui vient de nos coeurs avec tel foi et une telle devotion ne peut qu’apporter des benedictions à ce monde qui est le message de la Sante Vierge, pour répondre son amour qui nous conduira à vivre en paix et dans la volonté de Dieu.
We believe that everything that comes from our hearts with such faith and devotion, could only bring blessings to this world, which is our Lady’s message to us, to spread her love, that will lead us to live in peace and in God’s will.
Creemos que todo lo que viene de nuestros corazones con tal fe y devocion, solo puede brindar bendiciones a este mundo, como lo es el mensaje de nuestra Santa Virgen, de brindar amor, lo cual nos llevara a vivir en paz y a en la voluntad de Dios.
Powel River
Hollinger Park, Timmins
27 people attended.
It was a beautiful day and a wonderful blessing for all attendees.
People particapated by leading a decade of the rosary or leading the group in one of
The prayers in the programme.
Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this important rosary rally.
Janine Chittle on behalf of my mother Lucille Cecile.
My parents joined us in the rosary from their home.
Two dear friends were unable to attend and also prayed the rosary with us from their home.
Sherbrooke
On Saturday, October 14, we did a rosary pilgrimage from Sherbrooke’s Immaculée Conception church to the Beauvoir sanctuary. We recited the entire 20 mysteries of the rosary out loud and even sang parts of it in the downtown Sherbrooke area. We did not receive the Canada Needs Our Lady banner that we ordered, but we still managed to pull off a public rosary to pray for sinners and peace in the world.
Victoria
We pray that our meager prayers will find favor with Our Lord through the intercession of Our Lady and our Father in Faith, St Joseph for the correction of the direction our country has taken but especially for souls that are being led astray.
Holland Park, Surrey, BC.
We were a small group mostly from the Immaculate Conception Parish in North Delta, but we had 6 nationalities, and the youngest was 14, the oldest was 84! Hail Mary! Praise God!
This Public Rosary was attended mostly by parishioners of Immaculate Conception Parish in Delta. It was held in honour of Our Lady in the month of May, 2017. More than 65 people including several children attended.
Fredericton
The Rally was held in Fredericton, N.B., Saturday morning, Oct. 14, 2017 on the lawn of St. Dunstan’s Church near the Statue of Our Lady. It was directly across the street from the bustling Boyce Farmers Market. The Rally was organized by local priest, Rev. Dr. Michael McGowan. He asked for participation from local Fredericton parishioners from Our Lady of Fatima (incl. Fr. Richard Harris), St. Dunstan’s and other local Catholic churches, members of the Catholic Women’s League of Canada, the Knights of Columbus Councils, Fredericton Right to Life and others. Catholic passersby from the market also joined in. There were about 40 people in the group and your banners were held up for all to see.
This was our second consecutive year holding the Public Square Rosary Rally thanks to your encouraging initiatives and supplies…and we tripled the number of prayerful participants to approximately 40 individuals!
It was announced in the bulletin at different parishes. We were 5 people that took part in the rally. We couldn’t walk too far cause of 1 personneeded a bathroom in close proximity due to health problems. So we walked around a little and then stood in front of the church. Some people passing by seen us.
Christ the King Church
Oct.14 2017
Our Rosary Rally in front of Christ the King Church.
Northern Alberta
We had a great group of CWL Members, Parishioners, and the lay faithful gather and brave the cold Northern Alberta windy weather to pray together in celebration and honour of Our Lady.
I was very please with the turn out this year and everyone who attended where very enthusiastic!
St. Paul’s Cathedral
From Donald Okonkwo
This was Pembroke’s 1st Public Rosary Rally. I booked the Pembroke Amphitheater well in advance so it was easier for the older people to sit and so everyone could hear us pray with the microphones.
The waterfront is generally a busy spot.
I asked our local Deacon to play his guitar and sing the songs with us. He also helped me make sure that all the parishes in our area received notification, (three weeks in advance), to put in their bulletins.
The Pembroke Diocese has both French and English parishes, therefore I asked a parishioner from one of our local French Church to help me say the Rosary in French as well. We took turns doing the intentions, 1st in English next in French and so on. I would say the first Joyful Mystery she would do the second and so on.
She also helped me welcome everyone, had them sign the attendance sheet and handed out the programs and intentions. I had copies of both French and English made.
A total of 65 people came to join us, including two Priests and one Deacon.
It was also nice to see two young families there.
I was very pleased with the turn out. Only 57 signed the attendance sheet.
If each of these 57 people brought one person next year we will have over 100.!!
When we finished singing O Sanctissima I asked Fr. Stephen to give all us a final blessing.
Pembroke had heavy rain earlier that morning but as we were beginning to set up for the Rally there was a whole in sky of no clouds and as we were saying the third Joyful Mystery The Sun came out ! It was so beautiful to see.
Thank you for giving me this beautiful opportunity to share my faith with others.
We have 37 pictures that were taken at the Rally these are the three best ones that show most of the grp and the people that helped me make it such a success.
Laurie Mintha Captain
Pembroke, Ontario
Ottawa Near Rideau River Pathway
Our rally location was near the Rideau River Pathway on the edge of the street with cars passing by and pedestrians. A car passed by and honked and waved as an encouraging expression. We were able to do the rosary rally in Spanish as our group was Hispanic. It was our great pleasure to bring this Public Rosary to our Ottawa area. We hope to promote it and reach more individuals next year. Thank you for the blessed opportunity.
Elliot Lake