Category: Rosary Rallies
Scarborough Ontario
Thank you very much for organizing this wonderful annual event and for your kind assistance.
Ethelbert Manitoba
Our community of Ethelbert MB held it’s Rosary Rally on Saturday October 14, 2023. Good Bless
Edmonton Alberta
Rosary Rally held on October 14 in Edmonton.
Terrebonne Quebec
Our Lady of the most Holy Rosary. We were about 5 attendees with 2 children.
Rosary Rally with our Latin community. It was a great Rally.
God bless you.
Enchant Alberta
God bless you all!
Oakville Ontario
Sussex New Brunswick
Our Rally was held in front of the Amsterdam Inn at 143 Main St , Sussex NB
We had 18 people at our Rally
Dryden Ontario
This year we were at Earls Court which is on the corner of a 4-way stop near down town. We were visible to many. Like last year we had many good singers to help make it a lovely rally. This year thankfully we stayed dry.
Winnipeg Manitoba
Coin Park Laverendry et rue Despins. Winnipeg
Albertville Saskatchewan
It was a cool, windy day. We hid around the north corner of the church and were warmed by the statue of the Virgin Mary in the Grotto outide our church. We were 5 blessed souls who came out to pray for of of Mary’s intentions.
Terrace Bay Ontario
Rosary rally held on Oct. 14 in Terrace Bay, Ontario. There was a great deal to pray for — perhaps more this year than ever. We were not a large group but… whenever two or more…
Ottawa Ontario
Ottawa Ontario
Canada Needs our Lady, Public Square Rosary Rally , October 14, 2023 – Parliament Hill and Annunciation of the Lord Parish, Ottawa, ON
Canada Needs Our Lady aims to spread Our Lady of Fatima’s message of hope through personal conversion by means of prayer and amendment of life, with special emphasis on the Holy Rosary. Joan of Arc Community on Parliament Hill.
Welland Ontario
We had our rosary rally this past 14 th of October at Sacré Coeur Church in Welland Ontario. The weather was bad and so we did not get the attendance we wanted but never the less it was beautiful. Our Pastor came out and prayed with us . We’re thankful for what we had.
In union with Mother Mary.
Bolton Ontario
St Joseph Manitoba
St Joseph, MB. Thank you and God bless you!
Calgary Alberta
Rosary rally here in Calgary. We had about 75 people attend.
Scarborough Ontario
North York Ontario
October 14, 2023 Rosary Rally held at the corner of Avenue Rd & Lawrence Avenue in North York, Ontario.
Halifax Nova Scotia
Our rally was a great success! We had over 60 attend to pray and sing with us. Afterward we had a reception for the group.
NORTH YORK Ontario
The Rosary Rally was held in Toronto, Ontario on the lawn of the church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary at the corner of Bayview and Sheppard.
The prayers of the Rally were said as per the enclosed brochure sent by you. We were approximately 18 people, Many pedestrians stopped to see, read the banner and move one. We had a few cars honking in agreement. All of the 18 members felt enriched praying the rosary in a public setting.
London Ontario
Rosary rally in London Ontario Oct 14.
Preeceville Saskatchewan
Sylvan Lake Alberta
Stoney Creek Ontario
Edmonton Alberta
Bowmanville Ontario
Meadows British Columbia
Mississauga Ontario
Whitby Ontario
Mississauga Ontario
Niagara Falls Ontario
Sydney Nova Scotia
Toronto Ontario
Winnipeg Manitoba
Orangeville Ontario
Winnipeg Manitoba
Francia Ontario
Devon Alberta
Gravenhurst Ontario
Kingsville Ontario
Chapleau Quebec
Orleans Ontario
Kamloops British Columbia
Chatham, Ontario
With rain and cold winds, our group consisted of 9 people, gathering under a shelter on Saturday, October 14. 2023 at 12 pm. on the grounds of Our Lady of Victory Parish Church. On Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 1:30 pm being our usual weekly Rosary prayer, with 10 people present, we held a repeat Rosary Rally at the statue of Our Lady of Fatima, at the church of Our Lady of Fatima. The weather was still cloudy, and cold but better. Together there were 13 individual people in attendance as some attended both. Our group consists of mostly elderly people who pray from their hearts and hold a special devotion to Our Lady, so we were joyfully praying using the program we received from Canada Needs Our Lady. Next year, we hope to make our CNOL Rosary more Public, walking along the sidewalk, in the sight of traffic which we had planned for this year. We are most grateful to have had the opportunity to join CNOL Rosary Rally.
Sorry, no pictures were taken this year.
Grande Prairie Alberta
Leduc Alberta
We had 19 prayer warriors attend, including our parish priest. We were situated on Main Street, one vehicle honked in appreciation. There was another church group walking to make awareness to human trafficking who showed friendly support. The day was very windy but the very light statue of Our Lady didn’t blow over even though the heavy vase with flowers was knocked over by the wind. When Barb placed her on the table she said “Mother Mary take care of her” and she did. Praise God!!! It was a humbling experience.
Niagara Falls Ontario
This was the first time being a Rally Captain and I felt it went well. When I arrived at St Thomas More Church I was surprised to meet a husband and wife who were there and had been running the Rally for over 5 years. No one had informed that there was a Rally at St Thomas More even when I had submitted the location to Canada Needs Our Lady. Regardless they were very kind and allowed me to lead the Rosary. There were about 25 in attendance including our Associate Pastor. I did make copies of the attendance sheets but due to the weather(cold and rainy) and other concerns, they were not filled out.
The other concern being that I dont quite understand why people who come out to pray are being asked to fill out their personal information for a total stranger. Although it is for a noble cause people nowadays are reluctant so I was not comfortable pursuing it.
Aside from that I was glad to be apart of such a beautiful event which this world is so much in need of especially at this time!
Thank you
Taber Alberta
This was our 3rd Rosary rally and we were blessed with 20 people joining to pray for our Nation, our community, our world and for our families.
The day started out windy and cool but by the time we were done praying, the sun was shining and warmed us up. Our rally is held in our church parking lot and faces one of our town’s main driving routes. We did received some support from passing motorists with a quick honk of their horn.
Our participants have been regular attendees for our Rosary Rally and are faithful prayer intercessors.
Milk River Alberta
We joined our 2 churches together to pray for Canada at St. Peter’s in Milk River. We started at 11:00am due to a wedding being booked in the church for 1:30pm. The majority of our participants were elderly (over 70) and the weather was not nice. We prayed in the entrance of the church with the one door open so people walking or driving by could see / hear us. Most of the participants sat on chairs with 3 of us standing. We concluded the event with coffee and desserts in our church hall. The consensus of all there was Canada needs our prayers more now than ever before.
I took a picture but somehow it is not on my phone. This concludes my report for our 3rd annual rosary rally of 2023.
Martensville Saskatchewan
Lachine Quebec
This rally was attended by 10 parishioners and was led by the parish priest at St. John Paul II Parish. With a number of parishioners representing a variety of backgrounds, each decade of the Rosary was led in a different language (i.e. Portuguese, Spanish, French, Tagalog, and Polish). The responses were in English.
After the rally, an independent Christian spoke with our parish priest about his appreciation for seeing a visible witness of the Christian faith and asked if he could use the Church as a background for a music video he wanted to make.
Since our Church faces a lake front, a lot of passerby noticed our public Rosary.
I am interested in being a Rosary Rally Captain once again for 2024, but will only confirm after discussing with my parish priest.
Toronto Ontario
We gathered for prayer over 25 people, some new to the group. We prayed initially the Sorrowful Mysteries, then came to my mind to ask the attendants if they would like to pray another Rosary for peace and they agreed, so we prayed the Joyful Mysteries, ended with the Litany, and chanted the Sanctissima. The participants were grateful and peaceful with joy.
I am glad we were able to accomplish this event, with the help of our Lady. I hope more people will join in the future.
Best wishes and blessings to you and your team.
High River Alberta
Rosary Rally in High River, AB.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Elliot Lake
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.
Perth
Mississauga
Our Rally was held on October 17, 2021 from 12 Noon to 1pm on the side walk in front of The Savior Of The World Church on Hwy10 and Bristol Road in Mississauga, Ontario.
Even though It was a windy morning, it was wonderful to see the response from all the Participants that joined us. We felt really Happy at the response we were getting as the traffic passed us showing their support by honking their horns and giving us thumbs up. We were drawing attention to Our Lady of Fatima’s Banner while we Prayed the Rosary !
Our Rev. Fr. Salvador C.and the Renovación Charismatic Praying Group of St. Agustin Canterbury Church give to us their support by bringing the statute of Our Lady of Fatima and the speakers placed at the front of the Church. They played and singing the hymns to our Lady.
Thank you so much to Canada needs our Lady for the beautiful rosaries donated, there were delivery to every child and youth people presents. The Rosary was praying in 5 language: English, Espanish, Italian and Arabic at the end of every mystery, each participant placed one Rose ? to our Lady. (Mrs. Martha from Mexico donated 50 fresh Roses) making a unique spiritual experience of love to our Mather of God. Finally, Father Salvador make the consagration and letanies with his bless.
Eventhough, was raining all our brothers and sisters keep praying with a joyfulness until the end.
Ethelbert
There were 8 of us, a beautiful day for Mary.
Very positive, heard good comments after.
Ethelbert is a very small community this was its first rally.
I think Corinne (my mother) sent a paper report.
Verdun
Mississauga
It was my first time pleasure and privilege to have led a 2021 Rosary Rally. Canada definitely needs Our Lady and I was happy that so many of us came together. Our Lady seat of wisdom, PRAY FOR US!
Love and God’s gracious blessings,
Ann Margaret Ali
Red Deer
Red Deer
Glory be to Christ!
We had a successful rosary rally at St Marys Church parking lot in Red Deer Alberta.
Blessings to you
Jackie Maga
Etobicoke
St Albert
Brampton
Peterborough, On
Our rally was very successful even though the day was cloudy and rainy. 43 people attended and prayed together. The rain held off while we gathered and the sun came out for a bit as we said the rosary…. just like at Fatima!
People thought, because of the situation in our country, that this be held on the 13th of every month, beginning in May. Food for thought…
New Westminster
Scarborough
Brandon
East St Paul
Regina
Mississauga
Markham
Mississauga
Lac du Bonnet, MB
We had a small, quiet rally in front of the Catholic church of Notre Dame du Lac. Our family of 14 people plus one other lady attended. We were honored to be able to pray publicly for our country.
Victoria
We prayed the Rosary at just past 12 noon, at the edge of Centennial Square under a cloudy yet rainless sky; City Hall and the fountain in the background.
Toronto
Kelowna
North Bay
Mississauga
Montreal
Milton
Scarborough/ON, Warden and Finch
Our rally location was on a busy street. Definitely in a very visible location.
The invitation was extended to our parishioners and friends. Despite the weather forecast for rain and heavy winds in our area, the turnout was beyond our expectations. Over 90 people joined the rosary rally. Our Blessed Mother covered us with clear skies just as we started the rosary prayers. The afternoon was spiritually fulfilling.
Thank you for this blessed opportunity. It is our desire to conduct the annual public rosary to pray for our Nation and for ourselves.
Lachine, St-JPII church
About 30 people gathered in the trees at Our Lady of Victory statue, on Saturday, October 16 at 12 noon. The cloudy morning gave way to sunny intervals, giving warmth to body and our spirit. The presence of Our Lady was felt as we prayed earnestly, asking Mother Mary’s intervention for e.g. conversion for everyone in Chatham and all of Canada, and for VICTORY over the enemy. Even though we were not close to the road, our crowd and banner caught the attention of a couple of cars as the drivers honked their horns in support. This was our third year for CNOL Rally and we look forward to the next rally in 2022.
St Pierre Jolys
Winnipeg
We had 18 people attend the rosary. The weather was beautiful and many positive comments made. People want to participate again next year.
We were over 30 people, including families with children and our pastor. I did not observe much of a reaction, but that was probably because I was praying and not watching, and there were not many pedestrians. Our pastor said it seemed to make on-lookers thoughtful.
Aylmer On John Street Bear Park
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Notre-Dame Cathedral of Ottawa
30 people gathered in front of the nation’s capital’s Cathedral to honor Our Lady. While praying, we were facing the northeast of the Parliament buildings where the most important decisions for the future of our families, children, and grandchildren are taken. Families with children praying on their knees were very inspiring. The two huge banners, one on each side of the street would attract pedestrians and car drivers. Thank you “Canada Needs Our Lady” to facilitate this important prayer rally.
Edmonton, over the Internet
It was due to the pandemic, we moved the rally from a park to a meeting room of the Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples. We used Facebook Live to broadcast the event over the Internet.
Although we only had 2 priests, 1 deacon, and 2 parishioners able to attend the rally physically, we had over 2 thousand online participants. The reaction was encouraging.
Markham at Hwy 7 and McCowan Rd
Grande Prairie
Hi,
My sister Pat and I saw that there was supposed to be a Rally on Quincy St in Beacon Hill North in Ottawa but when we arrived there at noon there wasn’t anything happening so we went to Annunciation of the Lord Parish on Ogilve Road and prayed there together before Mary’s Grotto . There were just the two of us. I posted a few photos and a small video at the link below
This is the first rally ever that happened in this parish and people were very excited! There were 70 people who attended including our pastor, a resident priest, and our transitional deacon. Legion of Mary, CWL, K of C, Youth Group, Liturgical Com., Uno Sangui Cristi, Saint Vincent de Paul, parish counters, sacristans, and parishioners were very helpful and supportive to make our rally successful.
Holy Family church
We held our rosary rally in the church.
We had Twenty-one people attend.
Eight people came forward to help put signs up
Lead the rosary
Read intercessions and other readings add music
Hand out information
while we were not in a high traffic area
The overall reaction of those who participated
Was thankful and positive to have the opportunity to have and be included in this event.
It has also encouraged us to be involved and try new things and be more visible for next year.
1372 King St. West, Toronto, ON
We met at the corner of the Holy Family Church building, by the Statue of Blessed Mother. I had two volunteers to hold the Banner. We started the prayers at 12 PM. with 5 people including the Priest, Fr. Martin, and later on, arrived few more people. In all were 13 plus two children and it was solemn. Our Lady took off the rain and send down few Sun rays. We didn’t encounter disruptions from passing by people, in fact, one fellow joined for 10 minutes and told us he has not been attending the Church. But, did not stay to the end. Some of the attendants were new this year and were quite happy at the end of the event.