A worldwide Rosary relay will be held on June 19, starting in Australia and finishing in Los Angeles. Involving 24 shrines dedicated to Our Lady, the Rosary prayer event is being held to mark the closing of the Year for Priests.
The Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians in Brisbane, Australia, will begin the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary with “The Annunciation.”
The prayer will continue at other shrines across the globe to total 24 hours of continuous prayer. The two U.S. locations are the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in L.A., where “The Nativity” and “The Presentation” decades will be prayed respectively.
The Rosary will be offered in thanksgiving to God for priests and to entrust them to the protection of Our Lady. Catholics around the world are invited to join in prayer at their country/time zone’s designated hour.
WorldPriest, which promotes the priesthood, is organizing the prayer relay. In announcing the Rosary relay, the organization stated: “It is an opportunity for us to raise our hearts to God for all priests in the exercise of their ministry; that they will be blessed, through our prayers, with God’s grace for their priesthood; that in this worldwide communion of prayer for them, they may experience our gratitude and support; and finally that they will persevere in unity with Christ and his Church and shepherd the Lord’s flock to the safe pastures of his Kingdom.”
Said Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam, Ireland: “I am happy to support and highly recommend the current initiative of the worldwide Rosary relay on June 19th to mark the end of the Year of the Priest. I believe it has great potential and will bring many spiritual benefits to all involved.”
As John Paul II said, “The Rosary is a way of contemplating the face of Christ, seeing him — we may say — with the eyes of Mary.”
So, have your rosaries ready for this priest-focused prayer-a-thon!
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Typical. The Midwest is completely overlooked, yet again. I guess we’re considered just flyover country for prayers now, too. Fine. If that’s the way it’s going to be, I’ll just pray my rosary from Detroit at some other time that day and send my prayers directly to God and Our Lady, thereby breaking their little costal elite rosary chain.
Dear Victor
I am one of the volunteers working on this project for worldpriest.com in Ireland.Please understand there is no intention to exclude anyone, anywhere or in any time zone from this Rosary Relay.On the contrary, the great simplicity of the event is that we are issuing a general invitation to all to pray one decade of the rosary, wherever they may happen to be.
In short, you don’t have to be at any of the participating shrines, you can simply join in quiet prayer at the appointed time.
I’m truly sorry that we were not able to specifically link in a shrine in the Mid West on this occasion but there will be, Please God,other opportunities to do so in the future.
We are truly humbled at the wonderful response we are getting to this initiative and there are many new shrines queing up to participate next time.
The important thing is to use this opportunity to boost the morale of priests and give thanks for their great work in our world.
Kind regards
Dermot
Dermot, I live near DC, how do I find out the time of the rosary at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception?
I’m a bit confused when we are to say our decade. I’m in Houston, Texas, which is Central Standard Time, so is there a list somewhere that shows what mystery to pray for CST? When does the first mystery begin on June 19?
If the answer is to check the other website, then don’t bother answering. I’ll research it myself. However, this article doesn’t provide the details I’m looking for. Possibly it’s right in front of me and I’m just not seeing it.
This is so interesting to me because I was in Brisbane on New Year’s Day until the 18th. I completely felt, and still feel, compelled to pray the Rosary in an effort for world effects. Praise God!
I was going to ask the same question. Where do we find out the designated hour for our time zone? Are we supposed to say a specific decade, set of mysteries, or perhaps all 20 mysteries? There’s no info on how to participate if you do not live near one of the shrines.
I went on the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception’s website and it doesn’t mention a single thing about this and it’s supposed to be next week. Is this for real or not?
Dear All
Prayer times are as follows:
Washington DC 19.00 Eastern 3rd Joyful Mystery The Nativity.
Los Angeles 17.00 Pacific 4th Joyful Mystery The Presentation.
Please join at these times (in whichever US time zone you live in) or indeed at any other time which suits on this global day of prayer. We have designated only a decade of the rosary, which takes but a few minutes. If you have time to say an entire rosary that would be marvelous.
Finally, I can’t guarantee that each shrine will feature this event on their website but rest assured the prayers will be recited.
Kind regards
Dermot Lay Volunteer World Priest
Sounds good, Dermot! We’ll join the 19:00 Eastern folks!
Rosary Kits are nice to give as presents. I give them to all my friends and family, they love them.
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