THE PUBLIC ROSARY

The Public Rosary is an international campaign to pray the rosary together in commemoration of the last apparition of Our Lady (October 13, 1917) at Fatima. It is a great opportunity for prayer groups and communities to join together in public prayer.

​In 2023, there were 180 groups registered to pray the Rosary throughout Australia.

THE IMPORTANCE

• It is a public witness of the faith

• Public Reparation – many blasphemies are taking place in public and so we must also make reparation in public. At Fatima, Our Lady said to the children: "You saw hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world."

• We are praying for God’s merciful blessing to be poured out to our country, for conversion of families to turn back to God.

• Public prayer is powerful: In his monumental work. The Secret of the Rosary, Saint Louis de Montfort states: "Public prayer is far more powerful than private prayer to appease the anger of God and call down His mercy, and His mercy, and Holy Mother Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, has always advocated public prayer in times of public tragedy and suffering."