Over 770 groups band together across Canada to pray the rosary for return of the country to God
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One of the groups prayed at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Saturday.
(LifeSiteNews) — This past weekend, hundreds of Rosary rallies occurred across Canada as hundreds of people gathered to beg Our Lady’s intercession for their country.
Organizers announced that more than 770 groups joined forces on Saturday to pray the Rosary across the country, including on Parliament Hill in downtown Ottawa.
The objective of Canada Needs Our Lady, a campaign run by the Canadian Society for the Defense of Christian Civilization, is to “obtain the return of Canada to God through the means proposed by Our Lady of Fatima,” and to “win hearts and minds for Our Lady.”
“We do this every year, trying to approach more people, to promote our Catholic faith, and to try to have people pray,” said an employee of the Society, fittingly named Lourdes. “So that’s how it started, with the idea of trying to promote our Catholic faith, and these rosary rallies are just one way to promote our faith.”
The Society, a non-for-profit organization that was incorporated in 2013, aims “to advance religion by the promotion of the religious teachings, tenets, doctrines, morals, and observances of the Roman Catholic faith and their application to individuals, families, and society in Christian culture and civilization.”
Lourdes said that devotion to Mary is extremely important in today’s society as well as showing the world the goodness of Catholicism.
“There are so many things going wrong everywhere,” she said. “So, trying to show that good side of being a Catholic is important, and that’s our main mission – to try to promote our Catholic faith in a way that is good, [to show] the way that it should be done.”