Rosary Crusade 2017

On 3 September 2017, Scotland was consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  We are very pleased that one of the Bishops present at that Consecration is joining us for this year's Rosary Crusade of Reparation.   Bishop John Keenan of Paisley will lead the Crusade.  It is 100 years since Our Lady visited Fatima and asked the young shepherd children to pray the rosary and do sacrifice for sinners.  100 years!  It was a simple message, but how many of us are able to pray the rosary daily as Our Lady requested?  The errors of Russia have spread throughout the world as was predicted because this message wasn't sufficiently heeded.  Pray the rosary and, on Saturday, 14 October, join us for a very public rosary on the streets of London carrying before us the Statue of Our Lady of Fatima which was consecrated by Pope Pius XII as a pilgrim statue for England and Wales.  Let us get the spiritual boots on the streets in this centenary year to give witness to our Catholic Faith, living still in spite of dungeon, fire and sword, and to give honour to the Mother of God in the Month of the Holy Rosary!        

Rosary Crusade 8 October 2016 -- Pray for an end to Abortion!

"If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church". (Our Lady's Words at Fatima 13 July 1917).

It may come as no surprise that Russia was the first country in the world to legalise abortion.  The  Bolshevik government legalised abortion only 3 years after Our Lady's words at Fatima.  There is no question that this particular error has spread throughout the world and today, around 50 million children a year are killed in the womb.  The Rosary Crusade has been approached by one of the local 40 days for Life  groups to pray specifically for the closure of the Abortion clinic in Twickenham which they are targeting with their prayers and witness this year.  Let us therefore pray for this intention and for the protection of unborn babies worldwide.  It is only Divine intervention, through the intercession of Our Lady, which will stop this mass slaughter of the innocents.

Come, with rosaries at the ready, to Westminster Cathedral (1:45 pm) on Saturday!   

Westminster Cathedral Administrator to Preach at 2016 Crusade

 

Cannon Christopher Tuckwell, Administrator of Westminster Cathedral, will lead and preach at this year's Rosary Crusade on 8 October 2016.  The video link shows Canon Tuckwell preaching at A Day with Mary at Westminster Cathedral in May 2016.  Welcome Canon Tuckwell! 

Father Martin Edwards

The Rosary Crusade is pleased to welcome Fr Martin Edwards, Parish Priest of St Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth, and National Chaplain for the British Pilgrims participating in the annual Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage, to preach at the 2015 Crusade in October.  The Crusade will take the usual route from Westminster Cathedral to Brompton Oratory on 10 October this year.  Those wishing to participate in the procession are asked to congregate outside Westminster Cathedral by 1:45 pm.        

Rosary Crusade 2014

Harrod's had a special visitor on Saturday!

Thousands of fervent faithful followed the little statue of Our Lady of Fatima through the streets of London bringing religion very firmly into the public square.  Throughout the hour and a half procession, the Rosary (all 15 decades!) was prayed and hymns in honour of Our Lady were sung.  Despite ominous weather forecasts earlier in the week, the procession took place in glorious sunshine with many complaining that it was too warm!  It's amazing what a little prayer can do...

The procession ended at the Brompton Oratory where an hour of hymns and prayers to our Lady and Our Lord was crowned by Solemn Benedication celebrated by Fr Christopher Andrews, OSB with Frs Ronald Creighton-Jobe and Rupert McHardy of the Oratory assisting.  Fr John Hunwicke of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham gave a thoughtful Sermon on Our Lady of Victories, recalling the naval victory of Lepanto which was won by the power of the Holy Rosary.  The beautiful Lady chapel in the Oratory reflects this theme as the altar is dedicated to Our Lady of Victories and has statues of the Dominican Saints, Pope Pius V and Rose of Lima.

Our Lady was accompanied by many young flower girls and altar boys and was hoisted high by the members of the Catholic Police Guild.  The Knights of Malta were well represented, as were the Knights of Our Lady and the Brothers of the Little Oratory and we were thankful for the support of the dedicated priests who accompanied the procession, Fr. Simon Leworthy, Fr Rupert McHardy, Fr John Hunwicke and Fr Christopher Andrews, OSB.

See you next year?  
 

Rosary Crusade welcomes Fr John Hunwicke!

The Rosary Crusade of Reparation is very pleased that the erudite Fr John Hunwicke of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has accepted our invitation to preach at this year's Crusade.  As indicated in his Blog, Fr Hunwicke was for nearly three decades at Lancing College, Oxford, where he taught Latin and Greek language and literature and was Head of Theology.  He was Senior Research Fellow at Pusey House in Oxford.   Father was ordained to the Catholic priesthood on the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in 2012 and manages an interesting blog, Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment.  We look forward to Father's words of wisdom!

Rosary Crusade 2013

Our Lady appears through a cloud of incense during the Rosary Crusade

 Complementing the events taking place in Rome for the Marian Day, the Rosary Crusade of Reparation, without a police escort for the first time in its history, made its way from Westminster Cathedral to Brompton Oratory.  An estimated 2000 faithful took part in the procession which took place in clement weather despite the biblical weather forecasts.  The Chairman of the Latin Mass Society took part and his report is here.