Rosary Crusade 2026

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Rosary Crusade 2025!

 

Rosary Crusade!

 

Fr. Lew Returns!

The Rosary Crusade is pleased to announce that Fr. Lawrence Lew, Promoter General for the Holy Rosary for the Dominican Order, will once again lead the rosary for us and preach to us in the Brompton Oratory. Father has recently written an interesting book with meditations on the Rosary (pictured above) and published by the Catholic Truth Society. Do get a copy! Do join us for the Rosary Crusade this year on 14 October! Meet outside Westminster Cathedral at 1:45 pm.

The Crusade Approaches!

The Rosary Crusade is pleased to confirm that Fr. Julian Large, Provost of the London Oratory, will preach this year.  Fr. Large has preached twice previously at the Crusade and always has something appropriate to say.  After cancellation in 2020 and a reduced format last year, the Crusade returns in all its former glory.  We look forward to offering reparation in the month of the Holy Rosary.  Assemble from 1:45 pm outside Westminster Cathedral.  Procession will leave shortly after 2 pm.

Rosary Crusade 2021

Rosary Crusade passes Harrods

 After no Crusade in 2020, it was great to be back on the streets of London giving honour to the Queen of Heaven.  The Marian Franciscans led the rosary though the streets of the Capital to "drive evil out of the streets of London and fill the street with beautiful MARIAN flowers." (Fr. Philomeno).  Following the usual route from Westminster Cathedral to the Brompton Oratory, the Crusade of 1,100 souls sang and prayed in the warm autumn sunshine giving praise to God and His Blessed Mother.  Fr Ronald Creighton-Jobe (Cong. Orat.) greeted Our Lady on the steps of the great Church and we prayed the Litany of Loreto, the Fatima prayers, and made our Consecration to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.  Following the lovely Fatima Hymn, Father gave a final blessing to conclude a lovely afternoon.  Next year, please God, we will be back inside the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary where we can better honour the Queen of Heaven and the "fruit of her womb",  Our Lord Jesus,  in the Blessed Sacrament.  

A Wonderful Initiative from Father Lew

 

Rosary Crusade Rises from the Dead!

 We are pleased to confirm that the Rosary Crusade will now take place on 9 October 2021!  We will have the lovely public procession in honour of Our Lady and recitation of the rosary enroute.  Due to concerns about the very large numbers in a confined space at the Oratory Church, there will be only a short ceremony outside the Church to conclude the Crusade and, sadly, no opportunity for scapular enrolment.  Please let everyone know as the time for advertising is very short!

  

Eucharistic Octave 11 to 19 September 2021

The Westminster Parishes of Maiden Lane, Warwick Street, Spanish Place and Farm Street with the Ukrainian Cathedral and the Order of Malta, invite you to a week of celebrations, centred on the Blessed Sacrament. With travel restrictions preventing many people from travelling to Hungary for the International Eucharistic Congress taking place in Budapest in September, the event will be marked in London with a week of Masses, Adoration and, to close the Octave, The Annual Corpus Christi Procession through the heart of London’s Regent Street from Warwick Street to Spanish Place. Further details can be found at www.catholiclondon.org.

NB:  We are hoping that the Rosary Crusade will proceed as usual this year on 9 October 2021, but this is subject to final confirmation from various authorities.

Pray the Rosary on 3 October!

Our Lady at Brompton Oratory

Unfortunately, the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions make this year's public procession extremely difficult, if not impossible.  However, no one can prevent us praying the rosary!  Devotees of Our Lady are therefore requested to pray the rosary on the planned date of this year's Crusade (3 October 2020) at 1:45 pm for an end to the current pandemic and in reparation for the sins against the Immaculate Heart.  It would be great if everyone could pray all 15 decades, but 5 is more than acceptable.  We hope to see you in person next October, God Willing!  

Rosary Crusade 2019

Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows!  The Rosary Crusade this year is on Saturday, 12 October 2019 and we are pleased that Fr. Lawrence Lew has agreed our invitation to lead the rosary and preach at the Crusade.  You are requested to assemble outside Westminster Cathedral from 1:45 pm and we walk, of course, to the Brompton Oratory (a distance of about a mile and a half).  We arrive at the Oratory at about 3:15 pm, where Our Lady is met by our chaplain, Fr. Ronald Creighton-Jobe.  Our Lady is received at the Church with appropriate ceremony and then we have our devotions of prayers and hymns, Solemn Benediction, and the final hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers."  Following the Crusade, there is an opportunity, for those not already enrolled, to enrol in the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.  We hope to see you there in your thousands!      

Rosary Crusade 2018

Our dear Fr Ronald Creighton-Jobe, Spiritual Director of the Crusade, will preach at the 2018 Crusade as well as his usual duties.  Fr. Creighton-Jobe is a very accomplished preacher, so we look forward to hearing what he has to say.  Please join us this Saturday, 13 October 2018, for the 34th Annual National Rosary Crusade of Reparation.  The Crusade starts outside Westminster Cathedral and those wishing to take part are asked to congregate at 1:45pm.  Pray for good weather, but do come to pray and make reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.        

Relive the 2017 Crusade here. 

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.   

Unfortunate Clash!

We are aware that the annual Blessed Sacrament Procession from Westminster Cathedral to Southwark Cathedral has been planned for the same day as the Rosary Crusade. This is unfortunate but, by the time we were advised that this was happening, it was too late to change the Rosary Crusade to an alternate date. We did, however, agree to move the assembly time for the Crusade from 1:45 pm to 2:15 pm. The Blessed Sacrament procession leaves the Cathedral at 1.30pm and should be clear by 2pm so that the two processions should not interfere with one another. We have advised Westminster Cathedral that the Rosary Crusade for 2014 will be on 11 October and they have agreed to try to avoid scheduling any major devotions on this date.