Posted on 12/03/2017 7:15:48 PM PST by marshmallow
Rosary on the Coast for Life and Faith a huge success
DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Thirty-thousand faithful Catholics gathered in Ireland Sunday afternoon to pray the Rosary. Their intentions were for the preservation of the Faith and for the defense of the right to life.
The Rosary on the Coast for Life and Faith took place this past Sunday, the Feast of Christ the King (in the Ordinary Form calendar). Organizers say over 30,000 people showed up at 295 registered locations, with an unknown number joining the initiative at their homes and around the world.
As the event's name indicates, most registered locations were on Ireland's coast. Catholics in the town of Ballycastle in Northern Ireland filmed their seaside Rosary rally on Sunday.
The prayer initiative was inspired by Poland's "Rosary to the Borders" on October 7, as well as Italy's "Rosary on the Border" on October 13.
Sunday's weather forecast was very harsh, but the organizers of coastal Rosary say the weather cleared up for a few hours in the afternoon — just in time for Rosary at afternoon.
Organizers were stunned by the huge turnout, especially considering the bad weather. They told Church Militant in an email Tuesday, "The turnout was incredible."
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Half of them were probably Polish immigrants.
It is a beginning.
30,000 is pitiful. It should’ve been 3 million. At one time, the Irish were as ardent in their practice of Catholicism as the Poles. Now only the Poles stand at the Gates of Vienna.
I agree.
But may God bless that remnant 30,000 for holding the faith.
...Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry,
It is a start and a much needed start at that.
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