Julie from South Carolina

"Here is a photo of the rally we had on the SC State House Grounds. Members of the Legion of Mary and other parishioners of Our Lady of the Hills Church as well as a group of young families with children provided great support for the rally and were a true image of our faith and our courage to proclaim it in the public square."    —Julie from Columbia, SC

Molokai Island, Hawaii

Hawaii is known to be a highly visited tourist attraction. In fact, one of our America Needs Fatima subscribers recently traveled to the Hawaiian Islands and reported the island of Molokai, where St. Damian served the lepers, to be a “majestic place of beauty and peace!” Saint Damien Catholic Church was visited and one of our Public Square Rosary Rally Banners was mounted outside of the church. What a blessing indeed! It is so refreshing to see fellow Catholics doing all they can to spread the message of Fatima.

The America Needs Fatima member commented, "We are very happy and excited to see the banner of America Needs Fatima still being displayed at the entrance of Saint Damien Catholic Church, even though the Rosary Rallies had taken place a month before. What a blessing to see the banner displayed in such a remote church located on such a remote island."

In our days millions are infected with a far deadlier disease than the leprosy of St. Damian's day —sin! Sin is rampant everywhere. The cure? Praying and making sacrifices for sinners. The Public Square Rosary Rally is a most efficacious means of offering public prayer and reparation. St. Damien prayed and suffered in the midst of lepers. Let us in imitation of Saint Damien, pray and suffer in the midst of sinners by holding public square rosary rallies.

“Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure
for yourself a place in heaven,” St. Damien says. And “my greatest pleasure
 is to serve the Lord in his poor children rejected by other people.”  

Joyce from Virginia

"Here in Vienna, Virginia, we have been meeting monthly to say a public Rosary beginning in the month of May through to the month of October at noon on the Saturday closest to the 13th of the month. We use the America Needs Fatima Rosary Rally prayers formula."    —Joyce, from Vienna, VA

Heidi from California

"We have been doing the October Rosary Rally every year since 2010. We always have a priest give an inspirational talk on the Fatima message before we begin the program."    —Heidi, from Panorama City, CA

Protest at Marquette

Some may have heard of a priest named Fr. James Martin, a priest who openly supports positions directly contrary to Catholic Church teaching. He openly advocates the acceptance of homosexual sin.

On Monday, February 5, 2018, the Catholic university of Marquette in Milwaukee hosted a public meeting on campus, via Skype. An America Needs Fatima member in the area found out that Fr. Martin was going to give a presentation titled Truth to Reconciling: Building a Bridge, with topics such as Catholic and Gay: Accepting My Sexuality. Thankfully, there were some faithful Catholics who showed up to protest this affront to the Faith by a Catholic college.

A supporter of ours from the area helped to organize the rally and said:

“There were ten of us there. We were approached by two men who work at Marquette. Most people didn’t react much but there were a few that thanked us for being there. We stayed for an hour and then left. We were also handing out the flyers. I couldn't believe how many people were trying to ignore us. There was also a young man there wanting to report on why we were there—he seemed to be on ‘our side’ and was pretty friendly. I think he was a student there as well.

When we were done praying, the man who joined us who worked at Marquette thanked us again for being there. He said how much it was needed and that there is rarely any opposition there. There were two other men from pro-life Wisconsin that joined us as well.

One of the Marquette students had been following us for at least five blocks and he followed us to our vehicle. He was also recording us on his phone. He stayed at a distance but then asked us if he could join our ‘cult.’ He laughed and said that there was no heaven or hell but he supposed that we were there to tell homosexuals that they are all going to hell. One of our friends we were driving with gave him one of the handouts. He took it and was going on his way as he kept making statements about not being any heaven or hell—that there was nothing after this life. I’m not sure what his purpose was for doing that.”

Because of people like this supporter in the area we were able to coordinate a protest against this talk that holds a position directly contrary to the Catholic Church’s teachings. If you hear of anything in your area that is an affront to the Catholic faith please let us know so that we can see if we can put a protest together against it.  You can contact us at psrcnewsletter@gmail.com or you can call us at (866) 584-6012. We faithful Catholics need to do what this supporter of ours in WI did and stand up for the faith in our area.

Message from the PSRC Director

Dear Public Square Rosary Rally Captains,

I hope that you are enjoying our blog!

On Saturday, March 17th, the feast of St. Patrick, Saint Joseph Traditional Marriage Rosary Rallies will take place all across America. Last year 3,110 rallies were held to promote and to defend, with the help of Saint Joseph, God’s marriage between one man and one woman.

If you have not yet signed up to organize a public square rosary rally for that date you can do so at www.AmericaNeedsFatima.org. What better way to offer prayer and penance during the holy season of Lent. The institution of marriage is the most fundamental institution of society.

Close behind marriage is the family; however, without marriages that are holy and pleasing to God, families will not achieve God’s plan. Many of the millions of abortions that occur happen as a result of marriages that do not please God.

When spouses do not view marriage as a sacred institution, they become self-centered and will raise children, when they have them, to have the same attitudes. A society imbued with the culture of death aims to tear apart the sound principles good parents try to instill in their children. A human life then becomes disposable when it interferes with a hedonistic lifestyle.

Holding a traditional marriage rally will be a tremendous help to defend and pray for the restoration of traditional marriage. Your rally will give hope to those who pass by who also believe in traditional marriage and will offer prayers and reparation for the restoration of traditional marriage in America.

I hope you benefit from this nblog. We welcome your questions, comments, photos and suggestions.

During January, America Needs Fatima participated in the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. Members of America Needs Fatima carried a banner with perhaps your name and 24,449 other names of other members of America Needs Fatima.

 During the March for Life we always have the pleasure of meeting rally captains at this most important effort in defense of innocent human life. America Needs Fatima participated in state-wide and even local pro-life rallies. Some rally captains brought their banners with them.

The words expressed on the Public Square Rosary Rally banner are universal in their importance and can be exhibited at any occasion.     —Francis

Maureen from Idaho

One of our rally captains, Maureen, has held rosary rallies monthly in her city of Nampa, Idaho. Here is her report:

“Starting in August, 2009, Nampa has prayed a Monthly Rosary Rally every month. We have continued this for over eight and a-half years to date.  The most difficult times of prayer have been in the winter weather of wind and cold temperatures.  The most we have had in our group was 17 and the least was 2.  We only had 2 at our rally in December of 2017, when it was exactly 0 degrees.  Our signs have held up pretty well during most of the weather conditions, but we have had to tape a few of them after strong winds.  Several times we have noticed that of all the weather conditions that month, our First Saturday was the most tolerable.   I delight that she is protecting us under her mantle.

Over the years we have had only a few oppose our rally.  We live in a very conservative state.  We pray on the Nampa City Hall steps.  And, counting the cars passing by during our rally, we counted nearly 250.  Once a man tried to physically take down our signs claiming that we had no right to have them up.  He claimed that there was a separation of church and state.  The police came and we won that battle.  After that, we obtained a letter in writing from the Nampa City Council that we had the right to be there.  Since then, one lady came up to us and told us that praying there was fine, but she was against the signs we had displayed.  She also wanted to see permission and claimed she was going to take it to the mayor's office.  She took pictures with her phone of our letter of permission.  That was in September of 2017, we haven't seen her since.  We think she was bothered by the picture of Our Lady.

Fortunately, God has blessed us with steadfast prayer warriors here in our parish.  We have sent the information of our rallies to all the parishes in our area, but few come from those beyond Nampa.  I send a notice each month on email to over 150 addresses.  Sometimes I get back an encouraging reply in thanksgiving for our prayer endeavor from someone who has not attended.  It is uplifting to know people read the email.  We know we are protected and blessed by Our Holy Mother in our witnessing to the devotion of prayer against the sin of this world.”

How many Rosary Rallies have you participated in?