Fr Solanus Casey Rosary for borders event to preserve Faith and protect unborn
Irish Faithful are being asked to pray for the preservation of the Faith and the protection of life at all stages along Ireland’s coastline, in an event that mirrors other international demonstrations.
‘Rosary on the Coasts for Life and Faith’ is similar to ‘Rosary at the Borders’ which was an event held in Poland which saw about 1 million people travel to their border to pray for the protection of the unborn and the Faith on October 1.
Organisers say: “Our Island is in the midst of a catastrophic loss of Catholic Faith especially among the youth. Ireland, North and South, are facing an immediate and terrible threat to the protection of our babies before birth.”
The event will be held on Sunday November 26, on the Feast of Christ the King. The prayer begins at 2.30pm.
Bishops, priests, deacons and lay faithful are asked to take part and select locations along the coast which they are prepared to travel to. “So if you can come to the coast and pray the prayers of the ‘Rosary on the Coasts for Life and Faith’ programme with one or two people, tell us where you will be going and we will spread the word,” said organisers.
To send your chosen location respond to the Rosary on the Coasts for Life and Faith facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Rosary-on-the-Coast-for-Life-and-Faith-388750808212828/, website www.coastalrosaryireland.ie or email coastalrosaryireland@gmail.com or text/phone 0872786552.
US Priest with Irish parents to be beatified
Ven. Fr Solanus Casey lived a life of heroic devotion to the sick and suffering in New York, Washington, Seattle and Detroit, and will be beatified in a ceremony this month.
Fr Casey’s parents were both Irish, his mother’s family was born in Dungooley in Dundalk, in the parish of Faughart, in Louth where a number of his cousins still live.
He was the sixth child in a family of 16, and it’s believed up to 200 of his cousins in the US will be joined by a dozen of his Dungooley cousins at his beatification in Detroit on Saturday November 18.
Fr Solanus died in 1957 aged 86.