Invoking Our Lady's Powerful Help

BY FRANCIS SLOBODNIK

In 2007, America Needs Fatima formed the idea of the Public Square Rosary Rally to encourage Catholics to get more involved in spreading devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. For too long, Catholics have been conditioned to hide their light under a bushel basket. Public Square Rosary Rallies display the light of the Catholic faith in the public square and help bring about the conversion of America.

On October 13, 2007, Catholics gathered in public squares across the country, in busy intersections, in city parks, and in front of town halls or local abortion clinics to take part in more than 2,000 public rosary rallies. The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) organized these rallies for its America Needs Fatima campaign in honor of the ninetieth anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal.

Even a small rally, like this one held on October 15, 2016, brings down countless blessings from Heaven on participants, passersby, and the American people.

As a first effort, the rallies were an overwhelming success! “These rallies represent mainstream America,” said Robert Ritchie, executive director of America Needs Fatima. “The Public Square Rosary Rally campaign is a response to the Fatima call for conversion, penance, and prayer, (continued inside back cover)

Since 2007, the Rockefeller Center in New York City has been the scene of the flagship Public Square Rosary Rally. Rallies like this are held across America on the Saturday closest to the anniversary of Our Lady's miracle of the sun, which took place on October 13, 1917.

*On October 13, 2007, America Needs Fatima launched the first Public Square Rosary Rallies in honor of the ninetieth anniversary of the Fatima apparitions.

**On October 14, 2017, an estimated one million faithful attended these rallies and prayed for the conversion of America in a public place — in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions in Fatima, Portugal in 1917.