Public Square Rosary Crusade will take place on Oct. 13 at noon across U.S.; parishes in diocese to participate

On Saturday, Oct. 13 at noon, the Public Square Rosary Crusade will be held in 8,000 public squares across the nation, where Catholics will be praying for our nation.  This annual event is sponsored by "America Needs Fatima.”

The goal of the crusade is to counter the destructive secular agenda, asking God to guide every aspect of our society. As human efforts have failed to solve America’s key problems, we ask God’s immediate help for our nation’s leadership. He will hear our prayers, especially if we pray the rosary of his Blessed Mother. Without prayer, and specifically the rosary, we will not find solutions to our nation’s many problems.

Last year, the America Needs Fatima campaign organized over 7,515 Rosary Rallies. In 2012, more than 8,000 rallies are planned for Oct. 13 – the day God worked the miracle of the sun at Fatima, Portugal in 1917.

For more information, visit the website at www.americaneedsfatima.org.

Parishes in the Sacramento Diocese that will participate in the Rosary Crusade are:

St. Mel Parish, Fair Oaks

Holy Family, Citrus Heights

Divine Savior, Orangevale

St. Lawrence, North Highlands

St. Clare, Roseville

Sts.Peter and Paul, Rocklin

Good Shepherd, Elk Grove

Our Lady of Lourdes, Sacramento

Presentation of BVM, Sacramento

St. Francis, Sacramento

St. Ignatius, Sacramento

St. Mary, Sacramento

St. Philomene, Sacramento

St. Robert, Sacramento

St. Rose, Sacramento

St. Patrick, Grass Valley

St. Joseph, Lincoln

St. Joseph, Marysville

St. Joseph, Redding

Our Lady of Mercy, Redding

St. Vincent Ferrer, Vallejo

St. Basil, Vallejo

St. Catherine of Siena, Vallejo

St. Monica, Willows

Our Lady of Lourdes, Colusa