{"id":35918,"date":"2020-10-07T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=35918"},"modified":"2020-10-07T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:10:12","slug":"international-senior-vatican-cardinal-calls-on-children-to-pray-rosary-against-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2020\/10\/07\/international-senior-vatican-cardinal-calls-on-children-to-pray-rosary-against-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNATIONAL: Senior Vatican Cardinal calls on children to pray rosary against COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior Vatican Cardinal has urged children to pray the rosary to end the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His call came in a letter backing Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)\u2019s global prayer initiative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acnuk.org\/resource\/onemillionchildrenprayingtherosary\/\">\u201cA Million Children Praying the Rosary\u201d<\/a>, asking young people to pray on Sunday, 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October \u2013 or the following day if it easier for them to pray together at school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The letter, by Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, ACN\u2019s International President, and the charity\u2019s Ecclesiastical Assistant Fr Martin Barta, stressed that in our greatest trials \u201cwe need the Mother of God as never before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wrote that the current pandemic is a \u201ccrisis in which the entire world has been and continues to be exposed to an invisible virus that has brought death to hundreds of thousands of people and devastating \u2013 and as yet unforeseeable \u2013 economic and social consequences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur world is no longer the same world, and what was taken for granted until now will no longer be so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith brutal clarity, the virus has brought home to us our vulnerability, frailty and mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardinal Piacenza said that in times of difficulty God always sends us saints to lead us \u201cand is urging us to pray constantly and to trust in Him in all circumstances\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Quoting St John Paul II saying that the late twentieth century was a period of spiritual battle, he wrote: \u201cIn our times especially, which are seen by many holy persons as apocalyptic times, [Jesus] has sent us His Mother to help us in our greatest need.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added: \u201cAbove all, she is reminding us of the powerful remedies every one of us already has at hand \u2013 wearing a blessed medal, faithfully praying the Rosary, forgiveness and reconciliation, consecration to her Immaculate maternal Heart, reading the Scriptures, acts of loving sacrifice and especially availing ourselves of the Sacraments of the Church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat is why we are inviting you once again this year to take part in our worldwide prayer initiative \u2018A Million Children Praying the Rosary\u2019\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The letter concluded by stressing the need for children to turn to Our Lady:\u00a0\u201cAnd so, in order to be victorious in the current worldwide spiritual battle, we must consecrate ourselves totally to her and seek refuge beneath her mantle through the prayer of the Rosary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA Million Children Praying the Rosary\u201d began in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, in 2005, when a group of children came together to pray the rosary for peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ACN has supported the campaign since 2008 and took over its organisation in 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It takes its name from Saint Padre Pio\u2019s dictum: \u201cWhen one million children pray the rosary, the world will change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/donate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35565 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-580x85.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Vatican Cardinal has urged children to pray the rosary to end the COVID-19 crisis. 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