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Saturday 7th October 2023, at 3 pm, let’s pray the rosary for Belgium and the world

 

On several occasions, Pope Francis has asked his faithful to pray the rosary, especially during the month of October: « Pray so that Our Lady may protect the Church, that She may preserve it from the attacks of Satan and so that the Church may bravely fight the evil in the world » (September 2018).

On Saturday 7th October 2023, at 3 pm, as Our Lady has asked many times in Fatima, we shall pray the rosary, in Belgium and throughout the world, for the Church, the development of the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity, for the protection of human life and for peace in the world. The Church, mystical spouse of Jesus Christ, has the duty to transmit the Catholic Faith and Christ’s teachings until the end of the world. By administering the sacraments, She must also share out many graces to the faithful.

According to the popes’teachings, the Church wishes « that all Christian faithful may benefit from the protection of Our Lady who loves us all » and wants us to benefit from the fruits of Redemption. (Pius XII, encyclical « Ad Coeli Reginam » introducing the feast of Mary Queen)

A short time before her death, Saint Jacintha told her cousin Lucie: « tell everybody that God gives us His graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary (…) and that She has the power to give it to us. I wish I could fill all hearts with the immense love for the hearts of Jesus and Mary that burns inside me.  Let us console these Hearts by praying the rosary in reparation for sins that offend their hearts and for the conversion of poor sinners.

Thus, by showing our attachment to Mary in praying the rosary, we are also asking for her assistance as we meditate the episodes of her life with her Son, Jesus, to whom she guides us. The prayer of the rosary reaches the heart of our heavenly Mother. She promised those of her children who pray the rosary, a very special assistance, ‘ a solution to all problems whatever their importance’ (Sr Lucia of Fatima).

Let this period of prayer, enhanced by some hymns, take place in serenity and peace, showing charity and respect to everyone in the surroundings and following the security instructions.

Humbly and full of confidence in God, we ask for the support of Mary, comforter of the suffering, in this troubled period. We confide our souls, families, societies, our country and the whole world to Her.

We invite you to form groups of prayers and send us their addresses so that others can join them following the locations on the map/or list attached on this page.

The prayer of the rosary is always said on the date indicated on the site unless otherwise specified.

Get together and pray! Join in and advertise those places of worship to those who seek the one Peace which Mary leads us to, that Peace which can only be found in God!

To transfer this information, you can download the flyers, print and share them.
If you want to help finance the printing of flyers (we shall send them to you, if you send us a mail at info@rosaryontheborders.be ), you can make a donation on the following bank account : IBAN : BE38 9733 5179 3772 – BIC ARSPBE22. We thank you in advance.

If you take photographs of a group of people praying the rosary in public, you can transfer them to us (it may encourage other people to participate) by mail at info@rosaryontheborder.be but, please, respect the faithful’s private life and ask them in advance if they don’t mind. If you send us these photos, you automatically give us a right to use them on digital supports as Instagram, Facebook and/or this site. If you don’t want us to use them, please mention a copyright notice on the picture before sending it.

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The first Rosary for men in the world.


On the occasion of the month of the Rosary, men of all ages are invited throughout the world to pray the Rosary in public to honor our Lady of the Holy Rosary celebrated the day before, on October 7th.

“The Men’s Rosary, an initiative that started in Poland and Ireland and has grown steadily, will be held globally for the first time next October during the month of the Rosary; men from five continents will pray for 24 hours on that Saturday.” cfr Tribune Chrétienne September 22, 2022

Belgium joins the international initiative of praying the Rosary by men kneeling in the public square to do penance and implore divine mercy by invoking the Mother of God.

Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 3.00 p.m.
prayer of the Rosary, the glorious mysteries,
in front of the St Michael and Gudula Cathedral
in Brussels.

 

 

 

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Saturday October 1, 2022 on 3.00pm

“Pray, pray a lot.”
“Pray always.”
“I will convert sinners.”
“Do you love my Son? Do you love me? Then sacrifice yourself for me. Farewell.”
(Our Lady of Beauraing 1932 – 1933.)

These few requests of Our Lady in Beauraing in 1932 and 1933 are among the many exhortations of our Heavenly Mother always going in the same direction: an insistent request for prayers and sacrifices for the conversion of sinners.

Having accepted at the Incarnation to be the Mother of the Saviour, Mary, Coredemptrix, stands at the foot of the Cross on which the Son of God, her son, dies for the salvation of the world, embracing the unspeakable horror of the luciferian ‘Non serviam’ – I will not serve – rebellions that are the sins of humanity in the face of the infinite love of the Father.

Christ’s sacrifice is perpetuated throughout the world until the end of time in the Consecration at Holy Mass. He calls us to unite ourselves to this offering of the Son of God to his Father for the forgiveness of sins and the conversion of all. What a grace, what a gift and what a mission…

Let us pass on to those around us this unconditional love of our Creator for each of his creatures. Let us collaborate as much as possible in its radiance. Is not the first of our charities towards our neighbours to let them know what will make them truly happy and for ever?

Mary, who became our Mother at the foot of the Cross and who was very distressed to see the extent to which humanity was turning away from its final goal, eternal happiness in God, came to tell us again and again about the love that she shared with the Father and the Son and that together they wanted for all. In season and out of season, she insists that we become aware of the brevity of our passage on earth. She urges us to live more and more of the life of God through prayer and the sacraments. Finally, she asks us to do penance and reparation for those who offend God, infinitely good, the origin and end of all things.

On Saturday 1 October 2022 at 15.00, we will ask through the Rosary prayer that Mary intercede for us with her Son, Jesus, to strengthen our Faith, protect Life and obtain Peace at all levels of society in our beloved country and the whole world. We will pray in union with all those who pray, whether we know them or not, throughout Belgium and the world.

The messages of Our Lady of the Golden Heart in Beauraing (1932-1933) as well as those of Our Lady of the Poor in Banneux (1933), remind us of the ardent requests of our good Mother of Heaven to the children of Fatima and then to Sister Lucia in 1925.

At the beginning of this month, the first Saturday will be a day of special graces to begin or deepen the devotion insistently requested by Our Lady at Fatima for the conversion of sinners.

To help you pass on this information to those around you, do not hesitate to ask for posters or flyers when you register .

If you know of rest homes, hospitals or other places where people live who cannot come but who would nevertheless like to join in this moment of prayer, small ‘prayer books’ can help them. To obtain them, all you need to do is to send us an e-mail by 15 September at the latest (info@rosaryontheborders.be), stating the number of ‘prayer books’ you would like and the address to which we can send them. Please also specify the name of the institution where these people live so that there is no duplication.

Any donation to the account IBAN: BE38 9733 5179 3772 – BIC: ARSPBE22 is welcome to support the printing of posters and flyers, the production of prayer books for isolated people and the postage costs. We thank you in advance for your contribution at this level!

Please register as a leader or a prayer leader using the online form which you can find on the website www.rosaireauxfrontieres.be under the heading “Places of Prayer – Saturday 1 October 2022”.

May Our Lady guard and protect you! To Jesus through Mary!

 

When you take photos of the public rosary and wish to share them with us to encourage others to join this time of prayer via Instagram, Facebook and/or this site by emailing them to us at info@rosaryontheborders.be, please respect the privacy of other participants and let them know that photos will be taken. If you upload images/photos and send them to us, you automatically grant our initiative the right to use them. This includes use on digital media such as cards, homepages, social media posts, as well as offline media. If you do not wish to do so, please make a legible copyright notice on the image before uploading it.
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For the protection of life in all its states…

Upon the beginning of Lent, our attention is again caught by Belgian parliamentary developments  which require our fervent prayers.

Indeed, the Parliament has been asked to examine a Bill aiming at modifying the 2002 Law on Euthanasia.  This bill provides -inter alia- that “no written or non written clause can prevent a doctor to perform euthanasia within the prescribed law”.  In other words, this provision aims at forbidding the running of hospitals and medical care homes with no euthanasia facilities”.  This would in effect mean that there would be no official medical establishment in Belgium where patients or residents would be safe from euthanasia practice.

The Council of State has rendered an advice on the Bill, dated 7th February last.  This advice reminds of ” the positive obligation of the State to protect the right of life”. it also considers that the proposition constitutes a restriction of the freedom of conscience and of religious beliefs, philosophical freedom as well as freedom of association of those who set up such medical care homes” and pressed the law-makers to clarify the proposed disposition in the light of the afore listed considerations.

On 18th February last, the Health  Parliamentary Committee examined these recommendations but simply decided to ignore them and has approved the Bill which will be discussed on Plenary Session of the Chamber on 5th March next.

We invite you once more to turn to our Father through the intercession of Our Lady, in praying for our Country, while including also a special intention for the protection of life of the born-to-be, as the law on abortion is still on table at Parliament.

In practical terms, we would propose praying and fasting for the preservation of human life, from its beginning to its natural ending
on this weekend of 28 February/1st March 2020

 AND

to join in the recitation of the Rosary for those intentions,
on Wednesday 4th March 2020 at 1PM,
following Mass celebrated at 12.30
in the Cathedral Saint Michael and Gudulae at the “Maes Chapel” located at the back of the Main Altar of the Cathedral,
Nr 15 Rue du Bois Sauvage, 1000 Brussels.

 

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The abortion until the end of the pregnancy, in Belgium …?

After a few weeks of respite, in February, a bill will return to the agenda of the Belgian Parliament. It is aimed at allowing abortion  not only  up to 18 weeks, as its promoteurs want us to believe but until the end of the pregnancy.

The bill states that :

  • No one could be punished for practising an abortion beyond 18 weeks of pregnancy.
  • Doctors would not be obliged to remind their patients about the different possibilites for the future new-born baby (adoption, etc).
  • Doctors who do not want to practise an abortion  will  have to refer their patients to another doctor or to an abortion centre. 
  • Hospitals will  no longer be allowed to forbid the practice of  abortions on their premises.
  • Those who would try to prevent a woman from getting an abortion could be sentenced to jail and condemned to pay a fine.

More info : https://www.iebeib.org/fr/actualite/debutdevie/avortement/analyse-proposition-de-loi-ivg-vers-une-depenalisation-au-dela-de-18-semaines-4-5-mois-1721.html

So, please join us in a great common prayer for the protection of life in Belgium and all over the world, especially during this week end of February 1st and 2nd, first Saturday of the month and Candlemas Day: Jesus, Light for the World !

                                                                           And

Let us join the prayer of the rosary for Faith, Life and Peace  at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes,on Tuesday 11th February 2020 on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes at 13.00.

Ad Jesum per Maria !

 

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Sunday 13th October 2019 at 3 pm

On Sunday 13th October 2019 at 3 pm, anniversary date of the last apparition of Our Lady in Fatima in 1917, we shall pray the rosary in many places throughout Belgium and the world. We shall ask Our Lady, Our Good Mother, for the revival of the Catholic Faith, for the respect of Life and for Peace in Belgium and throughout the world. We shall be united with other faithful who will also pray the rosary in other countries.


The repetition of the « Hail Mary » of the Rosary, crown of roses for Our Lady, Queen of Heaven and of Earth, is a time of meditation during which we shall try and imitate Our Lady, the perfect mirror of Divine life.
Through the recitation of the Rosary, we ask Our Lady to call on Jesus, Her Son, to help our family, friends and neighbours. In this way, we submit our requests To God.


It is also a good way to gather together : « For where two or three gather in my name, there I am with them » (Matthew, 18, 20) and to create prayer groups which could continue for a certain period of time.


Let us all put our names down on the form that you will find on this website under the heading « The Rosary ». Let us lead a group or join a group.

God bless you and Our Lady protect you always !

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Pictures and testimonials of October 13th

Two weeks ago, on 13th October, the Rosary on the Borders was prayed by many people around the country and beyond the borders of Belgium.

Numerous photos show the intensity, the devotion and the fervour of all those prayers. Feel free to check them out here. Thanks for sharing them !

To thank you all who participated. To encourage everyone to continue with this powerful devotion, here is the present that Saint Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort gives us :

“Dear little friends, this beautiful rosebud is for you; it is one of the beads of your Rosary, and it may seem to you to be such a tiny thing. But if you only knew how precious this bead is! This wonderful bud will open out into a gorgeous rose if you say your Hail Mary really well. Of course it would be too much to expect you to say the whole fifteen mysteries every day, but do say at least five mysteries, and say them properly with love and devotion. This Rosary will be your little wreath of roses, your crown for Jesus and Mary.“

From ‘The Admirable Secret of the Rosary‘.

To Jesus through Mary.

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 Pope Francis called on Catholics worldwide to pray the rosary during the month of October, asking the Mother of God and St. Michael the Archangel

Pope Francis called on Catholics worldwide to pray the rosary during the month of October, asking the Mother of God and St. Michael the Archangel “to protect the church from the devil, that always aims to divide us from God and among ourselves.”

The Vatican released the pope’s invitation to prayer at noon, Saturday, September 29, the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, who according to the scriptures and tradition is the leader of the army of angels against the forces of Satan in the world. […]

It said, “Pope Francis has decided to invite all the faithful, of the entire world, to pray the Holy Rosary every day during the Marian month of October, and to join together in prayer and penance, as the people of God, in asking the Holy Mother of God and St. Michael the Archangel to protect the church from the devil, that always aims to divide us from God and among ourselves.” [….]

The invocation is an ancient Christian hymn to the Mother of God, dating back to around the 3rd century, and is well known in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox traditions. The Vatican provided the text of the prayer in Latin and Italian. The English translation is as follows:

“We fly to thy protection, O Holy Mother of God; do not despise our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin. Amen.”

The Vatican statement recalled that in a homily on September 11, Pope Francis quoted the first book of Job, and said: “prayer is the weapon against the Great Accuser that ‘goes around the world seeking how to accuse’. Only prayer can defeat him.” […]

The Vatican said that Pope Francis has also asked that the recital of the rosary should conclude with the prayer written by Leo XIII in 1886. The English translation of the prayer is as follows:

“Saint Michael Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.” […]

[ Source: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/09/29/pope-calls-catholics-pray-protect-church-devil]

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Let us go to Beauraing to pray to Our Lady

On 22nd August 2018,

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

11.00 am : Solemn Mass in the Basilica “Notre Dame au Coeur d’Or” celebrated by Cardinal De Kesel. At the same time, in a location nearby, there will be children’s liturgy.

2.00 pm : Recitation of the rosary with meditations and a special intention for the “Rosary on the Borders” which will take place in Belgium on 13th October 2018 at 3 pm, for the renewal of the Catholic faith, the protection of life, and for the peace of Christ in Belgium and throughout the whole world.

3.00 pm : eucharistic procession starting from Castel Sainte Marie, followed by the blessing of the sick in the garden and the renewal of the promises by “Les amis de Notre Dame de Beauraing”.

7.00 pm : Mass

Beauraing sanctuary : Basilique Notre Dame au Coeur d’Or, rue de l’Aubépine, 6 à 5570 Beauraing, Belgique

Phone : +32 Horloge 82 71 12 18 – Email : ndbeauraing@gmail.com

Website : http://www.sanctuairesdebeauraing.be

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The origins of the Rosary at the borders

Interview of  Maciej Bodasiński, one of the organizers of the “Rosary at the Borders” in Poland.

      “This year, now in 2017, in the 100th anniversary of the revelations of the Mother of God in Fatima, we want to follow her call to pray the rosary for the rescue of the world. The Rosary to the Borders is not a crusade because we don’t want to fight with anyone. It is a giant commotion for, not against, something. We firmly follow her command, and we will pray at the borders of our country, going out in prayer and witness to the whole world, so that the Mercy of God is not confined to any border. (…)

In the face of growing tension, threats of war, and terrorism, we want to pray for peace for the world. But peace is understood not just as lack of war but as the peace of God, the peace of the heart. Many people who have converted say that this is the greatest gift that they have received from the Creator — peace of heart. Whatever happens, you trust [in God], and you are calm. We pray for peace for people, among people, and among nations.

It isn’t and can never be prayer against someone. Prayer is never against someone, it is always FOR someone. Otherwise it would be a curse.

With our prayer we are not trying to “force” some concrete action on God. Simply we ask the Lord through His Mother to heal our roots, so (we) can give fruit once again. (…)

We don’t try to define any concrete people or group who might pose a threat. The most important intention is to convert, to save the souls of people in Poland and the whole world.

We entrust everything to Mary, and we leave up to her what the fruits of this prayer will be. We try to be more like children: Mother has asked us to pray the rosary, so we pray the rosary. She asked for penance, so we do penance. We try to believe in her unreservedly, having absolute certainty that if we entrust the fate of Poland and the whole world to her, we will be saved.

(…)Who knows? Maybe a network of these rosaries will cover the whole world.”

Source:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/1-million-catholics-expected-to-pray-rosary-to-save-poland-and-the-whole-wo