Pray for the Ukraine
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Emergency Collection for Ukraine from CRS - Catholic Relief Services
There is great suffering both within Ukraine and for those who are fleeing to neighboring countries for safety. Catholic Relief Services and their partners are working to provide immediate support.
They are working to provide safe shelter and hot meals, distribute hygiene supplies, transport people to safe areas, offer counseling support and more.
Knights of Columbus Ukraine Solidarity FundThe Knights will use your gift to provide temporary shelter, food, medical supplies, clothing, communications and religious supplies. These items will all be immediately distributed, and 100% of your gift will go directly to these displaced people.
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“Pray the Rosary every day in order to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war.”
-- Message of Our Lady of Fatima to visionaries on May 13, 1917 (summary of Fatima messages)
“If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.”
-- Message of Our Lady of Fatima to visionaries on July 13, 1917 (more on the message of Fatima)
Prayer for the Deliverance of Ukraine in Time of Invasion
Adapted from the Great Book of Needs
O Lord God of powers, and God of our salvation, O God, who alone work wonders: look down with mercy and compassion on Your humble servants, and out of love for mankind hearken and have mercy on us and on the land of Ukraine.
Click here to continue reading the prayer from the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada. “Prepared by the sinful Reader Ilya, feast of the Hieromartyr Clement of Ancyra. Brampton, 2022.”
From the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate ConceptionJesus said to St. Faustina, "Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy"
- Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, 300.Pray for peace — and persist!
Now is the time to take up the Divine Mercy Chaplet, venerate the Image of Divine Mercy, and ask God to “have mercy on us and on the whole world.”
Now is the time to pray for peace more than ever, especially with the daily Rosary, as Our Lady asked at Fatima.
Now is the time to call in the intercession of all those whom we’ve helped pass swiftly through Purgatory across the years, asking for those Holy Souls in Purgatory and in Heaven who’ve been the recipients of mercy through our prayers and suffrages to extend that mercy to us living in this valley of tears.
Now is the time to deploy the grace of God into a world sliding toward war, and potentially a very serious war.
You keep hearing an invitation to stary praying th Rosary.
Not sure how to get started? This "How to Pray the Rosary" guide is a great way to learn the basics of an essential and impactful prayer!
Check it out: dynamiccatholic.com/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary.html .
Here is a letter from Pope Francis to all bishops describing his desire to “carry out a solemn Act of Consecration of humanity, and Russia and Ukraine in particular, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” While written to the Bishop's, it gives us an understanding of what we are doing Friday, March 25 on the Feast of the Annunciation and why.
Dear Brothers,
Nearly a month has passed since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine that is daily inflicting immense suffering upon its sorely tried people and threatening world peace. At this dark hour, the Church is urgently called to intercede before the Prince of Peace and to demonstrate her closeness to those directly affected by the conflict. I am grateful to the many people who have responded with great generosity to my appeals for prayer, fasting and charity. Now, also in response to numerous requests by the People of God, I wish in a special way to entrust the nations at war to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Continue Reading
Act of Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Please join in praying with Pope Francis and faithful all around the world, this prayer of consecration.