Pope calls for fasting, prayer on October 7
October 02, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis has issued a call for a special day of fasting and prayer on October 7, urging the faithful to unite in prayer for peace.
The Pope made his appeal on October 2 as concluded his homily at the Mass opening the Synod on Synodality. [See today’s separate CWN headline.] He said that he would recite the Rosary “to invoke the intercession of Mary Most Holy for the gift of peace,” on the previous day—Sunday, October 6—at the basilica of St. Mary Major, and asked Synod participants to join him in that prayer.
October 7 is also the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which is also celebrated as the feast of Our Lady of Victory, in memory of the miraculous defeat of an aggressive Islamic force at the battle of Lepanto on that date in 1571.
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