{"id":7259,"date":"2022-09-20T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/one-million-children-praying-rosary-0\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:12:50","slug":"one-million-children-praying-rosary-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/one-million-children-praying-rosary-0\/","title":{"rendered":"One Million Children Praying the Rosary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\u201cAnd for good reason,\u201d exclaims Marie-Claude Lalonde, National Director of ACN Canada. \u201cConflicts are multiplying through so-called traditional wars and through acts of terrorism,\u201d she explains. \u201cDespite the many calls for peace and dialogue, nothing seems to be happening. If I am asked: Should we pray? My answer is: More than ever.\u201d &nbsp;<br \/>\nFor Catholics, this age-old prayer is a way of entering into hope. \u201cMany citizens, even believers, experience a certain gloom in the face of conflicts, terrorism, and economic difficulties that are increasingly present in our world. To counter this feeling\u2014and above all, because praying is a gesture of solidarity and a request for and with the victims of war and terrorism\u2014more than ever, we must pray.\u201d<br \/>\nAid to the Church in Need Canada invites you to be part of this meaningful global movement of prayer for peace on October 18.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>There are a couple of ways to participate:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>By organizing an activity in your pastoral setting or school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>To obtain campaign material, submit your request in writing to Mrs. Val\u00e9rie Vulcain at: vv@acn-canada.org or call 1-800-585-6333, ext. 227.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>By participating in the virtual prayer group that will take place on Tuesday, October 18 at 7:00 p.m. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">To register for the virtual event with your children or grandchildren, please visit:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/billets-one-million-children-praying-the-rosary-365893466207\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/billets-un-million-denfants-prient-le-chapelet-362560567417?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>We await you in large numbers! Together, more than ever, let us show solidarity and unite in prayer for peace!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Displaced children in Uganda participating to a Marian procession\" data-align=\"center\" data-entity-type=\"\" data-entity-uuid=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/enfants.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd for good reason,\u201d exclaims Marie-Claude Lalonde, National Director of ACN Canada. \u201cConflicts are multiplying through so-called traditional wars and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}