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Catholics in the United Kingdom and around the world are being asked to pray during a “Rosary Crusade” while the country’s parliament debates legalizing euthanasia.
The U.K. Parliament voted on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill last November, and the bill is now in a committee ahead of the “report” stage of legislation.
The Rosary initiative is led by Voice of the Family, an organization of “Catholic laity, formed to defend Catholic teaching on the family,” says its website.
Much like the story of David and Goliath, which saw David defeat the giant Goliath with a simple sling and stone, the Rosary is “Our Lady’s sling” and is a powerful prayer, said Fr. Thomas Crean, OP, in a March 12 posting on the Voice of the Family website.
Crean is a Dominican friar who is a priest in London.
“Today, in the midst of the forces ranged against Christ’s people, a new giant has arisen: this is the giant of Euthanasia. Like its Old Testament prototype, it is base-born: though of uncertain parentage, it seems most probably to derive from the union of atheism and hedonism,” he said.
The biblical Goliath had an “armor-bearer,” said Father Crean, and euthanasia has a similar aide with “the men and women in parliament and in the press.”
The faithful, said the priest, are the David in this modern-day version of the story.
“What shall be our sling? Surely, the Rosary,” he said.
The Rosary is "humble" but powerful
The Rosary “is a humble thing to look at,” but “has won great triumphs before now, both spiritual and temporal.”
“When we take up Our Lady’s sling, we should pray not only for the giant of Euthanasia to be cast face-down upon the earth, but also new strength to be given to our own captains, the bishops of the Church,” said Father Crean.
During the Rosary Crusade, “The faithful are asked to pray as many Rosaries as they are able – whether five decades daily or even a single decade” with the intention of “the natural and divine law prevail against the killing of the innocent, in the UK and throughout the world."
The Rosary Crusade will conclude on April 25, the earliest day of the Report stage, with a public recitation of the Rosary in Old Palace Yard, Westminster.
