Rosary Pilgrimage West
Pilgrimage Schedule
As we get closer to the event, we will finalize our schedule. Stay tuned!
Our Keynote Speaker will be Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P., Promoter General of the Rosary. Here is a short biography of him by the National Catholic Register.
Celebrant for Mass will be Bishop Steven J. Maekawa, O.P. of the Diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Conference Talks
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Conference Speaker (English) will be Fr. Allan White, OP. Fr. Allan was born in London and entered the Dominican Order in 1973, after completing his university studies at Oxford. He was serving as the Master of the Order’s Socius (assistant), responsible for the Order in northwest Europe and Canada. Fr. Allan has previously served as university chaplain, seminary lecturer and taught in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge as well as editing New Blackfriars and in various ministries in the US. He also served as Provincial of the English Dominican Province and President of the Organisation of European Dominican Provincials. Fr. Allan holds a doctorate in theology and church history from the University of Edinburgh, as well as a summa cum laude Lector in Sacred Theology degree from Blackfriars, Oxford. He is known for his very insightful and wonderfully-woven conferences and retreats.
WHAT IS THE ROSARY CONFRATERNITY?
The Rosary Confraternity of the Catholic Church is a spiritual association, the members of which strive to pray the entire Rosary during the course of each week. They form a union of countless hundreds of thousands of the faithful throughout the world who, along with their own intentions, include the intentions and needs of all other members of the Rosary Confraternity both living and dead.
As Pope Leo XIII said in his apostolic constitution on the Confraternity, “whenever a person fulfills his obligation of reciting the Rosary according to the rule of the Confraternity, he includes in his intentions all its members, and they in turn render him the same service many times over.” (Ubi Primum, 1898 n1)
Each member includes deceased fellow members in their intentions as well; and thus he knows that in turn he will be included in the prayers of hundreds of thousands both now and hereafter. This led the Cure of Ars to say: “If anyone has the happiness of being in the Confraternity of the Rosary, he has in all corners of the world brothers and sisters who pray for him.” The deceased cannot be enrolled in the Confraternity.
