Sáenz said that “the rosary is the most powerful weapon to win the battle against evil. If before we prayed it in our homes, now we pray it together and in our squares. That’s what you get when you try to destroy our nation. We will continue fighting and we will win because God is with us.”
Esther Senosiain is a building engineer and lives in Pamplona, Spain. She believes that “Catholics must play a primary role in public life” and that “not doing so has led us to the times we live in.”
Senosiain said she hopes that through these prayers, the Virgin “may forgive us, help us, that she may remember what this land once was for world Catholicism, that we may serve as an instrument so that other people would want to seek God again.”
The main reason for Miguel Ángel Martínez, an artisan in traditional fabrics, to organize the public prayer of the rosary in Valencia, Spain, is “the persecution suffered by the Catholic Church internationally,” and his goal is “the restoration of the reign of Christ in Spain and the world.”
From Salamanca, Spain, Miguel Ángel Sánchez, 26, maintained that “without God’s help we cannot achieve anything, which is why we want to ask the Virgin to intercede for Spain at this critical moment.”
Sánchez said: “It’s important to do it publicly, even more so now that the world demands that we leave our faith at home to continue de-Christianizing our country.”
Fernando Terrones is a 42-year-old coach who has decided to lead next Saturday’s prayer in Jaén, Spain, next to the Assumption of the Virgin Cathedral.
His motivation is clear: “Evil is making its last offensive to steal from God all the souls it can, before the imminent triumph of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Those of us faithful to him must do everything in our power to impede evil, which we can only do if we go hand in hand with Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Jesús María Álvarez, a professional in the steel industry in his 50s from the Asturias region on Spain’s northern coast, could not sit idly by last Dec. 8 when the first national rosary prayer event was announced. ”Seeing that no one was inspired to call for one in Asturias, I decided to take the step,” he told ACI Prensa.
“For quite some time now, Catholics have been fighting a full-fledged spiritual battle. Satan has infiltrated not only the Church but also the institutions,” he pointed out.
Álvarez commented that the belief that “nothing is a sin anymore” has been established in society while “they want to destroy the concept of the [Spanish] homeland with separatism, communism, freemasonry, socialism, etc.”
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Faced with this situation, which he called a “crossroads,” he said that “we have to show our faces. Lukewarmness is not acceptable, Christ does not want it. We are the Church militant and our weapons to combat evil are the holy rosary and the holy cross.”
This Saturday’s event will also be held in the island territories of Spain. From the city of Santa Cruz on Tenerife Island in the Canaries, Pablo Valera, a 21-year-old student, said that “the national rosary headed up by our colleagues from Ferraz [Street in Madrid] aims to make Spaniards aware that the sociopolitical chaos we suffer is nothing but an effect of national spiritual illness. From Santa Cruz of Santiago on Tenerife, we will ask most holy Mary to obtain for us from God the spiritual reconquest of her land.”
This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
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