People are invited to join the National Rosary Rally taking place in dioceses throughout England, Wales and Scotland from 9am to 9pm on Pentecost Sunday, 31 May.

Pope Francis is encouraging Catholics to pray the Rosary in their family homes during the month of May, especially when the pandemic is making us aware of the value of our families and making it possible for us to pray together at home.

He encourages simple Rosaries and joining online Rosary initiatives to pray to Our Lady for deliverance from Covid-19 and he has composed two prayers for this intention.

In each diocese people are encouraged to pray the Rosary individually, in families, as online prayer groups or parish groups, where possible led online by their parish priests, at any time within the specified hour. The specified time for the Leeds diocese is from 6pm – 7pm on Sunday evening

Timetable on 31 Sunday May

9am     Arundel and Brighton, Northampton and HM Forces

10am    Birmingham, Nottingham and Ukranian Eparchy

11am    Brentwood and Plymouth

Noon    Cardiff, Portsmouth and Dunkeld

1pm     Clifton, Salford and St Andrews and Edinburgh

2pm     East Anglia, Shrewsbury, Aberdeen

3pm     Hallam, Southwark, Glasgow

4pm     Hexham and Newcastle, Wrexham, Ordinariate OLW

5pm     Lancaster, Westminster, Argyll and the Isles

6pm     Leeds, Polish Mission and Galloway

7pm     Liverpool, Middlesbrough and Motherwell

8pm     Menevia, Paisley and Syro Malabar Eparchy

9pm     We are all invited to pray with Bishop John Keenan from St Mirin’s Cathedral in Paisley as the rally ends.

Come Holy Spirit and renew the face of the Earth

Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us