Join us at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, November 4 for a Patriotic Rosary at St. Elizabeth as we seek the Blessed Mother’s intercession in the Consecration of our Nation. In addition to the traditional prayers of the Rosary, we will sing patriotic hymns and pray for all 50 states over the course of the five mysteries.

Our Lady has always had a prominent role in the protection of our country. At the Sixth Provincial Council of Baltimore in 1846, the Bishops of the United States formally petitioned for Pope IX to name a patron saint for the nation. They had asked for it to be the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title the Immaculate Conception, and it was so approved in 1847 — seven years before he proclaimed the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in his papal bull, Ineffabilis Deus.

“Our father’s God, to thee, Author of liberty, To thee we pray. Long may our land be bright, With freedom’s holy light. Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King.” - Samuel Francis Smith