The opportunity to pray for our priests is both a privilege and a true spiritual treasure. To join an entire world praying the Rosary especially for the sanctification of all priests is a unique opportunity to unite with our brothers and sisters in Christ the world over.
The Worldpriest Annual Global Rosary Relay Day on 27 June 2025 will be a relay in real time, praying the Rosary and continuously handing on from one prayer location to another at an allocated time, as an allocated mystery is prayed. This will allow maximum local participation, regardless of culture, nationality, age, language or disposition in life, making this unique relay a resounding victory for Our Lady and the power of her Rosary.
Open your hearts on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to receive the relay Rosary prayer at your allocated named and listed participating prayer location and then send it forth spiritually to the nominated next location, forming prayer communities as you have been doing every year for the past fifteen years. Be proactive this year in planning and promoting the relay. Remember, this is your annual opportunity to make a real difference in a very beneficial way for our priests. Here is your link to effective participation around the world: https://www.worldpriest.com/promotional-material/
Please do follow your allocated time slot for your local prayer location, as this allows for the real time relay to become a truly global event. You will receive your local promotional poster by mid-May, well in advance for you and your community to learn about the event and how to promote it locally– focused on your cathedral, church, shrine or designated prayer location – and to find out what time to pray and the mysteries of the Rosary you have been allocated to pray. See https://www.worldpriest.com/participating-prayer-location-list/
The Year of Jubilee 2025, also known as the Year of Hope, is a Catholic event that takes place every twenty-five years. The theme for this jubilee is Pilgrims of Hope, which seeks to inspire hope around the world. In 2025 Pope Francis invites the faithful to live this holy year as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. The jubilee aims to foster a greater sense of global brotherhood, solidarity with the poor and care for the environment. https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en.html
Apostolic Blessing
Pope Francis conveys his cordial greetings to all taking part in the ‘24-hour Rosary Relay for Priests’ and assures all of his spiritual closeness. He prays that our Blessed Mother may always guide and protect priests, who are consecrated to the joyful and indispensable mission of proclaiming the Gospel and offering God’s people – through the celebration of the sacraments – the closeness, the word and the strength of Christ (cf. Evangelii Gaudium,121).
His Holiness commends all those joining in this annual global prayer event to the loving intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary, and willingly imparts his Apostolic Blessing as a pledge of grace and peace.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin
Secretary of State
In this, the sixteenth Worldpriest Annual Global Rosary Relay for the Sanctification of Priests, please connect with both your local religious and secular media outlets to further inform people locally and nationally about opportunities to participate at their local parish or shrine.
Attached is the Worldpriest Global Rosary Relay generic English language version poster to help you to plan your local participation. This promotional poster is also available on line in a number of other languages. Please visit our website and choose your local version at: https://www.worldpriest.com/promotional-material/
In this, the sixteenth Worldpriest Annual Global Rosary Relay for the Sanctification of Priests, please connect with both your local religious and secular media outlets to further inform people locally and nationally about opportunities to participate at their local parish or shrine.
Attached is the Worldpriest Global Rosary Relay generic English language version poster to help you to plan your local participation. This promotional poster is also available on line in a number of other languages. Please visit our website and choose your local version at: https://www.worldpriest.com/promotional-material/
Father Paschal Scallon CM
Father Paschal is Irish and a member of the Vincentian Community, the Congregation of the Mission. He was ordained in 1991 having attended a school run by the Vincentians in Dublin. He is currently serving as the Provincial of the Vincentian Community in Ireland and Britain.
In his ministry, Father Paschal has worked at different times as a teacher and as a pastor in a college and parish in which the Vincentians have served for almost 200 years. Father Paschal has also served on the Vincentian parish mission team, whose ministry reaches back to the origins of St Vincent’s community 400 years ago, when St Vincent De Paul himself, with others – men and women – set out to preach the Gospel and address the needs of people in poverty in rural France at a time when that country was stricken by war and the neglect that inevitably comes with it. He has served in Vincentian communities in Dublin and Belfast.
Over the years, Father Paschal has completed further studies in ecumenism, the study of inter-faith and inter-church relations, and in pastoral theology and has contributed to various publications including co-editing a book called A Church with a Future.
At present he is involved in the animation and administration of the Province of Ireland of the Vincentian Community but hopes, on completing his term as Provincial, to return to parish missions, a ministry he believes still has much to offer in the encouragement of parish communities so that they themselves can become the inspired animators of the faith to whom others around them will respond. https://vincentians.ie/
For our Virtual Rosary Thursday time of prayer for 27 February 2025
This virtual Rosary Thursday will make use of Zoom technology. Zoom Room will open at 17.45 hours; the prayers begin at 18.00 hours concluding at18.30 hours.
The following time zones will assist your time of prayer.
USA/CANADA – Eastern Time: 12.00
USA/CANADA – Central Time: 11.00
CENTRAL EUROPEAN Time: 18.00
USA/CANADA – Mountain Time: 10.00
SOUTH AFRICA – 18.00
UK/IRELAND – 17.00
INDIA Time – 8:30 p.m. IST
PAKISTAN Time – 9:00 p.m. PST
This virtual Rosary Thursday will include a welcome by Marion Mulhall and introduction to our 27 February 2025 Worldpriest Virtual Rosary Thursday our prayer leader Father Paschal Scallon CM. ( Nephew of the late Father Kevin Scallon CM ) will pray the Luminous Mysteries in the following order, with special guided meditations/reflections for each decade.
- First Luminous Mystery – The Baptism of the Lord in the Jordan – to be prayed by Father Paschal Scallon Prayer responders Damien and Dana Scallon founders DS Music to affirm Catholics in their faith, through prayer and music recordings. They composed ”Lady of Knock” and other hymns. https://dsmusicstore.com Dana was Ireland’s first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest.
- Second Luminous Mystery – Wedding Feast of Cana – to be prayed by Father Paschal Scallon prayer responder Dermot Mannion International Coordinator Global Rosary Relay and Worldpriest Global Apostolate Associate. https://www.worldpriest.com/annual-global-rosary-relay/
- Third Luminous Mystery – Proclamation of the Kingdom – to be prayed by Father Paschal Scallon prayer responder Doctor Tim Flanagan an Infectious disease specialist from Rhode Island USA and advisory board member to Worldpriest INC. USA.
- Fourth Luminous Mystery – The Transfiguration of Our Lord – to be prayed by Father Paschal Scallon prayer responder Marion Mulhall Founder Worldpriest Global Apostolate https://www.worldpriest.com/
- Fifth Luminous Mystery – The Institution of the Eucharist – to be prayed by Father Paschal Scallon prayer responder Ivette Margarita Valle Konstantopoulou, a friend to Worldpriest from Pyrgos in Greece and Worldpriest Representative for Greece.
Final rosary prayers with a special blessing for our Rosary Thursday time of prayer for the 27 February by Father Paschal Scallon to all prayer participants and to all who will later pray via YouTube.
Register Here
To register, just click on the link provided here.
On the 30 January Bishop Joseph Coffey led the first Virtual rosary Thursday for the year 2025, praying with the Worldpriest Global Apostolate prayer community and friends. At any time of your choosing pray with this special time of prayer https://youtu.be/0WSfU4cbxzA
If you have any questions, please contact;
Marion Mulhall
info.worldpriest@gmail.com