All Holy Cross Family Ministry centers around the world will gather online to pray together for world peace on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time / 4:00 p.m. Rome Time. Join the world in prayer!
On Sunday, September 7, Holy Cross Family Ministries, in partnership with the University of Notre Dame and the Congregation of Holy Cross, hosted the 75th Anniversary of Father Peyton’s Rosary Rally on Bond Quad on the campus of Notre Dame. Families from all over the country gathered to pray together, commemorating this great event!
Harnessing this momentum, Holy Cross Family Ministries and the Congregation of Holy Cross are launching a Global Rosary for Peace at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (4:00 PM Rome Time) on October 22, 2025, the Memorial of Saint John Paul II. Saint John Paul II was famously devoted to the Blessed Mother. In his apostolic letter "On the Most Holy Rosary," released in 2003, the Mysteries of the Light were revealed, and devotion to the Rosary was reawakened.
Entrusting our world to the maternal care of Our Lady, we will lift our voices together with 28 ministry centers across 18 countries, praying the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. We welcome your participation in this event! Please download the posters and share them with your parish, schools, and families.
Sign up and pledge to join us as we collectively raise our voices and lift our eyes to heaven, asking for the intercession of the Blessed Mother, Saint John Paul II, and Venerable Patrick Peyton to bring peace to our hearts, homes, communities, and world.
I invite everyone, each day of the coming month, to pray the Rosary for peace — personally, in the family, and in community. (Pope Leo XIV, September 24, 2025 General Audience)
This Rosary will be a beautiful tribute to Our Lady and our collective faith in the power of prayer. It is this essential mission of Father Peyton that we continue today at Holy Cross Family Ministries: the belief that “A World at Prayer, is a World at Peace.”
Please join us, and read more about our efforts in a recent article from Vatican News!

Copyright 2025 Margaret Dwyer Hogan
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About Margaret Dwyer Hogan
Margaret Dwyer Hogan is Manager for Catholic Mom. A wife, mom of four children, and former Director of Religious Education at two parishes, Margaret resides in Easton, Massachusetts. She also works with International Family Rosary to promote Rosary prayer in families using the children's Chapters of the Peyton Prayer Guild in 17 countries.