CITE joins the Family Rosary Crusade in the Philippines in its campaign to get 1 million Filipinos to pray 1 million rosaries in 200 days for all nations in the world.
The campaign called "A million roses for the world: Filipinos at Prayer: Peace for All Nations," began on October 7 and ends on May 31, 2012. It drew support from students and teachers to gather and pray as one family.
Advisory classes and clubs took turns to lead the holy rosary between 8:00 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. everyday at the shrine of Our Lady.
Furthermore, Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, director of the Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education, which partners with the Family Rosary Crusade, also encouraged the faithful to join a similar rosary campaign for schools nationwide dubbed "1.1 on 11/11."
This initiative will bring students of Catholic schools, colleges and universities to pray simultaneously 1 million and 100 rosaries at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 2011.
"This campaign aims to teach our youth that prayer can change the world and people who pray can change the destinies of peoples," the archbishop said. "Indeed there can be no world peace without prayer."