Over 300 pilgrims joined with Seminarians and Staff from Allen Hall, our Diocesan Seminary, to make the October Devotion at the Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden. As the processional image was carried through the streets of NW10, the Rosary was prayed for the gift of Vocations to the Priesthood; seminarians leading the decades.
On return to the Shrine, Canon John O'Leary preached the homily, reminiscing on how this prayer had been essential in his own vocation, how it was an effective prayer for the gift of vocations to the priesthood, and commenting particularly on the Mysteries of Light, how our meditative praying deepens and sustains our own Christian Vocation.
The devotions concluded with a period of Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, and an Act of Consecration in the Shrine Chapel.
Fr Stephen Willis, rector of the Shrine, expressed his hope that 'many blessings may flow from this joyous evening of intercession.'
