TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — Catholics from across the city of Toronto will gather early next month to recite the Rosary as part of an effort to restore public prayer in Canada.

The Global Men’s Rosary Crusade is hosting a rally in Toronto on Sunday, October 5, to publicly pray 15 decades of the Rosary in honor of the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

“One of the precepts of the Catholic faith is rendering justice unto God, and a part of that is corporate public worship,” Michael Sanita, an event organizer, told LifeSiteNews.

“And unfortunately, the state has foregone that obligation, obviously we live in a secular society,” he continued. “So, sort of up to us, it’s up to the [C]hurch to continue that tradition and to continue that which is owed.”

The Global Men’s Rosary Crusade is a Catholic lay group spanning 40 countries worldwide, including Argentina, Australia, England, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, Scotland, South Korea, and the United States.

The Canadian chapter of the group hosted a similar event last year, which drew over 50 people who gathered in public prayer to Our Lady. This is now the group’s fourth year hosting the Rosary rally in Toronto. The event is being supported by various local parishes and clergy throughout the city.

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Historically Toronto hosted massive Rosary rallies, with some drawing around 100,000 in public arenas. Now the Catholic group is hoping to rekindle fervor in Catholics and restore the tradition in Canada.

“So we’re just a bunch of guys that want to keep that alive,” Sanita said. “We’re just hoping to generate some more excitement and some more involvement with the community in Toronto.”

Sanita explained the importance of public prayer as a “part of the Catholic thinking, Catholic culture, Catholic dogma in fact.”

One of the four cardinal virtues is justice, part of which involves offering fitting homage to God. Sanita revealed that while the tradition has been widely forgotten, public prayer is part of a Catholic’s fulfillment of justice to God.

“It’s rendering unto God what that which he is owed, and public prayer is a part of that,” Sanita explained.

“So we have private devotions, we have private prayer, but there’s also a public component to that, a corporate component to that,” he continued. “And I think praying the Rosary is absolutely fundamental to that.”

The group is scheduled to meet at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 5, at the King Edward VII Equestrian Statue (Horse) in Queen’s Park. The Rosary will begin at 2:00 p.m. More information regarding the event can be found at their website.