06/10/2025
CALL FOR A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND PUBLIC REPENTANCE
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
In the spirit of the prophetic exhortation of Baruch (Bar 1:15–22), which is a prayer of national confession and contrition, and in the context of the calamities that continue to afflict our land, we call for a National Day of Prayer and Public Repentance to be launched on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary.
We invite that the following prayer be prayed not only in all our parish churches, chapels, and homes starting on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, but also in the succeeding Sundays leading to the Feast of Christ the King, as a sustained supplication for mercy and renewal. We ask our Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs), families, schools, and church groups and organizations to pray this together regularly.
This act of national contrition is also a step in our journey of synodality—walking together as God’s people, listening to the Spirit and to one another, in humility and hope. As we mark this Pilgrimage Year of Hope, we cling to the promise of the Apostle Paul: “Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit” (Rom 5:5).
Let us pray with contrite hearts and steadfast trust, through the intercession of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, that our nation may be healed, renewed, and filled with the light of Christ.
For the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines:
+ PABLO VIRGILIO S. CARDINAL DAVID
Bishop of Kalookan
CBCP President