Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of the Catholic Archdiocese of Luanda in Angola has encouraged the people of God to live each day rooted in the certainty of God's presence and guided by virtues of faith and hope.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Marian Crusade in his Metropolitan See, which began with a procession toward the Parish of Our Lady of Remedies, Archbishop Dias underscored the importance of prayer in families.

"We should make our lives a path full of faith, full of hope, certain of the presence of God -- like the sun that never hides, like the sun that never goes out," the Angolan Catholic Archbishop said during the Saturday, October 25 event that the Men's Rosary Pastoral Movement of his Metropolitan See organized.

He emphasized that the pilgrimage was not a mere physical exercise, but above all spiritual, made "with Mary, our Mother, who walks with us -- silent, humble, but strong in faith."