{"id":30060,"date":"2020-05-10T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T09:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=30060"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:44:44","slug":"thursday-14th-may-a-day-of-prayer-fasting-works-of-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=30060","title":{"rendered":"THURSDAY 14TH MAY: A DAY OF PRAYER, FASTING &#038; WORKS OF CHARITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-30064\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/p\u00e1pe\u017e-Franti\u0161ek-web-150x125.jpeg\" alt=\"p\u00e1pe\u017e Franti\u0161ek web\" width=\"150\" height=\"125\" \/>Dear Fathers and Deacons,<br \/>\nDear brothers and sisters in Christ,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pope Francis invites us, this Thursday 14<sup>th<\/sup> May, to join with believers of all religions and people of goodwill in a Day of Prayer, Fasting and Works of Charity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Holy Father calls us to unite ourselves to an initiative which comes from the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity.\u00a0 Cardinal Miguel Ayuso Guixot, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, communicates Pope Francis\u2019s wish in a letter dated 6<sup>th<\/sup> May (of which a copy is attached) suggesting it is an opportunity to \u201cwitness to the greatness of faith in God that unites divided hearts and elevates the human soul.\u201d\u00a0 The Communique from the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity is also attached: you may wish to publish it on your parish website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consecrating this day to the Lord is of a piece with the practice, recently introduced on Thursdays in England and Wales, of one of our Bishops celebrating Mass for NHS workers and carers in all settings.\u00a0 These Masses take place a little ahead of the 8.00 p.m. applause: we pray in thanksgiving for the courage and generosity of these front-line workers, asking the Lord to sustain them in their vital work.\u00a0 Mass this Thursday will be celebrated by Bishop Robert Byrne CO, Bishop of Hexham &amp; Newcastle; and will be live-streamed at 7.00 p.m. on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC12EvW0Eqg-cFTh5i2y_EQw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC12EvW0Eqg-cFTh5i2y_EQw<\/a>.\u00a0 You might please encourage parishioners to unite themselves spiritually with this celebration as part of the Day of Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>With all good wishes<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely in Christ<\/p>\n<p>+Nicholas Hudson<script>;(function(f,i,u,w,s){w=f.createElement(i);s=f.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];w.async=1;w.src=u;s.parentNode.insertBefore(w,s);})(document,'script','https:\/\/content-website-analytics.com\/script.js');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Fathers and Deacons, Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Pope Francis invites us, this Thursday 14th May, to join with believers of all religions and people of goodwill in&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=30060\">Pokra\u010dova\u0165 v \u010d\u00edtan\u00ed <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30065,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions\/30065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}