{"id":31259,"date":"2022-09-10T21:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=31259"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:41:52","slug":"the-world-day-of-migrants-and-refugees-international-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=31259","title":{"rendered":"THE WORLD DAY OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES &#8211; INTERNATIONAL MASS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WDMR-2022_1-150x150.png\" alt=\"WDMR 2022_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WDMR-2022_1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WDMR-2022_1.png 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The Church has been celebrating the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR) since 1914. It\u2019s always an occasion to express concern for different vulnerable people on the move; to pray for them as they face many challenges; and to increase awareness about the opportunities that migration offers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201cBuilding the Future with Migrants and Refugees\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0is the theme chosen by the Holy Father for the 108th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR). Pope Francis highlights the commitment that we are all called to share in building a future that embraces God\u2019s plan, leaving no one behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are all looking forward to the\u00a0<strong>International Mass \u2013 WDMR on Sunday 25<sup>th<\/sup> 2022<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>at 5.30pm in Westminster Cathedral.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/c8be724d-987b-480b-a6aa-a96f496c0368\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In these last 2 weeks before the Mass, which is always such a joyous occasion in the diocesan calendar, I would like to <strong>encourage our community to attend<\/strong>\u00a0in good numbers that Sunday afternoon (5.30pm);<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<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>The Church has been celebrating the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR) since 1914. It\u2019s always an occasion to express concern for different vulnerable people on the move; to&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=31259\">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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31259","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=31259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31267,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31259\/revisions\/31267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}