National Migration Week
January 7 - 14, 2018
National Migration Week provides the
church in the United States an opportunity to reflect on the circumstances
confronting migrants, including immigrants, refugees, children, and victims and
survivors of human trafficking.
This year’s theme, Many Journeys, One Family draws attention to the fact that each of our families have a migration story, some recent and others in the distant past. Regardless of where we are and where we came from, we remain part of the human family and are called to live in solidarity with one another.
This year’s theme, Many Journeys, One Family draws attention to the fact that each of our families have a migration story, some recent and others in the distant past. Regardless of where we are and where we came from, we remain part of the human family and are called to live in solidarity with one another.
Take time to share your ‘migration
story’ and those of others. Read Pope
Francis’ Message for the 2018 World Day of Migrants and Refugees and the Holy Father’s 2018 World Day of Peace
entitled, Migrants and refugees: men and women in search of peace.
Prayer of Pope Francis’ for Migrants
and Refugees
Merciful God and Father of all, wake
us from the slumber of indifference, open our eyes to their suffering, and free
us from the insensitivity born of worldly comfort and self-centeredness.
Inspire us, as nations, communities
and individuals, to see that those who come to our shores are our brothers and
sisters.
May we share with them the blessings
we have received from Your hand, and recognize that together, as one human
family, we are all migrants, journeying in hope to You, our true home, where
every tear will be wiped away, where we will be at peace and safe in Your
embrace.
Excerpted from Pope Francis’ Prayer for Migrants at the
Port of Lesbos, 4/16/2016
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