Sample Prayers of the Faithful. Please click here to find a variety of intercessions on behalf of migrants and refugees, as well as government officials. These are adapted from materials that our Office of Migration and Refugee Services (MRS) has developed in anticipation of National Migration Week each January. In English and Spanish.
Sample Prayer Service. MRS has developed the enclosed “Prayer Service in Solidarity with Migrants,” again based on National Migration Week materials. The service focuses on the story of Saint Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe. Please click here for the service in English or in Spanish.
Prayer Cards. In English and Spanish, the prayers and images were developed for National Migration Week in recent years, but we have “rebranded” them for the upcoming National Day of Prayer. Also, MRS has prepared a book of prayer resources for National Migration Week (http://www.usccb.org/about/migration-and-refugee-services/national-migrationweek/upload/Booklet-of-Prayers-2.pdf) that includes three more prayer cards that may be of particular use in connection with the Day of Prayer—for San Juan Diego (December 9), for migrant families, and for migrant children.
*All the resources are available as a single document,
here.
Articles from CNS:
Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles wrote a column for CNS discussing our broken
immigration system: “The sad truth about immigration policy in America today,” he
wrote, is that “our system has been broken for so long, our politicians have failed to act
for so long that the people we are now punishing have become our neighbors.”
https://cnstopstories.com/2016/12/05/a-way-forward-on-immigration/