{"id":5845,"date":"2022-08-25T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T11:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jrs.rs\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:39:28","slug":"the-diversity-of-faith-expressions-and-devotions-as-an-opportunity-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/the-diversity-of-faith-expressions-and-devotions-as-an-opportunity-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"The diversity of faith expressions and devotions as an opportunity to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a <strong>new video, Pope Francis <\/strong>speaks of the <strong>diversity of faith expressions and devotions as an opportunity to grow in catholicity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the 108th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR), which will be celebrated on the last Sunday of September, the<strong> Holy Father\u00a0<\/strong>invites us to <em><strong>grow together as a Church<\/strong><\/em>, realising that many Catholic migrants and refugees revitalise the Christian communities that welcome them.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, you\u2019ll discover <strong>the witness of Saint Mary of the Lake and \u200bOur Lady of Lourdes Parish in Chicago<\/strong>, which even celebrates multicultural diversity in the sacraments. People from different countries, welcomed into the community, share their diverse religious traditions and cultures. The parishioners of St. Mary of the Lake speak of how their faith has been enriched by the presence of migrants and refugees.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Pope Francis asks us: How can we make migrants and refugees more involved in our communities?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2V6ZFffND8o&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new video, Pope Francis speaks of the diversity of faith expressions and devotions as an opportunity to grow in catholicity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrs.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}