{"id":6974,"date":"2026-06-03T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=6974"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:12:03","slug":"us-bishops-issue-prayer-service-honoring-immigrants-and-enslaved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/us-bishops-issue-prayer-service-honoring-immigrants-and-enslaved\/","title":{"rendered":"US Bishops Issue Prayer Service Honoring Immigrants and Enslaved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Gina Christian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osvnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OSV News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(OSV News) \u2014 As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, the nation\u2019s Catholic bishops have released a prayer service text commemorating its immigrants and refugees, as well as those trafficked under historic and modern forms of slavery in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/resources\/national-prayer-service-honoring-many-journeys-shaped-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The document<\/a> also features prayers for government officials, asking God to \u201chelp them understand the great dignity of human persons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA Path Toward Justice: A National Prayer Service Honoring the Many Journeys that Shaped America\u201d was recently posted to the resource page of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The text was prepared by both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/06\/usccb-president-bishops-stand-with-immigrants-in-this-challenging-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USCCB<\/a>\u2018s Committee on Migration and its Subcommittee for the Promotion of Racial Justice and Reconciliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 15-page document, which is also available in Spanish, is designed \u201cto acknowledge and honor the many diverse communities that have journeyed to the United States in search of hope, safety, and opportunity,\u201d as the bishops stated in its introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the prayer service also recognizes \u201cthe voices, sufferings, and enduring contributions of those who were forcibly brought to this land,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scholars have estimated that as many as 100 million persons have immigrated to the U.S. since the end of the American Revolution in 1783. Today, the U.S. has 50.2 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2026\/06\/white-house-launches-campaign-depicting-immigrants-as-outer-space-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immigrants<\/a>, or 14.8% of its 340.1 million residents, according to the Migration Policy Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Remembering victims of slavery and trafficking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the approximately 12-20 million Africans who were forcibly transported to the Americas during the four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade, about half a million were taken to what is now the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his recently released encyclical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Magnifica Humanitas<\/em><\/a>, Pope Leo XIV, himself a descent of Africans enslaved and taken to the Americas, issued a formal apology for the Church\u2019s 18-century delay in recognizing the evils of slavery, calling it \u201ca wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2026\/05\/magnifica-humanitas-warns-of-future-without-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The pope<\/a> also decried modern forms of slavery, which take the form of both forced labor and sex trafficking, and which affected some 27.6 million globally in 2022, according to the International Labor Organization. In the U.S. the National Human Trafficking Hotline counted close to 22,000 victims in the U.S. in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. bishops said the prayer service template is \u201cinspired by the Gospel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/migrants-are-not-enemies-just-brothers-and-sisters-in-need-pope-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">call to welcome the stranger<\/a> and uphold the dignity of every human person,\u201d and \u201cseeks to provide a sacred space for reflection, remembrance, lament, and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service invites participants \u201cto encounter one another as members of the one human family and the one Body of Christ,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prayer gatherings based on the template \u201cmay be celebrated at a variety of sites or points of entry throughout the country,\u201d said the bishops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service is structured as a celebration of the Liturgy of the Word, with hymns, prayers, Scripture readings, a responsorial psalm and the proclamation of the Gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The words of welcome preceding the opening prayer ask the \u201cGod of hope, freedom, justice and peace\u201d for \u201cthe grace to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/10\/cardinal-mcelroy-calls-for-solidarity-with-migrants-lacking-legal-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walk in deeper solidarity<\/a> with immigrant communities, each of which enriches the life of this nation through the diversity of its gifts and traditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hospitality and care for the most vulnerable<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opening prayer invokes the intercession of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/the-cabrini-pledge-calls-faithful-to-be-keepers-of-hope-for-migrants-and-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Frances Xavier Cabrini<\/a>, an Italian immigrant whose ministry to fellow immigrants ultimately led to her canonization as the first American saint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prayer service\u2019s first reading is taken from Deuteronomy 10:12-22, where Moses exhorts the Israelites to love and serve the Lord, commanding them to \u201cbefriend the alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Psalm 146 recalls that the Lord \u201csecures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry,\u201d \u201csets captives free\u201d and \u201cprotects strangers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second reading, drawn from <a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/hebrews\/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 13 of the Letter to the Hebrews<\/a>, urges listeners not to \u201cneglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels,\u201d and to \u201cbe mindful of prisoners as if sharing their imprisonment, and of the ill-treated as of yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gospel passage, Matthew 25:31-46, describes the judgment of the nations, in which Jesus Christ \u2014 who identifies himself with the world\u2019s marginalized and suffering persons \u2014 blesses those who have cared for the vulnerable, while chastising those who have shunned the works of mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A call to action for \u201chumane immigration reform\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prayer service includes a post-Gospel sharing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/10\/bishop-seitz-shares-migrants-stories-with-pope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimonies from immigrants<\/a>, with pre-recorded messages permitted for reasons of safety and privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an aid to the service\u2019s homily or guided reflection, the bishops provided a copy of their special message on immigration as well as excerpts from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s 1963 \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service\u2019s \u201ccall to action\u201d invites participants to \u201cprayerfully reflect on what we, as the Body of Christ, are called to do collectively within our local parishes, communities, state, and nation\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/welcoming-migrant-heroes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assist immigrants and refugees<\/a> in concrete ways, \u201cwhile faithfully advocating for just and humane immigration reform that upholds the dignity of every human person created in the image of God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rounding out the service is a moment of silence, followed by intercessory prayers petitioning for the end of modern slavery as well as for the care of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/pope-leo-xiv-migrants-and-refugees-embody-hope-and-joy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">migrants and refugees<\/a>. It concludes with the Lord\u2019s Prayer, a closing prayer for migrants, and a hymn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Featured image: The plight of migrants and refugees is represented on the Catholic University campus, Washington, D.C., in the sculpture \u201cAngels Unawares\u201d by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz. 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