{"id":6382,"date":"2021-04-20T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/first-world-day-grandparents-and-elderly-scheduled-july-25\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:44:56","slug":"first-world-day-grandparents-and-elderly-scheduled-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/first-world-day-grandparents-and-elderly-scheduled-july-25\/","title":{"rendered":"First World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly scheduled for July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2021-04\/world-day-grandparents-elderly-dicastery-laity-family-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican News<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe First World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly will be celebrated on Sunday 25 July, announced the Vatican\u2019s Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life in a press release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n<p>The theme chosen by Pope Francis for this inaugural commemoration is \u201cI am with you always\u201d (Mt 28:20). It expresses the closeness of the Lord and the Church to every older person, especially in these challenging times of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n<p>The theme, \u201cI am with you always\u201d is also \u201ca promise of closeness and hope that young and old can mutually share\u201d, notes the press release. Not only are grandchildren and youths invited to be present in the lives of older people, but older people and grandparents also have a mission of evangelization, proclamation and prayer, and of encouraging young people in their faith.<\/p>\n\n<p>To further encourage the celebration of the World Day in local churches and associations, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life will offer pastoral tools from mid-June, which will be available on the website w<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laityfamilylife.va\/content\/laityfamilylife\/en\/amoris-laetitia.html\" target=\"_blank\">ww.amorislaetitia.va<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Vatican News The First World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly will be celebrated on Sunday 25 July, announced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}