Family Separation

The USCCB's Justice for Immigrants website provides a wealth of information about family separation at the US border -- What are the facts? What can we do to help?  What about legislation and the Executive Order?  Click here to access the site, which includes the following "Prayer for Immigrant Children":

Loving Father, 

in your infinite compassion,

we seek your divine protection for refugee children

who are so often alone and afraid.

Provide solace to those who have been witnesses to

violence and destruction,

who have lost parents, family, friends, home, and all they cherish

due to war or persecution.

Comfort them in their sorrow,

and bring help in their time of need.

Show mercy to unaccompanied migrant children, too, Lord.

Reunite them with their families and loved ones.

Guide those children who are strangers in a foreign land

to a place of peace and safety.

Comfort them in their sorrow,

and bring help in their time of need.

Show us how we might reach out to these precious and 

vulnerable children.

Open our hearts to migrant and refugee children in need,

so that we might see in them your own migrant Son.

Give us courage to stand up in their defense

against those who would do them harm.

For this we pray through our Lord Jesus Christ,

who lives and reigns with you

in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Amen.