{"id":7877,"date":"2022-02-07T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T00:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=7877"},"modified":"2022-02-07T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T00:42:01","slug":"memorial-of-st-josephine-bakhita-8th-february-2022","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/event\/memorial-of-st-josephine-bakhita-8th-february-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial of St Josephine Bakhita &#8211; 8th February 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/St-Bakhita-2019-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2867\" src=\"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/St-Bakhita-2019-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/St-Bakhita-2019-1.jpg 412w, https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/St-Bakhita-2019-1-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Memorial of Saint Josephine Bakhita<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Parishioners and Visitors are welcome to attend both physically and virtually the 1:10pm Mass on Tuesday 8th Feburary to commemorate St Bakhita&#8217;s Feast Day.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The patron saint of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, St Josephine Bakhita was born in Sudan in 1869 and was enslaved as a child. She lived a life of torture until eventually being freed. Despite her struggles she committed her life to God and served him faithfully by working effectively to free other girls and women from slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has requested Catholic communities worldwide to join him in commemorating St Bakhita&#8217;s Day on 8th February 2022, the Catholic Anti-Slavery Day. The Archbishop of Sydney, Most Reverend Anthony Fisher OP, joins the Holy Father, in urging every parish to commemorate St Bakhita&#8217;s Feast Day with a Mass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note: 1:10pm Mass will be the only Mass of the day commemorating the Memorial, the rest of the scheduled Masses will be the Mass of Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial of Saint Josephine Bakhita Parishioners and Visitors are welcome to attend both physically and virtually the 1:10pm Mass on Tuesday 8th Feburary to commemorate St Bakhita&#8217;s Feast Day. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[698,697,696,695],"tribe_events_cat":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7878,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7877\/revisions\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryscathedral.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}