Washington, DC: Cathedral Ministry Prays for Orlando–Wednesday and Saturday

Posting this here so I can refer to it easily. This is a message from Always God’s Children, the ministry of St Matthew’s Cathedral to gay and lesbian Catholics and our families and friends.

Always God’s Children mourns the killing of our LGBT brothers and sisters in Orlando this past weekend. You can read the statements of Pope Francis here, of Cardinal Wuerl here, and of Cardinal O”Malley here.

As Pope Francis recently observed, when Jesus wept at the death of his friend Lazarus, his “heart turned in prayer to the Father.  Prayer is the true medicine for our suffering.” Keeping that in mind, we invite you to join us in prayer and solidarity at two events this week.

First, we invite you to join our members in participating in an interfaith vigil to be held on Wednesday June 15 at 8pm in Dupont Circle. Details can be found at this link.

Second, we also invite you to join AGC to pray for peace at the 12:10 pm Mass this Saturday June 18 at the Cathedral, which will precede the previously announced picnic.