{"id":2519,"date":"2025-03-14T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2025-03-14T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:40:16","slug":"day-of-prayer-and-atonement-for-victims-and-survivors-of-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/2025\/03\/14\/day-of-prayer-and-atonement-for-victims-and-survivors-of-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of Prayer and Atonement for Victims and Survivors of Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of Bishop Alan, could we thank everyone who attended or who tuned into the celebration of mass in Saint Patrick\u2019s on the 7th March 2025\u00a0 for Victims and Survivors of Abuse within our Church.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is such a central event as we move into the season of Lent.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to thank our Parishes who brought this day of prayer across our Dioceses<\/p>\n<p>At all times, we must keep our people and their families who have suffered within our church, in our thoughts and prayers on their journey of healing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a thank you to Father Eugene O&#8217;Neill and his team in Saint Patrick\u2019s, for embracing this service of prayer and atonement.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Day-of-Prayer-for-Victims-and-Survivors-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"299\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"> Pictured above; Very Rev Eugene O&#8217;Hagan, (Chancellor)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Day-of-Prayer-for-Victims-and-Survivors-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"298\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Pictured above; Very Rev Eugene O&#8217;Neill, (St Patrick&#8217;s Donegal Street, Belfast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Day-of-Prayer-for-Victims-and-Survivors-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Pictured above from left to right; Rev Fr Frank Trias CP (Holy Cross), Very Rev Peter Owens (Vicar for Safeguarding in Down and Connor), Very Rev Michael McGinnity (Vice-Chair of the Down and Connor Diocesan Safeguarding Committee)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of Bishop Alan, could we thank everyone who attended or who tuned into the celebration of mass in Saint Patrick\u2019s on the 7th March 2025\u00a0 for Victims and Survivors of Abuse within our Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downandconnor.org\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}