Liturgical Memory of St. Scalabrini - June 1, 2026

On this Liturgical Memory of St. John Baptist Scalabrini, we do not remember a saint of the past; we receive again a mission for the present. In 2026, while millions continue to flee war, hunger, persecution, climate disasters, and collapsing hopes, the Gospel asks us not to speak of migrants and refugees as numbers, but to recognize them as brothers and sisters carrying a sacred history.

Scalabrini saw migration not only as a wound of humanity, but also as a place where God walks with His people. Today, from Sudan to Haiti, from Ukraine to the Mediterranean routes, from border shelters to families waiting for a legal answer, the migrant’s journey continues to reveal both the suffering of the world and the conscience of the Church.

To be Scalabrinian today is to stand where fear builds walls and to answer with presence; where indifference counts bodies and to answer with names; where politics delays compassion and to answer with the Gospel. May St. Scalabrini intercede for us, so that every parish, every mission, and every community may become a home where the stranger is not merely assisted, but received as Christ among us.

📖 “So you too should love the resident alien, for that is what you were in the land of Egypt. — Deuteronomy 10:19”

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