The day in which Msgr Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador was assassinated in 1980, was chosen 28 years ago by the then Missionary Youth Movement of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Italy, to celebrate annually the \u201cDay of Prayer and Fasting in memory of the Missionary Martyrs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The slogan of the 2020 Day is \u201cIn Love and Alive\u201d informs Giovanni Rocca, national secretary of Missio Giovani.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cA message that holds two meanings within itself.\u00a0 \u00a0The first, in the qualifying meaning, fully describes those who ardent of love for God the Father and His creatures invested all their time to take care of them.\u00a0 \u00a0The second is a real imperative, the legacy that the Martyrs received from our Lord by transmitting it to us today.\u00a0 \u00a0Only those who fall in love are willing to abandon the superfluous, in order to grasp the essence of life.\u00a0 \u00a0This promise is not only hope for the future but above all a guarantee for the present.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day in which Msgr Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador was assassinated in 1980, was chosen 28 years ago by the then Missionary Youth Movement of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Italy, to celebrate annually the \u201cDay of Prayer and Fasting in memory of the Missionary Martyrs.\u201d The slogan of the 2020 Day is \u201cIn Love and Alive\u201d informs Giovanni Rocca, national secretary of Missio Giovani.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cA message that holds two meanings within itself.\u00a0 \u00a0The first, in the qualifying meaning, fully describes those who ardent of love for God the Father and His creatures invested all their time to take care of them.\u00a0 \u00a0The second is a real imperative, the legacy that the Martyrs received from our Lord by transmitting it to us today.\u00a0 \u00a0Only those who fall in love are willing to abandon the superfluous, in order to grasp the essence of life.\u00a0 \u00a0This promise is not only hope for the future but above all a guarantee for the present.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.750.422.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}