{"id":29554,"date":"2026-07-24T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/?p=29554"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:02:23","slug":"world-grandparents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/world-grandparents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Grandparents Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span lang=\"EN-US\">World day for grandparents and the elderly<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">This Sunday, July 26, is the\u00a0<b>Sixth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly<\/b>. Grandparents and the Elderly are the backbone of every parish. They are people deeply committed to their faith and to the mission of the Church.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dublindiocese.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GrandparentsElderly.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.dublindiocese.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GrandparentsElderly.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1784980842673000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1d_dzJs65sTBAwyAs4bVw_\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">At this link<\/span><\/b><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0can be found resources from the Irish Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference\u2019s Council for Marriage and the Family, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\" type=\"1\">\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Resources offered by the Dicastery for Laity, Family &amp; Life.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">A Newsletter insert from the Catholic Grandparents Association regarding this Sunday\u2019s Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Message of Pope Leo XIV for the Sixth World Day for Grandparents &amp; the Elderly on the theme \u201cI will never forget you\u201d (Is. 49:15)<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Council for Marriage and the Family is encouraging as many parishes as possible to celebrate World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly this year. This can be done very simply by having an older person lead us in God\u2019s Word, using the Prayer of the Faithful from the Dicastery resources, having grandparents involved in the Offertory Procession and using the Prayer for the 6th World Day as a Post Communion Reflection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World day for grandparents and the elderly This Sunday, July 26, is the\u00a0Sixth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. Grandparents and the Elderly are the backbone of every parish. They are people deeply committed to their faith and to the mission of the Church.\u00a0At this link\u00a0can be found resources from the Irish Catholic Bishops\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/world-grandparents-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Grandparents Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29555,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29554\/revisions\/29555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}