In this Jubilee Year the Dioceses and Ethnic Chaplaincies of Brentwood, Southwark and Westminster warmly invite you to a celebration of the annual Mass for Migrants on Monday, 5 May 2025, 2pm at Westminster Cathedral.
The Mass, which takes place every year on the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, will celebrate the contributions made to the faith, life and work in the UK by all those from other countries who make a home here.
Fr Dominic Robinson SJ, Chair of the Westminster Justice and Peace Commission, writes:
“We truly hope that you can join us and we can fill the Cathedral on this day when we give thanks to God for the universal gift of work and for the huge contribution of migrants to our city. This annual event is such an important one in our Churches’ calendar as it represents the presence and involvement of so many Catholics from diverse ethnic communities, a mark of our true catholicity.
And at a time when we see a reluctance or hostility to truly welcome the stranger in our midst, this gathering takes on a prophetic role too as we are called to celebrate with great enthusiasm our diverse musical gifts, national dress, our cultural diversity in all its richness, and so witness to the dignity of every human person and the dignity of fulfilling work as a gift from God for all.”
Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald MAfr OBE will be both celebrant and preacher. Fluent in Arabic, he is one of the leading experts on Islam, Christian–Muslim relations and interreligious dialogue in the international Catholic Church.
For more information or to join the banner procession in national dress, visit: https://www.caritasbrentwood.org/news/migrants-mass-2025/.