{"id":188954,"date":"2026-05-11T03:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188954\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:01:06","slug":"special-mass-in-scranton-honors-mothers-by-choice-on-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188954\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Mass in Scranton Honors Mothers by Choice on Mother’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heartfelt Mother’s Day Adoption Mass in Scranton honors mothers by choice, celebrating the profound bonds formed through adoption at Saint Peter’s Cathedral. <\/p>\n

SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Nearly every pew was filled for the annual “Mother’s Day Adoption Mass” at Saint Peter’s Cathedral along Wyoming Avenue in Lackawanna County<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Diocese of Scranton holds a special Mass every Mother’s Day to recognize all moms, especially those who are not mothers by blood but by choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We pray to the lord. That all we have loved in this life, but no longer see, especially our deceased mothers, may live forever with God and Christ.”<\/p>\n

Today’s mass began at 10 a.m. at Saint Peter’s Cathedral in Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heartfelt Mother’s Day Adoption Mass in Scranton honors mothers by choice, celebrating the profound bonds formed through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-188954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}