{"id":189263,"date":"2026-05-11T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189263\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:14:11","slug":"special-mass-in-scranton-honors-mothers-by-choice-on-mothers-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189263\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Mass in Scranton Honors Mothers by Choice on Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nearly every pew was filled for the annual &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day Adoption Mass&#8221; at Saint Peter&#8217;s Cathedral along Wyoming Avenue in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Lackawanna County;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lackawanna County&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Diocese of Scranton holds a special Mass every Mother&#8217;s Day to recognize all moms, especially those who are not mothers by blood but by choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Today&#8217;s mass began at 10 a.m. at Saint Peter&#8217;s Cathedral in Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly every pew was filled for the annual &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day Adoption Mass&#8221; at Saint Peter&#8217;s Cathedral along Wyoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[63784,201,83904,84298,178,180,179,63693],"class_list":["post-189263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-diocese-of-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-mother39s-day","tag-saint-peter39s-cathedral","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-wyoming-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189263","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=189263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}