May 5 is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).
May 5 is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Also known as “Red Dress Day,” it’s a day to raise awareness and education about high and disproportionate rates of violence and number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.
As part of the campaign, red dresses are hung to symbolize the missing women and girls who should be wearing them, honouring and remembering the lives and legacies of both the victims and survivors.
Our prayers are with our community members and families that are grieving for the loss of their mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, aunties, cousins, and friends.
On Red Dress Day, we give voice to the women whose stories have not been heard and pray for healing.
We pray …
Creator God, we acknowledge all of the gifts we have been given.
We especially acknowledge the gifts of the women in our lives, our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunties, sisters and nieces.
We express our sorrow and hurt for those of our Indigenous sisters who have gone missing and for those who have lost their lives.
At this time, we ask for blessings for all women, and especially for those who have experienced untold violence and suffering.
We ask for comfort, care, and consolation, for those family members left behind.
We again acknowledge the gifts of the Spirit we have been given and we ask for these blessings in Christ.
Amen.
Learn more at:
Final Report MMIWG
Government of Canada
