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November 30, 2015JUBILEE YEAR OF MERCY
December 8, 2015-November 20, 2016
The Jubilee Year of Mercy starts on December 8, 2015. It will be a year to heed Pope Francis’ call to “gaze even more attentively on mercy, so that we may become a more effective sign of the Father’s action in our lives.” Pope Francis has encouraged the Church to make its mission to be a witness of mercy to all people, saying, “No one can be excluded from God’s mercy.”
The biblical theme for the year comes from Luke 6:36: “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.” This jubilee provides us a special opportunity to engage and evangelize our parishioners and the community in which we live.
Let us pray together that this will be a transformative year in which we see all people as God’s children, and open our arms to welcome them into God’s love and mercy.
“A Prayer for the Year of Mercy”
Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father,
and have told us that whoever sees you sees God.
Show us your face and we will be saved. You are the visible face of the invisible Father, of the God who manifests his power above all by forgiveness and mercy:
Let the Church be your visible face in the world.
Send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with its anointing, so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year of grace from the Lord, and your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed, and restore sight to the blind.
Amen.
-Pope Francis