During this Jubilee Year of Mercy, CathNews Perspectives has been running reflections on mercy from some of Australia's Bishops. This week, one of our newest prelates, Sydney's Bishop Richard Umbers, reflects on a new set of acts of Mercy.
During this Jubilee Year of Mercy, CathNews Perspectives has been running reflections on mercy from some of Australia's Bishops. This week's Reflection, the final is the series, has been written by Canberra-Goulburn's Archbishop Christopher Prowse.
One of the main things that has struck me during the Year of Mercy is the way that the message of Mercy connects with the everyday lives of people, writes the Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes, Columba Macbeth-Green OSPPE.
If only I had a tale of a wondrous event to recount as a reflection on the Year of Mercy. Instead, I have a tale of grace which I have met with small steps and which, perhaps despite me, has enlivened my heart, writes Bishop Mark Edwards OMI.
In my own spiritual reflections in this Year of Mercy I have returned again and again to a particular passage in the Gospel of St Luke. It is St Luke’s account of the Lord's return to his home town in Nazareth, writes Archbishop Julian Porteous.
The logo for the Year of Mercy is worth looking at closely. Unlike many logos, it is full of meaning and significance. It was designed by the Jesuit artist and theologian Marko Rupnik, whose mosaic art adorns and instructs in many major churches and shrines in Europe, writes Bishop Michael McKenna.
If you are going to have an event these days, you have to have an accompanying theme; it is now de rigueur to tag an event so that people know what it’s all about, writes Bishop Peter A Comensoli.
Mercy is the theme of the Francis era. Pope Francis even came up with a verb for it: Misericordiando, or ‘mercy-ing.’ The Bishop of Sandhurst, Les Tomlinson considers that theme of this Jubilee Year in his Reflection.
The prayer of Pope Francis for the Jubilee of Mercy is material enough for a week’s retreat and some. It is laden with images that are surely bound to provoke conversation on the Christian life in today’s world and to give rise to many prayerful reflections in quiet moments, writes Bishop Christopher Saunders.
In his Reflection on the Year of Mercy, Bishop Vincent Long considers the word which is the cornerstone of the Pontificate of Francis.
The Jubilee Year of Mercy opens in Rome on Tuesday. Here, Melbourne's Archbishop Denis Hart, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, considers mercy as the bridge which connects God to humanity.
At the annual Australasian Catholic Press Association conference, held last week in the Kimberleys, Broome's Bishop Christopher Saunders reflected on the gift of Pope Francis to the Church, and the great scourge Australia still faces.
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