LIVING OUR FAITH — Revisiting the Year of Mercy

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The Jubilee Year of Mercy comes to a close on Nov. 20, 2016.

However, the Year of Mercy is not a “one and done” event. The Year of Mercy was set aside as a period of intense training intended to shape how we would live the rest of our lives. How can we live out mercy continually?

Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica to inaugurate the Jubilee Year of Mercy at the Vatican Dec. 8, 2015. Pope Francis said in "The Face of Mercy" ("Misericordiae Vultus"), his April 2015 proclamation of the Holy Year, that he hoped it would be a period "steeped in mercy so that we can go out to every man and woman, bringing the goodness and tenderness of God." (CNS photo/Maurizio Brambatti, EPA)
Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica to inaugurate the Jubilee Year of Mercy at the Vatican Dec. 8, 2015. Pope Francis said in “The Face of Mercy” (“Misericordiae Vultus”), his April 2015 proclamation of the Holy Year, that he hoped it would be a period “steeped in mercy so that we can go out to every man and woman, bringing the goodness and tenderness of God.” (CNS photo/Maurizio Brambatti, EPA)

During the Jubilee Year, Pope Francis appointed over 1,000 priests as “missionaries of mercy.” Two of them reflect on their experience forgiving sins ordinarily reserved to the Holy See.

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