‘Misericordia et misera’ extends a number of initiatives begun in the Holy Year, asks the Missionaries of Mercy to continue their ministry, and grants all priests the right to absolve sin of abortion.
"In Lourdes we learn that happiness can well be found in those who have little to offer in worldly terms.”
A Holy Door of Mercy will be opened in Mount St Alphonsus for the nine days of the Novena.
“Don’t just prepare your rucksacks and your banners – but your hearts and minds as well”.
Bishop Denis Brennan of Ferns issues pastoral letter for Year of Mercy which will be distributed in parishes across the diocese this coming weekend.
“I encourage priests and parish pastoral councils to provide opportunities for people to participate in the Year of Mercy.”
“By opening a door, we are door-keepers, we have got to reach out as well as moving in” - Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin.
“A city in which one man suffers less is a better city” - Caritas Rome founder Don Luigi Di Liegro.
"Events from the past must be commemorated with mercy and never with arrogance, triumphalism or victimhood” - Bishop Donal McKeown.
On Sunday 13 December, Sr Mary Reynolds RSM will open the door of 64A Lower Baggot Street in Dublin - the first House of Mercy founded by Venerable Catherine McAuley.
“To pass through the Holy Door means to rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them."
"I pray that anyone who enters through the Holy Doors in our diocese will experience, in a profound way, the love of God who consoles, pardons and instils hope.”
"To all those who make unjust use of the weapons of this world, I make this appeal: lay down these instruments of death!"
