Category: Year of Mercy
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Fiat Lux! St. Peter’s Lights Up
“It’s kind of like if Michelangelo had Photoshop.”
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Let Deacons Anoint the Sick
At present, Catholic Church discipline allows only priests and bishops to anoint the sick. I’d like to propose that, in light of the coming Year of Mercy, the Church consider an expansion of this ministry to include deacons and properly prepared and commissioned lay ministers among those who may anoint.
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I have mercy on the brain.
Too much of God’s mercy is never enough for human sinners, but does requesting God’s mercy nine or more times in the space of an hour or so help or hurt the cause of recovering a sense of sin? Do calls for God’s mercy sink into my / your / our bones or do they…