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-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00pm and 11:00am
Look me in the eye…
The official logo for the Jubilee year of mercy is a Christ figure, the good shepherd with humanity straddled on his shoulders. Uniquely, while there are two faces there are only three eyes. The designer of the image as presented these two faces with a shared eye in the center to indicate the need for Christians to see one's neighbor as Christ. That means we are to see our neighbor as the way Christ sees them and that we ought to see the neighbor as Christ to us.
You know doubt recall the last judgment of Matthews gospel chapter 25 in which the Lord says, "when you have done these things to the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done them to me." John the Baptist's prophetic teaching to various groups in the society is the advent call to be merciful. The last judgment of Matthew 25 and John the Baptist today in this year of mercy call us to The concrete expressions of mercy which we traditionally know as the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
Do the corporal and spiritual works of mercy challenge you in your daily life? How many of these "works" do you practice on a weekly basis, for example?
Let's make this year of mercy and this adventure time of Christian charity concrete-let's look at our neighbor especially the suffering one (remember Misericordiae) "in the eye" and with the "eyes of Christ".
