1. The Year of Mercy

2. The Year of Mercy Mercy is ? Compassion What is Mercy to you?
A compassionate community living Christ’s call
Standing with those who need it.
Wrapping my arms around someone suffering.
What is Mercy to you?

3. Is for everyone
The Mercy of God
Is for ever

4. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them
All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them.  The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them,  they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.  Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say? .
They wanted to find out what Jesus would do, she was after all guilty, but he ignored them and wrote in the sand

5. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”  When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

6. Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they
 Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”  She said, “No one, sir.”] And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.
This is God’s Mercy:

7. During this Year we are asked too:

8. Learn about the mercy of God Show mercy to the planet
Show mercy to others
Show mercy to the planet

9. Show mercy to others Forgive Give a drink to the Thirsty
Try to show others the right way to live
Comfort those who are in need
Shelter the homeless
Help those who are sick
Forgive
Feed the Hungry
Find out more about God
And help others do the same
Ransom Captives
Bear wrongs patiently
Pray for the living and the dead

10. Sometimes it seems the world is out of control
Terrorism
War
Refugees
violence
Climate Change

11. when you meet suffering
Jesus gave no answer
to the question
Why do people suffer
He just said
when you meet suffering
try to end it

12. In the picture Christ
carries humanity
He takes us from darkness to light
The faces
only have 3 eyes
this means
Christ sees through
Our eyes
He understands pain and suffering
He is with us.

13. I Believe in Love

14. How long will my prayers seem unanswered
How long will my prayers seem unanswered? Is there still faith in me to reach the end?

15. I'm feeling doubt I'm losing faith But giving up would cost me everything

16. anxiety Fear Grief Illness Loneliness
So I'll stand in the pain and silence
anxiety
Fear
Grief
Illness
Loneliness

17. And I'll speak to the dark night
war
hunger
terrorism
refugees

18. I believe in the sun even when it's not shining

19. I believe in love even when I don't feel it

20. And I believe in God even when He is silent

21. And I, I believe

22. Though I can't see my stories ending That doesn't mean the dark night has no end

23. It's only here that I find faith

24. And learn to trust the one who writes my days

25. So I'll stand in the pain and silence And I'll speak to the dark night

26. I believe in the sun even when it's not shining

27. I believe in love even when I don't feel it

28. And I believe in God even when He is silent

29. And I, I believe

30. No dark can consume Light

31. No death greater than this life

32. We are not forgotten

33. Hope is found when we say
Where can I go from your Spirit?     Where can I flee from your presence?  If I go up to the heavens, you are there;     if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

34. Even when He is silent

35. I believe in the sun even when it's not shining
even the darkness will not be dark to you;     the night will shine like the day,     for darkness is as light to you.

36. I believe in love even when I don't feel it
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

37. And I, I believe.
Refugees in Calais build church

40. And I believe

41. So now believing that God is with us we pray
The response to our prayers is ‘ Hear our Prayer’

42. For the people of Paris

43. For Refugees

44. For the missing Nigerian schoolchildren taken from their homes

45. For all in our world who face hunger and poverty

46. For those who face difficulties in our own country

47. For ourselves

48. We pray
That in this Year of Mercy
We will be filled by your Spirit
So that we will be able to:
forgive others
Be compassionate
be peacemakers
Live more simply and
Be a people of hope
We ask this of you, Lord Jesus,
through the intercession of Mary, Mother of Mercy;
you who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit
for ever and ever. Amen.