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JANUARY 2016

Entering In: Living Out the Year of Mercy
By. Fr. Daniel Green
All of us live very busy lives. We have so
many obligations: family life, work, Church, and

asked all bishops across the world to designate a
Holy Door in their diocese. Pope Francis is serious

personal needs. We try to juggle all of these at one
time and sometimes we do well and others not so
much. Yet, we continue to try.
This then makes it hard for us to do more
than live out our faith on Saturday evenings or
Sundays. We get out of bed, go to our mass
(mostly out of obligation) and if there on time, we
hear the announcements but don’t really engage.

about us living out this Year of Mercy. He knows
that not every person in the world will have the resources or the ability to travel to Rome during the
Holy Year so he has brought the door to you!
In our diocese, Archbishop Aymond has
designated St. Louis Cathedral as the location of
the Holy Door. The main door of the cathedral,
which is normally closed outside of major liturgies,

We leave mass and that is the end of that until next
week.
Yet, I want to challenge us during this Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy to not just go
through the motions. I want to make sure that we
don’t miss this beautiful opportunity for ourselves
and for others. This isn’t something that comes to
us every day and we ought to take advantage of the
graces which are present here and now.
On December 8th, our Holy Father, Pope

is open every day for you to walk through and experience God’s Mercy. In addition, Archbishop
Aymond has declared several pilgrimage sites
throughout our archdiocese as places of prayer and
encounter.

Francis, opened this Year of Mercy by opening the
Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and he

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