1. Proclaiming the mercy of God

3. Integral Spirituality
“The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.” (LS #216) “The effect of our encounter with Jesus Christ becomes evident in our relationship with the world around us.” (LS #217)

4. Cultural, spiritual and educational challenge

5. “To proclaim the mercy of God, the beating heart of the Gospel
“To proclaim the mercy of God, the beating heart of the Gospel.” (AL #309)

6. The Prodigal Son Like the younger son: away from our ‘home’
Like the younger son: conversion
Like the father, merciful
Like the elder son, resentful
Like people with Good News: celebration and feasting

8. Busyness/rapidification
“Love can be connected or disconnected at the whim of the consumer.” (AL #39)
“Personal and direct dialogue, which requires physical presence or at least hearing the voice of the other person.” (AL #278)

9. Daily actions and small changes
Every day we need to “come up with new ways of appreciating and acknowledging” our family members (AL #276), whether that is our literal family or our global family.

10. “An integral ecology is also made up of simple daily gestures which break with the logic of violence, exploitation and selfishness.” (LS # 230)

11. Being present
“Much hurt and many problems result when we stop looking at one another….Love opens our eyes and enables us to see, beyond all else, the great worth of a human being.” (AL #128)

12. “Nature is filled with words of love, but how can we listen to them amid constant noise, interminable and nerve-wracking distractions, or the cult of appearances?”(LS #225)

14. “In this Holy Year, we look forward to the experience of opening our hearts to those living on the outermost fringes of society: fringes which society itself creates.”

16. Misericordia Vultus, #6
“In short, the mercy of God is not an abstract idea, but a concrete reality with which he reveals his love as of that of a father or a mother, moved to the very depths out of love for their child. “It is hardly an exaggeration to say that this is a ‘visceral’ love. It gushes forth from the depths naturally, full of tenderness and compassion, indulgence and mercy.”

17. Recognising each other as brothers

18. Love
“Love, overflowing with small gestures of mutual care, is also civic and political, and it makes itself felt in every action that seeks to build a better world.” (LS # 231)

19. ”…a developed nation's right to limit immigration must be based on justice, mercy, and the common good, not on self-interest.”

20. “A dimension of receptivity and gratuity, which is quite different from mere inactivity. Rather, it is another way of working, which forms part of our very essence. It protects human action from becoming empty activism.” (LS # 237)
Kenya: Roadbuilders resting. NOTE: CAFOD IS NOT FUNDING THIS PROJECT, BUT ROAD BUILDING PROJECTS LIKE IT AROUND THE AREA.

21. Sunday, the Sabbath, rooted in the Genesis creation story, is “meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world” (LS #237), when we receive the Eucharist, which, ideally, “sheds its light on the whole week, and motivates us to greater concern for nature and the poor.” (LS #237)
Right Reverend Bishop John Arnold, CAFOD Chair and Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, with CAFOD Westminster Volunteers after Mass at the Catholic Church of Christ the King, 29 Bramley Road, London N14 4HE, as part of a Day of Reflection.

22. “The Eucharist is itself an act of cosmic love” – it is a time when “the whole cosmos gives thanks to God joined to the incarnate Son, present in the Eucharist.”(LS #236)

23. Photo Credits Louise Norton, Ruth Norval, Annie Bungeroth, Ben White
CI/Paul Jeffrey, Cat Cowley, Claudia Torres, Eleanor Church
Susy Brouard, Liam Finn, Kibnesh Chala, Lucasz Cholewiak
Richard Wainwright, Arie Kievit, Tabitha Ross
Caritas Internationalis, Caritas South Sudan,
Simon Rawles, Chris Bain, Gemma Salter, Jon Stricklin-Coutinho
Augusto Zampini-Davies