1. YEAR OF MERCY
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

2. The Parable Of Good Samaritan
Compassion of a stranger
Luke 12:27-37
The most important commandment
Love of God and love of neighbor are necessary condition to inherit eternal life
Who is the neighbor people should love?
brother, acquaintance, a friend, a stranger, or even enemy?
Can people consider ignore love go God as their neighbor?
Jesus combines the law of major commandments - love of neighbor in a way that implies love of God.
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

3. The Priest, the Levite and the Samaritan
Journey from Jerusalem to Jericho
Jerusalem 2461 feet above see level
Jericho 1312 feet below see level
it is necessary to “go down” from Jerusalem to reach Jericho.
Can someone be in contact with a dying man without risking defilement?
What the Priests and Levite avoid doing is done by Samaritan an enemy
The love of God (keeping the law) does not automatically guarantee the love of neighbor.
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

4. The compassion to care
The Samaritan “had compassion” (v.33)
Neighbor is the “one showed mercy on him” (v. 37)
Jesus time, a person sentiments were Love-compassion-mercy
Samaritan becomes involved in his innermost self
True compassion is not a feeling but an action that results in caring for the other.
The true compassion leads a person to become involved in doing good and to succeed, despite the cost of time and money.
“Mercy, not kinship, makes someone a neighbor” St. Ambrose
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

5. Jesus the Good Samaritan?
“Who more than Jesus has pitied us, who by the rulers of darkness were all but put to death with many wounds, fears, lusts, passions, pains deceits, pleasure? Of these wounds the only physician is Jesus, who cuts out the passions thoroughly by the root” -Clement of Alexandria
Parable portrays everyone’s daily life and transforms it from within: Love of God cannot be separated from love for neighbor.
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

6. The fulfillment of the Law
“The whole law is fulfilled in one word ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (Gal5:14)
Christian freedom is absolute because it is a gift from Christ : “For freedom Christ has set us free” (Gal 5:1)
“He who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20)
“We love, because he first loved us” (1 Jn 4:19) To the extent that we have received the love of God, to that extent we are in a position to love our neighbor.
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

7. 4Life Year of Mercy
Mercy - “kind or forgiving treatment of someone who could be treated harshly, kindness or help given to people who are in a very bad or desperate situation”
Christ has willed that in her prayer and life and action his whole Church should be the sign and instrument of the forgiveness and reconciliation that he acquired for us at the price of his blood.
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

8. 4Life Year of Mercy
Go to Confession regularly
Forgive those who are in need of your mercy.
Fulfill the conditions for plenary indulgences and consider offering those indulgences for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
Go on a pilgrimage.
Practice the corporal and spiritual works of mercy every day.
Place the Divine Mercy Image in a prominent place in your home and venerate it daily. Click here to get an image for your home.
Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy daily, imploring mercy "on us, and on the whole world."
Make the Stations of the Cross regularly, especially at 3 p.m., the Hour of Great Mercy.
Pray Pope Francis's Year of Mercy Prayer.
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

9. 4Life Year of Mercy
Christ's mercy should be directed toward helping those millions of women in our country who are suffering in their hearts knowing they have been instrumental in destroying life that brought into existence.
We pray for them, console them, and bring them to repentance.
Revive the realization that all conceived children should be safeguarded because, after all, children are the hope of the future.
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

10. 4Life Year of Mercy
 “We must all care for life, cherish life, with tenderness, warmth ... to give life is to open our hearts, and to care for life is to give oneself in tenderness and warmth for others, to have concern in our hearts for others. Caring for life from the beginning to the end. What a simple thing, what a beautiful thing...” 
“Go forth and don’t be discouraged. Care for life. It’s worth it.” Pope Francis
Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan

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12. Reference: "The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources for Living the Jubilee." The Parables of Mercy: Pastoral Resources Living the Jubilee. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan