{"id":275,"date":"2015-12-07T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/uncategorised\/2015\/year-of-mercy-the-corporal-spiritual-works-of-mercy-118195\/"},"modified":"2015-12-07T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:40:09","slug":"year-of-mercy-the-corporal-spiritual-works-of-mercy-118195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/library\/2015\/year-of-mercy-the-corporal-spiritual-works-of-mercy-118195\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of Mercy: The Corporal &#038; Spiritual Works of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">&#8220;I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God. It will be a Holy Year of Mercy. We want to live in the light of the word of the Lord: \u201cBe merciful, even as your Father is merciful\u201d (cf. Lk 6:36). And this especially applies to confessors! So much mercy!&#8221;<\/span> &#8211; Pope Francis<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Year of Mercy! From 8 December 2015 until 20 November 2016, the world is invited to take part in an Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, during which we are invited to return to the Sacraments &#8211; in particular the Sacrament of Confession. We are also invited to live out the Year of Mercy in a special way through the seven corporal and seven spiritual works of mercy, which are:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Corporal Works of Mercy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>feed the hungry<\/li>\n<li>give drink to the thirsty<\/li>\n<li>clothe the naked<\/li>\n<li>shelter the homeless<\/li>\n<li>visit the sick<\/li>\n<li>visit the imprisoned<\/li>\n<li>bury the dead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Spiritual Works of Mercy<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>counsel the doubtful<\/li>\n<li>instruct the ignorant<\/li>\n<li>admonish sinners<\/li>\n<li>comfort the afflicted<\/li>\n<li>forgive offenses<\/li>\n<li>bear wrongs patiently<\/li>\n<li>pray for the living and the dead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Will you take up the challenge? Click here to read more about how you can take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedivinemercy.org\/library\/article.php?NID=3479\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.thedivinemercy.org\/library\/article.php?NID=3479\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corporal <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedivinemercy.org\/library\/article.php?NID=3482\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.thedivinemercy.org\/library\/article.php?NID=3482\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spiritual <\/a>works of mercy in your every day lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/xt3dotcom\/photos\/a.407304891615.181186.11526811615\/10153274175021616\/?type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/xt3dotcom\/photos\/a.407304891615.181186.11526811615\/10153274175021616\/?type=3&#038;theater\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/images\/blog\/users\/YearoMercy_Meme2.png\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\"I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}