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Holy Year of Mercy reflections for your bulletin or website - The Holy Year of Mercy: Reflections

The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God’s When mercy seasons justice. —William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. — William Shakespeare

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19 Apr 2020 - Solemnity of the Second Sunday of Easter; Divine Mercy Sunday, Cycle A

By his miraculous entry through closed doors Christ proved to his disciples that by nature he was God and also that he was none other than their former companion. —Cyril of Alexandria Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God, my soul flies through these wounds to seek you out. —William Shakespeare

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06 Dec 2020 - Second Sunday of Advent, Cycle B

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light on darkness, comfort in despair. —William Shakespeare John the Baptist . . . was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth. —James Green Somerville

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