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Jubilee of mercy prayer


JUBILEE OF MERCY PRAYER

Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heaven father and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him. Show us your faith and we will be saved. Your loving gaze freed Zacheus and Matthew from being enslaved by money.
The adulteress and Magdalene from seeking happiness only in created things, made Peter weep after his betrayal and assured Paradise to the repentant thief.
Let us hear as if addressed to each one of us the words that you spoke to the Samaritan woman; If you knew the gift of God.
You are the visible face of the invisible father. Of the God who manifests His power above all by forgiveness and mercy.
Let the church be your visible face in the world.
Its Lord risen and glorified. You willed that your ministers would also be clothed in weakness in other that they may feel compassion for those in ignorance and error.
Send your spirit and consecrate everyone of us with its anointing so that the jubilee year of mercy may be a year of Grace from the Lord and your church with renewed enthusiasm may bring Good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to the captives and the oppressed and restore sights to the blind.
We ask this of you Lord Jesus, through the intercession of Mary, mother of Mercy you who live and reign with the father and the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever.
AMEN

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