Showing posts with label Year of Mercy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year of Mercy. Show all posts

Monday, 14 December 2015

The Year of Who? You? Who Knew? (updated: 15/12/15)

Screen-grab vignette from the Archdiocese of Liverpool official website showing the micro-site link to "Year of Mercy" (or perhaps "Year of Me"?) materials; as sourced on Monday, December 14th, 2015)


Apologies. We just couldn't resist!

You know, just for a moment, we genuinely thought that the Church of Pope Francis had finally gone into super-turbo-charged anthropocentricity...and perhaps you can forgive us for fearing that an inevitably humanist end-point had finally been reached.

But, phew, we now see that it's just the most deliciously ironic "Year of Mercy" graphic design blooper on our archdiocesan website.

That's all it is, isn't it?

Yeah, of course it is.

Isn't it?

SEARCHING FOR THE ARCHBISHOP (10) - Re: The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy 2015/16; His Grace's pointed signal to the Archdiocese; limited remarks only; Notes #11

Screen-grab from the Archdiocese of Liverpool website; excerpt reporting the words of His Grace The Most Rev. Malcolm McMahon OP, Archbishop of Liverpool, marking the opening of the 2015/16 "Year of Mercy"


Leaving aside the significant reservations that we – and many across the Traditional Catholic world (e.g. this from Rorate Caeli) – have concerning the "Year of Mercy", which began on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception last week, we wish to place on record the measured, succinct and very pastoral words of His Grace The Archbishop to mark the start of this extraordinary jubilee.