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Open Your Heart

Open Your Heart. 2016 – The Year Of Mercy. Let the Year of Mercy make a difference. Goal: “that the year of jubilee be a living experience of the closeness of the Father, whose tenderness is almost tangible.”. How would we know we succeeded ?. Learning Objective :

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Open Your Heart

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  1. Open Your Heart 2016 – The Year Of Mercy

  2. Let the Year of Mercy make a difference • Goal: “that the year of jubilee be a living experience of the closeness of the Father, whose tenderness is almost tangible.”

  3. How would we know we succeeded? Learning Objective: …a living experience of the closeness of the Father, whose tenderness is almost tangible… Success criteria: (1)the faith of every believer is strengthened (2) testimony to God’s tenderness and nearness is more effective

  4. What might we learn in this presentation? Learning Objectives: What mercy is and isn’t Where we get the resources needed to be merciful That the Year of Mercy should leave a legacy

  5. What might we learn in this presentation? Success criteria: That you institute two changes in your school as a result of being at this talk. 

  6. What is a living experience of the closeness of the Father?

  7. What is a living experience of the closeness of the Father?One Good Friday…

  8. What is a living experience of the closeness of the Father?The Little Crozier

  9. What is a living experience of the closeness of the Father?The Little Crozier

  10. What is a living experience of the closeness of the Father?Fire at St Andrew’s

  11. What is a living experience of the closeness of the Father?Visit to a Special School

  12. What is mercy? • Mercy is giving people what they need • Mercy is not getting what you deserve

  13. What mercy isn’t… • Mercy ≠ tolerance • Mercy ≠ one size fits all

  14. Mercy is not popular or well understood France "will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group.“ François Hollande

  15. Mercy = understanding Chinese character for ‘Listen’

  16. Mercy is forgiving

  17. Mercy is perseverance

  18. Mercy = healing

  19. Mercy is a very concrete response

  20. Mercy = being open

  21. Mercy = a sign of the times

  22. Mercy = Jesus

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  24. Mary, untier of knots Mary, untier of knots (detail)

  25. Phrases • Medicine of Mercy • Missionaries of Mercy • Ministers of Mercy • (Credible) Witnesses of Mercy • Oasis of Mercy • Courage of Mercy

  26. Being a Catholic School. Mercy as Identity and Mission

  27. What is a Jubilee Year?

  28. Can we be merciful like the Father?

  29. We don’t always get it right…

  30. Alasting ‘monument to mercy’

  31. An audit of mercy

  32. How would we know we succeeded? Learning Objective: …a living experience of the closeness of the Father, whose tenderness is almost tangible… Success criteria: (1)the faith of every believer is strengthened (2) testimony to God’s tenderness and nearness is more effective

  33. What might we learn in this presentation? Learning Objectives: What mercy is and isn’t Where we get the resources needed to be merciful That the Year of Mercy should leave a legacy

  34. What might we learn in this presentation? Success criteria: That you institute two changes in your school as a result of being at this talk. 

  35. Let’s get on the Mercy Bus

  36. Open Your Heart 2016 – The Year Of Mercy

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