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Jubilee Year of Divine Mercy: It's all about Life
by Fr. Frank Pavone
Priests for Life welcomes with joy the news of the Extraordinary
Jubilee Year of Mercy, to begin on December 8, 2015 and continue
until November, 2016. Shortly after the announcement, Fr. Frank
Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, spoke at a major
Divine Mercy Conference in the Archdiocese of New York and also
interviewed, for our EWTN program Defending Life, some of
the Church's top experts on Divine Mercy who were present there:
Father Seraphim Michalenko, MIC, Fr. Kazimierez Chwalek, MIC, and
Dr. Robert Stackpole.
Fr. Frank also traveled to Rome and spoke with officials who are
assisting the implementation of the Jubilee Year of mercy.
In these various presentations and discussions, three key themes
emerged and will be the focus of Priests for Life:
Jesus Himself is Divine Mercy. His first act of mercy is to
create us. Mercy brings life, and mercy impels us to defend the most
defenseless to save their lives.
In the revelations of Divine Mercy to St. Faustina, abortion
was the primary sin for which God asked us to cry out for his mercy,
and today, the devotion to Divine Mercy deserves particular emphasis
for those who have had abortions and for abortionists and clinic
workers who have repented.
The Jubilee Year of Mercy is a perfect time to recommit
ourselves to deeds of mercy in rescuing the unborn, and works of
mercy in healing the wounded, especially Rachel's Vineyard, the
Silent No More Awareness Campaign, and the Society of Centurions
(healing for ex-abortionists).
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