A despairing world comes to know mercy by the contact it makes with those who know the mercy of Christ, who may by their very presence bring a healing and redeeming touch that transforms the lives of others This Year of Mercy is already seeing some powerful articulations and cele­brations of divine compassion throughout the Christian world. A million lives will be transformed. A million hopes renewed. A million holy doors opened in human hearts. For this blessed springtime of the soul to continue, Pope Francis emphasises that our celebrations of mercy must reach beyond any routine actions and prayers; they must be fleshed and heartfelt. In Misericordiae Vultus, his bull of indiction of this Jubilee Year, the Pope has urged that this year’s season of Lent “should be lived