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The awesome story behind the Jubilee Year logo

  The logo design and the motto together reveal a fitting summary of what the Jubilee Year is all about…   Note from Peggy:  The Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy started December 8, 2015 and will end November 20, 2016 — we're already halfway through.  The above logo is posted in every church and chapel, but most, like me, would maybe just take it for granted.  I found this short description of its relevance and significance in a small booklet in church at today's mass today — and thought I'd share it with all… The motto “Merciful Like the Father” (taken from the Gospel of Luke, 6:36) serves as an invitation to follow the merciful   example of the Father who asks us not to judge or condemn but to forgive and to give love and forgiveness without measure (cfr. Lk 6:37-38).   The logo – the work of Jesuit Father Marko I. Rupnik – presents a small summa theologiiae of the theme of mercy. In fact, it represents an image quite importan