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
Way back in November 2006, I posted a blog entitled "Victory at Last", rejoicing because the Anti-Billboard Bill had just been passed by the Senate voting 13-0. Sigh. It is now 2010 and the billboards have proliferated. This is what I posted then: Billboard felled by typhoon "The damage wrought by falling giant billboards after that big typhoon Milenyo hit Manila finally awakened people on the mushrooming of billboards in the highways and bridges of Manila. And then there was a lot of noise from columnists, senators, other public figures --- some clamoring for the ban on billboards, others cautioning against it claiming (a) infringement into the right of freedom of speech and (2) the economic displacement and jobs lost from outdoor advertising industry. Two of the more interesting reads are: Ceres Doyo: "Billboards from Hell" http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=24848 Neal Cruz: Ban the big bad Billboards! http://opini