. hello, and welcome to mosaic. today we have a very special guest. the most reverend salvatore archbishop of san francisco. and with the help of his excellency, we are going to look into one single word, a small word, a simple word, this word has been on the lips of hundreds of millions of people during the past 12 months. this little word galvanized record setting numbers of pilgrims to go to the great

catholic shrines throughout the world. a moved an estimated 60% of the world's population of catholics to pass through the holy doors of their own neighborhood churches. churches small and large, near and far. what is this word? the word is mercy. it is simple and familiar and it's surprisingly powerful as we have seen during the year of mercy declared by pope francis which came to a close on november 20th. so mercy, what is it. what does it mean? where can i find it when i need it, and how can i give it when someone else needs it. all that we will explore with the archbishop so please stay with us. we will return in a moment to mosaic.

welcome back. i am john gray of the arch diesis sis of the department of communication and we are honored to welcome the archbishop of san francisco. a little bit about the archbishop ies a native of california, born in san diego, and the son of natives of san francisco educated in the

public schools in san diego, and was an aindividual musician in high school playing in the bands. in his freshman year of college he began to discern a possible vocation to the priesthood and enterearth seminary he pursued his studies in the diocese of san diego. he is a philosopher and theologian and expert in cannon law with a ba in philosophy, a masters in theology and doctorate in cannon law. he was ordained a priest in 1982, and has done pastural work in southern california in suburban parishes and at the mexican border. and spent several years in rome working at the vatican. and auxiliary bishop he was named bishop of diocese of oakland in 2009 and became archbishop of san francisco in 2013. archbishop, thank you very much for being here. >> you are welcome. thank you for having me. >> i wanted to ask you.

we have ended something called a year of mercy. it was initiated by the pope and called an extraordinary jubilee year. can you help us understand that. what is a jube leer? why is this one extraordinary and what sort of year are we dealing with it's not a calendar year, it's some other sort of year. >> yes. >> help us understand this whole thing. >> there's a lot to unpack in a long title. a jube leer year the church celebrates every 25 years. it started way back in the year 1300. when people many people were making pilgrimage to rome at the end of the 13th century, because of so much suffering that was caused by war and by plagues so they were begging god for their sins understanding our suffering is

a consequence of rebellion against god. the pope declined there would be a job jubilee year dedicated to the forgiveness of sins it goes back to old testament times which is connected with sabbath rest. we are accustomed to the sabbath every seven day is day dedicated to the lord and a day of rest. in the biblical tradition the jewish poem will was a sabbath year when the land would be given a rest. so every sabbath of sabbath every 150s years there was a great jubilee the people of god would celebrate which was basically the idea of restitution. so, slaves why set free, people lost property the property was restored to them, debts were forgiven and families were reunited. so i like to kind of somewhat loosely call it the biblical bailout plan. so, but it was a time of sort of restitution. so the church recaptured this

sense of jubilee in 1300 and in the 15th century it was established that every 25 years, would and jubilee year dedicated to celebrating the god's forgiveness of sins. and every once in a while a jubilee year is proclaimed outside of the cycle of 25 years that's why it's an extraordinary in the sense of the outside of the 25 years. so the pop declared this year as an ordinary jubilee year billing building on the theme of muries begin of st. john paul ii who was so dedicated mercy his second and cyclical letter was dedicated that. he gave us the feast day of divine mercy on the second sunday of easter. so pope francis wanted to make the mercy god available and to

be a focal point of this year which began december 8th of 2015 and, of course, december 8th is the emaculate conception when god and his mercy selected she who was to become the mother of his son born into the world on that day of the epackly the conception which was the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of the second vatican council whose purpose was to make the church more effectively communicate the good news to the world today. >> so this extraordinary jubilee is not in the regular cycle, and the theme a year of mercy which we will get into. that's the theme for the day. extraordinary data on how this year just passed, which ended a couple weeks ago was received. according to the vatican, some 800 million catholics went truth hoggy doors set up throughout the world and many

pilgrims went to shrines and claims 6 million hits and so- and so it's been a very popular and very strong response from the catholic layity. so we will look at beginning of the year of mercy when the pope opened the holy doors to begin the year. we have a brief video that we will see that -- of the pope in rome and we will discuss. [ speaking foreign language ]

so the pope says we are seeking encounter with god because he seeks encounr tewith us, and it will be a year woodrow ever more conof god's mercy. and these holy doors through which we have walked during the year are a rare event something you might see two or throw times in your life. with we come back, in our next segment, we will discuss the doors of mercy and what they mean ants significance of doors and gateways and entries and pathways in our faith and scripture.

with the archbishop.

hello, and welcome back. we have seen the holy doors that welcome people in all during the past year, the theme of it which is mercy. a year of mercy. archbishop, all of us, think, are familiar with mercy and would like to have more of it. mercy sounds pretty good. i would like some, we would like to give some, but you've written i think, about the relations between mercy and justice. and further about the relation between mercy justice and repentance. it seems that a complicated bit of dynamics. maybe you can help us

understand. >> that it is seen as jokes position as justice. they are not opposite ends of the spectrum or mutually exclusive propositions or anything like that. they are complimentary so justice is giving to each his or her due. what they are due. and but mercy sort of softens the harsh edge of justice when it is applied absolutely in every circumstance. so, mercy would take into account other factors outside of the consideration of justice such as the possibility for the reform of the offender. so, out of justice, someone guilty of a crime is convicted and pays, you know, the debt to society, the person owes. but out of mercy, maybe the sentence can be be mitigated, maybe the person shows sincere repentance and the best way it is summed up is when the detest

for the mass the preference of the part of the mass the eucharistic prayer when the bread and wine is consecrated at the opening part of that, it speaks about to god about how in love you created man, and justice you condemned him but in mercy you redeemed him. so strict justice because we rebelled against god, god created us for life we rebelled and turn his back in strict justice we should be condemned. but out of mercy, god redeems us and sends a son to restore us to his life. >> what is our part as if we have been shown mercy by god what do we do with the mercy we have been given? do we pass it onto others? >> yes, of core. there are two sides of it. you mentioned about repentance. mercy presupposed the person seeking mercy knows they have offended the one they are seeking mercy from. and is rightfully due some punishment that seeks mercy, so

mercy god's mercy presupposes that we recognize we have offended god and we have sinned and as i mentioned in the previous segment, that is the idea of the jubilee year concept. so, we sincerely turn to god with contrite hearts to seek his mercy when we receive god's mercy we are called to be merciful and turn to others. that was the whole theme of this june lee year of mercy merciful as the father to extend god's mercy to others which is what the lord taught to us pray in the lord's prayer forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. >> that makes sense in that we must realize that we are in great need of mercy no matter how righteous and self- sufficient and even good i may be in my behavior if i know myself deeply, i know i am in need of mercy. and here's something the pope wrote, which is rather interesting. that mercy is an encounter

between two hearts. and that makes it very intimate sort of thing how do i put it? it's not as if someone offended me and therefore i give him mercy we are done with it. it seems to be a relationship, a building of a relationship called mercy. and the pope says the church's pulsing heart is mercy. >> paul francis is getting at the literal meaning of the root of the word mercy in latin as other latin languages. suffering, we get the english word misery from it. but the heart is a matter of the heart. hearts coming together. and especially moments of suffering, so it is a relationship it's an accompanyment that the pope exhorts us to so often. >> so very, very deep matters are in hand here, and i noticed

in the writing a theme is foregiveness meaning the sack limit of reckon sellation and pentence. can you speak to that as a part of the year of mercy. >> this is god's great gift he extends his forgiveness through the sack rit when we can have assurance when we have a contrite heart and confess our sins he gives us the assurance of the forgiveness of our sins and restitution to his life.

work of mercy are different works of charity. and we speak about the work being taught to prey and to know god all the sort of what would be connectioned with the spiritual works and being taught to be a good person, and help others in a simple way, learning the corporal works of mercy certainly formed me into the person i became, which ended up being a person opened to god's call to this kind of service. >> the catholics have a list of the seven corporal works of mercy and spirit 7 spiritual works and a person is spirit and if the spirit needs tenderness too, that strikes me as a very interesting part of the teaching. >> this is a core principal of the social teaching and understanding of human personp we are primarily a spiritual being not just a physical being, and we are physical as well and we are social. all these three dimensions are

are initive to what we are. >> that makes sense the person. we will be back after this break and talk further with the archbishop about the year of mercy.

watch cbs in bay area with the kpix 5 news app. welcome back. i read some pool's blogs different parishes and diocese where parishioners can tell about the experiences of works

of mercy. some interesting things, and here's list of the corporal and spirit yowl works of mercy that were practiced feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, shelter to the homeless, and visiting the sick, visiting prisoners, and burying the dead, giving alms to the poor and spiritual works counseling the doubtful instruct you go the ignorant admonishing the sinner and comforting the sorrowful forgiving injuries bearing wrongs ashley and praying for the living and dead. one thing that struck me in the reading was the preponderance of visits to and care for elderly people, resident of assisted living and so on, it strikes me as sort of a growth need there. that population is growing so fast, and people are living longer and longer, looks like a deep need for corporal and spiritual works of mercy there. can you tell us what you see the arena where the greatest

need for the works of mercy is in our diocese. >> yes, it's hard to highlight one as more than the other, but certainly i would say that is would be in terms of the elderly and visiting the elderly. also because families are not as intact as closely collected as before and times past and older generation were cared for by the family and many times that's no longer possible so there could be a lot of loneliness among those in the assisted care facilities. so, that would be one as well as visiting those incarcerated. it's so important for those people to feel a connection to the outside and that is a critical element in their rehabilitation once they are released so establishing one effort in the archdiocese is a pen pal relationship shall student write to those

incarcerating arely receiving letters from, you know, people from the outside knowing they care about them and are praying for them, that's another simple thing but has a profound effect. >> so many people can be forgotten, and a work of mercy is to remember them. seems to me. the pope wrote this at the close of the year of mercy. we have celebrated an intense jubilee year and received the grates of mercy in abundance the lord's goodness and mercy swept through the world. because each of us we have experienced at length the loving gaze of god, we cannot remain uneffected for it changes our lives. that certainly is a hope. >> yes. >> and you have been explaining exhorting to us thought the year of mercy, what would you like to see us do to continue on the panth of mercy in the path of charity. >> i hope it will be a renewal effort for us. and there's so much good

happening, you mentioned some and we highlighted others. care for the homeless is another really important one in our local area, and there's a lot of work going on in that area. i hope it will renew people's energy for and attention to carrying out the works of mercy. they are part of the life of any true believer we have to put our faith into action, and the point of the jubilee year was not so much to do our good deeds and check them off lists and go back to life as it was before. but exactly what pope francis says, to change us permanently, so we are more energized and concerned about petting our faith into action in these ways. i think you have written about the sill bombism of the doors the holy doors opening, closing, and what all that means. because when a door opens, you take that path and you go to something better. so, can you address that as

the. >> the door is the i am and the lord gives. he by hi det and resurrection reopened the doors of heaven so we have access to heaven and he is the door. so he is the passage way to heaven. the opening of a door indicate admittance to the palace of the king. a door when it closes protects from the elements on the outside so entering into protects us from all of the darkness of the, what's part of the corruption of this world of sin and death and decay and suffering. >> entering into the light. >> we enter into the light protected from the darkness. >> i think we will close our show with a brief slide show which graphiccally exmany play face what the bishop is saying. if we are ready to run that, please do. i would like you to join me in this prayer as we watch these slides. loving god, you opened wide the doors of your mercy, and invite us in.

you have given us the gift of life and continually offer us the gift of your love. help us to learn to open the doors of our hearts and to welcome everyone in need. offering forgiveness and charity, compassion, and comfort, as followers of your son jesus christ amen. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. it's my pleasure. >> wonderful speaking with you. the photos we saw in the slide show were of the archbishop opening the holy doors at the cathedral of the st. mary of the assumption here in san francisco. the seat of the archdiocese of san francisco. thank you very much viewers for joining us on mosaic with the archdiocese of san francisco. thank you for your time. thank you for joining us in

prayer. we hope so to see you again.

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