Papal bull to be issued on eve of Divine Mercy Sunday, proclaiming Holy Year [CC]
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livingwordunity
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It seems like this is related to the private revelation given to St. Faustina Kowalska. Does anyone know if the Pope has made a direct reference to it?
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Rubia
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St Faustina is so powerful. She has managed to recruit two very powerful popes into her mission in such short decades. I hear that the divine mercy devotion is now at par with the rosary in the lives of common Catholics. That really is some feat! She must be one of the greatest saints of modern times near to st Terese de Lisieux.
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irishpatrick
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I agree. I say the Divine Mercy Chaplet quite often. I am struck by the words from Jesus to Saint Faustina, and the connection to what Pope Franscis is doing. Saint Faustina was told to prepare the world for the Lord’s Second Coming, and to speak to the world about this time of mercy, which will be followed by the Day of Justice. I find it amazing that the Pope has declared a year of mercy during these troubling times and it appears to connect quite closely to that the Lord said through Saint Faustina.
You will prepare the world for My final coming. (Diary 429)
Speak to the world about My mercy … It is a sign for the end times. After it will come the Day of Justice. While there is still time, let them have recourse to the fountain of My mercy. (Diary 848)
Tell souls about this great mercy of Mine, because the awful day, the day of My justice, is near. (Diary 965).
I am prolonging the time of mercy for the sake of sinners. But woe to them if they do not recognize this time of My visitation. (Diary 1160)
Before the Day of Justice, I am sending the Day of Mercy. (Diary 1588)
He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through the door of My justice. (Diary 1146).***
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livingwordunity
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I think it’s interesting that the year mark of this year of Divine Mercy will be within a Sunday year (according to the Jewish year cycle). And it will be during the Easter time of year. The last time a Papal bull was issued was by Pope Leo XIII on September 18, 1896. The Papal bull was Apostolicae Curae (On the Nullity of Anglican Orders).
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Withburga
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This may be a little off-topic, but -
Actually there have been several other bulls since then - oddly enough, Wikipedia (!) is a good source for information on this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_papal_bulls
It may be worth pointing out that there has at some times in the past been a common misunderstanding that any bull is an infallible or authoritative teaching, when in fact ‘bull’ (from the Latin bulla or seal) simply means that the document is decorated with the papal seal. This basically generic term for a papal communication has been (perhaps misleadingly) applied to a variety of documents with different levels of importance, including the purely canonical and even the administrative e.g. invites to a synod, and retrospectively has been used in reference to many older papal writings.
None of this alters the significance of the upcoming document, and it is certainly interesting that it is to be promulgated in this way.
Hope this is of relevance - back on-topic now.
In Christ,
Withburga
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livingwordunity
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I stand corrected. I now realize that there were Papal bulls that came after Leo XIII. But I think Wikipedia is not very accurate with the details of this. For example, Wikipedia lists Munificentissimus Deus as a Papal bull when the Vatican lists it under Pope Pius XII’s Apostolic Constitutions.This may be a little off-topic, but -
Actually there have been several other bulls since then - oddly enough, Wikipedia (!) is a good source for information on this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_papal_bulls
It may be worth pointing out that there has at some times in the past been a common misunderstanding that any bull is an infallible or authoritative teaching, when in fact ‘bull’ (from the Latin bulla or seal) simply means that the document is decorated with the papal seal. This basically generic term for a papal communication has been (perhaps misleadingly) applied to a variety of documents with different levels of importance, including the purely canonical and even the administrative e.g. invites to a synod, and retrospectively has been used in reference to many older papal writings.
None of this alters the significance of the upcoming document, and it is certainly interesting that it is to be promulgated in this way.
Hope this is of relevance - back on-topic now.
In Christ,
Withburga
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Withburga
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It could easily have been both an apostolic constitution and a Papal bull, given that as I stated, a bull is not a ‘level’ of promulgation but ‘merely’ a document of any description that has been adorned with the Papal seal (although whether that was actually the case with MD or not I don’t know for sure). I agree that Wikipedia should never be seen as authoritative, hence my surprise at its apparent accuracy on this matter!
The point I was making above is that the use of the Papal seal has tended to make people in the modern era think that any document so adorned must have a particular importance, or be equivalent to all other bulls in authority or type. That is not the case, and thus it’s of interest that the document referred to in the OP is to be of this nature.
In Christ,
Withburga.
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