The crowds ask John the Baptist: "What should we do?". Similarly, at the beginning of the Year of Mercy in Rome the members of the Church ask "What should we do?". As in the Gospel the answer will differ according to the occupation, state of life, age, sex, etc of the individual. Nevertheless, it is possible for everyone to participate in the Jubilee of Mercy and to be agents of mercy. Examples of what can be done are enumerated but not exhausted in the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. Whatever my stage of life I am able to cooperate with grace to bring mercy to others. This is because I am conscious that God has been merciful to me and in doing so there is a new reality where sin and death do not have the last say. Saint Paul wrote: "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has givenn us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to GOd. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." (2 Cor. 5: 17-21)
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