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  1    1,   1    |           mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us,
  2    1,   1    |          of the Father and of his love."6 The words that I have
  3    1,   1    |     mystery of the Father and His love. ~For this reason it is
  4    1,   1    |        Himself the Father and His love.7 In Jesus Christ, every
  5    1,   1    |    approach to the Father and His love. The Second Vatican Council
  6    1,   1    |   reference to the Father and His love. ~
  7    1,   2    |        all in His relationship of love for man: in His "philanthropy."12
  8    1,   2    |     mystery of the Father and His love?18 ~I therefore wish these
  9    2,   3    |          clear sign of God who is love, a sign of the Father. In
 10    2,   3    |      actions, Jesus revealed that love is present in the world
 11    2,   3    |      which we live - an effective love, a love that addresses itself
 12    2,   3    |       live - an effective love, a love that addresses itself to
 13    2,   3    |       makes up his humanity. This love makes itself particularly
 14    2,   3    |          mode and sphere in which love manifests itself that in
 15    2,   3    |        God who is Father, who is "love," as St. John will express
 16    2,   3    |      Making the Father present as love and mercy is, in Christ'
 17    2,   3    |    presence of God who is Father, love and mercy, Jesus makes mercy
 18    2,   3    |   relationship to the concept of "love"). A grasp of the content
 19    2,   3    |          Christ, in revealing the love - mercy of God, at the same
 20    2,   3    |          guided in their lives by love and mercy. This requirement
 21    2,   3    |   becoming the incarnation of the love that is manifested with
 22    2,   3    |        people a model of merciful love for others, Christ proclaims
 23    3,   4    |        with the incisive image of love on God's part. The Lord
 24    3,   4    |        Lord loves Israel with the love of a special choosing, much
 25    3,   4    |           choosing, much like the love of a spouse,37 and for this
 26    3,   4    |      signifies a special power of love, which prevails over the
 27    3,   4    |         the prophet perceived his love and compassion.44 This is
 28    3,   4    |        and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness."45 It
 29    3,   4    |    mercies. All the subtleties of love become manifest in the Lord'
 30    3,   4    |           tenderness and generous love for those who are His own
 31    3,   4    |          into hymns to the God of love, tenderness, mercy and fidelity.51 ~
 32    3,   4    |           perfection nevertheless love is "greater" than justice:
 33    3,   4    |          primary and fundamental. Love, so to speak, conditions
 34    3,   4    |          analysis, justice serves love. The primacy and superiority
 35    3,   4    |        primacy and superiority of love vis-a-vis justice - this
 36    3,   4(52)|      hesed also means "grace" or "love," this occurs precisely
 37    3,   4(52)|        the beginning, that is, as love that gives, love more powerful
 38    3,   4(52)|           is, as love that gives, love more powerful than betrayal,
 39    3,   4(52)|       really "responsible for his love." The fruits of this love
 40    3,   4(52)|         love." The fruits of this love are forgiveness and restoration
 41    3,   4(52)|      responsibility for one's own love" (which are in a certain
 42    3,   4(52)|        its very root, denotes the love of a mother (rehem = mother'
 43    3,   4(52)|           the child, a particular love. Of this love one can say
 44    3,   4(52)|          particular love. Of this love one can say that it is completely
 45    3,   4(52)|     forget you" (Is. 49:15). This love, faithful and invincible
 46    3,   4(52)|       their faithlessness, I will love them freely" (Hos. 14:5).~
 47    3,   4(52)|          the image of His anxious love, which in contact with evil,
 48    3,   4    |        creature with a particular love. Love, by its very nature,
 49    3,   4    |           with a particular love. Love, by its very nature, excludes
 50    3,   4    |        revelation of God, who is "love."55 ~Connected with the
 51    3,   4    |           you with an everlasting love, therefore I have continued
 52    3,   4    |         may depart...my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
 53    4,   5(60)|          God manifests to His own love for the people, fidelity
 54    4,   5(61)|           s mercy with a mother's love.~
 55    4,   5    |          out between the father's love and the prodigality and
 56    4,   5    |         breach of the covenant of love, every loss of grace, every
 57    4,   5    |  relationship between justice and love, that is manifested as mercy,
 58    4,   5    |         becomes more evident that love is transformed into mercy
 59    4,   6    |       fatherhood, faithful to the love that he had always lavished
 60    4,   6    |        can therefore say that the love for the son the love that
 61    4,   6    |          the love for the son the love that springs from the very
 62    4,   6    |     concern is the measure of his love, the love of which Saint
 63    4,   6    |          measure of his love, the love of which Saint Paul was
 64    4,   6    |         Saint Paul was to write: "Love is patient and kind.. .love
 65    4,   6    |       Love is patient and kind.. .love does not insist on its own
 66    4,   6    |          endures all things" and "love never ends."68 Mercy - as
 67    4,   6    |          the interior form of the love that in the New Testament
 68    4,   6    |   Testament is called agape. This love is able to reach down to
 69    4,   6    | mysterious radiation of truth and love, that he seems to forget
 70    4,   6    |      expression of the working of love and of the presence of mercy
 71    4,   6    |  especially creative proof of the love which does not allow itself
 72    5,   7    |         uncover the depth of that love which does not recoil before
 73    5,   7    |       course of the revelation of love and mercy in the messianic
 74    5,   7    |        Father - that Father whose love He has preached to people,
 75    5,   7    |        fullness of justice and of love, since justice is based
 76    5,   7    |         since justice is based on love, flows from it and tends
 77    5,   7    |           springs completely from love: from the love of the Father
 78    5,   7    |    completely from love: from the love of the Father and of the
 79    5,   7    |         completely bears fruit in love. Precisely for this reason
 80    5,   7    |           because it springs from love and is accomplished in love,
 81    5,   7    |       love and is accomplished in love, producing fruits of salvation.
 82    5,   7    |          but also by restoring to love that creative power in man
 83    5,   7    |           of man, to truth and to love. And yet the divine dimension
 84    5,   7    |        from the very heart of the love that man, created in the
 85    5,   7    |           that of creation. It is love which not only creates the
 86    5,   7    |           sharer in the truth and love which is in God and proceeds
 87    5,   7    |           faithful to His eternal love for man, since He "so loved
 88    5,   7    |              means believing that love is present in the world
 89    5,   7    |           the world and that this love is more powerful than any
 90    5,   7    |       involved. Believing in this love means believing in mercy.
 91    5,   7    |        indispensable dimension of love; it is as it were love's
 92    5,   7    |         of love; it is as it were love's second name and, at the
 93    5,   7    |          specific manner in which love is revealed and effected
 94    5,   8    |                                8. Love More Powerful Than Death,
 95    5,   8    |           mercy, or rather of the love that goes against what constitutes
 96    5,   8    |           like a touch of eternal love upon the most painful wounds
 97    5,   8    |        the revelation of merciful love for the poor, the suffering
 98    5,   8    |         renewal of the world will love conquer, in all the elect,
 99    5,   8    |     entire revelation of merciful love in a world that is subject
100    5,   8    |         mercy will be revealed as love, while in the temporal phase,
101    5,   8    |         history of sin and death, love must be revealed above all
102    5,   8    |        the revelation of merciful love attains its culmination.
103    5,   8    |       draw from this very freedom love, which is not only an act
104    5,   8    |         and Holy Spirit, in which love, containing justice, sets
105    5,   8    |  resurrection the fullness of the love that the Father has for
106    5,   8    |      revealed the God of merciful love, precisely because He accepted
107    5,   8    |       Himself, that is to say the love of the Father which is more
108    5,   8    |      source of mercy, of the same love that, in a subsequent perspective
109    5,   9    |        fidelity of God to His own love, to the covenant that He
110    5,   9    |         transcendent justice with love: that "kiss" given by mercy
111    5,   9    |        bring close to people that love which He had come to reveal:
112    5,   9    |           had come to reveal: the love that finds its most concrete
113    5,   9    |         precisely this "merciful" love, which is manifested above
114    5,   9    |         her and through her, this love continues to be revealed
115    5,   9    |        easily accept the merciful love of a mother. This is one
116    6,  12    |       that deeper power, which is love, is not allowed to shape
117    7,  13    |        revelation of the merciful love of the Father, a revelation
118    7,  13    |     brings us ever nearer to that love which is more powerful than
119    7,  13    |      attests to the inexhaustible love by virtue of which He desires
120    7,  13    |          unique way, that is, the love which is more powerful than
121    7,  13    |        Son,"115 that God, who "is love,"116 cannot reveal Himself
122    7,  13    |       most profound truth of that love which God is, but also to
123    7,  13    |           is, in discovering that love which is patient and kind117
124    7,  13    |    Creator and Father can be; the love to which the "God and Father
125    7,  13    |          mercy, the God of tender love, is a constant and inexhaustible
126    7,  13    |           humility that only that love which is more powerful than
127    7,  14    |           attains to the merciful love of God, His mercy, to the
128    7,  14    | transformed in the spirit of that love towards his neighbor. ~This
129    7,  14    |           persevering practice of love as a unifying and also elevating
130    7,  14    |            in fact, of a merciful love which, by its essence, is
131    7,  14    |        its essence, is a creative love. In reciprocal relationships
132    7,  14    |          between persons merciful love is never a unilateral act
133    7,  14    |          who experiences merciful love; he too can find himself
134    7,  14    |        others. An act of merciful love is only really such when
135    7,  14    |    magnificent source of merciful love that has been revealed to
136    7,  14    |           in an equitable manner, love and only love (including
137    7,  14    |   equitable manner, love and only love (including that kindly love
138    7,  14    |       love (including that kindly love that we call "mercy") is
139    7,  14    |        and extrinsic goods, while love and mercy bring it about
140    7,  14    |        through "patient and kind" love122 does not take away differences:
141    7,  14    |       considerable extent by that love which, as St. Paul proclaims, "
142    7,  14    |  characteristics of that merciful love which is so much of the
143    7,  14    |        furthermore, that merciful love also means the cordial tenderness
144    7,  14    |            Consequently, merciful love is supremely indispensable
145    7,  14    |     indicated the civilization of love"125 as the goal towards
146    7,  14    |           but also that "merciful love" which constitutes the messianic
147    7,  14    |      presence in the world of the love which is more powerful than
148    7,  14    |            forbear one another in love."130 What a lesson of humility
149    7,  14    |           is specific to justice, love is necessary, so that man
150    7,  14    |       indispensable in order that love may reveal its own nature.
151    8,  15    |           mercy, that is, of that love which is more powerful than
152    8,  15    |           sin and every evil, the love which lifts man up when
153    8,  15    |         to His fatherhood and His love. And, like the prophets,
154    8,  15    |   prophets, let us appeal to that love which has maternal characteristics
155    8,  15    |         recourse to that fatherly love revealed to us by Christ
156    8,  15    |          His messianic mission, a love which reached its culmination
157    8,  15    |           same time her confident love, that love from which is
158    8,  15    |          her confident love, that love from which is born the most
159    8,  15    |         This attitude is likewise love of God, whom modern man
160    8,  15    | superfluous." This is, therefore, love of God, the insulting rejection
161    8,  15    |            At the same time it is love of people, of all men and
162    8,  15    |      friends and enemies. This is love for people - it desires
163    8,  15    |          parents, the elderly - a love for everyone, without exception.
164    8,  15    |        without exception. This is love, or rather an anxious solicitude
165    8,  15    |        concern. It is dictated by love for man, for all that is
166    8,  15    |           mercy as God's merciful love, revealed in that same mystery
167    8,  15    |          voices and pray that the Love which is in the Father may