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  1    1,   1|         rich in mercy" 1 whom Jesus Christ has revealed to us as Father:
  2    1,   1|          twelve Apostles, turned to Christ and said: "Lord, show us
  3    1,   1|         made us alive together with Christ."4 ~Following the teaching
  4    1,   1|           its fullness and depth in Christ. A no less important need
  5    1,   1|             attention once again in Christ to the countenance of the "
  6    1,   1|      Constitution Gaudium et spes: "Christ the new Adam...fully reveals
  7    1,   1|             calling are revealed in Christ through the revelation of
  8    1,   1|            every individual just as Christ traced it out by revealing
  9    1,   1|             and His love.7 In Jesus Christ, every path to man, as it
 10    1,   1|           say, be directed in Jesus Christ to the Father. While the
 11    1,   1|        other, the Church, following Christ, seeks to link them up in
 12    1,   1|           our hearts more widely to Christ. Today I wish to say that
 13    1,   1|             to say that openness to Christ, who as the Redeemer of
 14    1,   2|      through this "making known" by Christ we know God above all in
 15    1,   2|               it becomes visible in Christ and through Christ, through
 16    1,   2|       visible in Christ and through Christ, through His actions and
 17    1,   2|      resurrection. ~In this way, in Christ and through Christ, God
 18    1,   2|          way, in Christ and through Christ, God also becomes especially
 19    1,   2|         already defined as "mercy." Christ confers on the whole of
 20    1,   2|              The truth, revealed in Christ, about God the "Father of
 21    1,   2|           being moved to do this by Christ Himself, who through His
 22    1,   2|             of mercies" revealed by Christ becomes, in the context
 23    1,   2|           that mercy in the name of Christ and in union with Him. Did
 24    1,   2|             union with Him. Did not Christ say that our Father, who "
 25    2,   3|                             3. When Christ Began To Do and To Teach ~
 26    2,   3|           townspeople, in Nazareth, Christ refers to the words of the
 27    2,   3|             these actions and words Christ makes the Father present
 28    2,   3|        language is called "mercy." ~Christ, then, reveals God who is
 29    2,   3|           it in his first letter22; Christ reveals God as "rich in
 30    2,   3|       reality made present to us by Christ. Making the Father present
 31    2,   3|            as love and mercy is, in Christ's own consciousness, the
 32    2,   3|         passages in the teaching of Christ that manifest love-mercy
 33    2,   3|           treats of these themes in Christ's teaching is Luke, whose
 34    2,   3|           mercy," we must note that Christ, in revealing the love -
 35    2,   3|             divine-human dimension. Christ - the very fulfillment of
 36    2,   3|           merciful love for others, Christ proclaims by His actions
 37    3,   4|          that the mercy revealed by Christ may shine forth more clearly.
 38    3,   4|           and through His teaching, Christ addressed Himself to people
 39    3,   4|      temporal and eschatological.58 Christ reveals the Father within
 40    4,   5|     covenant.61 ~In the teaching of Christ Himself, this image inherited
 41    4,   6|           never ends."68 Mercy - as Christ has presented it in the
 42    4,   6|           the father and the son in Christ's parable is not to be evaluated "
 43    4,   6|            the messianic message of Christ and the constitutive power
 44    5,   7|            The messianic message of Christ and His activity among people
 45    5,   7|            the messianic mission of Christ. The one who "went about
 46    5,   7|             Yahweh are fulfilled in Christ: "Through his stripes we
 47    5,   7|          stripes we are healed."74 ~Christ, as the man who suffers
 48    5,   7|            the passion and death of Christ - in the fact that the Father
 49    5,   7|           justice is expressed, for Christ undergoes the passion and
 50    5,   7|            revealed in the cross of Christ is "to God's measure," because
 51    5,   7|            the world. The suffering Christ speaks in a special way
 52    5,   7|       Calvary, the cross upon which Christ conducts His final dialogue
 53    5,   7|             s eternal plan. God, as Christ has revealed Him, does not
 54    5,   7|         give himself. ~The cross of Christ on Calvary stands beside
 55    5,   7|             in history the cross of Christ, the only - begotten Son,
 56    5,   7|             then, does the cross of Christ say to us, the cross that
 57    5,   7|           the tomb of the crucified Christ, see the tomb empty and
 58    5,   7|           be witnesses to the risen Christ. Yet, even in this glorification
 59    5,   8|     Powerful Than Sin ~The cross of Christ on Calvary is also a witness
 60    5,   8|          here, precisely in Him, in Christ, justice is done to sin
 61    5,   8|            In this way the cross of Christ, on which the Son, consubstantial
 62    5,   8|          the messianic program that Christ once formulated in the synagogue
 63    5,   8|             surpassed: the cross of Christ, in fact, makes us understand
 64    5,   8|           contained in the cross of Christ and in His death. The fact
 65    5,   8|            His death. The fact that Christ "was raised the third day"87
 66    5,   8|             be actualized as mercy. Christ's messianic program, the
 67    5,   8|            Son, the crucified one. ~Christ, precisely as the crucified
 68    5,   8|           this messianic program of Christ, in the whole revelation
 69    5,   8|            not this the position of Christ with regard to man when
 70    5,   8|              The Paschal Mystery is Christ at the summit of the revelation
 71    5,   8|             the Father."96 In fact, Christ, whom the Father "did not
 72    5,   8|                 In His resurrection Christ has revealed the God of
 73    5,   8|         when we recall the cross of Christ, His passion and death -
 74    5,   8|           on the Risen One: on that Christ who "on the evening of that
 75    5,   8|             And it is also the same Christ, the Son of God, who at
 76    5,   8|      powerful than sin. The paschal Christ is the definitive incarnation
 77    5,   9|           After the resurrection of Christ, this perspective is new
 78    5,   9|           of the Paschal Mystery of Christ, the absolute revelation
 79    5,   9|      oppressed and sinners, just as Christ spoke of them in the words
 80    6,  12|            justice. Not in vain did Christ challenge His listeners,
 81    7     |              and above all of Jesus Christ Himself and His Apostles.
 82    7     |            mercy of God revealed in Christ, in the whole of His mission
 83    7,  13| particularly often. In harmony with Christ's words to Philip,112 the "
 84    7,  13|            constantly contemplating Christ, concentrating on Him, on
 85    7,  13|          that forms the "vision" of Christ in the Church's living faith
 86    7,  13|             herself to the Heart of Christ. In fact, it is precisely
 87    7,  13|     precisely this drawing close to Christ in the mystery of His Heart
 88    7,  13|           cross and resurrection of Christ. ~Therefore, the Church
 89    7,  13|            Father of our Lord Jesus Christ"118 is faithful to the uttermost
 90    7,  13|             the crucified and risen Christ, not only by the word of
 91    7,  13|            the messianic mission of Christ Himself. ~The contemporary
 92    7,  13|       uniting all those who confess Christ. As she makes many efforts
 93    7,  13|        bring about that unity which Christ implored from the Father
 94    7,  14|          Mercy into Practice ~Jesus Christ taught that man not only
 95    7,  14|            of mercy. ~In this sense Christ crucified is for us the
 96    7,  14|             to others, knowing that Christ accepts it as if it were
 97    7,  14|            that conversion to which Christ has shown us the way by
 98    7,  14|           Him. ~Thus, the way which Christ showed to us in the Sermon
 99    7,  14|          messianic mission of Jesus Christ. True mercy is, so to speak,
100    7,  14|         supremely revealed in Jesus Christ. Not only for the Church
101    7,  14|           name of this mystery that Christ teaches us to forgive always.
102    7,  14|             of life and education? ~Christ emphasizes so insistently
103    7,  14|        Himself as revealed in Jesus Christ. ~The basis of the Church'
104    8,  15|             the crucified and risen Christ, and she professes it in
105    8,  15|           and duty of the Church in Christ Jesus, her right and duty
106    8,  15|     fatherly love revealed to us by Christ in His messianic mission,
107    8,  15|             recourse to God through Christ, mindful of the words of
108    8,  15|            and by the charity which Christ has planted in our hearts.
109    8,  15|           are ready to cry out with Christ on the cross: "Father, forgive
110    8,  15|            lead me, as a servant of Christ and steward of the mysteries
111    8,  15|      immense danger. The mystery of Christ, which reveals to us the
112    8,  15|             in that same mystery of Christ. It likewise obliges me
113    8,  15|   millennium. ~In the name of Jesus Christ crucified and risen, in
114    8,  15|           allows us to "see" Him in Christ.140 No matter how strong
115    8,  15|              in time, through Jesus Christ. ~With my apostolic blessing. ~