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501 5, 8 | program that Christ once formulated in the synagogue at Nazareth 84
502 6, 12 | other things, has led to the formulation of the saying: summum ius,
503 3, 4 | this people which journeys forward through the history both
504 5, 8 | glorious immortality. The foundation of this eschatological fulfillment
505 2, 3 | manifests man's limitation and frailty, both physical and moral.
506 3, 4 | reveals the Father within the framework of the same perspective
507 7, 14 | in hand with the call to fraternal solidarity, which St. Paul
508 3, 4(52) | faithlessness, I will love them freely" (Hos. 14:5).~In the terminology
509 8, 15 | falls into the abyss and frees him from the greatest threats. ~
510 3, 4(52) | This becomes obvious in the frequent recurrence together of the
511 5, 7 | glory. ~The events of Good Friday and, even before that, in
512 5, 9 | revelation is especially fruitful because in the Mother of
513 3, 4(52) | finally in readiness to fulfill the (eschatological) promise
514 2, 3 | it is not just a case of fulfilling a commandment or an obligation
515 7, 13 | testimony of life, the Church fulfills the mission proper to the
516 | further
517 6, 12 | other negative forces have gained the upper hand over justice,
518 7, 14(130)| Eph. 4:2; cf. Gal. 6:2~
519 5, 7 | in a terrible way in the Garden of Olives and on Calvary,
520 5, 7 | causing him to "perish in Gehenna."80 ~
521 3, 4(52) | up not only of the rather general content of the verb hanan
522 3, 4(52) | psychological background, rahamim generates a whole range of feelings,
523 5, 9(108)| Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium, no. 62: AAS 57 1965), p.
524 6, 10 | sisters beyond artificial geographical divisions and national or
525 5, 7 | before that, in prayer in Gethsemane, introduce a fundamental
526 6, 11 | against the background of the gigantic remorse caused by the fact
527 4, 6 | fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was
528 4, 5 | this situation "he would gladly have fed on" anything, even "
529 6, 10 | of all questions or are glimpsing them with a keener insight:
530 5, 7 | Christ. Yet, even in this glorification of the Son of God, the cross
531 6, 10 | the Mother of God when she glorified that mercy shared in "from
532 4, 5 | blesses the God of Israel and glorifies Him for performing the mercy
533 5, 8 | of life and holiness and glorious immortality. The foundation
534 3, 4 | Exodus, when they set up the golden calf. The Lord Himself triumphed
535 5, 9 | continues to obtain for us the graces of eternal salvation. By
536 3, 4 | was a "God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding
537 5, 7 | creates the good but also grants participation in the very
538 2, 3 | the concept of "love"). A grasp of the content of these
539 3, 4(52) | say that it is completely gratuitous, not merited, and that in
540 6, 12 | Catholic social doctrine, greatly developed in the course
541 5, 7 | reveals the unheard - of greatness of man, qui talem ac tantum
542 Bles | dear sons and daughters, ~greetings and the apostolic blessing.~
543 3, 4 | same perspective and on ground already prepared, as many
544 6, 10 | appear whenever there is growth. There is unease and a sense
545 7, 14 | purpose of her mission to guard the authenticity of forgiveness,
546 7, 14 | She protects it simply by guarding its source, which is the
547 7, 14 | this is what provides many guidelines for the mission of the Church
548 7, 14 | which means those who are guilty of something in our regard129
549 5, 7 | qui talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem,70 at the same
550 3, 4(52) | is included in the verb hamal, which literally means "
551 7, 13 | its truth, as it has been handed down to us by revelation.
552 6, 11 | and freedom. ~All this is happening against the background of
553 5, 7 | the human lot, as also the harmonious fullness of a disinterested
554 6, 10 | often does the very thing he hates and does not do what he
555 3, 4(52) | we read in Hosea: "I will heal their faithlessness, I will
556 5, 7 | Through his stripes we are healed."74 ~Christ, as the man
557 5, 7 | went about doing good and healing"71 and "curing every sickness
558 5, 8 | door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
559 1, 2 | time I wish them to be a heartfelt appeal by the Church to
560 3, 4(52) | as great a wealth as the Hebrew: therefore it does not offer
561 6, 10 | and social science will help man to understand better
562 7, 14 | their children, a benefactor helping the needy), in reality the
563 | Hence
564 3, 4(52) | be considered a case of hendiadys (cf. e.g. Ex. 34:6; 2 Sm.
565 4, 5 | ate," the swine that he herded for "one of the citizens
566 5, 9 | which she sustained without hesitation under the cross, until the
567 6, 10 | achievements, purchased at so high a price?"110 ~In the span
568 6, 10 | inclinations and destined for a higher form of life. Torn by a
569 3, 4 | they desire to sing the highest praises of the Lord, break
570 3, 4(52) | that of hesed. While hesed highlights the marks of fidelity to
571 5, 8 | could man's dignity be more highly respected and ennobled,
572 3, 4 | eorum quae fecisti, "you hold nothing of what you have
573 4, 5 | which He who has chosen her holds "in remembrance" from all
574 7, 13 | which is man's temporary homeland. ~Mercy in itself, as a
575 4, 5 | lost and which makes him honestly evaluate the position that
576 3, 4(52) | yet it can and must go on hoping and trusting to obtain it,
577 7 | threats that cloud the whole horizon of the life of humanity
578 3, 4(52) | infidelity, as we read in Hosea: "I will heal their faithlessness,
579 6, 10 | divided, and the result is a host of discords in social life."109 ~
580 8, 15 | mercy for humanity in this hour of history, let them at
581 7, 14 | what would remain of any "humanist" program of life and education? ~
582 6, 11 | society which - in spite of "humanistic" declarations - accepts
583 4, 6 | object of mercy does not feel humiliated, but rather found again
584 6, 11 | number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions. This is why
585 4, 5 | belonging to him but had also hurt and offended his father
586 3, 4(52) | There is also the term hus, which expresses pity and
587 7, 14 | to one another: between husbands and wives, between parents
588 3, 4 | the Lord, break forth into hymns to the God of love, tenderness,
589 6, 10 | and a wider exchange of ideas. The achievements of biological,
590 4, 5(61) | misericordiae), which rather identifies God's mercy with a mother'
591 7, 14 | existence If we were to ignore this lesson, what would
592 3 | III. THE OLD TESTAMENT ~
593 3, 4 | nature, excludes hatred and ill - will towards the one to
594 6, 10 | permit us to cherish the illusions of the past. ~
595 6, 10 | also contains shadows and imbalances that are not always merely
596 4, 6 | parable not only by his immediate readiness to welcome him
597 5, 8 | and holiness and glorious immortality. The foundation of this
598 1, 1 | critical and difficult times impels me to draw attention once
599 1, 2 | made."9 This indirect and imperfect knowledge, achieved by the
600 1, 1 | as our primary task the implementation of the doctrine of the great
601 8, 15 | continuing the great task of implementing the Second Vatican Council,
602 4, 5 | suffer. It was also bound to implicate him in some way. And yet,
603 7, 13 | that unity which Christ implored from the Father and which
604 8, 15 | prayer: into a cry that implores mercy according to the needs
605 7 | call upon the mercy of God, imploring it in the face of all the
606 7, 14 | mutual brotherhood. It is impossible to establish this bond between
607 6, 11 | practiced by subordinates with impunity. ~Together with awareness
608 3, 4 | prayer of Solomon at the inauguration of the Temple,32 part of
609 3, 4 | people's sins, with the incisive image of love on God's part.
610 6, 10 | feels untrammelled in his inclinations and destined for a higher
611 6, 12 | moral culture: these values include respect for human life from
612 5, 7 | of God to man, which also includes the call to man to share
613 1, 2 | a special way "visible," incomparably more visible than through
614 6, 11 | reason or another might prove inconvenient for those who possess the
615 6, 10 | dissolve or shrink through an increased sense of what is universal,
616 7, 14 | these words describe and inculcate. How many things these words
617 7, 14 | If Paul VI more than once indicated the civilization of love"125
618 4, 5 | could not be a matter of indifference to his father. It was bound
619 1, 2 | that have been made."9 This indirect and imperfect knowledge,
620 4, 5 | wide-ranging. The parable indirectly touches upon every breach
621 6, 12 | respect for marriage in its indissoluble unity, and respect for the
622 7, 14 | mercy as its source, mean indulgence towards evil, towards scandals,
623 6, 10 | still the privilege of the industrialized countries, but it cannot
624 3, 4 | pardons its sins and even its infidelities and betrayals. When He finds
625 5, 8 | means of his own death - to inflict death upon death.83 In this
626 4, 6 | certainly does this under the influence of a deep affection, and
627 6, 10 | progress made in the field of information and data processing, for
628 6, 12 | saying: summum ius, summa iniuria. This statement does not
629 5, 8 | by His nature absolutely innocent and free from sin, and whose
630 7, 14(125)| Cf. Insegnamenti di Paolo VI, XIII (1975),
631 6, 10 | glimpsing them with a keener insight: What is man? What is the
632 5, 7 | affecting and besieging man, insinuating itself even into his heart
633 4, 6 | and kind.. .love does not insist on its own way; it is not
634 7, 14 | education? ~Christ emphasizes so insistently the need to forgive others
635 7, 14 | for us the loftiest model, inspiration and encouragement. When
636 7 | pondering the eloquence of these inspired words, and applying them
637 | instead
638 8, 15 | therefore, love of God, the insulting rejection of whom by modern
639 4, 6 | a good that has remained intact: even if he is a prodigal,
640 6, 11 | the rights of man in his integral dimension, that is to say
641 1, 1 | concepts but also in an integrally existential way - to God.
642 1, 2 | knowledge, achieved by the intellect seeking God by means of
643 6, 10 | and provide access to the intellectual and cultural riches of other
644 6, 10 | s creative activity, his intelligence and his work, have brought
645 7, 14 | our actions and all our intentions in which mercy is understood
646 7, 14 | extent that he himself is interiorly transformed in the spirit
647 4, 6 | behavior, which manifests his internal attitude, enables us to
648 5, 9 | explains, "lasts without interruption from the consent which she
649 3, 4 | mercy is the content of intimacy with their Lord, the content
650 6, 10 | Towards the end of the introductory exposition we read: ". . .
651 8, 15 | which, according to the intuitions of many of our contemporaries,
652 6, 11 | by the use of the means invented by this type of society,
653 3, 4(52) | This love, faithful and invincible thanks to the mysterious
654 5, 8 | reveals His mercy when He invites man to have "mercy" on His
655 3, 4 | mercy of God, which can be invoked whenever tragedy strikes. ~
656 4, 6 | on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful...but rejoices
657 3, 4(57) | Isa 54:10[~
658 6, 12 | formulation of the saying: summum ius, summa iniuria. This statement
659 4 | IV. THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL
660 3, 4 | Isaiah,34 the cry of the Jews in exile,35 and the renewal
661 3, 4(31) | Cf. Jgs. 3:7-9~
662 3, 4(46) | Wis. 15:1; Sir. 2:11; Jl. 2:13~
663 3, 4(55) | 1 Joh 4:16~
664 3, 4(58) | Jon. 4:2, 11; Ps 145(144):9;
665 5, 9 | brethren of her Son who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers
666 3, 4 | through this people which journeys forward through the history
667 4, 6 | This explains above all his joyous emotion at the moment of
668 3, 4 | beginning of the history of the Judges,31 the prayer of Solomon
669 5, 7 | mercy, which is able to justify man, to restore justice
670 6, 10 | are glimpsing them with a keener insight: What is man? What
671 8, 15 | self-realization of the Church - in keeping with the epoch in which
672 2, 3 | of these concepts is the key to understanding the very
673 3, 4(32) | Cf. 1 Kgs. 8:22-53~
674 6, 12 | is sometimes destroyed, killed, deprived of liberty or
675 7, 14 | only love (including that kindly love that we call "mercy")
676 7, 14 | vis-a-vis others; the various kinds of selfishness latent in
677 5, 8 | its fully mature fruit the kingdom of life and holiness and
678 5, 9 | on the threshold of her kinswoman's house: "His mercy is...
679 5, 9 | justice with love: that "kiss" given by mercy to justice.104
680 4, 6 | arms around his neck and kissed him."64 He certainly does
681 5, 8 | I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice
682 5, 8 | who stands at the door and knocks at the heart of every man,93
683 8, 15 | humanity. And if at times he lacks the courage to utter the
684 5, 9 | the Mother of mercy: our Lady of mercy, or Mother of divine
685 5, 9 | into heaven she has not laid aside this office of salvation
686 6, 12 | of the apostolate of the laity, which are developing in
687 3, 4(52) | daughter of my people"(cf. Lam. 4:3, 6) is, in brief, on
688 2, 3 | receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed,
689 3, 4(52) | truth") and then "fidelity," land in this way it seems to
690 3, 4 | experience of individuals languishing in a state of guilt or enduring
691 5, 9 | Vatican Council explains, "lasts without interruption from
692 7, 14 | various kinds of selfishness latent in man would transform life
693 4, 5(61) | meaning, namely, rahamim (Latin translation: viscera misericordiae),
694 4, 6 | love that he had always lavished on his son. This fidelity
695 6, 10 | deeper knowledge of the laws of social behavior. He has
696 3, 4(52) | broken the covenant, cannot lay claim to God's hesed on
697 7, 14 | Second Vatican Council also leads us in this direction, when
698 4, 5 | inheritance that is due to him and leaves home to squander it in a
699 4, 5 | which he had gone after leaving his father's house. And
700 2, 3 | their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf
701 2, 3 | express it in his first letter22; Christ reveals God as "
702 8, 15 | every evil, the love which lifts man up when he falls into
703 5, 7 | created in the image and likeness of God, has been given as
704 2, 3 | various ways manifests man's limitation and frailty, both physical
705 6, 12 | the last century. On the lines of this teaching proceed
706 3, 4(52) | indeed the unity - that links a mother to her child there
707 5, 8 | Eastertide places on our lips the words of the Psalm:
708 7, 13 | course be difficult to give a list or summary of them all,
709 6, 12 | did Christ challenge His listeners, faithful to the doctrine
710 3, 4(52) | in the verb hamal, which literally means "to spare" (a defeated
711 1, 2 | individuals and groups guided by a lively sense of faith are turning,
712 7, 14 | crucified is for us the loftiest model, inspiration and encouragement.
713 2, 3 | is to come, or shall we look for another?",20 He answered
714 4, 6 | does not consist only in looking, however penetratingly and
715 5, 8 | difficult and painful moments - looks on as his unhappy destiny.
716 4, 5 | it in a far country "in loose living," in a certain sense
717 4, 5 | one who was the first to lose the inheritance of grace
718 8, 15 | succumbs to secularization, loses its sense of the very meaning
719 5, 7 | solidarity with the human lot, as also the harmonious
720 2, 3 | of Christ that manifest love-mercy under some ever-fresh aspect.
721 5, 9(108)| Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium, no. 62: AAS 57
722 3, 4(38) | Cf. Jer. 31:20; Lz. 39:25-29.~
723 6, 11 | defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary
724 7, 14 | yet sharing fully in the magnificent source of merciful love
725 4, 5 | the house of Zechariah, magnifies the Lord with all her soul
726 7, 14 | process, presupposing and maintaining a certain distance between
727 5, 7 | by the sacrifice of the Man-God. Nevertheless, this justice,
728 7 | it in the face of all the manifestations of physical and moral evil,
729 2, 3 | the basis of this way of manifesting the presence of God who
730 5, 9 | of salvation but by her manifold intercession she continues
731 8, 15 | the spiritual mother of mankind, express in this prayer
732 1, 1 | that the deepening and the many-faceted enrichment of the Church'
733 6, 12 | conception, respect for marriage in its indissoluble unity,
734 7, 13 | flow continually from the marvelous value of the sacrifice of
735 1, 2 | history, has become the master of the earth and has subdued
736 4, 5 | sense of lost dignity had matured. When he decides to return
737 3, 4(42) | 3:2-3, 11-12; 8:16-17; 1 Mc. 4:24~
738 3, 4 | many terms with related meanings; they are differentiated
739 4, 5 | perish here with hunger." He measures himself by the standard
740 1, 2 | faith teach us not only to meditate in the abstract upon the
741 7, 13 | in this area is constant meditation on the Word of God, and
742 2, 3 | expresses this both through the medium of the commandment which
743 6, 10 | in man himself. He is the meeting point of many conflicting
744 7, 13 | Eucharistic rite, celebrated in memory of Him who in His messianic
745 1, 2 | mercy."13 ~The present-day mentality, more perhaps than that
746 2, 3 | contrast - the parable of the merciless servant.26 There are many
747 6, 10 | has long ceased to be a mere utopia when there is a real
748 5, 7 | now Himself seems to merit the greatest mercy and to
749 3, 4(52) | completely gratuitous, not merited, and that in this aspect
750 5, 9 | equally exceptional way "merits" that mercy throughout her
751 4, 6 | It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your
752 5, 7 | man, qui talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem,70 at
753 3, 4(52) | the two terms hesed we'e met (= grace and fidelity),
754 4, 6 | happens that by following this method of evaluation we see in
755 3, 4 | of the prophetic work of Micah,33 the consoling assurances
756 7, 13 | with us and present in our midst, coming to meet every human
757 | might
758 7, 14 | which bears witness to "the mighty works" of its Lord - the
759 8, 15 | recourse to God through Christ, mindful of the words of Mary's Magnificat,
760 6, 12 | of justice and does not minimize the significance of the
761 7, 14 | evangelical poverty of her - ministers and stewards and of the
762 7, 14 | of the Church's life and ministry - through the evangelical
763 [Title] | Dives in misericordia~
764 4, 5(61) | Latin translation: viscera misericordiae), which rather identifies
765 5, 8 | the words of the Psalm: Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo.100 ~
766 7, 13(114)| acclamation in the Roman Missal.~
767 2, 3 | moral. It is precisely the mode and sphere in which love
768 6, 12 | today's forms continue to be modeled on it. It is obvious, in
769 7, 13 | conversion, not only as a momentary interior act but also as
770 5, 8 | in difficult and painful moments - looks on as his unhappy
771 | Moreover
772 3, 4 | does Esther, knowing the mortal threat to her own people.41
773 3, 4 | He solemnly declared to Moses that He was a "God merciful
774 | mostly
775 6, 11 | dying of hunger under their mothers' eyes. In various parts
776 5, 8 | containing justice, sets in motion mercy, which in its turn
777 3, 4 | faithfulness to you."56 "For the mountains may depart...my steadfast
778 5, 8 | will be no more death, or mourning no crying, nor pain, for
779 1, 2 | They are certainly being moved to do this by Christ Himself,
780 8, 15 | meaning of the word "mercy," moves away from God and distances
781 1, 2 | earth, but also reveals a multitude of threats, far surpassing
782 5, 7 | Council is defined as the Mysterium Paschale - if we wish to
783 5, 7 | with thorns, when He is nailed to the cross and dies amidst
784 4, 5 | precise and often too narrow. The prodigal son, having
785 8, 15 | community, every family, every nation, every social group, for
786 6, 10 | geographical divisions and national or racial limits. Today'
787 3, 4(52) | constitutes an interior necessity: an exigency of the heart.
788 4, 6 | threw his arms around his neck and kissed him."64 He certainly
789 7, 14 | a benefactor helping the needy), in reality the one who
790 6, 12 | it can even lead to the negation and destruction of itself,
791 6, 12 | experience shows that other negative forces have gained the upper
792 5, 7(77) | The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.~
793 3, 4 | this revelation, on the night before He dies, He says
794 3, 4 | gave the gift of Himself: Nihil odisti eorum quae fecisti, "
795 3, 4(46) | Cf. Nm. 14:18; 2 Chr. 30:9; Neh.
796 8, 15 | as once the generation of Noah did. Let us have recourse
797 1, 2 | capable of doing what is noble and what is base, disposed
798 5, 7 | only to the believer. The non-believer also will be able to discover
799 | none
800 4, 5 | to go beyond the precise norm of justice - precise and
801 4, 5 | to in accordance with the norms of justice. Precisely this
802 7, 14(127)| benevolentia, in particular nos. 1-6: AAS 67 (1975), pp.
803 2, 3 | makes itself particularly noticed in contact with suffering,
804 3, 4 | not pertain only to the notion of God, but it is something
805 8, 15 | on the thirtieth day of November, the First Sunday of Advent,
806 3, 4(52) | not offer all the semantic nuances proper to the original text.
807 7, 14 | spheres spoken of in the numerous pronouncements of the most
808 3, 4(52) | It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I
809 5, 8 | of His sacrifice, of His obedience "even to death."81 He who
810 6, 11 | professes, of the ability to obey the voice of conscience
811 3, 4(52) | on God's part ceased to oblige whenever Israel broke the
812 6, 10 | behavior. He has seen the obstacles and distances between individuals
813 7, 13 | other words persistence in obstinacy, opposing grace and truth,
814 5, 8 | respected and ennobled, for, in obtaining mercy, He is in a sense
815 7, 14 | the one who receives, who obtains a benefit, who experiences
816 3, 4(52) | but also a specific and obviously anthropomorphic "psychology"
817 1, 2 | these threats on various occasions (as in addresses at UNO,
818 6, 10 | feels the change that is occurring in history. ~The present
819 3, 4 | the gift of Himself: Nihil odisti eorum quae fecisti, "you
820 4, 5 | him but had also hurt and offended his father by his whole
821 4, 6 | belittles the receiver, that it offends the dignity of man. The
822 2, 3 | blessed is he who takes no offense at me".21 ~Especially through
823 6, 11 | with the temporary means offered by technology, wealth or
824 6, 11 | The history of our century offers many examples of this. In
825 5, 9 | has not laid aside this office of salvation but by her
826 5, 7 | terrible way in the Garden of Olives and on Calvary, addresses
827 7, 14 | to one's neighbor and to oneself What a school of good will
828 5, 9 | eschatological level. From that time onwards there is a succession of
829 1, 1 | Today I wish to say that openness to Christ, who as the Redeemer
830 5, 8 | anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in
831 1, 2 | people in the past, seems opposed to a God of mercy, and in
832 7, 13 | persistence in obstinacy, opposing grace and truth, especially
833 7, 14 | man, who is exposed to the oppressive forces of the threefold
834 5, 7 | Him from the hands of His oppressors. At this final stage of
835 7, 14 | what we sometimes find in ordinary human opinions about mercy.
836 1, 1 | human history, in a deep and organic way. And this is also one
837 | otherwise
838 6, 12 | idea of justice and which ought to assist its fulfillment
839 6, 10 | document seem only to be outlined and not to manifest in depth
840 8, 15 | culture, language, or world outlook, without distinction between
841 5, 9 | mystery of the cross, the overwhelming encounter of divine transcendent
842 5, 8 | mourning no crying, nor pain, for the former things have
843 7, 14(125)| Cf. Insegnamenti di Paolo VI, XIII (1975), p. 1568 (
844 3, 4 | and for this reason He pardons its sins and even its infidelities
845 6, 11 | stockpiles could mean the partial self-destruction of humanity.
846 6, 12 | and harmony between the parties in conflict. This kind of
847 6, 11 | mothers' eyes. In various parts of the world, in various
848 7, 14 | to indicate that only one party is giving and offering,
849 5, 7 | defined as the Mysterium Paschale - if we wish to express
850 7, 14 | goal of forgiveness. In no passage of the Gospel message does
851 2, 3 | servant.26 There are many passages in the teaching of Christ
852 5, 8 | for the former things have passed away."89 ~In the eschatological
853 3, 4(40) | Job passim.~
854 7, 14(127)| VI: Apostolic Exhortation Paterna cum benevolentia, in particular
855 3, 4(52) | goodness and tenderness, patience and understanding, that
856 1, 1 | Second Vatican Council and paying close attention to the special
857 3, 4 | you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed."57
858 6, 11 | also the possibility of a "peaceful" subjugation of individuals,
859 5, 7 | resurrection. We have to penetrate deeply into this final event -
860 4, 6 | that in this simple but penetrating analogy the figure of the
861 4, 6 | only in looking, however penetratingly and compassionately, at
862 5, 9 | so that she was able to perceive, through the complex events,
863 7, 13 | faith of the People of God perceives this truth, as is shown
864 7, 13 | the Bible, resounds as a perennial echo through the many readings
865 7, 13 | greatest of the attributes and perfections of God, and the Bible, Tradition
866 5, 8 | messianic mission, a sign that perfects the entire revelation of
867 7, 14 | convinced at the moment that we perform it that we are at the same
868 4, 5 | Israel and glorifies Him for performing the mercy promised to our
869 4, 5 | this motive, however, is permeated by an awareness of a deeper
870 8, 15 | that in this work it is not permissible for her, for any reason,
871 6, 12 | stability of the family. Moral permissiveness strikes especially at this
872 6, 10 | that danger, and do not permit us to cherish the illusions
873 7, 14 | the constant discovery and persevering practice of love as a unifying
874 7, 13 | to repent, in other words persistence in obstinacy, opposing grace
875 5, 9 | of her soul, of her whole personality, so that she was able to
876 1, 2 | Himself makes it incarnate and personifies it. He Himself, in a certain
877 3, 4 | follows that mercy does not pertain only to the notion of God,
878 6, 12 | the tensions and struggles pervading the world. ~The Church shares
879 8, 15 | prayer. ~Let us offer up our petitions, directed by the faith,
880 5, 8(81) | Phi. 2:8~
881 1, 2 | of love for man: in His "philanthropy."12 It is precisely here
882 2, 3 | year of the Lord."19 These phrases, according to Luke, are
883 7, 14 | example, in the case of a physician giving treatment, a teacher
884 7, 13 | of personal and community piety. It would of course be difficult
885 7, 13 | profound element of the pilgrimage of every man and woman on
886 6, 12 | contemporary human conscience has placed justice, gives proof of
887 8, 15 | charity which Christ has planted in our hearts. This attitude
888 4, 5 | mercy, as a profound drama played out between the father's
889 1, 1 | is also demanded by the pleas of many human hearts, their
890 6, 11 | ruled by consumerism and pleasure, the same human family contains
891 4, 5 | on" anything, even "the pods that the swine ate," the
892 7, 13 | enables us to dwell on this point-a-point in a sense central and also
893 6, 11 | Vatican Council rightly pointed out - the fundamental problems
894 7 | of our time, constantly pondering the eloquence of these inspired
895 8, 15 | year 1980, the third of the pontificate. ~JOHN PAUL II ~
896 7, 14(127)| 58 (1966), pp.1057-1059; Pope Paul VI: Apostolic Exhortation
897 4, 5 | receives from the father the portion of the inheritance that
898 6, 10 | provides it with countless possibilities that only a few decades
899 4, 5 | house as a hired servant and possibly, little by little, to build
900 6, 10 | is unease and a sense of powerlessness regarding the profound response
901 6, 12 | idea of justice and the practical distortion of it show how
902 7, 14 | distance between the one practicing mercy and the one benefitting
903 3, 4 | desire to sing the highest praises of the Lord, break forth
904 2, 3 | because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He
905 3, 4(52) | so to speak, a constant predisposition to be generous, benevolent
906 5, 9 | they express the special preparation of her soul, of her whole
907 3, 4 | perspective and on ground already prepared, as many pages of the Old
908 7, 13 | Penance or Reconciliation that prepares the way for each individual,
909 1, 2 | is rich in mercy."13 ~The present-day mentality, more perhaps
910 2, 3 | messianic message about mercy preserves a particular divine-human
911 7, 14 | unilateral act or process, presupposing and maintaining a certain
912 3, 4 | special power of love, which prevails over the sin and infidelity
913 4, 5 | had not thought about it previously, when he had asked his father
914 3, 4(52) | already mentioned: it means primarily "solidity, security" (in
915 5, 9 | Mother of God speak of her principally, however, as the Mother
916 1, 1 | Council, we must act upon this principle with faith, with an open
917 1, 1 | is also one of the basic principles, perhaps the most important
918 5, 8 | poor, the suffering and prisoners, for the blind, the oppressed
919 6, 10 | this progress is still the privilege of the industrialized countries,
920 6, 10 | generation knows that it is in a privileged position: progress provides
921 6, 11 | by those who possess the privileges of wealth, progress and
922 6, 11 | pointed out - the fundamental problems of all human existence.
923 6, 12 | the lines of this teaching proceed the education and formation
924 5, 7 | love which is in God and proceeds from God. It is precisely
925 6, 10 | of information and data processing, for instance, will increase
926 8, 15 | made extraneous to himself, proclaiming in various ways that God
927 4, 5 | the father's love and the prodigality and sin of the son. ~That
928 6, 10 | science and technology can produce not only new material goods
929 6, 11 | concerns many other dangers produced by a materialistic society
930 5, 7 | is accomplished in love, producing fruits of salvation. The
931 7 | His mission as Messiah, professing it in the first place as
932 1, 2 | However, in this regard we can profitably refer to the picture of "
933 6, 12 | to notice that very often programs which start from the idea
934 3, 4(52) | fulfill the (eschatological) promise and hope, in spite of human
935 4, 5 | for performing the mercy promised to our fathers and for remembering
936 4, 5(60) | the people, fidelity to he promises that will find their definitive
937 4, 6 | when it restores to value, promotes and draws good from all
938 7, 14 | spoken of in the numerous pronouncements of the most recent Council
939 7, 13 | of God provide particular proofs of this. It is not a question
940 4, 5 | prodigal son, having wasted the property he received from his father,
941 5, 7 | are closest to Him cannot protect Him and snatch Him from
942 7, 14 | educational and pastoral work. She protects it simply by guarding its
943 6, 11 | reason or another might prove inconvenient for those who
944 6, 11 | beings through the means provided by military technology;
945 4, 5 | little, to build up a certain provision of material goods, though
946 4, 6 | which is so generous that it provokes the opposition and hatred
947 5, 8 | our lips the words of the Psalm: Misericordias Domini in
948 3, 4(52) | obviously anthropomorphic "psychology" of God: the image of His
949 7, 13 | all through the deepest pulsation of the life of the whole
950 6, 10 | purpose of these achievements, purchased at so high a price?"110 ~
951 7, 14 | we must also continually purify all our actions and all
952 3, 4 | Himself: Nihil odisti eorum quae fecisti, "you hold nothing
953 7, 14 | bilateral and reciprocal quality is absent, our actions are
954 4, 5 | received from his father was a quantity of material goods, but more
955 6, 10 | most fundamental of all questions or are glimpsing them with
956 5, 7 | unheard - of greatness of man, qui talem ac tantum meruit habere
957 4, 6 | in consequence, we are quick to deduce that mercy belittles
958 1, 1 | The words that I have quoted are clear testimony to the
959 6, 10 | divisions and national or racial limits. Today's young people,
960 4, 6 | achieved thanks to a mysterious radiation of truth and love, that
961 6, 11 | to break free from such radically unjust situations. ~This
962 8, 15 | history of humanity, we raise our voices and pray that
963 4, 6 | home "he had compassion, ran to meet him, threw his arms
964 3, 4(52) | rahamim generates a whole range of feelings, including goodness
965 3, 4(52) | These terms appear more rarely in the biblical texts to
966 3, 4(52) | the original text. At any rate, the New Testament builds
967 5, 9 | of the Church at Easter re-echo in the fullness of their
968 6, 11 | hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions.
969 6, 11 | uneasiness, or trying to react against it with the temporary
970 7, 13 | perennial echo through the many readings of the Sacred Liturgy. The
971 6, 10 | mere utopia when there is a real political desire for it. ~
972 7, 14 | human,127 and says that the realization of this task is precisely
973 1, 2 | though they often do not realize it. ~
974 7, 14 | spiritual transformation realized once and for all: it is
975 4, 5 | humiliation and shame. He realizes that he no longer has any
976 7, 14 | justice is limited to the realm of objective and extrinsic
977 4, 5 | justice. Precisely this reasoning demonstrates that, at the
978 3, 4 | life-giving roots and intimate reasons for this relationship by
979 6, 12 | sense of justice has been reawakening on a vast scale; and without
980 3, 4 | guilt39; Job too, after his rebellion, turns to Him in his tremendous
981 4, 5 | A little later, as she recalls the election of Israel,
982 4, 6 | that mercy belittles the receiver, that it offends the dignity
983 | recent
984 5, 7 | that love which does not recoil before the extraordinary
985 2, 3 | release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to
986 3, 4(52) | obvious in the frequent recurrence together of the two terms
987 5, 7 | ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem,70 at the same time the
988 4, 6 | attitude, enables us to rediscover the individual threads of
989 3, 4 | affliction of His people reduced to slavery, heard their
990 3, 4(52) | restoration to grace, the reestablishment of the interior covenant. ~
991 1, 1 | In the encyclical already referred to, I have tried to show
992 1, 1 | reason it is now fitting to reflect on this mystery. It is called
993 7, 14 | way of conversion and of reform of life, but the one referring
994 4, 5 | country." But even this was refused him. ~The analogy turns
995 7, 14 | people, if they wish to regulate their mutual relationships
996 3, 4(52) | denotes the love of a mother (rehem = mother's womb). From the
997 8, 15 | love of God, the insulting rejection of whom by modern man we
998 4, 6 | irritable or resentful...but rejoices in the right...hopes all
999 3, 4 | the use of many terms with related meanings; they are differentiated
1000 3, 4 | and mercy in God, in His relations with man and the world.