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 1    1,    1    |        way - to God. Man and man's lofty calling are revealed
 2    1,    1    |       time. ~The more the Church's mission is centered upon
 3    1,    1    |      present phase of the Church's history we put before ourselves
 4    1,    1    |         enrichment of the Church's consciousness resulting
 5    1,    2    |    Testament tradition about God's mercy a definitive meaning.
 6    1,    2    |     refer to the picture of "man's situation in the world today"
 7    1,    2    |          in the context of today's threats to man, as it were
 8    2,    3    |       various ways manifests man's limitation and frailty,
 9    2,    3    |          and mercy is, in Christ's own consciousness, the fundamental
10    2,    3    |          and of John the Baptist's messengers. ~On the basis
11    2,    3    |        of these themes in Christ's teaching is Luke, whose
12    3,    4    |         to because of the people's sins, with the incisive
13    3,    4    |    incisive image of love on God's part. The Lord loves Israel
14    3,    4    |          sin too constitutes man's misery. The people of the
15    3,    4    |      become manifest in the Lord's mercy towards those who
16    3,    4    |        sense contrasted with God's justice, and in many cases
17    3,    4(52)|        This covenant was, on God's part, a gift and a grace
18    3,    4(52)|      juridical commitment on God's part ceased to oblige whenever
19    3,    4(52)|          6) is, in brief, on God's part, fidelity to Himself.
20    3,    4(52)|          cannot lay claim to God's hesed on the basis of (legal)
21    3,    4(52)|           responsibility for one's own love" (which are in
22    3,    4(52)|         a mother (rehem = mother's womb). From the deep and
23    3,    4(52)|        aspect: in describing God's mercy, the biblical authors
24    3,    4(52)|     books in order to define God's mercy, but also a specific
25    4,    5    |       voices resound in St. Luke's Gospel in unique harmony
26    4,    5(61)|      which rather identifies God's mercy with a mother's love.~
27    4,    5(61)|        God's mercy with a mother's love.~
28    4,    5    |    played out between the father's love and the prodigality
29    4,    5    |         after leaving his father's house. And in this situation "
30    4,    5    |        turns clearly towards man's interior. The inheritance
31    4,    5    |   dignity as a son in his father's house. The situation in
32    4,    5    |            How many of my father's hired servants have bread
33    4,    5    |     hired servants of his father's house "possess" them. These
34    4,    5    |          to return to his father's house, to ask his father
35    4,    5    |        servant in his own father's house is certainly a great
36    4,    5    |        an employee in his father's house. His decision is taken
37    4,    5    |       center of the prodigal son's consciousness, the sense
38    4,    5    |         by working in his father's house as a hired servant
39    4,    5    |       still expect in his father's house. ~
40    4,    6    |      picture of the prodigal son's state of mind enables us
41    4,    6    |  abandoned the home. ~The father's fidelity to himself - a
42    4,    6    |       saved: the good of his son's humanity. Although the son
43    4,    6    |          found again. The father's words to the elder son reveal
44    4,    6    |          chapter fifteen of Luke's Gospel, we read the parable
45    4,    6    |         prodigal son. The father's fidelity to himself is totally
46    4,    6    |         at the moment of the son's return home. ~Going on,
47    4,    6    |          concerned about his son's dignity. This concern is
48    4,    6    |     cease to be truly his father's son; it also indicates a
49    4,    6    |     father and the son in Christ's parable is not to be evaluated "
50    5,    7    |         properly justice "to God's measure," springs completely
51    5,    7    |       cross of Christ is "to God's measure," because it springs
52    5,    7    |         a gift, according to God's eternal plan. God, as Christ
53    5,    7    | precisely beside the path of man's eternal election to the
54    5,    7    |      love; it is as it were love's second name and, at the
55    5,    8    |        from the beginning of man's history had been allied
56    5,    8    |       most painful wounds of man's earthly existence; it is
57    5,    8    |      actualized as mercy. Christ's messianic program, the program
58    5,    8    |     through the cross, could man's dignity be more highly respected
59    5,    9    |       threshold of her kinswoman's house: "His mercy is...from
60    5,    9    |         sharing in revealing God's mercy. This sacrifice is
61    5,    9    |  knowledge of the mystery of God's mercy. She knows its price,
62    6,   10    |        of God. The words of Mary's Magnificat have a prophetic
63    6,   10    |       ago were undreamed of. Man's creative activity, his intelligence
64    6,   10    |          making contact with one's brothers and sisters beyond
65    6,   10    |          or racial limits. Today's young people, especially,
66    6,   10    |      instance, will increase man's creative capacity and provide
67    6,   11    |   conflict that in view of today's atomic stockpiles could
68    6,   11    |            This picture of today's world in which there is
69    6,   11    |       with the very sense of man's existence in the world,
70    6,   12    |          at that time; and today's forms continue to be modeled
71    7          |        of God, resounded in Mary's Magnificat, and which sing
72    7          |         her whole mission to God's mercy, following in the
73    7,   13    |         profess and proclaim God's mercy in all its truth,
74    7,   13    |          in the depths of people's hearts and minds. Some theologians
75    7,   13    |           In harmony with Christ's words to Philip,112 the "
76    7,   13    |          of Christ in the Church's living faith and teaching
77    7,   13    |        the sources of the Savior's mercy, of which she is the
78    7,   13    |        of the world which is man's temporary homeland. ~Mercy
79    7,   13    |      inexhaustible is the Father's readiness to receive the
80    7,   14    |          with regard both to one's neighbor and to oneself
81    7,   14    |          The basis of the Church's mission, in all the spheres
82    7,   14    |       all the ways of the Church's life and ministry-through
83    8,   15    |       proclaims the truth of God's mercy revealed in the crucified
84    8,   15    |     mindful of the words of Mary's Magnificat, which proclaim
85    8,   15    |  generation." Let us implore God's mercy for the present generation.
86    8,   15    |        of God,138 to implore God's mercy for humanity in this
87    8,   15    |         to proclaim mercy as God's merciful love, revealed
88    8,   15    |       greater must be the Church's closeness to that mystery
89    8,   15    |      Given in Rome, at St. Peter's, on the thirtieth day of