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1 3, 4(51) | Cf. Ps. 103(102) and 145(144).~
2 3, 4(51) | Cf. Ps. 103(102) and 145(144).~
3 1, 1(6) | no. 22: AAS 58 (1966), p. 1042.~
4 7, 14(127)| no. 40 AAS 58 (1966), pp.1057-1059; Pope Paul VI: Apostolic
5 7, 14(127)| 40 AAS 58 (1966), pp.1057-1059; Pope Paul VI: Apostolic
6 3, 4(52) | 39]:11-12; 85[84]:11; 138[137]:2; Mi. 7:20). "It is not
7 3, 4(52) | 40[39]:11-12; 85[84]:11; 138[137]:2; Mi. 7:20). "It is
8 7, 14(125)| Paolo VI, XIII (1975), p. 1568 (close of the Holy Year,
9 3, 4(41) | Est.. 4:17k ff.~
10 5, 9(108)| gentium, no. 62: AAS 57 1965), p. 63.~
11 8, 15 | Sunday of Advent, in the year 1980, the third of the pontificate. ~
12 1, 1(2) | Cf. Jn. 1:18; Heb. 1:1f. ~
13 5, 8(98) | Mk. 12:27.~
14 3, 4(38) | Cf. Jer. 31:20; Lz. 39:25-29.~
15 3, 4(53) | Ps. 40(39):11; 98(97):2f.; Is. 45:21; 51:5, 8; 56:
16 3, 4(52) | sake of my holy name" (Ez. 36:22). Therefore Israel, although
17 3, 4(53) | 39):11; 98(97):2f.; Is. 45:21; 51:5, 8; 56:1.~
18 5, 8(83) | Cf. 1 Cor. 15:54-55.~
19 3, 4(53) | 2f.; Is. 45:21; 51:5, 8; 56:1.~
20 5, 9(108)| Lumen gentium, no. 62: AAS 57 1965), p. 63.~
21 5, 8(86) | Cf. Is. 35:5; 61:1-3.~
22 5, 9(108)| Church Lumen gentium, no. 62: AAS 57 1965), p. 63.~
23 7, 14(127)| particular nos. 1-6: AAS 67 (1975), pp. 7-9, 17-23. ~
24 4, 5(61) | Cf. Lk. 1:72. Here too it is a case of
25 3, 4(46) | Chr. 30:9; Neh. 9:17; Ps. 86(85); Wis. 15:1; Sir. 2:11;
26 5, 8(100)| Ps. 89(88):2.~
27 5, 8(100)| Ps. 89(88):2.~
28 3, 4(53) | Ps. 40(39):11; 98(97):2f.; Is. 45:21; 51:5, 8;
29 3, 4(53) | Ps. 40(39):11; 98(97):2f.; Is. 45:21; 51:5,
30 4, 6 | his father and had never abandoned the home. ~The father's
31 3, 4 | of what you have made in abhorrence."54 These words indicate
32 6, 11 | that he professes, of the ability to obey the voice of conscience
33 3, 4 | gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness."45
34 3, 4 | whose spiritual father is Abraham by virtue of his faith.
35 7, 14 | and reciprocal quality is absent, our actions are not yet
36 1, 2 | only to meditate in the abstract upon the mystery of God
37 5, 7 | mercy, when He is arrested, abused, condemned, scourged, crowned
38 8, 15 | up when he falls into the abyss and frees him from the greatest
39 5, 7 | greatness of man, qui talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem,70
40 2, 3 | oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."19 These
41 6, 10 | human race, through the acceptance of mutual dependence in
42 5, 8 | love, precisely because He accepted the cross as the way to
43 7, 13 | sense central and also most accessible on the human level-of the
44 7, 13(114)| Cf. 1 Cor. 11:26; acclamation in the Roman Missal.~
45 4, 5 | still have a right to in accordance with the norms of justice.
46 8, 15 | deserve a new "flood" on account of its sins, as once the
47 7, 14 | threefold concupiscence active within him.128 It is precisely
48 | actually
49 6, 11 | destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental
50 3, 4 | opposition to it, if we admit in the history of man -
51 8, 15 | group, for young people, adults, parents, the elderly-a
52 8, 15 | November, the First Sunday of Advent, in the year 1980, the third
53 5, 8 | Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo.100 ~
54 3, 4(52) | compassion, but especially in the affective sense. These terms appear
55 7, 14 | which cannot be lost and the affirmation of which, or its rediscovery,
56 3, 4 | Exodus: the Lord saw the affliction of His people reduced to
57 4, 6 | New Testament is called agape. This love is able to reach
58 6, 10 | that only a few decades ago were undreamed of. Man's
59 5, 7 | the cross and dies amidst agonizing torments.73 It is then that
60 6, 12 | with which this good is alienated. Finally, there is the "
61 6, 12 | that in the name of an alleged justice (for example, historical
62 5, 8 | of man's history had been allied to sin. Death has justice
63 6, 12 | power, which is love, is not allowed to shape human life in its
64 8, 15 | reveal God, that Father who allows us to "see" Him in Christ.140
65 4, 5 | relationship could never be altered or destroyed by any sort
66 8, 15 | cry for the mercy of God amid the many forms of evil which
67 5, 7 | nailed to the cross and dies amidst agonizing torments.73 It
68 4, 5 | perhaps never as much as the amount he had squandered. This
69 6, 11 | uneasiness concerns-as the analyses of the Second Vatican Council
70 3, 4 | justice and, in the final analysis, justice serves love. The
71 7, 14 | reveal its own nature. In analyzing the parable of the prodigal
72 4, 5 | differentiated terminology of the ancient books. Mary, entering the
73 4, 6 | has to be ever revealed anew. In spite of many prejudices,
74 4, 6 | that generosity which so angers the elder son. Nevertheless,
75 6, 12 | such cases, the desire to annihilate the enemy, limit his freedom,
76 5, 9 | she faithfully gave at the annunciation and which she sustained
77 2, 3 | upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to
78 3, 4 | books a purely theoretical answer to the question of what
79 1, 1 | more it is, so to speak, anthropocentric-the more it must be confirmed
80 1, 1 | separate theocentrism and anthropocentrism, and even to set them in
81 7 | cannot fail to cause profound anxiety, there come to mind once
82 8, 15 | outline. Modern man often anxiously wonders about the solution
83 | anyone
84 3, 4 | He dies, He says to the apostle Philip these memorable words: "
85 3, 4 | awakened this awareness-it appealed to mercy. In this regard,
86 8, 15 | 15. The Church Appeals to the Mercy of God ~The
87 6, 12 | moral decay, in spite of appearances. ~
88 7 | these inspired words, and applying them to the sufferings of
89 4, 6 | are mostly the result of appraising them only from the outside.
90 7, 14 | in itself suitable for "arbitration" between people concerning
91 7, 13 | great significance in this area is constant meditation on
92 6, 11 | systems, there exist entire areas of poverty, shortage and
93 7, 14 | by the strong, or into an arena of permanent strife between
94 4, 5 | makes the decision: "I will arise and go to my father, and
95 4, 6 | ran to meet him, threw his arms around his neck and kissed
96 4, 5 | especially as "a great famine arose in that country" to which
97 | around
98 5, 7 | appeal for mercy, when He is arrested, abused, condemned, scourged,
99 6, 10 | brothers and sisters beyond artificial geographical divisions and
100 5, 9 | heaven she has not laid aside this office of salvation
101 1, 1 | path to man, as it has been assigned once and for all to the
102 6, 12 | justice and which ought to assist its fulfillment among individuals,
103 5, 9 | the elect. In fact, being assumed into heaven she has not
104 3, 4 | of Micah,33 the consoling assurances given by Isaiah,34 the cry
105 4, 5 | the pods that the swine ate," the swine that he herded
106 6, 11 | that in view of today's atomic stockpiles could mean the
107 7, 14 | who receives it. Hence the attempt to free interpersonal and
108 7, 13 | His words and His cross, attests to the inexhaustible love
109 7, 14 | towards his neighbor. ~This authentically evangelical process is not
110 7, 14 | her mission to guard the authenticity of forgiveness, both in
111 6, 11 | systematically used by authority as a means of domination
112 3, 4(52) | God's mercy, the biblical authors use terms that correspond
113 3, 4 | prophets and others who awakened this awareness-it appealed
114 6, 11 | suffering from hunger. There are babies dying of hunger under their
115 3, 4(35) | Cf. Bar. 2:11-3, 8.~
116 7, 14 | Sermon on the Mount with the beatitude regarding those who are
117 7, 14 | practice mercy. All the beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount
118 2, 3 | blind who cannot see the beauty of creation, those living
119 8, 15 | recourse to that mercy and to beg for it at this difficult,
120 | begin
121 3, 4 | His mercy from the very beginnings of the people which He chose
122 5, 7 | cross of Christ, the only - begotten Son, who, as "light from
123 2, 3 | testimony with which He had begun His teaching at Nazareth: "
124 5, 8 | the Revelation of John: "Behold, I stand at the door and
125 6, 10 | We have every right to believe that our generation too
126 7, 14 | herself as the community of believers but also in a certain sense
127 5, 7 | his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish
128 4, 6 | quick to deduce that mercy belittles the receiver, that it offends
129 4, 5 | part of the inheritance belonging to him but had also hurt
130 3, 4 | prophet proclaims: Ruhamah, "Beloved" or "she has obtained pity."49 ~
131 7, 14 | bringing up their children, a benefactor helping the needy), in reality
132 7, 14 | who gives is always also a beneficiary. In any case, he too can
133 7, 14 | he feels at the same time benefitted by the person accepting
134 7, 14 | practicing mercy and the one benefitting from it, between the one
135 3, 4(52) | predisposition to be generous, benevolent and merciful. In addition
136 7, 14(127)| Exhortation Paterna cum benevolentia, in particular nos. 1-6:
137 5, 7 | the world, affecting and besieging man, insinuating itself
138 4, 5 | generation to generation" is bestowed on those who fear Him. A
139 3, 4(52) | love more powerful than betrayal, grace stronger than sin. ~
140 3, 4 | even its infidelities and betrayals. When He finds repentance
141 7, 14 | accepting it from us. If this bilateral and reciprocal quality is
142 4, 5 | born, his father Zechariah blesses the God of Israel and glorifies
143 6, 11 | dimension, that is to say in his bodily and spiritual existence,
144 6, 10 | developments there is a growing body of men who are asking the
145 5, 7 | people, to whose mercy He has borne witness through all of His
146 1, 2 | only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made
147 4, 5 | indirectly touches upon every breach of the covenant of love,
148 3, 4 | triumphed over this act of breaking the covenant when He solemnly
149 5, 8 | where the disciples were, ...breathed on them, and said to them: '
150 5, 9 | charity, she takes care of the brethren of her Son who still journey
151 3, 4 | the Lord is also the bridegroom of her whose new name the
152 3, 4(52) | cf. Lam. 4:3, 6) is, in brief, on God's part, fidelity
153 3, 4 | chosen people. ~In this broad "social" context, mercy
154 4, 5 | possibly, little by little, to build up a certain provision of
155 3, 4(52) | rate, the New Testament builds upon the wealth and depth
156 3, 4(52) | Therefore Israel, although burdened with guilt for having broken
157 8, 15 | from which is born the most burning need for prayer. ~Let us
158 3, 4 | when they set up the golden calf. The Lord Himself triumphed
159 7, 14 | of forgiveness does not cancel out the objective requirements
160 5, 8 | Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo.100 ~
161 6, 10 | increase man's creative capacity and provide access to the
162 2, 3 | proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight
163 5, 9 | maternal charity, she takes care of the brethren of her Son
164 7, 13 | God will she be able to carry out the tasks that derive
165 6, 12 | confirmed by the field of Catholic social doctrine, greatly
166 6, 11 | of the gigantic remorse caused by the fact that, side by
167 5, 7 | his heart and capable of causing him to "perish in Gehenna."80 ~
168 7, 13 | The same Eucharistic rite, celebrated in memory of Him who in
169 3, 4 | its members based their certainty of the mercy of God, which
170 6, 12 | Not in vain did Christ challenge His listeners, faithful
171 6, 10 | have brought about profound changes both in the field of science
172 1, 1 | all to the Church in the changing context of the times, is
173 4, 6 | is found."65 In the same chapter fifteen of Luke's Gospel,
174 7, 14 | essential and continuous characteristic of the Christian vocation.
175 3, 4 | but it is something that characterizes the life of the whole people
176 4, 6 | in a manner particularly charged with affection. We read,
177 6, 10 | and do not permit us to cherish the illusions of the past. ~
178 6, 10 | anxieties he is compelled to choose between them and repudiate
179 3, 4 | with the love of a special choosing, much like the love of a
180 3, 4 | beginnings of the people which He chose for Himself; and, in the
181 3, 4(46) | Cf. Nm. 14:18; 2 Chr. 30:9; Neh. 9:17; Ps. 86(
182 7, 14 | the lives of individual Christians, of individual communities,
183 4, 5 | he herded for "one of the citizens of that country." But even
184 6, 12 | example, historical justice or class justice) the neighbor is
185 6, 12 | individuals, social groups and "classes," between individual peoples
186 2, 3 | the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the
187 6, 10 | is universal, through a clearer awareness of the unity of
188 8, 15 | greater must be the Church's closeness to that mystery which, hidden
189 7 | before all the threats that cloud the whole horizon of the
190 7, 14 | be nothing but a world of cold and unfeeling justice, in
191 7, 13 | resurrection, "until he comes" in glory.114 The same Eucharistic
192 1, 1 | of mercies and God of all comfort."5 We read in the Constitution
193 4, 6 | the evil which the son had committed. ~The parable of the prodigal
194 5, 7 | of that wonderful self-communication of God to man, which also
195 6, 10 | riches of other peoples. New communications techniques will encourage
196 1, 2 | explain it by the use of comparisons and parables, but above
197 4, 6 | however penetratingly and compassionately, at moral, physical or material
198 6, 10 | welter of anxieties he is compelled to choose between them and
199 5, 7 | for the sins of man are "compensated for" by the sacrifice of
200 7, 14 | transform it in its essence, by complementing it with another spirit.
201 8, 15 | bears within itself the most complete revelation of mercy, that
202 7, 14 | has there yet been fully completed in us that conversion to
203 6, 11 | disposal of modern society conceal within themselves not only
204 4, 5 | nevertheless under their surface is concealed the tragedy of lost dignity,
205 4, 6 | fidelity to himself is totally concentrated upon the humanity of the
206 7, 13 | constantly contemplating Christ, concentrating on Him, on His life and
207 4, 6 | 6. Particular Concentration on Human Dignity ~This exact
208 6, 12 | life from the moment of conception, respect for marriage in
209 4, 6 | obliges the father to be concerned about his son's dignity.
210 7, 14 | St. Paul expressed in his concise exhortation to "forbear
211 7, 14 | forces of the threefold concupiscence active within him.128 It
212 5, 7 | He is arrested, abused, condemned, scourged, crowned with
213 5, 8 | cross is the most profound condescension of God to man and to what
214 5, 7 | cross upon which Christ conducts His final dialogue with
215 7, 14 | however, has the power to confer on justice a new content,
216 1, 2 | defined as "mercy." Christ confers on the whole of the Old
217 7, 13 | at uniting all those who confess Christ. As she makes many
218 7, 13 | this direction, the Church confesses with humility that only
219 8, 15 | and at the same time her confident love, that love from which
220 1, 1 | those holy days during which confirmation was to be given once and
221 6, 10 | the meeting point of many conflicting forces. In his condition
222 5, 8 | renewal of the world will love conquer, in all the elect, the deepest
223 4, 6 | not allow itself to be "conquered by evil," but overcomes "
224 6, 12 | education and formation of human consciences in the spirit of justice,
225 5, 9 | without interruption from the consent which she faithfully gave
226 7, 13 | faithful to the uttermost consequences in the history of His covenant
227 7, 14 | sheep and the lost coin.124 Consequently, merciful love is supremely
228 7, 14 | speak, be "corrected " to a considerable extent by that love which,
229 3, 4(52) | fidelity), which could be considered a case of hendiadys (cf.
230 7, 14 | The Church rightly considers it her duty and the purpose
231 4, 6 | meaning of mercy does not consist only in looking, however
232 5, 8 | of Isaiah,86 this program consisted in the revelation of merciful
233 3, 4 | prophetic work of Micah,33 the consoling assurances given by Isaiah,34
234 5, 7(77) | The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.~
235 7, 13 | Father, a revelation which constituted the central content of the
236 4, 6 | message of Christ and the constitutive power of His mission. His
237 5, 8 | Christ, on which the Son, consubstantial with the Father, renders
238 6, 11 | living in plenty and ruled by consumerism and pleasure, the same human
239 5, 8 | Holy Spirit, in which love, containing justice, sets in motion
240 7, 13 | her teaching, constantly contemplating Christ, concentrating on
241 7, 13 | sharing in and, in a sense, a continuation of the messianic mission
242 8, 15 | shall obtain mercy."139 ~In continuing the great task of implementing
243 7, 14 | lifestyle, an essential and continuous characteristic of the Christian
244 6, 11 | it a world entangled in contradictions and tensions, and at the
245 6, 10 | disquieting? It seems not. On the contrary, the tensions and threats
246 2, 3 | Samaritan,25 but also - by contrast - the parable of the merciless
247 3, 4 | mercy is in a certain sense contrasted with God's justice, and
248 6, 12 | motive for action; and this contrasts with the essence of justice,
249 7, 14 | of the person; and this contributes to uniting people in a more
250 1, 2 | that it is up to him to control them or be enslaved by them."15 ~
251 3, 4 | could be said that they all converge from different directions
252 7, 13 | live, therefore, in statu conversionis; and it is this state of
253 3, 4 | root of this many-sided conviction, which is both communal
254 7, 14 | merciful love also means the cordial tenderness and sensitivity
255 7, 14 | justice must, so to speak, be "corrected " to a considerable extent
256 3, 4 | context, mercy appears as a correlative to the interior experience
257 3, 4(52) | biblical authors use terms that correspond to the consciousness and
258 7, 13 | otherwise than as mercy. This corresponds not only to the most profound
259 3, 4 | mercy, and enables them to count upon it: it reminds them
260 1, 1 | once again in Christ to the countenance of the "Father of mercies
261 6, 10 | privilege of the industrialized countries, but it cannot be denied
262 8, 15 | if at times he lacks the courage to utter the word "mercy,"
263 5, 7 | It is love which not only creates the good but also grants
264 3, 4 | has linked Himself to His creature with a particular love.
265 1, 2 | seeking God by means of creatures through the visible world,
266 5, 7(77) | Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.~
267 6, 12 | in hand with this go the crisis of truth in human relationships,
268 7, 14 | human society we stop at the criterion of "an eye for an eye, a
269 5, 7 | abused, condemned, scourged, crowned with thorns, when He is
270 6, 12 | as spite, hatred and even cruelty. In such cases, the desire
271 5, 8 | more death, or mourning no crying, nor pain, for the former
272 7, 14(127)| Apostolic Exhortation Paterna cum benevolentia, in particular
273 7, 13 | this bread and drink this cup," we proclaim not only the
274 5, 7 | good and healing"71 and "curing every sickness and disease"72
275 1, 1 | Father. While the various currents of human thought both in
276 2, 3 | His preaching. As is His custom, He first teaches "in parables,"
277 6, 10 | field of information and data processing, for instance,
278 3, 4(52) | vis-a-vis the unfaithful "daughter of my people"(cf. Lam. 4:
279 3, 4 | beseech His mercy. In this way David turns to Him, conscious
280 5, 7 | will be pronounced at the dawn when first the women and
281 1, 1 | the events of those holy days during which confirmation
282 2, 3 | lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised
283 6, 10 | not the only document that deals with the life of this generation,
284 Bles | Blessing~Venerable Brothers and dear sons and daughters, ~greetings
285 6, 10 | possibilities that only a few decades ago were undreamed of. Man'
286 6, 12 | is "sacred" suffer moral decay, in spite of appearances. ~
287 7, 14(125)| close of the Holy Year, December 25, 1975).~
288 3, 4 | knew their sufferings and decided to deliver them.43 In this
289 4, 5 | dignity had matured. When he decides to return to his father'
290 6, 11 | all humanity; it demands decisive solutions, which now seem
291 2, 3 | are His first messianic declaration. They are followed by the
292 3, 4 | covenant when He solemnly declared to Moses that He was a "
293 5, 7 | fullness of a disinterested dedication to the cause of man, to
294 4, 6 | consequence, we are quick to deduce that mercy belittles the
295 3, 4 | His forgiveness. ~Thus, in deeds and in words, the Lord revealed
296 1, 1 | have tried to show that the deepening and the many-faceted enrichment
297 3, 4(52) | literally means "to spare" (a defeated enemy) but also "to show
298 6, 11 | obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects,
299 6, 11 | series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root
300 6, 11 | defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery
301 5, 9 | experienced, to the same degree as the Mother of the crucified
302 6, 12 | that often turns into "dehumanization": the individual and the
303 1, 2 | namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived
304 3, 4 | sufferings and decided to deliver them.43 In this act of salvation
305 3, 4 | the Old Testament writings demonstrate. At the end of this revelation,
306 3, 4 | and personal, and which is demonstrated by the whole of the Old
307 5, 8 | at the same time "easy." Demonstrating from the very start what
308 8, 15 | no matter how great the denial of God in the human world,
309 6, 10 | countries, but it cannot be denied that the prospect of enabling
310 3, 4(52) | in the biblical texts to denote mercy. In addition, one
311 3, 4(52) | rahamim, in its very root, denotes the love of a mother (rehem =
312 6, 11 | an oppression that will deprive him of his interior freedom,
313 7, 13 | vividly inscribed in the depths of people's hearts and minds.
314 7, 13 | carry out the tasks that derive from the teaching of the
315 6, 12 | Finally, there is the "desacralization" that often turns into "
316 7, 14 | attitude which these words describe and inculcate. How many
317 1, 2 | situation in the world today" as described at the beginning of the
318 2, 3 | the commandment which He describes as "the greatest,"29 and
319 4, 5 | consciousness of what he has deserved and of what he can still
320 5, 9 | according to the eternal design of the most Holy Trinity. ~
321 8, 15 | upon the God who cannot despise anything that He has made,136
322 7, 14 | and also elevating power despite all difficulties of a psychological
323 6, 11 | another threat, even more destructive of what is essentially human,
324 6, 12 | This statement does not detract from the value of justice
325 6, 12 | social doctrine, greatly developed in the course of the last
326 6, 12 | of the laity, which are developing in precisely this spirit. ~
327 1, 2 | thanks to the enormous development of science and technology,
328 6, 10 | in the face of modern developments there is a growing body
329 6, 12 | how far human action can deviate from justice itself, even
330 1, 1 | special needs of our times, I devoted the encyclical Redemptor
331 2, 3 | for us. However, before devoting a further part of our considerations
332 7, 14(125)| Cf. Insegnamenti di Paolo VI, XIII (1975), p.
333 8, 15 | reason for my concern. It is dictated by love for man, for all
334 7, 14 | love122 does not take away differences: the person who gives becomes
335 3, 4 | Lord and His mercy.53 Mercy differs from justice, but is not
336 3, 4 | converge from different directions on one single fundamental
337 7, 13 | to venerate it when she directs herself to the Heart of
338 6, 11 | not only by those who are disadvantaged or oppressed, but also by
339 6, 10 | the result is a host of discords in social life."109 ~Towards
340 1, 1 | spoken during the farewell discourse at the end of the paschal
341 7, 14 | consists in the constant discovery and persevering practice
342 5, 7 | curing every sickness and disease"72 now Himself seems to
343 5, 7 | harmonious fullness of a disinterested dedication to the cause
344 5, 8 | world was untainted by the disobedience of Adam and the inheritance
345 7, 13 | which she is the trustee and dispenser. Of great significance in
346 1, 2 | the world today not only displays transformations that give
347 6, 11 | The technical means at the disposal of modern society conceal
348 1, 2 | noble and what is base, disposed to freedom and slavery,
349 6, 10 | individuals and nations dissolve or shrink through an increased
350 7, 14 | and maintaining a certain distance between the one practicing
351 8, 15 | or world outlook, without distinction between friends and enemies.
352 6, 12 | in practice suffer from distortions. Although they continue
353 7, 14 | concerning the reciprocal distribution of objective goods in an
354 8, 15 | no matter how marked the diversity of contemporary civilization,
355 | Dives in misericordia~
356 6, 10 | And so he feels himself divided, and the result is a host
357 8, 15 | without any exception or division: without difference of race,
358 5, 9(108)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
359 1, 2 | earth and has subdued and dominated it.14 This dominion over
360 6, 11 | authority as a means of domination and political oppression
361 5, 8 | the Psalm: Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo.100 ~
362 1, 2 | and dominated it.14 This dominion over the earth, sometimes
363 4, 5 | of mercy, as a profound drama played out between the father'
364 3, 4 | of the Old Covenant, had drawn from their age - long history
365 4, 6 | restores to value, promotes and draws good from all the forms
366 7, 13 | as we eat this bread and drink this cup," we proclaim not
367 8, 15 | true good and to remove and drive away every sort of evil. ~
368 7, 14 | it one of her principal duties-at every stage of history
369 7, 13 | Heart which enables us to dwell on this point-a point in
370 1, 2 | of Mercy ~Although God "dwells in unapproachable light,"8
371 4, 5 | after his return - to earn his living by working in
372 2, 3 | is Luke, whose Gospel has earned the title of "the Gospel
373 6, 12 | authentic common good and the ease with which this good is
374 5, 8 | same spirit, the liturgy of Eastertide places on our lips the words
375 4, 5 | harmony which forcefully echoes the whole Old Testament
376 6, 11 | the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization,
377 7, 13 | in the first place, the ecumenical task which aims at uniting
378 7, 14 | life and behavior and in educational and pastoral work. She protects
379 5, 7 | of redemption is put into effect not only by bringing justice
380 5, 7 | culmination of this revealing and effecting of mercy, which is able
381 2, 3 | world in which we live - an effective love, a love that addresses
382 | either
383 8, 15 | people, adults, parents, the elderly-a love for everyone, without
384 7, 14 | love as a unifying and also elevating power despite all difficulties
385 5, 9 | uttered during her visit to Elizabeth, the wife of Zechariah: "
386 7, 14 | merciful is particularly eloquent in this regard. Man attains
387 7, 14 | tenderness and sensitivity so eloquently spoken of in the parable
388 | else
389 | elsewhere
390 2, 3 | addresses itself to man and embraces everything that makes up
391 5, 7 | dialogue with the Father, emerges from the very heart of the
392 4, 5 | sense of lost dignity is emerging, the sense of that dignity
393 3, 4(52) | one must note the word 'emet already mentioned: it means
394 8, 15 | man and which led me to emphasize in the encyclical Redemptor
395 1, 2 | that is to say, there is emphasized that attribute of the divinity
396 5, 7 | I would say, in the most empirical and "historical" way, to
397 6, 10 | denied that the prospect of enabling every people and every country
398 6, 10 | communications techniques will encourage greater participation in
399 7, 14 | loftiest model, inspiration and encouragement. When we base ourselves
400 3, 4 | aspects. The Old Testament encourages people suffering from misfortune,
401 4, 6 | things" and "love never ends."68 Mercy - as Christ has
402 4, 6 | right...hopes all things, endures all things" and "love never
403 5, 8 | more highly respected and ennobled, for, in obtaining mercy,
404 1, 2 | man, who, thanks to the enormous development of science and
405 1, 1 | deepening and the many-faceted enrichment of the Church's consciousness
406 1, 2 | him to control them or be enslaved by them."15 ~The situation
407 8, 15 | an anxious solicitude to ensure for each individual every
408 8, 15 | up in the world and which entangle humanity. And if at times
409 6, 11 | as to make of it a world entangled in contradictions and tensions,
410 4, 5 | the ancient books. Mary, entering the house of Zechariah,
411 7, 14 | structure of justice always enters into the sphere of mercy.
412 3, 4 | this people continually entrusted itself, both when stricken
413 6, 11 | society, individuals and the environment, communities, societies
414 3, 4 | of Himself: Nihil odisti eorum quae fecisti, "you hold
415 7, 14 | of objective goods in an equitable manner, love and only love (
416 8, 15 | content he does not find the equivalent, so much greater is the
417 5, 8 | salvation history and in eschatology. In the same spirit, the
418 6, 11 | more destructive of what is essentially human, what is intimately
419 3, 4(41) | Est.. 4:17k ff.~
420 2, 3 | subject, that is to say, to establishing the meaning of the vocabulary
421 3, 4 | misfortune40; so also does Esther, knowing the mortal threat
422 5, 9 | covenant that He willed from eternity and that He entered into
423 7, 13 | comes" in glory.114 The same Eucharistic rite, celebrated in memory
424 4, 5 | which makes him honestly evaluate the position that he could
425 4, 6 | Christ's parable is not to be evaluated "from the outside." Our
426 4, 6 | following this method of evaluation we see in mercy above all
427 5, 8 | that Christ who "on the evening of that day, the first day
428 5, 7 | penetrate deeply into this final event-which especially in the
429 3, 4 | I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore I have continued
430 5, 8 | in the Church, is to be everlastingly confirmed as more powerful
431 4, 6 | Concentration on Human Dignity ~This exact picture of the prodigal
432 4, 5 | is inscribed with great exactness in the content of the Gospel
433 3, 4 | Even when the Lord is exasperated by the infidelity of His
434 | except
435 5, 9 | shared in singularly and exceptionally - that Mary shared in. In
436 1, 2 | mercy, and in fact tends to exclude from life and to remove
437 3, 4 | Love, by its very nature, excludes hatred and ill - will towards
438 3, 4(52) | an interior necessity: an exigency of the heart. It is, as
439 4, 6 | from all the forms of evil existing in the world and in man.
440 4, 5 | position that he could still expect in his father's house. ~
441 1, 1 | hopes, their anxieties and expectations. While it is true that every
442 1, 2 | does He speak of it and explain it by the use of comparisons
443 7, 14 | be built by man, who is exposed to the oppressive forces
444 6, 10 | end of the introductory exposition we read: ". . .in the face
445 6, 11 | freedom, of the possibility of expressing the truth of which he is
446 5, 7(70) | of the Easter Vigil: the Exsultet.~
447 4, 5 | of the prodigal son may extend to this also. "When he had
448 6, 10 | and cultural life. Man has extended his power over nature and
449 8, 15 | separated far from himself, made extraneous to himself, proclaiming
450 7, 14 | the realm of objective and extrinsic goods, while love and mercy
451 3, 4(52) | the sake of my holy name" (Ez. 36:22). Therefore Israel,
452 1, 1 | the deepening and the many-faceted enrichment of the Church'
453 1, 2 | the light of the foregoing factors there appears the dichotomy
454 3, 4 | of His mercy in times of failure and loss of trust. Subsequently,
455 5, 9 | from the consent which she faithfully gave at the annunciation
456 3, 4(52) | Hosea: "I will heal their faithlessness, I will love them freely" (
457 6, 11 | societies and nations can fall victim to the abuse of power
458 4, 5 | and poverty that he had fallen into; this motive, however,
459 6, 11 | past. ~Man rightly fears falling victim to an oppression
460 4, 5 | especially as "a great famine arose in that country" to
461 1, 2 | addresses at UNO, to UNESCO, to FAO and elsewhere), the Church
462 1, 1 | words were spoken during the farewell discourse at the end of
463 8, 15 | us have recourse to that fatherly love revealed to us by Christ
464 4, 5 | the mercy promised to our fathers and for remembering His
465 7, 13 | weighed down with great faults. In this sacrament each
466 3, 4 | Nihil odisti eorum quae fecisti, "you hold nothing of what
467 4, 5 | situation "he would gladly have fed on" anything, even "the
468 6, 10 | among them. Worse still, feeble and sinful as he is, he
469 6, 11 | Thus, in our world the feeling of being under threat is
470 3, 4(52) | generates a whole range of feelings, including goodness and
471 6, 11 | explains the uneasiness felt by contemporary man. This
472 3, 4(52) | heart. It is, as it were, a "feminine" variation of the masculine
473 3, 4(41) | Est.. 4:17k ff.~
474 5, 9 | together with her definitive "fiat." ~Mary, then, is the one
475 4, 6 | penetrating analogy the figure of the father reveals to
476 3, 4 | His people and thinks of finishing with it, it is still His
477 3, 4 | Father,47 for Israel is His firstborn son48; the Lord is also
478 5, 9 | sensitivity, on her particular fitness to reach all those who most
479 5, 8 | roots of evil, which are fixed in sin and death; thus the
480 8, 15 | humanity should deserve a new "flood" on account of its sins,
481 7, 13 | power of forgiveness which flow continually from the marvelous
482 5, 7 | justice is based on love, flows from it and tends towards
483 6, 11 | tells him the right path to follow. The technical means at
484 4, 6 | mission. His disciples and followers understood and practiced
485 4, 5 | found himself because of his folly, because of sin, the sense
486 7 | mercy, following in the footsteps of the tradition of the
487 7, 14 | concise exhortation to "forbear one another in love."130
488 4, 5 | of God, a harmony which forcefully echoes the whole Old Testament
489 6, 11 | solutions, which now seem to be forcing themselves upon the human
490 4, 6 | value." The father first and foremost expresses to him his joy
491 3, 4 | mystery of creation. They foreshadow in the context of the Old
492 5, 8 | constitutes the sign that foretells "a new heaven and a new
493 7, 14 | to the fact that he who forgives and he who is forgiven encounter
494 6, 12 | proceed the education and formation of human consciences in
495 5, 8 | program that Christ once formulated in the synagogue at Nazareth 84
496 6, 12 | other things, has led to the formulation of the saying: summum ius,
497 3, 4 | this people which journeys forward through the history both
498 5, 8 | glorious immortality. The foundation of this eschatological fulfillment
499 2, 3 | manifests man's limitation and frailty, both physical and moral.
500 3, 4 | reveals the Father within the framework of the same perspective