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God's Mercy
 


God is the Merciful Father, who, in Jesus loves us beyond all measure.

 
Homily
Chapel of the Merciful Father
Rome
18 March 2007

 
 
 
God's Mercy
 


The mercy of God accompanies us day by day. We only need to have a vigilant heart in order to perceive it.

 
Homily
Second Sunday of Easter
St Peter's Square
15 April 2007

 
 
 
God's Mercy
 


The mercy of Christ is not a cheap grace; it does not presume a trivialization of evil. Christ carries in his body and on his soul all the weight of evil, and all its destructive force. He burns and transforms evil through suffering, in the fire of his suffering love.

 
Homily
Mass for Election of the Roman Pontiff
18 April 2005

 
 
 
God's Mercy
 


The pain of penance, the pain of purification and transformation – this pain is grace, because it is renewal – it is the work of the Divine Mercy.

 
Homily
Pontifical Biblical Commission
15 April 2010

 
 
 
God's Mercy
 


‘The Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.’ These are human words; they tell us the truth about God. They were true yesterday, they are true today and they will be true always. They cause us to see the face of the Invisible with the eyes of the mind. They tell us the name of the Ineffable. That name is Mercy, Grace, Faithfulness.

 
Homily
Savona, Italy
17 May 2008

 
 
 
God's Mercy
 


Only divine mercy is able to impose limitations on evil; only the almighty love of God can defeat the wicked and destructive power of selfishness and hate.

 
Homily
Divine Mercy Congress
Rome, Italy
2 April 2008

 
 
 
God's Mercy
 


Those sacred wounds in his hands, in his feet and in his side, are an inexhaustible source of faith, hope and love from which each one can draw, especially the souls who thirst the most for divine mercy.

 
Regina Caeli
St Peter's Square
23 April 2006

 
 
 
God's Mercy
 


The Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
These are human words, they tell us the truth about God. They were true yesterday, they are true today and they will be true always. They cause us to see the face of the Invisible with the eyes of the mind. They tell us the name of the Ineffable. That name is Mercy, Grace, Faithfulness.

 
Homily
Savona, Italy
17 May 2008

 

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