"THE mercy of God in the mission of the Church" Pope John Paul II

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THE MERCY


OF GOD IN THE

MISSION OF THE

CHURCH
 
In connection with this picture of our generation, a picture


which cannot fail to cause profound anxiety, there come to

mind once more those words which, by reason of the

Incarnation of the Son of God, resounded in Mary's

Magnificat, and which sing of "mercy from generation to

generation." The Church of our time, constantly pondering the

eloquence of these inspired words, and applying them to the

sufferings of the great human family, must become more

particularly and profoundly conscious of the need to bear

witness in her whole mission to God's mercy, following in the

footsteps of the tradition of the Old and the New Covenant,

and above all of Jesus Christ Himself and His Apostles. The

Church must bear witness to the mercy of God revealed in

Christ, in the whole of His mission as Messiah, professing it in

the first place as a salvific truth of faith and as necessary for a

life in harmony with faith, and then seeking to introduce it and

to make it incarnate in the lives both of her faithful and as far

as possible in the lives of all people of good will. Finally, the

Church—professing mercy and remaining always faithful to

it—has the right and the duty to call upon the mercy of God,

imploring it in the face of all the manifestations of physical and

moral evil, before all the threats that cloud the whole horizon

of the life of humanity today.