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JP2 Mercy Loud Cries
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JP2 Dives in Misericordia
VIII. The Prayer Of The Church In Our Times 1980
15. The Church Appeals to the Mercy of God
1. The Church proclaims the truth of God’s mercy that
was revealed in the crucified and risen Christ.
2. The Church seeks to practice mercy towards people
through people, as an indispensable condition for a “more
human” world.
3. However, Church cannot forget the prayer that is a
cry for the mercy of God amid the many forms of evil
which weigh upon humanity.
4. Precisely this prayer for mercy is the fundamental
right and duty of the Church in Christ Jesus towards God
and towards humanity.
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5. The more the human conscience succumbs to

secularization,
6. The more the human conscience loses its sense of the
very meaning of the word “mercy,”
7. The more the human conscience moves away from
God and distances itself from the mystery of mercy,
8. the more the Church has the right and the duty to
appeal to the God of mercy “with loud cries.”135
9. These “loud cries” should be the mark of the Church
of our times, cries uttered to God to implore His mercy.
10. The Church professes and proclaims that His mercy
has already come in Jesus crucified and risen, that is, in
the Paschal Mystery.
11. This Paschal mystery bears within itself the most

complete revelation of mercy of God,
12. This Paschal mystery is the most complete revelation
of that love which is more powerful than death, more
powerful than sin and every evil,
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13. This Paschal mystery is the most complete revelation

of the love which lifts man up when he falls into the abyss
of sin and frees him from the greatest threats.
14. Modern man often anxiously wonders about the
solution to the terrible tensions which entangle humanity.
15. And if at times modern man lacks the courage to utter
the word “mercy,”
16. or if, in his conscience which is empty of religious
content, modern man does not find the equivalent word,
17. so much greater is the need for the Church to utter
this cry of mercy in the name of all the men and women
of our time.
18. May this cry of mercy be full of that truth about
mercy which has found such rich expression in Sacred
Scripture and in Tradition,
19. May this cry of mercy be full of that truth about
mercy which has found such rich expression also in the
authentic life of faith of countless generations of the
People of God.
20. With this cry of mercy let us call upon the God who
cannot despise anything that He has made,136
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21. With this cry of mercy let us call upon the God who
is faithful to Himself, to His fatherhood and to His love.
22. Let us appeal to that love which, like a mother,
follows each of her children, each lost sheep, even if they
should number millions,
23. Let us appeal to that love even if in the world evil
should prevail over goodness,
24. Let us appeal to that love even if contemporary
humanity should deserve a new “flood” on account of its
sins, as once the generation of Noah did.
25. Let us have recourse to that fatherly love revealed to
us by Christ, a love which reached its culmination in His
cross, in His death and resurrection.
26. Let us have recourse to God through Christ, mindful
of the words of Mary’s Magnificat, which proclaim mercy
“from generation to generation.”
27. Let us implore God’s mercy for the present
generation.
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28. The Church, following the example of Mary, also

seeks to be the spiritual mother of mankind.
29. May the Church express in this prayer for God’s
mercy her maternal solicitude for all mankind.
30. May the Church express in this prayer her confident
love for man, that love from which is born this most
burning need for prayer.
31. Let us offer up our petitions, directed by the faith, by

the hope, and by the charity which Christ has planted in
our hearts.
32. Modern man has sometimes separated God far from
himself,
33. Modern man has made God extraneous to himself,
proclaiming in various ways that God is “superfluous.”
34. We feel profoundly this insulting rejection of God by
modern man,
35. Our love of God compels us to cry out with Christ on
the cross: “Father, forgive them; for they know not what
they do.”137
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36. At the same time this love of God is love of people,

37. This love of God is love of all men and women
without any exception or division:
without difference of race, culture, language, or world
outlook,
without distinction between friends and enemies.
40. This is love for people – it desires every true good for
each individual and for every human community,
every family, every nation, every social group,
young people, adults, parents, the elderly – a love for
everyone, without exception.
43. This is love for people, or rather an anxious
solicitude to ensure for each individual every true good
and to remove and drive away every sort of evil.
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44. Many of our contemporaries do not share the faith

and hope which lead us, as servants of Christ, to implore
God’s mercy for humanity in this hour of history, let them
at least try to understand the reason for our concern.
45. Our concern is dictated by love for man, for all that is
human and which is threatened by an immense danger.
46. The mystery of Christ reveals to us the great vocation
of man and his incomparable dignity,
47. The mystery of Christ also obliges us to proclaim
mercy as God’s merciful love and to have recourse to that
mercy.
48. The mystery of Christ also obliges us to beg for that
mercy at this difficult, critical phase of the history of the
Church and of the world.
49. In the name of Jesus Christ crucified and risen, we
pray that the Love of the Father, who is rich in mercy, be
once again present in our modern world.
50. We beg the Father to show Himself to us once again
to be more powerful than evil, more powerful than sin and
death.
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51. We pray for this through the intercession of Mary

who does not cease to proclaim “mercy...from generation
to generation,”
52. We pray for this also through the intercession of the
holy ones who have completely fulfilled the words of the
Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the merciful, for they
shall obtain mercy.”139
53. The Church is fully aware that the reason for her
existence is, in fact, to reveal God, - that Father who
allows us to “see” Him in Christ.140
54. No matter how strong the resistance of human history
may be, no matter how great the denial of God in the
human world,
55. so much the greater must be the Church’s closeness
to that mystery of merciful Love, which was hidden for
centuries in God,
56. but which, in the fullness of time, was then truly
shared with man through Jesus Christ His Son.
With my apostolic blessing.
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JP2 Mercy Loud Cries

5. The more the human conscience succumbs to

11. This Paschal mystery bears within itself the most

13. This Paschal mystery is the most complete revelation

28. The Church, following the example of Mary, also

31. Let us offer up our petitions, directed by the faith, by

36. At the same time this love of God is love of people,

44. Many of our contemporaries do not share the faith

51. We pray for this through the intercession of Mary

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