is therefore necessary that everything I said in this document is processed continuously mercy in fervent prayer, in a cry that implores mercy according to the needs of people in the contemporary world. Condense this cry the whole truth about mercy, which has found such rich expression in Sacred Scripture and Tradition and the authentic life of faith of countless generations of the People of God. With such a cry we become, like all the sacred writers, the God who can not despise anything that has been created, the God who is faithful to himself, his paternity and his love. And like the prophets, having recourse to love and maternal characteristics, like a mother, follows each of their children, all lost sheep, but were not millions of lost, but in the world honesty prevail over evil, although contemporary humanity for their sins deserved a new "flood" as he earned in his time of Noah's generation. Recourse to the parental love that Christ revealed in his messianic mission and reaches its culmination on the cross, in His death and resurrection. Recourse to God through Christ, recalling the words of the Magnificat of Mary, who proclaims mercy "from generation to generation." Implore God's mercy for the contemporary generation. The Church, following the example of Mary, is also be mother of men in God in this prayer express her maternal concern while committed love, which is born the most burning need for prayer. We extend our prayers, guided by faith, hope and love that Christ has planted in our hearts. This attitude is also love of God, who at times modern man himself has distanced himself has done outside, and proclaimed in different ways which is something "superfluous." This is because the love of God, whose offense-rejection by the people today are deeply, ready to cry out with Christ on the cross: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." This is both a love of men, all men without exception and division some, irrespective of race, culture, language, worldview, without distinction between friends and enemies. This is love for all good men who truly want each and every human community, every family, nation, social group for young people, adults, parents, the elderly, the sick: it is love at all without exception. This is love, ie rush order to ensure each and every real good and ward away evil
(...) In the name of Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, in the spirit of his messianic mission that remains in the history of mankind, we raise our voices and plead that at this stage of history be revealed once more the love that is in the Father and Son by the power of the Holy Spirit becomes present in the contemporary world as stronger than evil, stronger than sin and death. Let us beseech the intercession of her who never ceases to proclaim "mercy from generation to generation, and also those who have served until the end words of the Sermon on the Mount:" Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. "
* John Paul II. Encyclical Dives in misericordia
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