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Songy Mercy.Pptx Rediscovering the Face of Mercy Rev. David Songy, O.F.M.Cap. February 18, 2016 © Saint Luke Institute Facilitator Introduction Rev. David Songy, O.F.M.Cap. © Saint Luke Institute Prayer for the Year of Mercy Archdiocese of Washington Almighty God and Father, You have created all things and know the desire of every heart. In this Year of Mercy, we reflect on your great love for us, and acknowledge our sinfulness and need for your healing mercy. Trusting that you never tire of forgiving us, we open our hearts to receive your forgiveness and love. Having encountered you, Mercy itself, and guided by the Holy Spirit, may we witness to the love we have received by sharing it with those most in need: the hungry, the homeless, the afflicted and the oppressed. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. © Saint Luke Institute Copyright Saint Luke Ins4tute 1 Learning Outcomes Participants will: 1. Explore a theology of mercy; 2. Consider the nature of a pilgrimage as an important exercise for spiritual renewal; and 3. Identify concrete steps for conducting a pilgrimage of mercy. © Saint Luke Institute A Theology of Mercy © Saint Luke Institute Misericordiae Vultus © Saint Luke Institute Copyright Saint Luke Ins4tute 2 Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s mercy. 1. Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s mercy. These words might well sum up the mystery of the Christian faith. Whoever sees Jesus sees the Father (cf. Jn 14:9). Jesus of Nazareth, by his words, his actions, and his entire person reveals the mercy of God. © Saint Luke Institute Misericordiae Vultus 6. “It is proper to God to exercise mercy, and he manifests his omnipotence particularly in this way”. Saint Thomas Aquinas’ words show that God’s mercy, rather than a sign of weakness, is the mark of his omnipotence. For this reason the liturgy, in one of its most ancient collects, has us pray: “O God, who reveal your power above all in your mercy and forgiveness …” Throughout the history of humanity, God will always be the One who is present, close, provident, holy, and merciful. © Saint Luke Institute Misericordiae Vultus 10. Mercy is the very foundation of the Church’s life. All of her pastoral activity should be caught up in the tenderness she makes present to believers; nothing in her preaching and in her witness to the world can be lacking in mercy. The Church’s very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love. The Church “has an endless desire to show mercy”. Perhaps we have long since forgotten how to show and live the way of mercy. The temptation, on the one hand, to focus exclusively on justice made us forget that this is only the first, albeit necessary and indispensable step. But the Church needs to go beyond and strive for a higher and more important goal. © Saint Luke Institute Copyright Saint Luke Ins4tute 3 Misericordiae Vultus 10. On the other hand, sad to say, we must admit that the practice of mercy is waning in the wider culture. In some cases the word seems to have dropped out of use. However, without a witness to mercy, life becomes fruitless and sterile, as if sequestered in a barren desert. The time has come for the Church to take up the joyful call to mercy once more. It is time to return to the basics and to bear the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters. Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instils in us the courage to look to the future with hope. © Saint Luke Institute Misericordiae Vultus 5. How much I desire that the year to come will be steeped in mercy, so that we can go out to every man and woman, bringing the goodness and tenderness of God! May the balm of mercy reach everyone, both believers and those far away, as a sign that the Kingdom of God is already present in our midst! © Saint Luke Institute From where does Pope Francis draw his ideas? © Saint Luke Institute Copyright Saint Luke Ins4tute 4 Dives in Misericordia The Revelation of Mercy It is "God, who is rich in mercy“, whom Jesus Christ has revealed to us as Father: it is His very Son who, in Himself, has manifested Him and made Him known to us. – St. John Paul II, 1980 © Saint Luke Institute He Who Sees Me Sees the Father While it is true that every individual human being is, as I said in my encyclical Redemptor Hominis, the way for the Church, at the same time the Gospel and the whole of Tradition constantly show us that we must travel this day with every individual just as Christ traced it out by revealing in Himself the Father and His love. In Jesus Christ, every path to man, is simultaneously an approach to the Father and His love. – Cf. John 14:9 © Saint Luke Institute The Incarnation of Mercy • Mercy becomes visible in Christ and through Christ, through His actions and His words, and finally through His death on the cross and His resurrection. • The present-day mentality, more perhaps than that of people in the past, seems opposed to a God of mercy, and in fact tends to exclude from life and to remove from the human heart the very idea of mercy. • The truth, revealed in Christ, about God the "Father of mercies," enables us to "see" Him as particularly close to man especially when man is suffering, when he is under threat at the very heart of his existence and dignity….For the mystery of God the "Father of mercies" revealed by Christ becomes, in the context of today's threats to man, as it were a unique appeal addressed to the Church. © Saint Luke Institute Copyright Saint Luke Ins4tute 5 Parable of the Prodigal Son An Analogy • This analogy enables us to understand more fully the very mystery of mercy, as a profound drama played out between the father's love and the prodigality and sin of the son. • The parable indirectly touches upon every breach of the covenant of love, every loss of grace, every sin. The analogy turns clearly towards man's interior. The inheritance that the son had received from his father was a quantity of material goods, but more important than these goods was his dignity as a son in his father's house. • Nevertheless, the relationship between justice and love, that is manifested as mercy, is inscribed with great exactness in the content of the Gospel parable. © Saint Luke Institute Parable of the Prodigal Son Particular Concentration on Human Dignity • This exact picture of the prodigal son's state of mind enables us to understand exactly what the mercy of God consists in. The father of the prodigal son is faithful to his fatherhood, faithful to the love that he had always lavished on his son. • The father's fidelity to himself - a trait already known by the Old Testament term hesed - is at the same time expressed in a manner particularly charged with affection. We read, in fact, that when the father saw the prodigal son returning home "he had compassion, ran to meet him, threw his arms around his neck and kissed him.” • Going on, one can therefore say that the love for the son the love that springs from the very essence of fatherhood, in a way obliges the father to be concerned about his son's dignity. © Saint Luke Institute We are quick to deduce that mercy belittles the receiver, that it offends the dignity of man. The parable of the prodigal son shows that the reality is different: the relationship of mercy is based on the common experience of that good which is man, on the common experience of the dignity that is proper to him. Copyright Saint Luke Ins4tute 6 The Paschal Mystery Mercy Revealed in the Cross and Resurrection • The messianic message of Christ and His activity among people end with the cross and resurrection. We have to penetrate deeply into this final event – which especially in the language of the Council is defined as the Mysterium Paschale – if we wish to express in depth the truth about mercy. • The events of Good Friday and, even before that, in prayer in Gethsemane, introduce a fundamental change into the whole course of the revelation of love and mercy in the messianic mission of Christ. The one who "went about doing good and healing" and "curing every sickness and disease“ now Himself seems to merit the greatest mercy and to appeal for mercy. © Saint Luke Institute The Mercy of God in the Mission of the Church The Church Professes the Mercy of God and Proclaims It • The Church must profess and proclaim God's mercy in all its truth, as it has been handed down to us by revelation. • "He who has seen me has seen the Father." The Church professes the mercy of God, the Church lives by it in her wide experience of faith and also in her teaching, constantly contemplating Christ, concentrating on Him, on His life and on His Gospel, on His cross and resurrection, on His whole mystery. • Mercy in itself, as a perfection of the infinite God, is also infinite. • Conversion to God is always the fruit of the rediscovery of this Father, who is rich in mercy. © Saint Luke Institute The Church Seeks to Put Mercy Into Practice Jesus Christ taught that man not only receives and experiences the mercy of God, but that he is also called "to practice mercy" towards others: "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." The Church sees in these words a call to action, and she tries to practice mercy.
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