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A beautiful reflection by the Pope on God's mercy. I pray every post abortive person reads it, those who judge, and actually EVERYONE because we are all so in need of this beautiful gift of God. Just reading this made me find joy in contemplating the total love and mercy of our God. A MUST read… Enjoy!

Pope Francis: "Mercy is the true force that can save man and the world
from the 'cancer' of sin The
Evil One is smart. He dupes us into thinking
that human justice can
save us and save the world. In fact, only God's
justice can save us! And
God's justice revealed itself on the Cross." 

"If, in our hearts, there is no mercy, no joy of
forgiveness, we are not in
communion with God, even if we observe all his precepts because it is love that
saves, not only the practice of his precepts," said Pope Francis in his reflection,
in which he focused on the "parables of mercy" taken from today's
liturgy, before 70,000 people who had gathered in St Peter's Square for the
Angelus, braving the heavy rain, as the pope himself noted.

Mercy, in the pope's
words, is "the true force that can save man and the world from the 'cancer'
of sin, of moral and spiritual evil." Hence, it marks the journey of Christians
through life, because "if we live according to the law of 'an eye for an
eye, a tooth for a tooth', we cannot come out of the spiral of evil. The Evil
One is smart. He dupes us into thinking that human justice can save us and save
the world. In fact, only God's
justice can save us! And God's
justice revealed itself on the Cross."

The three
parables that spurred Francis's reflection come from Chapter 15 of the Gospel
of Luke. They concern "the lost sheep, the lost coin, and then the longest
of all the parables, which is typical of Luke, the father and his
two sons, the ' prodigal ' son and the self-righteous son who thinks he is holy."

"All three parables
speak of God's joy. God is joyful! That is something interesting. What is God's
joy? Forgiveness. God's joy is forgiveness! It is the joy of the shepherd who
finds his sheep; the joy of the woman who finds her coin; it is the joy of the
father who welcomes home a son who was lost, who
was as good as dead, but is alive again, back home. This is the whole Gospel. This
is the whole of Christianity!"

"Yet, there is
nothing sentimental about it, nor a sense of 'doing good'! On the contrary,
mercy is
the true force that can save man and the world from the 'cancer' of sin, of moral
and spiritual evil. Only love fills the emptiness, the negative chasms that
evil opens in hearts and history. Only love can do this and this is God's joy."

Read the rest here.

(thanks K)