Pope Francis
Bull of Indiction Misericordiae Vultus
“Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s mercy. These words might well sum up the mystery of the Christian faith. Mercy has become living and visible in Jesus of Nazareth, reaching its culmination in him.”
Apostolic Letter Misericordia et misera
“Mercy cannot become a mere parenthesis in the life of the Church; it constitutes her very existence, through which the profound truths of the Gospel are made manifest and tangible. Everything is revealed in mercy; everything is resolved in the merciful love of the Father.”
Address Jubilee of Divine Mercy
“Through Sacred Scriptures, we find that mercy is above all the closeness of God to his people. It is a closeness expressed essentially through help and protection.”
Audience Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy
“…sin continues to expand the distance between us and God, and this can become a chasm. However, Jesus comes to find us like a good shepherd who is not content until he has found the lost sheep, as we read in the Gospel (cf. Lk 15:4-6).“
Catechesis For all workers and volunteers
“The greatest and most expressive form of this love is Jesus. His entire person and his life are nothing other than the concrete revelation of the Father’s love, reaching its highest expression on the Cross: “God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8). This is love!”
Homily Jubilee For Prisoners
“In a word, hope is the proof, lying deep in our hearts, of the power of God’s mercy. That mercy invites us to keep looking ahead and to overcome our attachment to evil and sin through faith and abandonment in him.”
Pope Benedict XVI
Homily, Feast of Divine Mercy 2007
“Mercy is the garment of light which the Lord has given to us in Baptism. We must not allow this light to be extinguished; on the contrary, it must grow within us every day and thus bring to the world God’s glad tidings.”
Regina Caeli Address, Divine Mercy Sunday 2006
“Those sacred wounds in his hands, in his feet and in his side, are an inexhaustible source of faith, hope and love from which each one can draw, especially the souls who thirst the most for divine mercy.”
“… Divine Mercy is not a secondary devotion but an integral dimension of Christian faith and prayer.”
Pope St. John Paul II
Encyclical Dives in Misericordia
“It is “God, who is rich in mercy” (Eph. 2:4) 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.”
Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Reconciliatio et Paenitentia
“The church, as a reconciled and reconciling community, cannot forget that at the source of her gift and mission of reconciliation is the initiative, full of compassionate love and mercy, of that God who is love and who out of love created human beings; and he created them so that they might live in friendship with him and in communion with one another.”
Homily on Divine Mercy Sunday 2001
“Let us thank the Lord for his love, which is stronger than death and sin. It is revealed and put into practice as mercy in our daily lives, and prompts every person in turn to have “mercy” towards the Crucified One.”
Homily at the Dedication of the Shrine of Divine Mercy
“The invocation of God’s mercy needs to rise up from the depth of hearts filled with suffering, apprehension and uncertainty, and at the same time yearning for an infallible source of hope.”
Pope St. Paul VI
Encyclical Mense Maio
“Even if the grave sins of men provoke God’s justice and merit His just punishments, we must not forget the he is “the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort,” that He has appointed Mary most holy as the generous steward of His merciful gifts.”
Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi
“This kingdom and this salvation, which are the key words of Jesus Christ’s evangelization, are available to every human being as grace and mercy, and yet at the same time each individual must gain them by force – they belong to the violent, says the Lord (Mt 11:12; Lk 16:16), through toil and suffering, through a life lived according to the Gospel, through abnegation and the cross, through the spirit of the beatitudes.”
Pope St. John XXIII
Encyclical Paenitentiam Agere
“At the very outset of his preaching, John the Baptist proclaimed: “Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” And Jesus inaugurated His saving mission in the same way.”
Encyclical Sacerdotii Nostri Primordia
“What great kindness he [St. John Vianney] displayed in devoting himself to restoring hope to the souls of repentant sinners! He spared no effort to become a minister of divine mercy to them; and he described it as “like an overflowing river that carries all souls along with it” and throbs with a love greater than that of a mother, “for God is quicker to forgive than a mother to snatch her child from the fire.”
Pope Pius XI
Encyclical Miserentissiums Redemptor
“This indeed was the purpose of the merciful Jesus, when He showed His Heart to us bearing about it the symbols of the passion and displaying the flames of love, that from the one we might know the infinite malice of sin, and in the other we might admire the infinite charity of Our Redeemer, and so might have a more vehement hatred of sin, and make a more ardent return of love for His love.”
Pope Leo XIII
Encyclical Octobri Mense
“With equal truth may it be also affirmed that, by the will of God, Mary is the intermediary through whom is distributed unto us this immense treasure of mercies gathered by God, for mercy and truth were created by Jesus Christ.”
Encyclical Magnae Dei Matris
“When we have recourse to Mary in prayer, we are having recourse to the Mother of mercy, who is so well disposed toward us that, whatever the necessity that presses upon us especially in attaining eternal life, she is instantly at our side of her own accord, even though she has not been invoked.”
Encyclical Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus
“For Christ is the fountain – head of all good. Mankind can no more be saved without His power, than it could be redeemed without His mercy.”
St. Peter
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that can not fade, reserved in heaven for you, Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.”
1 Peter 1:3