Divine Mercy For Our Times

The Sacraments 27. The second divinely instituted means which the church offers for the pastoral activity of penance and reconciliation is ...

Division Between Brothers 15. In the biblical narratives mentioned above, man's rupture with God leads tragically to divisions between...

CHAPTER ONE THE MYSTERY OF SIN 14 If we read the passage in the Bible on the city and tower of Babel in the new light offered by the Gosp...

PART TWO THE LOVE THAT IS GREATER THAN SIN The Tragedy of Man 13. In the words of St. John the apostle, "If we say we have no sin...

Other Means of Reconciliation 12 The mission of reconciliation is proper to the whole church, also and especially to that church which has...

The Church, the Great Sacrament of Reconciliation 11. The church has the mission of proclaiming this reconciliation and as it were of bein...

CHAPTER THREE   GOD'S INITIATIVE AND THE CHURCH'S MINISTRY 10. The church, as a reconciled and reconciling community, cannot forge...

The Reconciled Church 9. My venerable predecessor Paul VI commendably highlighted the fact that the church, in order to evangelize, must...

The Reconciling Church 8. But, as Pope St. Leo said, speaking of Christ's passion, "Everything that the Son of God did and taug...

CHAPTER TWO AT THE SOURCES OF RECONCILIATION In the Light of Christ the Reconciler 7. As we deduce from the parable of the prodigal so...

... To the Brother Who Stayed at Home 6. But the parable also brings into the picture the elder brother, who refuses to take his place a...

CHAPTER ONE A PARABLE OF RECONCILIATION 5. At the beginning of this apostolic exhortation there comes into my mind that extraordinary pas...

The document which I now entrust to the sons and daughters of the church and also to all those who, whether they are believers or not, look ...

Reconciliation becomes necessary because there has been the break of sin from which derive all the other forms of break within man and about...

In each of these meanings penance is closely connected with reconciliation, for reconciliation with God, with oneself and with others implie...

The Synod's View 4. Therefore every institution or organization concerned with serving people and saving them in their fundamental d...

Longing for Reconciliation 3. Nevertheless, that same inquiring gaze, if it is discerning enough, detects in the very midst of division a...

A Shattered World 2. These divisions are seen in the relationships between individuals and groups, and also at the level of larger groups:...