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mercy and Christ
The link between the Mosaic Law and Alfred's code is the " Apostolic Letter ," which explained that Christ " had come not to shatter or annul the commandments but to fulfill them ; and he taught mercy and meekness " ( Intro, 49. 1 ).
The authority which the magisterium enjoys by the will of Christ exists so that the moral conscience can attain the truth with security and remain in it .” John Paul quoted Humanae Vitae as a compassionate encyclical, " Christ has come not to judge the world but to save it, and while he was uncompromisingly stern towards sin, he was patient and rich in mercy towards sinners ".
In solitude and retirement the Hesychast repeats the Jesus Prayer, " Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner.
The Hesychast, when he has by the mercy of God been granted such an experience, does not remain in that experience for a very long time ( there are exceptions — see for example the Life of St Savas the Fool for Christ ( 14th Century ), written by St Philotheos Kokkinos ( 14th Century )), but he returns ' to earth ' and continues to practise the guard of the mind.
Your grave is blessed and reward is great, by the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ O graced one, having conquered the bounds of time and place!
We live by faith and hope in the God of mercy and love who has been revealed to us in Christ, and the Spirit moves us to pray in constant thankfulness and joy.
In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.
St Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 ), demonstrated in The City of God that the dimensions of the Ark corresponded to the dimensions of the human body, which corresponds to the body of Christ ; the equation of Ark and Church is still found in the Anglican rite of baptism, which asks God, " who of thy great mercy didst save Noah ," to receive into the Church the infant about to be baptised.
In a symbolically important step, Sergius I declared support for the chant " Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us " at the breaking of the Host during Mass, and restored the damaged facade mosaic in St. Peter's atrium that depicted the Worship of the Lamb ; the depiction of Christ as lamb had been prohibited by the Council.
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father ’ s Son, in truth and love.
Vladimir's " Christ have mercy upon us!
Nephi states many times while making the record that he intends to show the mercy of the Lord and convince the readers of the necessity and divinity of Jesus Christ.
During their Tonsure ( religious profession ), Eastern Orthodox Monks and Nuns are given a prayer rope, with the words: Accept, O brother ( sister ) ( name ), the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God ( Ephesians 6: 17 ) in the everlasting Jesus prayer by which you should have the name of the Lord in your soul, your thoughts, and your heart, saying always: " Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.
: Righteous Leo, entreat Christ God to grant us His great mercy.
These include some of his most famous compositions, notably Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles ( a6 ) This day Christ was born ( a6 ) and Have mercy upon me ( a6 ) which employs alternating phrases with verse and full scoring and also circulated as a church anthem.
May Christ our true God, Who for the salvation of the world endured spitting, and scourging, and buffeting, and the Cross, and death, through the intercessions of His most pure Mother, of our holy and God-bearing fathers, and of all the saints, have mercy on us and save us, for He is good and the Lover of mankind.
* 1 Timothy 1: 16: " However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all long suffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
" means " Lord, have mercy ; Christ have mercy ;..." Each phrase is said ( or sung ) three times.
Similarly, although Orthodoxy teaches that salvation is obtained only through Christ and his Church, the fate of those outside the Church at the Last Judgment is left to the mercy of God and is not declared.

mercy and into
-- that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart, should he `` speak without book, and consequently break some law of speech, or be hurried into some daring hyperbole, he should find little mercy ''.
" The stories follow a consistent pattern: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies ; the people repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a leader or champion ( a " judge "); the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression and they prosper, but soon they fall again into unfaithfulness and the cycle is repeated.
This is the theme played out in Judges: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies ; the people then repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a judge ; the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression, but after a while they fall into unfaithfulness again and the cycle is repeated.
Thus, in the Eucharist, gone were the words Mass and altar ; the ' Lord have mercy ' was interleaved into a recitation of the Ten Commandments and the Gloria was removed to the end of the service.
" We have grown into an organic society ," Ross argued, " in which the welfare of all is at the mercy of each.
Eleven thousand Communists and Socialists were arrested and brought into hastily prepared concentration camps such as Kemna concentration camp, where they were at the mercy of the Gestapo, the newly established secret police force ( 9, 000 were found guilty and most executed ).
Thus in 1992, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, while affirming that " the Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude ", but also stating that " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ", stated: " As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them.
When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.
The mercy seat was sprinkled with atoning blood on the Day of Atonement ( Leviticus 16: 14 ), representing that the righteous sentence of the Law had been executed, changing a judgment seat into a mercy seat ( Hebrews 9: 11-15 ; compare with " throne of grace " in Hebrews 4: 14-16 ; place of communion, Exodus 25: 21-22 ).
Seven thousand full at once floated in the Forth, plunged into the deep and drowned without mercy ; none were left alive of all that fell army.
They produce large quantities of eggs and their larvae are planktonic, generally at the mercy of ocean currents until they are ready to settle into adult populations.
Bernie once again begs for mercy, saying " Look into your heart ", but Tom shoots him.
Caesarion's guardians, including his tutor, either were themselves lured by false promises of mercy into returning the boy to Alexandria or perhaps even betrayed him ; the records are unclear.
The present Roman Missal has common formulas for the Dedication of Churches, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Martyrs ( with special formulas for missionary martyrs and virgin martyrs ), Pastors ( subdivided into bishops, generic pastors, founders of churches, and missionaries ), Doctors of the Church, Virgins, and ( generic ) Saints ( with special formulas for abbots, monks, nuns, religious, those noted for works of mercy, educators, and women saints ).
Angered by Brody's interference, McLeod essentially bullies Pritchett into filing charges, stating that a first offender always becomes a repeat offender ( using Gennini as an example ), and no mercy should be shown to them.
He wrote, " That Life should be passing into the hands of new owners and directors is of the liveliest interest to the sole survivor of the little group that saw it born in January 1883 ... As for me, I wish it all good fortune ; grace, mercy and peace and usefulness to a distracted world that does not know which way to turn nor what will happen to it next.
Seeing within myself an immaterial vision that came from the mercy of God, I went out of myself into an immortal body, and now I am not what I was before.
That signal would bring more and more wretched figures streaming up from all sides, and the good Samaritan would find himself besieged, hemmed in by ragged apparitions spraying him with tubercular saliva, by children covered with oozing sores who were pushed into his path, by gesticulating stumps of arms, blinded eyes, toothless, stinking open mouths, all begging for mercy at this, the last moment of their lives, as if their end could be delayed only by instant support.
" Later on, in XXXVIII: 48, Ishmael is mentioned together with Elisha and Dhul-Kifl as one of " the patiently enduring and righteous, whom God caused to enter into his mercy.

mercy and Law
West's Encyclopedia of American Law states that " a ' mercy killing ' or euthanasia is generally considered to be a criminal homicide " and is normally used as a synonym of homicide committed at a request made by the patient.
Doctor Luther said: " One should show no mercy to these ; I would burn them myself, for we read in the Law that the priests were the ones to begin the stoning of criminals.
* Moses, the severe, violent avenger ( representing the Law, which knows no mercy ) who tries to kill Faithful for his momentary weakness in wanting to go with Adam the First out of the way.
Have mercy on us, O God, in accordance with Thy great mercy, and send forth upon these holy gifts, here set forth, Thine all-holy Spirit, ( bowing ) the Lord and giver of life, enthroned with Thee, God and Father, and Thine only-begotten Son, co-reigning, consubstantial and co-eternal, who spoke by the Law and the Prophets and by Thy New Covenant, who came down in the form of a dove upon our Lord Jesus Christ in the river Jordan, and rested upon him, who came down upon Thy holy Apostles in the form of fiery tongues in the upper room of holy and glorious Sion on the day of Pentecost.
The Pardoner ’ s materialistic orientation, his suspicious relics and accusations of sinfulness ( evident in his conflict with the Host ) align him with Paul ’ s account of the “ outward Jew, circumcised only in the flesh ,” rather than the “ inward ” Jew of Romans 2. 29 who is spiritually rather than literally circumcised: “ the Pardoner, outwardly ‘ a noble ecclesiaste ,’ actually reduces Christianity to a code as rigorous and external as the Old Law itself .” In his tale,the Pardoner presents death as the wages of sin, an effect of justice ” while the “ Prioress, through the paradox of martyrdom, shows it as mercy, an effect of grace .”
The term is of Anglo-Norman origin ( Law French, from French, from Latin ), and literally means " being at the mercy of ": a-merce-ment ( English mercy is cognate ).

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