Mercy, merciful

Jesus heals the ear of Malchus, one of the people who came to arrest him, out of mercy towards him and towards Peter who wounded him. Brooklyn Museum.

Mercy is an essential characteristic of charity. It consists of caring for the unfortunate, and especially of forgiving offenses.

In The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me.  

• Mercy and forgiveness for the BWaterty of Korazim, a former prostitute who became leprous and was healed by Jesus on a Sabbath.         
• "It is not for this, Jacob, that your land will be blessed, but because you show mercy. You do not shut yourself off in the bitterness of Saltfishness and envy, but you receive my teaching and put it into practice. Blessed are the merciful. They will obtain mercy."   
• The time has come for total Mercy, after centuries of Justice.         
• Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
• Be merciful toward sinners
• The 12 corporal and spiritual works of mercy: Give food to the The Hungry. - Give drink to those who are thirsty. - Clothe the naked. - Hospitality to travelers - Visit the sick. - Visit the prisoners. - Bury the dead. – and their corresponding spiritual works: Instruct the ignorant – Pray for the living and the dead – Forgive those who offend you - Be merciful to those who weep. - Bear the annoying. – Rebuke sinners
• Not everyone knows how to be merciful to sick Souls. Therefore, one must be prudent in revealing their ailments, so that the world does not shun them nor harm them through contempt. A sick person who is despised darkens and becomes sicker.
• Be merciful to obtain mercy.
• Forgive seventy times seven, and even seventy times seventy, the sins of your brothers and children. Because shutting the doors of Salvation to a sick person, simply because he has fallen back into his illness, is wanting to kill him (taken from Matthew 18:21-22) and
• Help from the Mercy of Mary: Her Spiritual childbirth agony: She says: "But, believe me, my daughter, that there has never been and there will never be a childbirth torment like my Martyrdom of a spiritual Maternity accomplished on the hardest of beds: that of my cross, at the foot of the gallows where my Son was dying.
  
  Which mother is compelled to bring forth this way, and to mix the torment of her womb tearing itself apart at hearing the rattle of her agonizing Creature with the inner tearing to overcome the horror of having to say: 'I love you. Come to me who am your Mother' to the murderers of her Son (...)."
• All suffering is soothed on Mary's breast : Elizabeth says to her: "Let me put my hands on your breast". "Oh! If in your suffering you always asked me this!" (...) "And all pain calms and all hope blossoms and all Grace flows for whoever comes to me and lays their head on my breast."       
• Our Mother in Heaven never stops praying for us : "I pray for you. Remember it. The beatitude of being in Heaven, living in the radiance of God, does not make me forget my children who suffer on earth. And I pray. The whole Heaven prays, because Heaven loves. Heaven is living charity. And Charity has pity on you.
  But, if it were only me, it would already be a sufficient prayer for the needs of those who hope in God, since I never cease to pray for you all: saints and depraved, to give joy to the saints, to give the wicked the repentance that saves."
  "Come, come, O son of my pain. I wait for you at the foot of the Cross to give you Grace."      

In the other works of Maria Valtorta.

In the Notebooks

• Catechesis of July 14, 1943 : "He who closes his Heart to mercy closes his Heart to God, because God is in your brothers and sisters, and he who is not merciful to his brothers and sisters is not merciful to God".
• Catechesis of November 6 : Jesus says: "I know that you are weak and that, all around you, there are traps. I know this and I take it into account when judging you. I would no longer be a just God if I did not take into account your weakness and the works of the Evil One.
  What makes me severe is that sometimes it is not due to weakness or a trap of the demon that you fall. You fall knowingly. You deliberately throw yourself into the abyss saying to yourself: 'And what do I care about God?'. It is then that I call you ‘Judas’. You betray me with my precious Blood. You deliver me to Satan by giving him your Soul which belongs to me, since I redeemed it by my death. You betray me by calling yourselves Christians, but acting as antichrists. (...)
  Good will be my great mercy towards those who fall while wanting the opposite and who repent for their fall! One, two, ten, a hundred slips without malice do not wound Love to death. They are reciprocal scratches that your tears and my love heal. You say to me: ‘Mercy, Lord’ and I say to you: ‘Come to the Father, my poor child’."  

In fundamental Christian works

In the Bible

• I show mercy to those who love me (Exodus 20:6)
• I show mercy to whom I please (Exodus 33:19)
• The Lord is a God of mercy (Deuteronomy 4:31)
• I show mercy to thousands (Deuteronomy 5:10)
• Lord who exercises mercy toward those who love you (Nehemiah 1:5)
• All your ways are mercy and truth (Tobit 3:2)
• Blessed are you, God of mercy (Tobit 3:11)
• The mercy of God saves you from all nations (Tobit 13:5)
• God has not withheld his mercy from the house of Israel (Judith 13:14)
• Lord, I trust in your mercy (Psalm 13:6)
• Remember, Lord, your mercies (Psalm 25:6)
• Whoever trusts in the Lord will be filled with mercy (Psalm 32:10)
• God, we evoke your mercy (Psalm 48:10)
• God has not refused me his mercy (Psalm 66:20)
• It is good to announce your mercy early in the morning (Psalm 92:3)
• God is good, his mercy is eternal, and his faithfulness endures from age to age (Psalm 100:5)
• God is tenderness and pity, slow to anger and full of love. (Psalm 103:8 and 145:8)
• The Grace of God and his mercy are with his chosen, and he cares for his saints (Wisdom 4:15)
• You, Lord, are a God of mercy and Grace (Wisdom 9:1)
• Divine mercy is precious in time of tribulation (Sirach 35:26)

In other sources

• On November 30, 1980, John Paul II published the encyclical Dives in Misericordia on Divine Mercy.
• Excerpts from the Diary of Sister Faustina: § 1697 - I often accompany the agonizing Souls and obtain for them trust in divine mercy, I pray God to give them all the divine Grace, which is always victorious. Divine mercy sometimes reaches the sinner at the last moment, in a strange and mysterious way. Outwardly it seems as if all is lost, but it is not so; the Soul enlightened by a powerful ray of the supreme Grace turns toward God with such power of love that in an instant it receives from God forgiveness of both faults and their punishments, and outwardly it gives us no sign of repentance or contrition, since it no longer reacts to external things. Oh! how unfathomable is divine mercy. But horror – there are also Souls who voluntarily and consciously reject this Grace and disdain it. Although it is already the agony, God mercifully gives the Soul this moment of inner clarity, and if the Soul wants, it has the possibility to return to God. But sometimes, there is such hardness in Souls that they consciously choose hell; they make all the prayers offered to God on their behalf fail, and even the efforts of God…