Pity, Mercy, Compassion

See also: Forgiveness, to Forgive.

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[[File:|thumb|Compassion.]] Jesus says to Jude speaking about Judas: "(...) I love this formless soul. It is the one that makes me feel pity more than any other... precisely because it is formless."

In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"

• Jesus corrects Jude who criticizes Judas: Do you believe you have the right to censor all his Actions? Do you feel yourself sufficiently perfect to do so? I remind you that I, your Master, do not do so, because I love this formless soul. It is the one that causes me pity more than any other... precisely because it is formless.
• The better one is, the more pity one has for the guilty (comments on the Woman adultery).
• The compassion of Mary: Her spiritual childbirth torment: She says: "But believe me, my daughter, there has never been and there never will be a torment of childbirth like my childbirth as a Martyr of a spiritual Maternity fulfilled on the hardest of beds: that of my cross, at the foot of the gallows of my Son who was dying.
  Which mother is forced to generate in such a way, and to mix the torment of her entrails which would tear apart upon hearing the cry of her Creature agonizing in inner torment, because she had to overcome the horror of saying: "I love you. Come to me who am your Mother" to the murderers of her Son (...)."
• Thanks to her pity and Love: Every suffering rests on the breast of Mary: Elizabeth says to her: "Let me put my hands on your breast." "Oh! if in your suffering you would always ask me this!" (...) "And every pain calms down and every hope blossoms and every grace flows for whoever comes to me and lays their head on my breast."
• Our Mother in Heaven ceaselessly prays for us, in communion with the pity of Heaven: "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 for 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 the saints joy, to give the wicked the repentance that saves."
  "Come, come, O children of my pain. I await you at the foot of the Cross to grant you grace."

In other sources

• "Treatise on indulgences" Salton the Catholic Church (Enchiridion Indulgentiarum).