Most people think that mercy is overlooking faults or even brushing these away.
No. Mercy is staring sin in the face and forgiving it. Mercy is not a weak virtue. On the contrary, only very strongly spiritual people can be merciful. Mercy is usually given to those who are guilty. However, mercy must be given to the innocent as well.
Those who are innocent many times are treated as if they are guilty. This is done for many reasons, but mostly because men and women choose to live by the law rather than by the spirit.
Christ warned us all of this.
Justice is different. Justice for the Catholic is based on natural law. This means that those who fall and sin against natural law must be judged according to their actions. All of us sin but some sin against the most serious of natural laws, including those sins which cry out to God for vengeance.
In today's world, justice has become a numbers game and a game of false equity. Justice no longer is based on natural law, but on whatever a particular government decides is law.
We are living in dangerously relativistic times, when people can decide what is just without the basis of God's natural law, or the Ten Commandments, which are based on natural law.
Mercy and justice are purposefully being twisted into complete moral relativism.
Be aware that Catholics may well suffer the consequences of these false, new definitions of mercy and justice.
Without recourse to Revelation and without the wisdom of the Tradition of the Catholic Church, men and women will determine themselves what mercy and justice are.
God is Justice and Mercy and without Him as the basis of laws, without reference to God, law becomes a tool in the hands of those who desire power.
From today's Mass.
| Romans 11: 29 - 36 | |
| 29 | For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. |
| 30 | Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, |
| 31 | so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may receive mercy. |
| 32 | For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all. |
| 33 | O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! |
| 34 | "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?" |
| 35 | "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?" |
| 36 | For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Amen. |
