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Mercy appears in the Bible as it relates to forgiveness or withholding punishment. For example, God the Father showed mercy on us when he sacrificed his son, Christ Jesus, on the Cross to pay the price for our sins.

But the Bible also defines mercy beyond forgiveness and withholding punishment. God shows his mercy for those who are suffering through healing, comfort, the alleviation of suffering and caring about those in distress. He acts from compassion and acts with mercy.

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According to the dictionary, mercy is a noun. It's a mission performed to relieve suffering. It's an event to be grateful for. It's the compassion or forgiveness shown to someone. But mercy is a noun in action.

The meaning of compassion is to recognize the suffering of others and then take action to help. Compassion is more than feeling concerned about someone in distress or caring about a person's misfortune. There is action associated with compassion, and that action is mercy.

The idea of having mercy emphasizes the aspect of mercy concerning disparity in power, as opposed to emphasizing the motivation for having mercy (e.g., compassion or lenity). It doesn't exclude kindness. It simply draws attention to the relationship between having the choice to show mercy and strictly executing justice.

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More than 70 years ago, our founder, Rev. Everett Swanson, ministered to American troops fighting in the Korean War. He was increasingly troubled by the orphans he saw living on the streets, abandoned by society. His response was the definition of mercy.

How does the mercy we are to show others translate to real life? The first and clearest example is that of the mercy of a judge who exercises it in imposing sentences during the course of carrying out his/her juridical duties. Another good example is that of a police officer who stops a person guilty of a traffic violation and, after considering the circumstances, writes only a warning notice instead of a ticket or summons. These are some obvious situations.

In his prepared remarks, the Pope recalled today's Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe - the last Sunday of the liturgical year - when the Gospel speaks to us about the final judgement, telling us it will be based on our care for one another through charity and mercy.

The Gospel underscores that the "blessed" are those who show loving mercy through their service to people needing our help and companionship, by not ignoring them or turning them away, but by providing food, drink, clothing, shelter, and accompaniment. They are the friends of the King, as they distinguish themselves by following His example through "compassion, mercy, tenderness."

The Pope in his reflections recommended we examine our own lives and how much we recognize and believe in the centrality of mercy, the power of love, how charity is indispensable for believers, and if we are a "friend of the King" in being "personally involved in the needs of the suffering people I find on my path."

Mercy and compassion are rooted in the very character of God. His law commands it. Wisdom teaches it. The prophets enjoin it and the Psalms applaud it. Of course, the fullest expression of the mercy of God is found in the person and work of Jesus Christ, the compassion of God incarnate. But the New Testament does not represent a departure from the Old Testament at this point, but rather the arrival of its fullest expectation.

These examples pose interesting questions about how pre-modern artists visualized different aspects of divinity in their respective cultural contexts. The Christian and Buddhist devout understood the Virgin Mary and Guanyin, respectively, in similar manners and archetypes of imagery, despite the fact that they did not directly influence one another until later periods of Imperialism and Colonialism in Asia. Centuries of shifts in these representations illustrate how people across the world have envisioned human compassion and mortal emotions.

Guanyin is the Chinese translation of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who chose to stay on earth as accessible examples for Buddhist faithful to follow. Originally depicted as a male or gender-neutral entity able to take on thirty-three manifestations, Avalokiteshvara is a compassionate savior who hears the woes of humankind, regardless of age, gender, or social class. However, in imperial China, Guanyin became increasingly cemented as a female figure. Similar to the Virgin Mary, Guanyin became a popular intercessor for humanity to understand divine salvation.

These eleventh- and twelfth-century images of the Virgin Mary and Guanyin embody distinctly supernatural, divine authority figures, far removed from later images that suggest compassion and tenderness.

Elephant tusks from Africa were a prized, rare commodity in Medieval Europe used in intricately carved sculptural objects. Ivory represented purity and chastity; characterized by its pearly, lustrous pale coloring, it was an appropriate choice of medium for the Virgin and Child. This small and intimate thirteenth-century French statuette is thought to have originally been painted and gilded, and perhaps set within a larger shrine or tabernacle. Rather than the Queen of Heaven, here the Virgin is presented simply as a loving mother embracing her child. Her face is soft and affectionate; the delicate draping of her robes creates a sense of humanity, responding to the form of her body. Drawn into the intimate exchange between parent and child, we are reminded of the sheer compassion and love that the Virgin Mary has as a mother for her son.

Can we also open our hearts to others, friends and strangers alike, and learn to love selflessly, as we have been loved? Consider a selection from the hundreds of verses about mercy and compassion in the Bible:

Set against the backdrop of the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the late twentieth century and the Catholic Church's crackdown on gay and lesbian activists, journalist Michael O'Loughlin searches out the untold stories of those who didn't look away, who at great personal cost chose compassion--even as he seeks insight for LGBTQ people of faith struggling to find a home in religious communities today.

This is one journalist's--gay and Catholic himself--compelling picture of those quiet heroes who responded to human suffering when so much of society--and so much of the church--told them to look away. These pure acts of compassion and mercy offer us hope and inspiration as we continue to confront existential questions about what it means to be Americans, Christians, and human beings responding to those most in need.

"O'Loughlin introduces us to so many unsung heroes of the AIDS crisis, and their lives vividly showcase the compassion and the cruelty that coexist in one community. A harrowing and deeply personal story."

In fact, compassion represents the true spirit of Islam and compassion is far more vital to Islamic teachings than anything else. In fact compassion in Islam, after the concepts of unity of God (tawhid) and risalah (messengership of Muhammad) is as central to Islam as it is to Buddhism. We will throw light on compassion in Islam in the following pages.

This is a great pity that Muslims themselves except the sufis and their followers have forgotten the emphasis of the Holy Quran on the quality of compassion. The Sufis lay tremendous stress on compassion. Their very fundamental doctrine is what is called sulh-i-kul i.e. peace with all which means no violence and no aggressiveness. The majority of Muslims, of course, follow sufi approach. It is only some frustrated fringe groups of Muslims who keep on talking of jihad and power.

Since any fighting has been permitted only in the way of Allah it cannot be a war of aggression in any case. It has to be only on compassionate grounds, not on any ground and hence the doctrine of compassion remains central. If there is no other way to liberate the oppressed except through the use of force only then use of force will be justified otherwise not.

The Quran, again and again, shows its sympathy for the weaker sections of the society in which it includes, among others, the orphans, the widows, the poor and the exploited, the slaves and other politically or socially and economically oppressed people. It emphasizes different ways of helping them. This is all on the grounds of compassion. Compassion really means sensitivity to others suffering. A person cannot be compassionate unless he/she is sensitive to others suffering. And this suffering includes, as we will show, not only human beings but also animals and plants.

Even fasting during the month of Ramadan can be interpreted both spiritually and materially. Fasting in a spiritual sense is a form of ibadah i.e. a form of prayer and an attempt to shun consumerism for cultivating one's spiritual potentialities. But it also helps make one sensitive to others pangs of hunger and develop sensitivity to others suffering and this develops compassion towards the poor.

It was his compassion for the weaker sections of society that he not only got Bilal Habashi manumitted but gave him the highest honor of giving azan i.e. calling the faithful to prayer five times. This honor was denied even to his closest colleagues who intensely desired it. If it was not compassion for the weaker section what was it? It is this compassion which is the most desirable aspect of Islamic teachings. ff782bc1db