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Mercy is the “greatest attribute” of God; the chief feature, as well, of His gratuitous gift
of salvific work for man, from the time of his creation, and up to the present (Diary, # 301, 1743-
1749). 326 As Jesus also told Sr. Faustina:
My Heart rejoices in this title of Mercy (Diary, # 300)… Proclaim that mercy is
the greatest attribute of God. All the works of My hands are crowned with mercy
(Diary, # 301)… I perform works of mercy in every soul. The greater the sinner,
the greater the right he has to My mercy. My mercy is confirmed in every work of
My hands (Diary, # 723)… Everything that exists is enclosed in the bowels of My
mercy, more deeply than an infant in its mother’s womb (Diary, # 1076)… I am
giving mankind the last hope of salvation; that is, recourse to My mercy (Diary, #
998)… If they will not adore My mercy, they will perish for all eternity. Secretary
of My mercy; write, tell souls about this great mercy of Mine, because the awful
day, the day of My justice, is near (Diary, # 965).
The Church teaches that “God alone” is the “Author of salvation” (CCC, 169) and Jesus
Christ is the God who is seen and the “only Mediator between God and man.” 327 And, in the
Spirit of God, in His “work of grace,” through the Church’s liturgical and sacramental life; man
who is “groaning” amid sin and great suffering (Rom 8:22) lxxxiii is guided and restored back to his
original destiny with God. 328 The Scriptures declare and the Church confirms as well, that
salvation is in Christ alone, and in no other (Acts 4:12; 1 Thes 5:9; Lk 2:30; Isa 53:11). lxxxiv329
Jesus Christ is man’s “Redeemer;” He loves the Father and errant man incessantly, even to the
point of death on the Cross (Jn 13:1; Phil 2:8). 330 lxxxv
Jesus Christ is also the same Lord who is shown and venerated in the Divine Mercy
Image, with the inscription, “Jesus I trust in You,” as Sr. Faustina wrote in her Diary (Diary, #
47, 1743-1749, xxii-xxiii). This is but fitting, for through Christ’s Paschal mystery or through
His “redemptive death” on the Cross and Resurrection, He definitively fulfilled His “atoning
326
Ibid., Pope John Paul II. Dives in Misericordia, I-2; CCC, 68-74.
Ibid., CCC, 477, 480, 667.
328
Ibid., CCC, 667, 689, 747, 752, 2017-2029, 1067-1068, 2001, 1104.
329
Ibid., CCC, 622- 623.
330
Ibid., CCC, 478, 622-623.
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