{"id":697,"date":"2015-03-18T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=697"},"modified":"2015-03-18T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:36:13","slug":"dont-lets-be-beguiled-in-the-year-of-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Let\u2019s Be Beguiled In The Year Of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"francis<\/a><\/p>\n

At Aleteia, in light of announced the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Fr. Robert McTeigue offers some necessary instruction<\/a>. By all means we must avoid a “facile, beguiling, and impoverished view of mercy and justice.”<\/p>\n

Very often, I hear folks speak of mercy as if it were a cancellation of justice. On this view, \u201cjustice\u201d means, \u201cyou have to pay off your debt\u2014or else.\u201d \u201cMercy\u201d, then, says, \u201cAbout that debt\u2014never mind!\u201d And who wouldn\u2019t breathe a sigh of relief when told that one\u2019s debt has been dismissed, made irrelevant? That\u2019s an appealing, even tempting image of justice and mercy, especially if you\u2019ve ever been deeply in debt. Unfortunately, such a view tragically distorts justice and mercy. If left uncorrected, such a view runs the risk of making us unable to see or feel what is, to borrow a phrase from C.S. Lewis, \u201cthe weight of glory.\u201d In other words, the roots of human dignity and the very character of God may be obscured by such a facile, beguiling, and impoverished view of mercy and justice.<\/p>\n

To dismiss the demands of justice with a casual, \u201cNever mind!\u201d is not an exercise of mercy but is instead a dismissal of the moral order. To act as if mercy is a cancellation of the demands of justice is to act as if good and evil do not matter. But God is not glorified and man is not dignified by an erasure of the moral order. If the obligation to do good and avoid evil is not an ineradicable absolute, then God\u2019s character and wisdom cannot be discerned in His creation. At the same time, that man is made in the image and likeness of God is made irrelevant. But surely no sane person could intend to bleach out the moral order with such a thoughtless propagation of such a casual and meaningless view of mercy as amoral and justice as dispensable.<\/strong> So, let\u2019s try to recover the proper friendship between mercy and justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree with Father.\u00a0 No sane person could intend such a thing.\u00a0 So, let’s try and recover that ‘proper friendship’ in the new Time of Mercy and in the Year of Mercy.<\/p>\n

In fact, let’s make it a crusade.<\/p>\n

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At Aleteia, in light of announced the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Fr. Robert McTeigue offers some necessary instruction. By all means we must avoid a “facile, beguiling, and impoverished view of mercy and justice.” Very often, I hear folks speak of mercy as if it were a cancellation of justice. On this view, \u201cjustice\u201d means, …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}