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Medical treatment
advanced directives: 399
extraordinary: 394
need for ordinary: 394
preventative: 488
see also Physicians
Medicine of mercy:
22
Meditation; meditative prayer:
209,
365, 476-77, 494, 499,
519
aids for: 473
definition: 473,
519
as engaging thought, imagination,
emotion, and desire: 473-74
in Franciscan spirituality: 474
in
Lectio Divina:
474
seeking to convert our hearts: 474
seeking to deepen our faith in
Christ: 474
seeking to strengthen us to do God’s
will: 474
in the
Spiritual Exercises
of St.
Ignatius: 474
as a type of prayer: 66, 473, 479, 491
Mediums:
344
Meekness; the meek:
308
see also Gentleness
Melchizidek:
215, 264
Men and women:
see Man and woman;
specific topics,
e.g., Marriage
Mercy
Blessed are the merciful: 308, 488
Chaplet of Divine Mercy: 477
the Church as bestowing: 501
corporal works of: 159, 161,
508
death and Resurrection of Jesus
Christ as revealing: 70, 92
and forgiveness of others: 488, 494
of God: 52, 247, 488, 495
and admission of sin: 312-13
Church as bestowing to human
beings: 501
and conversion: 235, 313
death and Resurrection of Christ
as revealing: 70, 92
despair as loss of hope in: 343
as greater than sin: 313
Jesus as revealing: 92, 243,
307, 313
justification as a work of: 328
making possible the repentance
of the sinner and the
forgiveness of sin: 235
as reflected when we see a
crucifix: 243
Sacrament of Reconciliation as
sacrament of: 239, 242-43, 247
in the Sacrament of the
Anointing of the Sick: 253-54
the Sacraments and: 243
sin and: 129, 312-13
Good News as resulting in mercy
for the whole world: 79
of Jesus: 7, 23, 486
and judging others: 313
Lord’s Prayer, petition for mercy in:
488, 494
“medicine of mercy,” using: 22
as part of the Kingdom of God:
79,
517
for the poor and suffering: 325, 427
Second Vatican Council and: 22
sinners in need of God’s: 129
spiritual works of mercy:
529
witnessing and working for: 115,
118, 139, 173, 176, 477
see also Forgiveness of others;
Forgiveness of sin
“Mercy killing”:
see Euthanasia
Merit
Christ as the source of our: 92, 328,
336, 338
grace and: 329-30
Messiah:
159
the anointed one, Christ: 83, 85,
109,
507
expectation of Christians for the
return of the: 173, 178
Jesus proclaimed as: 79
Old Testament prophecies
concerning: 18, 105, 203, 215-16
Peter’s confession of Jesus as: 38,
109, 111
see also Jesus Christ
Military:
see Arms; War