There are two passages in particular to which I would like to draw attention. First, Saint John Paul II highlighted the fact that we had forgotten the theme of mercy in today’s cultural milieu: “The present-day mentality, more perhaps than that of people in the past, seems opposed to a God of mercy, and in fact tends to exclude from life and to remove from the human heart the very idea of mercy.
Kuna ibara mbili hasa ambazo ningependa kuzitilia mkazo. Kwanza, Mtakatifu Yohane Paulo II amekazia ukweli kwamba tumeisahau dhamira ya huruma katika utamaduni wa leo: “Fikra za wakati wa sasa, bila shaka zaidi kuliko kwa watu wa kipindi cha nyuma, zinaonekana kupingana na Mungu wa huruma, na kwa hakika huelekea kutoliingiza katika maisha na kuliondoa katika moyo wa binadamu wazo asilia la huruma.