Chapter 49OrdV.1.49
Misericordia
The Call to Merciful Action
Misericordia laments the hardness of heart that refuses to respond to suffering, then declares her resolve to extend help to all who suffer.
How bitter is that hardness of heart that won't yield to pain running to help in mercy! But I want to reach out my hand to everyone who is suffering.
Read the original Latin
O quam amara est illa duricia que non cedit in mentibus, misericorditer dolori succurrens! Ego autem omnibus dolentibus manum porrigere volo.
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