The meekness of mercy

suor Mary Melone

If we look for a detailed description of mercy in the Sermons of St Anthony of Padua, we would probably be disoriented by the impossibility of finding it. The Sermons are conceived as a commentary to the holy Scriptures, they are not structured in an argumentative flow, like a speculative treatise. On the contrary, the pages of the Sermons are structured as a collection of biblical texts, often juxtaposed just because they share a word, an expression, a character. But beneath this apparent simplicity, Anthony offers his brothers and all of us, his readers, an impressive knowledge of the doctrine, derived from a profound and passionate knowledge of the biblical page. (continue)

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