United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

Index • 605

Medical treatment

justification as a work of: 328 making possible the repentance

advanced directives: 399 extraordinary: 394 need for ordinary: 394

of the sinner and the forgiveness of sin: 235 as reflected when we see a crucifix: 243

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 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 Chaplet of Divine Mercy: 477 the Church as bestowing: 501

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 Christ as the source of our: 92, 328, 336, 338 grace and: 329-30 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

“Mercy killing”: see Euthanasia Merit

Messiah: 159

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

Military: see Arms; War