Dives in Misericordia -- another part

In reading more of Dives in Misericordia,  I was struck by the closing paragraph of chapter 7 Mercy Revealed in the Cross and Resurrection:

For mercy is an indispensable dimension of love; it is as it were love's second name and, at the same time, the specific manner in which love is revealed and effected vis-a-vis the reality of the evil that is in the world, affecting and besieging man, insinuating itself even into his heart and capable of causing him to "perish in Gehenna."⁸⁰

Thanks be to God that he loves us too much to let us die in our sins. No, he sent Jesus, God from God, Light from Light, to make it possible that we might be with him forever.

And as St John Paul II writes in chapter 8 Love More Powerful Than Death, More Powerful Than Sin:

Here is the Son of God, who in His resurrection experienced in a radical way mercy shown to Himself, that is to say the love of the Father which is more powerful than death. And it is also the same Christ, the Son of God, who at the end of His messianic mission - and, in a certain sense, even beyond the end - reveals Himself as the inexhaustible source of mercy, of the same love that, in a subsequent perspective of the history of salvation in the Church, is to be everlastingly confirmed as more powerful than sin. The paschal Christ is the definitive incarnation of mercy, its living sign in salvation history and in eschatology. In the same spirit, the liturgy of Eastertide places on our lips the words of the Psalm: Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo.¹⁰⁰

For those of us who do not read latin:

I will sing of your mercy forever, LORD^a