What Do the Beatitudes Describe Named from the initial words (beati sunt,“blessed are”) of those sayings in the Latin Vulgate Bible, the Beatitudes describe the blessedness of those who have certain qualities or experiences that identify people belonging to the kingdom of heaven. “In the Be...
Named from the initial words (beati sunt, “blessed are”) of those sayings in the Latin Vulgate Bible, the Beatitudesdescribe the blessedness of those who have certain qualities or experiences peculiar to those belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven. ...
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have...
God is the light that shines within and through His church as the light of the world. The same word the Bible uses for light inMatthew 5to describe Christ’s Church also describes Christ Himself inJohn 8:12: “Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the Light of the worl...
Verses 9-27 describe this incredible city in more detail. Even Abraham, the “father of all those who believe” (Romans 4:11), looked forward to this future city: “For he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (Hebrews 11:10). Verse 16 also make...
The last 4 beatitudes describe the process of transformation. That is, what happens when the church overwhelms the world with the grace and glory of God. In the process of salvation, each beatitude describes an important spiritual reality: poor in spirit - God wants ...
I am barely comfortable when I have to respond, and it has nothing to do with life. Put in a situation where can see a need to “witness” for Jesus, I can hear the Holy Spirit telling me to “go for it.” When I finally make the decision to just jump in (this entire process ...
Today, I feel more Jewish than ever, but as I once told some friends, I can’t unread Matthew. For me, the Beatitudes are the part of the Bible where the celestial grandeur most dazzlingly shines through. So these days I’m enchanted by both Judaism and Christianity. I assent to the ...
In his latest song, American Gospel, he points out how our culture’s values are quite different from the ones Jesus gave us. He does this by reimagining the beatitudes in our modern context. What do people value in this culture?
published in 1898. (The original title in Italian isMinerva Oscura.) It is an impassioned, often poetic, but also scholarly and critical investigation into Dante AlighieriʼsDivine Comedy. As Pascoli says in the Prolegomena, “To know and to describe Danteʼs thought, will it ever be ...