We can look to Christ Jesus’ teachings to help us yield to divine Love, rather than succumbing to the pull of hatred or arrogance.

The Beatitudes, where blessedness is found in weakness and humility, can provide valuable lessons for today, particularly for people who are growing older.

Within the Beatitudes, we read, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" (Matthew 5:9). We can understand this as a sending forth by Jesus – “You are Blessed as you go ...

In this episode of John Dear's "The Nonviolence Jesus Podcast," Dear sits down with Sr. Joan Chittister to unpack the Beatitudes as bold, countercultural ways of living that challenge systems of ...

The Gospel passage today is Luke’s version of the beatitudes. It is critical to understand that beatitude is not something we achieve; rather, it is something we receive.

The Beatitudes are the Magna Carta of Christians, but not just to reach heaven: happiness begins here, today.All the Beatitudes have a common denominator, namely happiness: the eight Beatitudes are ...

This liberates me, and I hope it does you too. The Beatitudes are not another diet plan or exercise regime or study program on which you need to get cracking. They’re a declaration of how life ...

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Yet, the context of all the beatitudes suggests that unless these critics also practice poverty of spirit, meekness, mercy, purity of heart, and peacemaking, then they are also not hungering and ...