Spirituality of the
Readings
John
Foley,
SJ
How Blessed Are You?
Jesus did not invent beatitudes: the First Testament has up to 50 examples of them. By Jesus’ day, people would have recognized a beatitude when it was spoken and would have been at home with it.
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Exile
Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Needed: Three New Saints
Bill Gates may have given us Windows 98, but Augustine gave us Christianity and Common Sense 400 AD. In the Western world, this software has endured essentially intact down to this very day.
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The Perspective
of
Justice
Gerald
Darring
All Saints
[The Saints] are those who lived not according to the civil religion of their day but according to the Good News of Jesus Christ. Their platform was the upside down world of the beatitudes.
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