
Be Blessed: The Beatitudes and a Flourishing Life
User’s Guide to Sunday, Jan. 29: St. Thomas Aquinas comments that the happiness described in the beatitudes is a stable happiness not easily unsettled or taken away.
User’s Guide to Sunday, Jan. 29: St. Thomas Aquinas comments that the happiness described in the beatitudes is a stable happiness not easily unsettled or taken away.
More than 8,000 young Catholics from the United States prayed together Tuesday where Jesus is believed to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount.
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, needs to remind Vladimir Putin of Christ’s call to be peacemakers.
The Holy Father reminded the faithful that ‘the disciple of Jesus is joyful, with the joy that comes from Jesus.’ Following the conclusion of the Angelus, he offered prayers for Ukraine.
SCRIPTURES & ART: A fresco by the 15th-century artist Cosimo Rosselli depicts the scene from this Sunday’s Gospel.
The Pope will also visit the Slovakian cities of Prešov, Košice, and Šaštín before returning to Rome on Sept. 15.
For the Solemity of All Saints, the Holy Father explained how holy men and women, though all unique, lived the beatitudes.
Pope Francis noted that those who follow the path of the beatitudes soon find themselves in conflict with the world.
In his general audience, Pope Francis taught on the first of the eight beatitudes spoken by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount in St. Matthew’s Gospel: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
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