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2 sie 2021 · The beatitudes describe people who have saving faith and will inherit a place in the kingdom of God. Upon conversion, we don’t start perfectly, courageously and consistently displaying these qualities of poor in spirit, meek, mourning and so forth.
Matthew 5:3-11 focuses on core attitudes of mind and heart and the implied accompanying actions that are to be characteristic of individual Christians and groups in the early Christian church communities for whom Matthew was writing.
“Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you” (Matt. 5:11-12).
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Today we are examining the first of the eight Beatitudes of the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus begins to proclaim his path to happiness with a paradoxical announcement: “ Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven ” (5:3).
The Beatitudes includes nine sayings from Jesus about the hearts and actions of people living out his Kingdom reality. These statements are grouped into three triads, concluding with three images: salt, light, and a city on a hill.
31 paź 2023 · The gospel lectionary reading for All Saints’ Day in Year A is Matthew 5.1–12, which is mostly composed of the set sayings of Jesus known as the Beatitudes, a name derived from the Latin translation of the opening term of each, ‘blessed’ or ‘happy’.
