[stfassisi]

The Beatitudes cannot be taken alone: they are not ideals; they are hard facts and realities inseparable from the Cross of Calvary. What He taught was self-crucifixion: to love those who hate us; to pluck out eyes and cut off arms in order to prevent sinning; to be clean on the inside when the passions clamor for satisfaction on the outside; to forgive those who would put us to death; to overcome evil with good; to bless those who curse us; to stop mouthing freedom until we have justice, truth and love of God in our hearts as the condition of freedom; to live in the world and still keep oneself unpolluted from it; to deny ourselves sometimes legitimate pleasures in order the better to crucify our egotism-all this is to sentence the old man in us to death.

[stfassisi]

Ping!

[the invisib1e hand]

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

[Patriotic1]

Wonderful! Bishop Sheen’s Case for Canonization was sealed and sent to Rome a week or two ago. Prayers up for a wonderful man.

[Salvation]

Beatitudes by Bishop Fulton Sheen

Happiness of Sacrifice

The Danger of Spiritual Sloth [Reflection on The Beatitudes]

Satan's version of the sermon on the mount [Difficult read] The Eight Beatitudes

Beatitudes for the Home {locked}

[onedoug]

Bishop Sheen bump!