The Beatitudes – Showing Mercy, pt.1
Being merciful means to (1) take pleasure in forgiving others of their sins and faults and (2) doing works of compassion for those in need.
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The Beatitudes – Becoming Righteous, pt.2
Jesus says that his “food is to do the will of him who sent me.” Therefore, our hunger, like Jesus’, is satisfied by doing the Divine Will.
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The Beatitudes – Becoming Righteous, pt.1
Throughout Scripture, “righteousness” arises not simply in the negative of doing no harm, but includes the affirmative duties to “show mercy and compassion on the outcast, the oppressed, the weak, the orphan, and the widow” and “to have a burning compassion for the oppressed.”
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The Beatitudes – Learning Gentleness, pt.2
For Gregory of Nyssa, in this Beatitude Christ promises that it is the humble and reasonable man who obtains reentry into the perfect spiritual state found in the land of the Garden of Eden.
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The Beatitudes – Learning Gentleness, pt.1
For Aristotle, the virtue of meekness is “the man who is angry at the right things and with the right people, and, further, as he ought, when he ought, and as long as he ought, is praised.”
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The Beatitudes – Repenting of Our Sins, pt.2
Now the comfort comes through participating in the Comforter. For the gift of comforting is the special operation of the Spirit, of which may we made worthy, through Jesus Christ. – St. Gregory of Nyssa
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The Beatitudes – Repenting of Our Sins, pt.1
We mourn not over the loss of the things of this world but over the loss of our godly nature occasioned by sin. For only within our poverty of spirit than we can mourn.
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The Beatitudes – Putting Our Trust in God, pt.2
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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The Beatitudes – Putting Our Trust in God, pt.1
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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2 Thessalonians 2:13-3:18, pt.2
From the earliest churches in the Roman Empire, who cared for the poor and diseased, through innumerable charitable works today, the church has always cared for the disadvantaged. But what of those who seek relief but aren’t in need?
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