Sentences with phrase «in beatitude»

St. Bonaventure stated: «Because [the human soul] was made to participate in beatitude... it was made with a capacity for God and thus in its image and likeness.»

Indeed, as post-modernity decomposes into ever more bizarre forms of irrationality, the cleansing, liberating truth of the gospel and the vision of life well lived found in the Beatitudes ought to be a compelling offer.

We see it in Jesus himself; we find it on every page of the record; it is epitomized in the Beatitudes.

In the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1 - 12) Jesus uses the word «happy» — makarios in the original Greek — which can also be translated as «blessed».

«In the Beatitudes, Jesus says love and bless those who curse you.

For we have, for example, in the parables, in the beatitudes and woes, and in the sayings on the kingdom, exorcism, John the Baptist and the law, sufficient insight into Jesus» intention to encounter his historical action, and enough insight into the understanding of existence presupposed in his intention to encounter his selfhood.

Discipleship as answering Jesus» call to follow him by being radically obedient to the commands of Christ, particularly as they are found in the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount.

Perhaps Jesus was referring to himself in those Beatitudes, not his hearers.

We found them repeatedly in the parables, and they appear elsewhere, twice with a specific reference to the kingdom in the Beatitudes (Matt.

The good life is the «blessed» life portrayed in the Beatitudes, the «abundant» life Jesus said he came to bring.

In his summary of the demands of personal living as these are epitomized in the Beatitudes and illustrated again and again in his parables of the kingdom, the moral law is not left behind but its external demands are turned inward.

As an adult convert to the Christian faith, I often wonder why this obsession with the Ten Commandments and so little interest in the Beatitudes.

It is to pray in his spirit of sincerity, humility, compassion, and all the other qualities of the blessed life that are set forth in the Beatitudes.

Is the happiness that Jesus speaks about in the Beatitudes reserved only for some future state, unattainable in this lifetime?

They want no part of that «blessedness» described in the Beatitudes.

Not exact matches

This is why our beatitude also depends on our belief in the ecclesial Creed that concerns the triune God.

Jesus had a political manifesto in the Sermon on the Mount and the beatitudes and the poor are at the very center of it.

That growth in the capacity to choose the good — to choose for beatitude — continues throughout a lifetime, and along the way, even the most deeply converted will fall, and fail.

The author, professor of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid job of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law, principles of human action, the determination of the moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.

Resistance also requires a constant effort to withstand the doublespeak of the Re-education Center, a nightmare Sunday school whose lessons she must unlearn (such as the wonderful revisionary slogan said to be in Acts: «From each according to her ability; to each according to his needs» [p. 117]-RRB- At lunch they hear new Beatitudes she knows are «wrong, and they left things out, too, but there was no way of checking» (p. 89) except through memory and moral imagination.

Eve mirrors Adam's enfleshment and teaches him that his life's beatitude will lie in neither mere sensation nor in a false spiritualism, but only in the act of incarnate love.

Ultimately this principle of «do not worry» — and all the teachings found in the Sermon on the Mount — are underpinned by seeking and having the first of the Beatitudes, namely, being «poor in spirit.»

In a world of grief beyond magnitude, what will change us and the world, is the attitude of Beatitudes.

When Sister Mary Corita was asked to submit a piece of her artwork for consideration in the Vatican exhibit at the 1964 New York Worlds Fair, she chose to do a piece on the Beatitudes.

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Jesus» beatitudes in the «Q» version retain also their original eschatological orientation (Luke 6.20 - 23):

Thus the «incarnational» counter to contemporary Gnosticism and its ideology of «you are what you say you are» (irrespective, for example, of biology) will be less an argument than a demonstration: living in concord with the moral truths built into the world and into us, which lead to beatitude or happiness.

Predictions of coming reward and punishment, like the present beatitudes and woes, represent the alternatives of salvation or lostness involved in one's present situation.

In the second place, this love certainly has in Christianity a strength which is not found elsewhere: otherwise, despite all the virtues and all the attraction of the tenderness which characterizes the gospel, the doctrine of the beatitudes and of the Cross would long since have given place to some other, more winning, creed — and more particularly to some form of humanism or belief in purely earthly valueIn the second place, this love certainly has in Christianity a strength which is not found elsewhere: otherwise, despite all the virtues and all the attraction of the tenderness which characterizes the gospel, the doctrine of the beatitudes and of the Cross would long since have given place to some other, more winning, creed — and more particularly to some form of humanism or belief in purely earthly valuein Christianity a strength which is not found elsewhere: otherwise, despite all the virtues and all the attraction of the tenderness which characterizes the gospel, the doctrine of the beatitudes and of the Cross would long since have given place to some other, more winning, creed — and more particularly to some form of humanism or belief in purely earthly valuein purely earthly values.

Lord, once again I ask: which is the more precious of these two beatitudes, that all things are means through which I can touch you, or that you yourself are so «universal» that I can experience you and lay hold on you in every creature?

On Easter Sunday, I was able to sit in prayer for a while at the Shrine run by sweet Italian nuns on top of the Mountain of the Beatitudes, the most famous of Sermons.

If Christians paid more attention to the Beatitudes and less attention to Leviticus, the world would be in much better shape.

For what do we long for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dillard?

In his own being he enjoys perfect beatitude.

The Beatitudes are about receiving the grace that in our own poverty, brokenness, lack of power and ache for justice we can hear the amazing, exuberant, counterintuitive announcement that God is on our side.

They fit the description of Jesus in the beginning of the beatitudes and hear His sayings and do them.

There would have been moments of awe and wonder at Jesus's description of the coming Kingdom, joy and comfort in His renderings of the Beatitudes or the Good Shepherd and His flock.

In speaking, we cease to respond as Pavlovian beasts and become creatures capable of sadness and joy, remembrance and anticipation, damnation and beatitude.

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For each individual the business, the duty and the interest of life consist in achieving, in opposition to others, his own utmost uniqueness and personal freedom; so that perfection, beatitude, supreme greatness belong not to the whole but to the least part.

This option, offensive not only to us but already to Matthew, motivated him both to insert «Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» and also, at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (the Beatitudes pronounced on the poor and hungry), to add that God's blessing has to do with the «poor in spirit,» who «hunger and thirst after righteousness,» not simply with hungry beggars, which is what the Greek word translated «poor» actually means.

The Sermon on the Mount, similarly, begins with the Beatitudes, which proclaim the blessings inherent in the Kingdom of God.

Psalm 37 for instance is echoed in the third Beatitude in Matthew (Ps 37:11; Mt 5:5).

(1) The collection of sayings of Jesus that in Luke 6 is called the Sermon on the Plain and in Matthew 5 - 7 the Sermon on the Mount is a very old collection originally composed as a unit in and of itself, with its own introduction, the Beatitudes, and its own conclusion, the twin parables of the houses built on rock or on sand.

Where can I find the Beatitudes for tweeting: Blessed are those who can be profound in 140 character or less, for they shall inherit all the followers?

A third and very important difference is that Luke understands and phrases the Beatitudes in a more literal and material sense than Matthew does.

The beatitudes, and all the descriptions of the new man contained here, are meant to describe what God's will is for one who has chosen the kingdom of God, now breaking in upon men.

The Council Fathers spoke in the language of the Gospel, the language of the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes.»

Both these are defective when it comes to supernatural beatitude — hence in regard to each, something must be added supernaturally to man to direct him to his supernatural end.

In between the prophet's anguish and the Beatitudes, however, lie the ordinary questions and decisions of daily life.