Sentences with phrase «of beatitudes»

I had a quizzing kid who did all 10 of the Beatitudes in front of the whole church about 10 yrs ago.

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Colourfully illustrated version of the Beatitudes, for use in RE lessons and assemblies on justice.

Even if that taste's for blood, even if that taste for blood answers, extra-textually, that America, in this vogue for wholesale pandering to the Ten Commandments instead of the Beatitudes, is just possibly no longer great.

Bronx Assemblymembers Latoya Joyner, Victor Pichardo, Michael Blake with colleagues, Assemblywoman Walker, Assemblywoman Barrett, Assemblywoman Richardson, Assemblyman Blake & Assemblywoman Davila (left to right) at Mount of Beatitudes

In so many places, especially at the local level, by the grace of God alone, Anglicanism is a church of the Beatitudes.

February 10 - 11: Big Tent Christianity — Phoenix, Arizona Thursday, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. at The Church of the Beatitudes I'll be joining Brian McLaren, Marcus Borg, Carol Howard Merritt, Nadia Bolz - Weber, and many more to talk about new and old ways of being and becoming the Church.

We have heard much of the Beatitudes in this Year of Mercy.

The divergence between Luke's and Matthew's versions of the Beatitudes, for example, is as wide as possible; on the other hand, their accounts of John the Baptist's prediction of the Coming One are almost identical.

It is a long time since the human race first heard these words of the Beatitudes.

Most of the Beatitudes are single, short sentences.

In his version of the Beatitudes Jesus blesses the poor (6:20, not the «poor in spirit» as in Matt.

For example, they may be able to tell us whether the Matthean or the Lukan form of the Beatitudes or the Lord's Prayer is closer to the actual words of Jesus, and whether it is likely that the Last Supper was celebrated as a Paschal meal.

This reminds us of the beatitudes we read in Matthew 5 and Luke 6.

In the Old Testament, most of the beatitudes occur in Psalms and in Wisdom literature.

The simplicity and familiarity of the beatitudes can sometimes dull our response to them.

Based on the «downward mobility» model of the Beatitudes, Kathy's approach to «church» is radically different than what we've come to accept in our consumer - driven Christian subculture and focuses instead on following Jesus into the hard places of suffering, inequality and justice in order to experience hope, beauty, justice, equality, generosity and healing.

«Blessed are you poor,» he proclaims in Luke's version of the Beatitudes.

Thus the meaning of the Beatitudes is approached philosophically only by the idea of a nonanalytic liaison between the work of man and the contentment susceptible of satisfying the desire which constitutes his existence.

I would also delve into the differences between the versions of the beatitudes in Matthew and Luke.

Luke's treatment of the Beatitudes takes on the aspect of a covenant with the poor.

Which version of the Beatitudes is correct, Matthew's or Luke's?

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.

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

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.

Someone asked him what he thought of the Beatitudes.

To return again and again to the Scriptures takes us into the world of genuine happiness, which is the «inverted» world of the Beatitudes.

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 values.

Lent is this living more of the beatitudes — to bless more of this broken world with the indestructible, upside down beauty that's formed like the heart of Christ.

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

Maybe this is a season to live the abundant, cruciform way of The Beatitudes, to memorize The Beatitudes by heart, so this Way of Abundance is what the heart knows by heart.

(and let us get the download of the free Perpetual Lenten Calendar of the Beatitudes and the free «Keep Company with Christ» Church Calendar and the free #BeTheGift Calendar all to you immediately.)

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.»

Luke's version of the beatitudes is startlingly clear on this point: «Blessed are you poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God....

Poverty was, for St. Francis, the blessing of beatitude, for it united him with Christ.

That risk was to put the means and instruments of beatitude and salvation into human hands — which is to say, into the hands of sinners who would inevitably make a mess of things from time to time.

Nevertheless Dachau and Buchenwald are always there — obscene shapes lurking on the pages of history, deep rivers of suffering flowing beneath the surface like the stream of Beatitude.

Speaking of those who have already «crossed over,» those who even now inhabit the kingdom of God, the first part of each beatitude identifies who is blessed and the second part names that group's relationship to God.

Sentimental symbols of aspiration, dreams and ideality may effect temporary reflexes of beatitude or induce charmed states of euphoria, but this is escapism.

We would do well to contemplate the mysterious truth that, as St. Thomas writes, Christ was both «wayfarer» — the one who is moving toward the end of beatitude — and «comprehensor» — the one who already rests in that end.

Metropolitan Paul Yazigi (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo; brother of His Beatitude Patriarch John X of the Great City - of - God Antioch and all the East), and Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim (Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo) were taken captive, and their driver — apparently a deacon — was shot and killed.

Is G. K. Chesterton right when he says that «all human beings, without any exception whatever, were specially made, were shaped and pointed like shining arrows, for the end of hitting the mark of Beatitude»?

Kehinde Wiley, for instance, has long been a stalwart of the genre, juxtaposing the European tradition with sitters drawn from urban life, in a simultaneous gesture of appropriating the canonical while elevating black figures to a near - hagiographic kind of beatitude.

Not exact matches

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

Both of these forms of Counter-Reformation Catholicism think of the moral life as primarily engaging the will, whereas Evangelical Catholicism understands the moral life to be a matter of training minds and hearts, the reason and the will, to make those choices that truly contribute to goodness, human flourishing, and the beatitude that enables the friends of Jesus to live forever within the light and love of the Most Holy Trinity.

Regarding your moniker, as it is brought up, it reminds of and I actually believe it is a parody of one of the «Beatitudes» the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of.

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.

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.