A traditional depiction of Jesus teaching the Beatitudes during the Sermon on the Mount. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen As human beings, we were made for happiness. A longing for it is written in our ...
The readings for the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time treat us to a surfeit of riches. There is a beautiful passage from Zephaniah (2:3, 3:12-13), another from 1 Corinthians (1:26-31), and the ...
The Sermon on the Mount, the setting for the Beatitudes in today’s gospel, was said by St Augustine (354-430) to be the charter of the Christian life. St Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) believed that it ...