Beatitudes Essay

gospels through their similar nature all portray Jesus as a wise teacher. The foreshadowing of the evolution of Wisdom in the OT is seen in Jesus’ presence in the New Testament. The form of his Wisdom is often seen in aphorisms, maxims, prohibitions, beatitudes and parables (Sakenfeld). Essentially, the NT explains Wisdom through its personification in Jesus. Going back to Browning’s definition of Wisdom, readers can see the fruition of the the development of Wisdom. His explanation displays…

How Mercy Should be Practiced Charity begins at home. Gustavo Gutierrez and Dorothy Day are two people whose writings have developed that theme. In any case, for you to get a man who is at the other side of the street, definitely it demands of you to walk to where he is. By incorporating the spiritual acts of gratitude, mercy and understanding harmony is created. The spiritual acts of mercy admonishes all evil, the sorrowful acquire comfort while those who are poor are fed. No doubt, Gustavo…

Religion is the belief of, and worship to a higher unseen power, which supplies an adherent with the mental and moral attitude to seek answers to life’s enduring questions; aspects that a simple being’s mind identifies as inexplicable. Every religious tradition is typified by its four characteristics: beliefs and believers, sacred texts and writings, ethics, and also rituals and ceremonies. Each of these characteristics all work and interrelate with one another, in order to provide answers to…

2:1-3 NIV). This exclamation from Mary is an example stated to illustrate consideration of others. The next statement of love mentioned on the terrace came from segments of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7. Jesus spoke in Galilee about the beatitudes at this point in the Bible. He emphasized that we are to forgive and love those who harm us. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”…

Never to be Unstuck, Always to be Eaten Away at “Midway along the journey of our life / I woke up find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path / How hard it is to tell what it was like, / this wood of wilderness, savage, and stubborn / (the thought of it brings back all my old fears) / a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitter” (1.1-6) In these very first lines of Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Dante, there is a foreshadowing of another dark wood to come…

In Section 5, “Making Moral Decisions,” the topics of gifts, guides, and forgiveness and reconciliation are discussed. We learn what it means to live as a moral person and what gifts God gives us to live a moral life. We also learn about what guides us in making moral decisions and what happens when we miss the mark. Most importantly, we learn that God gives us everything we truly “need to live a holy, happy, and healthy life”(228). In article 47, various topics about the call to be holy are…

“Genuine freedom is an outstanding manifestation of the divine image in man. For God willed to leave man ‘in the power of his own counsel, so that he would seek his Creator of his own accord and would freely arrive at full and blessed perfection by cleaving to God.” God created and called us all to be perfect just as He is perfect. As the previous quote from the Catechism states, we arrive at perfection by freely seeking and cleaving to Him. The question, of course, becomes how? How does a human…

The Proclamation of the Kingdom The third Luminous Mystery, The Proclamation of the Kingdom, is found in all four Gospels but is mostly talked about in the Gospel of Matthew. An important part of The Proclamation of the Kingdom is in the Beatitudes, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matt 5:3). This is important because he is preaching to the crowd and getting them to understand that He is not of this world and He wants us to be a part of His kingdom.…

As soon as she mentioned this, it was a reminder of what we just learned about in class earlier that day from the Beatitudes. This is stated in the first line, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." This line essentially describes that we are all poor in different ways, but we are all dependent upon God. We should rely on God in all aspects…

Introduction God created man in His own image and likeness. And He also wanted him to enjoy the blissful life with Him. But because of the fall through the sin of disobedience, man lost this bliss. Lacking this communion with God, man fell into disorder of sin more and more. However, God did not want man to perish into nothing. So God desired to save man from the fall, and to give back his original state, that is to enjoy the beatific vision at the end of his life being union with God. God wills…