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Thursday, May 6, 2021

New Beatitudes


 

Pope Francis, on the Feast of All Saints in 1916, spoke about the need for a new set of beatitudes.
His six beatitudes were:

1. Blessed are those who remain faithful while enduring evils inflicted on them by others and forgive them from their heart.
2. Blessed are those who look into the eyes of the abandoned and marginalized and show them their closeness.
3. Blessed are those who see God in every person and strive to make others also discover him.
4. Blessed are those who protect and care for our common home.
5. Blessed are those who renounce their own comfort in order to help others.
6. Blessed are those who pray and work for full communion between Christians.

Are we living these? Maybe the first two are not what we are called to do each day, but the other four are and we will be happy trying to live these. Blessed and happy!

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