The Beatitudes

Reflection on the Gospel of ALL SAINTS DAY   Matthew 5: 1-12a The Eight Be-Attitudes all flow from the disposition you bring of yourself before God and who you believe God is… One thing you cannot bring before God is presumption about things, and have no desire to introspect/check/re-evaluate things in the light of what God […]

The Beatitudes

Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday In The Tenth Week Of Ordinary Time   Matthew 5: 1-12 The Beatitudes are traits and ideas that one receives and awakens to, when one is in relationship with God. Except for the First – poor in spirit (humility) and sixth -pure in spirit, all these are expressions […]

The Beatitudes

Reflection on the Gospel of the Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time   Matthew 5: 1-12a How does God want us to live our lives? Well, the answer is in todays Gospel. It is the beginning of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount – A handbook of guidelines to live a holy life with the beatitudes. The […]

The Beatitudes

Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday Of The Thirty-First Week In Ordinary Time Solemnity: All Saints   Matthew 5:1-12a We all know what are attitudes, they are how we decide to think and be. Jesus interestingly set eight such attitudes, that one needs to cultivate in order to merit friendship with God and become […]

The Beatitudes

Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday In The Thirty-First Week In Ordinary Time Matthew 5:1-12a (All Saints Day) The Jews followed the  Ten Commandments rigorously and all the laws that were derived based on the Commandments.  As time passed, the total laws that the Jews had to follow were 613 in all, the don’ts […]

The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12   Initially there was no rule and regulation how everyone lived. Everyone was right according to what he believed or wanted to believe. God intervened and gave them what to stay away from, in the form of the Law at Sinai, which we call “The 10 Commandments”, through Moses. Yet in all their […]