POSTING AGAIN WITH CORRECT PASSWORD: My webinar on The Beatitudes and the Saints: bit.ly/3i3CJNx Password: REllsberg2021! Hosted by my friend @RevJohnDearand, honored by a response from the great @helenprejean. .

May 25, 2021 · 1:22 PM UTC

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Pope Francis calls the Beatitudes a Christian's "identity card." They are a portrait in miniature of Jesus himself, and the saints offer examples of what that means--going against the flow of a culture that prizes Greatness, Power, Status, and the logic of the market.
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Drawing on examples from Dorothy Day and St. Francis, to Oskar Schindler, Etty Hillesum, Oscar Romero and Sr. Dorothy Stang--I try to show how the Beatitudes call us to a new way, a different world, animated by different values, different priorities, different dreams.
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Each of these beatitudes--under certain circumstances--can lead to persecution. But if the Gospel asks us to relinquish some of the prizes and rewards of this world, the Beatitudes also point toward an alternative reward: Mercy, Comfort, the Kingdom of Heaven.
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