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 .
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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.
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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