The Beatitudes
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Dear Friends in Christ, On the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time, as we listened to Matthew’s gospel account of Jesus teaching the crowd the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12a), I thought of Jesus as an artist, sketching the features of a person for a portrait. As Jesus declared: Blessed are the poor […]