BEATITUDES Definition & Meaning

Beatitudes

Eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. The word is from the Latin beatus, meaning “blessed,” and each of the Beatitudes begins with the word blessed. They include “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth” and “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”

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There was a time when the archbishop seemed as if he would work in that realm of the Beatitudes.

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But the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes?

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The Gospel for the service was the Beatitudes, the admonitions by Jesus to his disciples to stand with the oppressed, which Molina spent her career putting into action:

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“I said my philosophy is motived by the Beatitudes and by Matthew 25:40 about the ‘least of these,’” Mr. Kennedy recounted.

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Newsflash: Salvador Ramos wasn’t posting the Ten Commandments or the Beatitudes on his Facebook.

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