By John Dear
The Beatitudes are “the wish and prayer and imaginative and prescient of Jesus…the blueprint for Christian discipleship, the task description of each Christian,” says John pricey. those stirring meditations are greater than mere reflections. they're a name to motion, a summons to absorb the Beatitudes as an everyday instruction manual for all times, written via an the world over recognized voice for peace and nonviolence. Set opposed to shiny descriptions of peace efforts in locations like Afghanistan; Israel; and Los Alamos, New Mexico, expensive combines scriptural knowledge with functional recommendation from peacemakers like Gandhi (who on a regular basis learn the Beatitudes), Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, and lots of extra. In each one bankruptcy, expensive affirms that the God of peace is alive and at paintings between us, calling his little kids into the fullness of a lifetime of precise, lasting peace.
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