Sight-Seeing: Who does God really bless?
NILS VON KALM looks at the idea of ‘blessing’ and who Jesus was referring to in the Beatitudes…
Blessings
When I was younger I prayed that God would bless me. The image in my head when I thought about these blessings was good things happening to me, or material things coming my way. PICTURE: Sixteen Miles Out/Unsplash Blessings were certainly things like health, wealth, comfort, confidence, good relationships and success. Now there are lots of […]
ESSAY: POPE FRANCIS ON THE BEATITUDES
American Jesuit priest THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at what Pope Francis says of the Beatitudes in his latest apostolic exhortation…