The author builds each day’s chapter around a “traveling companion” saint whose life bore witness to the beatitudes. The “merciful” are represented by St. Maria Goretti, who forgave her murderer; “the meek” by St. Maximilian Kolbe; “the peacemakers” by St. Óscar Romero; the “clean of heart” by St. Charbel Makhlouf.
‘Arise to Blessedness’: The power of a squeezed-in retreat
Saints were revolutionaries who lived the beatitudes, pope says
Pope Francis also encouraged people not only to visit the burial sites of their loved ones the following day, the feast of All Souls, but to go to Mass and pray for them as well.
Leave behind personal securities to follow God more closely, pope says
Disciples “know how to question themselves, how to humbly seek God every day,” the pope said Feb. 13 during his Sunday Angelus address.
Cardinal’s Lenten meditation: Jesus and his beatitudes are model to follow
“The beatitudes are the self-portrait of Jesus. He teaches by what he does,” the cardinal said March 5 during his Lenten meditation.
Christ’s peace is reflected in acts of love, reconciliation, pope says
Pope Francis continues his series about the Eight Beatitudes focusing on the seventh “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
Day biography invites fresh reflection on how to animate one’s faith
The book has much to say about Day’s legacy and its relevance to today’s believing Catholic or anyone concerned with the beatitudes.
Migrants are people, not just a social issue, pope says at Mass
Christians are called to follow the spirit of the beatitudes by comforting the poor and the oppressed, especially migrants and refugees who are rejected, exploited and left to die, Pope Francis said.
Father Kenneth Doyle: Why is Michael a saint?/The ‘poor in spirit’
Why Saint Michael the Archangel is a saint and in the beatitudes who are “the poor in spirit?”