A traditional depiction of Jesus teaching the Beatitudes during the Sermon on the Mount. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen As human beings, we were made for happiness. A longing for it is written in our ...

The Sermon on the Mount, the setting for the Beatitudes in today’s gospel, was said by St Augustine (354-430) to be the charter of the Christian life. St Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) believed that it ...

As I look for a hopeful path out of political divisions, anxieties, and fatigue that 2020 has brought, I find myself drawn to The Beatitudes, that beloved text from Matthew. I have thought about these ...

Tomorrow’s Gospel (Mt 5: 1-12) is Matthew’s account of the Beatitudes, the opening section of the Sermon on the Mount. In modern parlance it is a mission statement of what Christianity is about.

The readings for the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time treat us to a surfeit of riches. There is a beautiful passage from Zephaniah (2:3, 3:12-13), another from 1 Corinthians (1:26-31), and the ...