SIXTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
‘‘Blessed are you who are poor’’
Mexican poet Amado Nervo was surely
reflecting on the inspiring words of Jesus
in today’s Gospel when he penned the
beautiful lines: ‘the world told me that I
was only a beggar but Jesus told me that I
am a king’. In His ‘Sermon on the Plain’,
the Lord utters four remarkable and
revolutionary blessings. They are known
as the Beatitudes, and they turn the values
of the world upside down. The poor will
inherit the kingdom of God; the hungry
will be satisfied; the tearful will laugh; the
persecuted will be rewarded. Where the
world sees losers Jesus sees winners; what
the world calls wretched He calls blessed;
what the world holds contemptible He
holds to His heart. It is little wonder
that the Beatitudes have also been called
‘Beautiful Attitudes’ for living.
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