The Mysteries Of The Beatitudes

The main question asked is “What are the beliefs about God and the human condition that hold together and shape the worldwide Catholic Church?”; . Four main topics are defined in this chapter, them being The Bible and its authority, The tripersonal God, Human beings: created, sinful and redeemed, and Christ as fulfilment. Gerald O’Collins first explains when Catholics express their faith in God, the God they are talking about is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. All three identify as the father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit. It is also described how Christians including Catholics maintained monotheism that they inherited from Jewish monotheism, and distinguished between Father and Son and the Holy Spirit. The next subject covers how man and woman are created, sin and major Reformers. It states that “God created man and woman in the divine image and likeness”, as well as humans may not “take one step towards the justice of God sight”; , but must be “awakened and assisted by divine grace”. The last subject in the chapter is about the fulfillment of having Christ in a person’s life. This chapter by far have been the most engrossing and has the most information on Catholicism itself, giving you an insight into the

We consider the Beatitudes counter-cultural because it is a different perspective of “blessedness” as of what we think in our society today. For example, we think that blessedness, or happiness comes from physical well-being. We say people are blessed when they have the most money, the best house, the best clothing, desirable appearance, etc. In our society, we view “blessedness” as happiness from materialistic prosperity. Another example of how we think “blessedness” is the happiness from non-physical well-being. We commonly say that someone is blessed when they possess talent (musical, art, etc.), are highly intellectual, or are simply experiencing from good luck. These examples of blessings are very contrasting to the blessings depicted in the Beatitudes. For example, the Beatitudes describe that blessed are those who are poor in spirit, those who are persecuted, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, etc. In our society, we do not consider someone who is poor, persecuted, or hunger and thirst as “blessed”. However, the Beatitudes depict the meaning of “blessed” as happiness that is awarded spiritually for our faith, instead of physical or mental well-being. The true blessings described in the Beatitudes are recognizing the need of God in our lives by meekness and grief from our sins, and God inheriting in our souls.

Caritas shows this quality as they believe that disability is both a consequence and cause of poverty. They ensure that all the development programs are accessible to people with disabilities. Caritas also work towards funding specifically to people with disabilities to empower them to develop their decision making helping them become more normal.

During the first Vatican the catechism was used as a primary source of educating Catholics of Christian faith and doctrines of the church. The catechism consisted of teachings particularly of

Roles of the Catholic Church in Western civilization has been scrambled with the times past and development of Western society. Regardless of the fact that the West is no longer entirely Catholic, the Catholic tradition is still strong in Western countries. The church has been a very important foundation of public facilities like schooling, Western art, culture and philosophy; and influential player in religion. In many ways it has wanted to have an impact on Western approaches to pros and cons in numerous areas. It has over many periods of time, spread the teachings of Jesus within the Western World and remains a foundation of continuousness connecting recent Western culture to old Western culture.-

In the second video, you will see how the different aspects of the Catholic Faith (e.g. confession, apostolic authority, the Eucharist) are truly based from the Bible. Before you watch the video, it would helpful for you to remember the meaning of these words:

When one first looks at the beatitudes, one might think that they are a set of blessings that apply only to a certain group of people and that they have no influence on the ‘common folk’ who struggle to barely fulfill the 10 commandments. But if one reduces it to that, they miss out on the true purpose of the beatitudes and lose its hidden value.

He describes it as, “They had been laid out/ in tainted rooms,/ their eyelids glistening,/ their dough-white hands/ shackled in rosary beads.” Through this depiction of the dead we can see the preparation that went into the body, it had been washed and laid out in a very traditional way, the way hat it had been done for centuries. This sense of tradition can, in a lot of ways, help ease some of the pain from the loss, the sense of belonging to a community of people with a set of traditions that even the dead have a right to. We also see how important the rosary is to the Catholics that this is describing, so important that Heaney mentioned it in his description, symbolizing that the rosary beads and the religion that they belong to still trap the body that they are attached to, even in death.

The Ten Commandments and Beatitudes, although somewhat different, serve as a manifestation of God’s love and exactly what God wants for us, which can be discovered through the overall works of Catholic Relief

At every angle the eye seems to automatically focus on Christ even amongst other activity, “all roads lead to Christ.” Da Vinci’s depiction of the religious scene comes to life to give reverence to the event.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus introduced the eight beatitudes to teach his followers how to live an ideal Christian life. He taught those who listened about the 8 important blessings to guide us to soon be living an everlasting life with God in His kingdom above. Some of the Beatitudes influence us to feel compassion towards those who have wronged us, to be able to act out of the goodness of our hearts, and to bring peace and harmony to friends and enemies in times of disagreement. These Beatitudes are significant to us as Christians, for they shall enlighten us with Jesus’ teachings for a virtuous and moral life here on earth and above.

Within Yves Congar’s The Meaning of Tradition, he sets out to define the traditions of the Catholic Church. Congar begins his analysis of the role of Tradition in the Catholic Church by defining it; his definition states that Tradition is a gift from God that is passed down subsequent generations. According to Congar the Church’s tradition involves sharing Christ’s revelation, so that God’s revelation can be passed down throughout space and time. Congar devotes sections of his book to the role of magisterium in the Church. The magisterium has a pivotal role in analyzing the doctrines of the faith and providing the people of God with an explanation of its meaning. By doing this, the magisterium is exercising its role as the successors of Jesus’ apostles in guiding the faithful. The Magisterium is essential to ensuring that the faithful create a personal relationship with God. Congar, attributes the magisterium’s role in the Tradition of the Church is guided by the Holy Spirit. According to Congar argues that the Holy Spirit has inspired the Church throughout history. The Holy Spirit also works through the people, giving them the gifts necessary for understanding the word of God. Congar continues to ascribe the Church’s tradition to its familiar atmosphere that allows faith to grow in believers. Congar goes on to state that the Church’s tradition does not stem from Scripture alone, the uniting force of God’s word. Scripture needs to come from an inspired source, alone it can

Roman Catholics tend to view the gospel as the completion of culture. Despite positive contributions, human cultural enterprises always fall short of divine intentions and must be fulfilled by God's gracious work of redemption in Christ and through the Church. Grace, according to this tradition, perfects nature. Christ is above culture and completes it.

     Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the first Beatitude. It tells us that we should accept people for who they are and not the material things they have. You should not treat a person who lives in a nice house and drives a nice car any different then someone who lives in a less desirable house and drives an old car. You should treat everyone how you would like to be treated. Just because someone can not afford some of the things as you might be able to does not mean that they are a bad person. We should accept everyone into our community.

Catholics are a Christian sect and believe in one God. Like other Christians, they believe that Jesus is God's Son which goes hand-in-hand with the belief in the Holy Trinity. God the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit