Category Archives: Beatitudes
My childhood of absolutely insane extreme sports: kind of like my life right now as a priest-hermit!
The extreme sports idiocy my brother and I could get into would prepare us – little did we know – for the horrific magnitude of the trouble we would both know later in life. Not that we found trouble together … Continue reading
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Sum quod eris! Fui quod es!
“I am what you will be! I was what you are!” Don’t forget it. Not even for a second. Tempus fugit. Time flies! Memento mori. Remember death!
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There is beatitude in the beatitudes!
Clever meditations on the paradoxes of the beatitudes are cute. But they’re nothing at all compared to actually beginning to experience the beatitude promised by our Lord in the beatitudes. Totally awesome. Totally. The poor The grieving The friendly Righteousness! … Continue reading
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9 Beatitudes: Mt 5,11-12 — The sum total of all the beatitudes!
If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series on the beatitudes, click the category “Beatitudes” and start from the beginning! No repeated info. One beatitude builds on the others! Behold! The beatitude of beatitudes, which has its own … Continue reading
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8 Beatitudes: Mt 5,10 — Blessed are those perfectly continuing to be perfectly persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of the Heavens
If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series on the beatitudes, click the category “Beatitudes” and start from the beginning! No repeated info. One beatitude builds on the others! I just love that pefect passive participle in Greek. … Continue reading
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7 Beatitudes: Mt 5,9 — Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God
If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series on the beatitudes, click the category “Beatitudes” and start from the beginning! No repeated info. One beatitude builds on the others! Peacemakers know what war is. War is hell. Always. … Continue reading
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6 Beatitudes: Mt 5,8 — Blessed are the pure of heart, for they will see God
If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series on the beatitudes, click the category “Beatitudes” and start from the beginning! No repeated info. One beatitude builds on the others! Purity of heart and seeing God. Makes sense. But … Continue reading
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5 Beatitudes: Mt 5,7 — Blessed are those providing mercy, for they will have mercy provided to them
If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series on the beatitudes, click the category “Beatitudes” and start from the beginning! No repeated info. One beatitude builds on the others! This beatitude is the first one which might at … Continue reading
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4 Beatitudes: Mt 5,6 — Blessed are those who are hungering and thirsting for righteousness, for they shall be utterly sated
If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series on the beatitudes, click the category “Beatitudes” and start from the beginning! No repeated info. One beatitude builds on the others! Those who are hungering and thirsting for righteousness in … Continue reading
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3 Beatitudes: Mt 5,5 — Blessed are the friendly, for they will inherit the land
If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series on the beatitudes, click the category “Beatitudes” and start from the beginning! No repeated info. One beatitude builds on the others! Usually we read about just how happy the meek … Continue reading
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2 Beatitudes: Mt 5,4 — Blessed are the grieving, for they shall be visited
If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series on the beatitudes, click the category “Beatitudes” and start from the beginning! No repeated info. One beatitude builds on the others! Anyone who has loved anyone who has passed away … Continue reading
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1 Beatitudes: Mt 5,3 — Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens
Sometimes my fellow Scripture scholars get a bit carried away with the description of where Jesus spoke the beatitudes. Was it a mountain? Was is a field? My question is this: why can’t you have a field on a mountain? … Continue reading
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Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. I pray for benefactors daily, offering Holy Mass for their intentions about once a month. You'll have to force me to take your donations, though. Scroll down for an explanation.
