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01/30/2026

Haveatitudes.

JOKE-OGRAPHY:

The Beatitudes are a list of blessings that Jesus shared in His famous Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5). Among them are such paradoxes as "Happy are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth," and "Happy are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted." The Beatitudes are basically a walkthrough of how to live the perfect Christian life.

Each Beatitude begins with the words, "Blessed (or happy) are the..." to say that those who adopt these ways will find true happiness. The Latin word used for "blessed/happy" is "beatus," and so, from there, we get the word "Beatitude."

In this cartoon, a child asks two priests why the Beatitudes are called "Beatitudes." The younger priest, Fr. Mark, is quick to share a quippy pseudo-origin for the term, but stumbles over the grammar. As he mutters to himself, the older priest, Fr. Books, gives the correct answer.

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A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.  Susan Sontag, The Art of Fiction No. 143, from The Paris Review, issue no. 137

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“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Matthew 5:43 & 44

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To Fulfil the Law of Divine Order

When Christ declares in Matthew 5:17, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish but to fulfil”, He invokes one of the most profound mysteries of Christian gnosis. The verb πληρῶσαι (plērōsai) means to fill, to make whole, to bring to completion. It does not imply mere compliance but consummation. The Law (νόμος, nomos) is much more than an external, moral code, it is the inner structure of the cosmos, the rhythm of Divine proportion sustaining existence. The words of Christ signal the restoration of that cosmic harmony, the healing of the rift between heaven and earth.

Law signifies the living pattern of Divine proportion that orders creation. It is the Λόγος (Logos), the Word through which all things were made, as written in John 1:3: “All things were made through Him.” The Law is the harmony of being before the dissonance of the Fall. When the will turned inward, light fragmented into multiplicity; the One became divided among the many. What had been Law became laws; what had been rhythm became repetition, circularity.

The Law fulfilled is the harmony between macrocosm and microcosm. For instance, astrology, rightly understood, is a Sacred grammar of that correspondence. Each planet expresses an aspect of the Logos, each orbit a syllable of the Divine Word. When the soul awakens, it begins to tune itself to this cosmic music. Mars ceases to be rage and becomes courageous strength; Venus ceases to be desire and becomes luminous love; Saturn ceases to be bondage and becomes serene wisdom.

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Pray for your enemies.

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Don't suck up your pride. Spit it out!

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matthew 5:29-30

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But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have?