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Beatitudes
By The Monks of Glenstal Abbey
Vox de Nube | Glenstal Abbey
In Search of Peace
By Teresa Brown
In Search of Peace | Devine Music (Used with permission)
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Today is Wednesday the 11 September, in the 23rd week of Ordinary Time.
Nóirín Ní Riain, with the monks of Glenstal Abbey, sings the Beatitudes.
Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke.
The beatitudes of Luke cannot be over-spiritualised, and we have to confront the revolutionary message in them. In Jesus’ day, the rich were usually the beneficiaries of an economic system that exploited the poor: taxed them, put them into debt, stole their land, broke up families, left them destitute. Many religious authorities especially around the Temple, were the winners in this system. God’s intention was that everyone would have their needs met. Jesus is passionate about God’s kingdom where everyone has enough and no one is excluded.
If we think of Jesus as meek and mild, do we need to think again?
As you listen once more to this passage, how do you imagine this Jesus speaking to our world with its divisions between rich and poor?
Is there an invitation to you here? What part do you want to play in the coming of God’s Kingdom on earth?