09/20/2024
"Here is the great secret underlying the whole Sermon on the Mount: be children of your Father who is in heaven. Apparently these chapters of the Gospel of Matthew seem to be a moral discourse; they seem to evoke an ethic so demanding as to appear unfeasible, and instead we discover that they are above all a theological discourse. A Christian is not one who is committed to being better than others: he knows he is a sinner like everyone. A Christian is simply a person who pauses before the new Burning Bush, at the revelation of a God who does not bear the enigma of an unspeakable name, but asks his children to invoke him with the name of ‘Father’, to allow themselves to be renewed by his power and to reflect a ray of his goodness for this world so thirsty for good, thus awaiting good news." - Pope Francis from a sermon on January 2, 2019
Join our 8-week Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount, starting Friday, September 20th, from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM at Beow’s Books and Brews.
art: The Sermon on the Mount | Jan Brueghel the Elder (1598)