Monthly Archives: September 2017

Catholic Exchange: How is Mourning Blessed?

September 21, 2017 · by · in Catholic Church, Catholic Exchange, Christian Living, Gospel Reflections, Grief, holiness, mystery, Suffering, The Beatitudes, Uncategorized · 1 Comment

This week we will examine the second Beatitude: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Matthew 5:4). This Beatitude may in fact be the hardest for Fallen human beings to understand. Suffering, pain, and affliction are aspects of the human condition. We have all experienced—or soon will—the devastation of losing someone we […]

Catholic Exchange: Finding Laughter and Joy Amidst Suffering

September 14, 2017 · by · in Catholic Church, Catholic Exchange, Christian Living, Chronic Illness, Suffering, Uncategorized · 1 Comment

I will continue my series on the Beatitudes and the work of Servais Pinckaers next week. My husband was in the hospital for 2.5 days with a partially collapsed lung, so I was unable to delve deeper into the Beatitudes. Since I spent more time in the hospital with my husband this week, I thought the topic of laughter […]

Catholic Exchange: Made for the Happiness Found in the Beatitudes

September 1, 2017 · by · in Catholic Church, Catholic Exchange, Christian Living, holiness, Jesus, Scripture, The Beatitudes · Leave a comment

We are made for happiness. At the deepest level of our existence, God has made us to be happy. This happiness, we must remember, comes from God alone. He created us to find our total and complete joy within the Blessed Trinity. Everything else we experience in our daily lives is a shadow of the love […]