St. Luke's Version of the Beatitudes as a Guide in Moving On with Your Life


Reading this entry that I got from one of my email subscriptions from the Kerygma Family, it occurred to me that this reading could be a good material for those who are struggling or working on moving from their current state in life to new one, one step at a time. Luke's version of the Beatitude's definitely a more harsher admonition, or even difficult to remember, as the better known version is that of St. Matthew. Read St Luke's version, and please feel free to come up with your own impressions. I have found Luke's Beatitudes to be a great source of assurance that I can proceed with moving on to a new phase in my life today, given struggles, hardships I face daily. Definitely, I can always look forward to something greater than what I'm having now. Thank God, I've been moving on.

Luke 6:20-26

20 Raising his eyes toward his disciples Jesus said:
“Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours.
21 Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.
23 Rejoice and leap for joy on that day!
Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.
24 But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
25 But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep.
26 Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.”


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