Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
This beatitude guarantees support when there is a lot of complexity to a situation. It tells people that when they are going through a tough time that if they have faith and hope they will be able to get through the situation with much more ease. With hope it tells us that all of our problems would eventually be solved and all of our pain will soon be healed. Using this beatitude leaves us a solution when we can’t find the nearest answer; it helps us find a more comforting long-term solution.
Blessed
are the people who mourn, for they shall be comforted
Who
are they?
People who
have hope in desperate circumstances.
People who maintain a gentle spirit during difficult times.
People who do not remain bitter over bad situations.
People who
maintain faith in God when someone close to them dies.
How
can you live this beatitude today?
Your best friend
calls you, and she sounds upset. She tells you that she has flunked a very
important test (which she has been studying for the past couple of days).
To live out this beatitude you have to believe you will get through
it by putting even more effort into studying.
Your mom just told you that your grandmother died yesterday. In order to live out this
beatitude, you must believe that faith will get you through these tough
times. And believe that your grandmother is safe with God.
Your little
brothers’ gold fish dies. In order to live out this beatitude, he has to
believe that he can get through it.
Your dad gets laid
off of work. You can live out this beatitude by helping him search for a new
job and giving him encouragement that everything will work out for the best.
Mother Theresa
Mother
Theresa was born on August 27, 1910. Her
original name was Gonxhe Agnes Bojaxhiu. Her parents Nikollë and Dranafille Bojaxhiu moved to Shukup,
which is present day Macedonia,
from Shkodra, present day Albania. It didn’t take Gonxhe long to know that God
was calling her to a life of helping others.
At the age of 18 she joined the Irish Catholic order of the Sisters of
Loreto. After a couple of years in
Ireland they sent her to Calcutta to teach Geography, History, and Catechism.
She taught at St. Mary's High School. Later she would become a principal at that
school. In 1930 she was given the name Teresa, in honor of St. Teresa
of Avila. In 1950 she founded the
order of the Missionaries of Charity, whose job as she described it was "free
service to the poor and the unwanted, irrespective of caste, creed, nationality
or race." In 1952 she founded both a home for the dying and opened her first orphanage.
In
1962 she received the Pandra Shri prize for "extraordinary services."
In
1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize "for work undertaken in the
struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitute a threat to
peace." After she was told she won this award she said, “I am unworthy.”
She
was prevented from visiting Albania by the communist regime. In 1988, she went
to visit her mother and sisters' graves in Shkondra.
Her last visit was in 1993, when she attended the installation ceremony of
the Great Cathedral in Shkondra, beside Pope John Paul II
She was hospitalized many times in 1996 with problems such as heart, kidney, and lung problems. She suffered poor health in years before. She indicated her intention to resign as head of her order in 1990, due to failing health. Because of disagreements over a successor, she remained as head of the order until March 1996, when she stepped down and was replaced by Sister Nermala. She died on September 5, 1997 in Calcutta after suffering cardiac arrest. Mother Teresa was 87 when she died.
She choose this way of life because she wanted to serve God and do God’s will. She wanted to help others for the love of God.
-Survey-
1.) Do you preserve a gentle spirit during difficult times?
yes no
2.) Do you help other people when they have a lack of faith or hope?
yes no
3.)
When something unjust happens do you try to help the situation by helping to
change it?
yes no
4.) Are you bitter when something bad happens in your
life instead of using hope
to guide you through dark times?
yes no
5.) Do you believe faith, God, and Hope will get you through all your tough times?
yes no
Count up all the answers in which you responded "yes" to.
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02371a.htm
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