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    The Beatitudes Questions

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    The document summarizes the eight beatitudes from the Bible. It provides context and examples for understanding each beatitude. For blessed are the poor in spirit, it discusses what this would look like financially. For blessed are those who mourn, it shares a personal experience of mourning at a funeral. For blessed are the meek, it describes what following God's rules rather than human rules would look like in Canada.

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    The document summarizes the eight beatitudes from the Bible. It provides context and examples for understanding each beatitude. For blessed are the poor in spirit, it discusses what this would look like financially. For blessed are those who mourn, it shares a personal experience of mourning at a funeral. For blessed are the meek, it describes what following God's rules rather than human rules would look like in Canada.

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    The document summarizes the eight beatitudes from the Bible. It provides context and examples for understanding each beatitude. For blessed are the poor in spirit, it discusses what this would look like financially. For blessed are those who mourn, it shares a personal experience of mourning at a funeral. For blessed are the meek, it describes what following God's rules rather than human rules would look like in Canada.

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    In summary the beatitudes are God’s blessing to those who choose to be disciples.

    1. Blessed is the Poor in Spirit: What can you describe that looks like in the
    kingdom of heaven, the presence of God?

    This means giving blessings to those who are poor. In the presence of God, I believe this
    would look like someone who is homeless or suffering financially. In the beatitudes it
    explains Mathew tried to “tone down” the passage by using the wording Blessed is poor in
    spirit. Whereas Luke says blessed are you who are poor.

    2. Blessed is those who Mourn: What have been some of the most important
    experiences of community in your life? Experiences of healing? Have they
    been related to each other or not?

    In my life the most important experience of community was my grandfather’s funeral not
    that long ago. Family got to gather to mourn at the Whitby church. This was also the
    biggest experience of healing as we all learned valuable lessons about life and about one
    another.

    3. Blessed is the Meek: Meekness or humility is about living under God's


    house rules, not human rules. According to Sr. Joan Chittister, “Humility
    is the foundation of our relationship with God, our connectedness to
    others, our acceptance of ourselves, our way of using the goods of the
    Earth, and even our way of walking around the world, without arrogance,
    without domination, without scorn, without put-downs, without disdain,
    without self-centeredness.” What would it look like in Canada to live by
    God's house rules so that all members of the household flourish?
    In Canada, to live by Gods house rules it would look like following the law and morality to
    a religious extent. In religion “Gods house rules” refer to, in summary, being kind,
    accepting, loving, and faithful. The law in Canada abides by these to a brief extent, for
    example, being kind, in law this would refer to verbal assault, harassment, etc. These are
    things you could be charged and tried for. By following Gods house rules, you would be
    abiding by these laws to a higher standard than what is in the law.

    4. Blessed is those who Hunger and Thirst for Justice: The early Christian
    church struggled with the question of newcomers to their group. Name
    some current day struggles with newcomers in your school or home
    communities.

    For newcomers in schools, it can be very difficult. I myself have been the newcomer at
    many different schools. There is a high pressure to make a good first impression so that
    you are on the good side of classmates and teachers. Often newcomers do not feel
    welcomed. For example, starting high school. When starting high school, the older
    grades hate on you simple because you are in grade 9. You will continue to be hated for
    this reason until you reach grade 10.

    5. Blessed is the Merciful: It seems that we don't like to mix with others who
    are different. That's hard work and it takes a lot to hear someone else's
    story. We don't want to do the hard work. We don't want our lives to
    change. Describe a time when someone heard your story, or you heard
    someone else's story. What keeps us from doing this hard work? Why
    don't we want our lives to change?

    Last year I had a conversation with a religious friend of mine. This led to a sensitive
    discussion about our beliefs in the pro-life pro-choice debate. I heard her reasonings and
    she heard mine. She was very strong in being pro-life, until she heard my story and my
    reasoning. From that day on her beliefs and views of that debate completely changed. To
    this day she agrees that if it wasn’t for me, she would have never been open to a different
    view. A lot of people choose not to have conversations like this to avoid fights are
    disagreements, or simple because they are strong on their opinion and don’t want to
    possibly hear something that could make them think differently.

    6. Blessed is the Pure of Heart: Give examples of the purity codes of our
    society, codes for acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in our society
    today. How might an attitude of compassion make a difference?

    In society today there are mixed views and opinions on purity. In religion, purity means
    intact virginity and dressing modestly. To the younger non-religious generation this is
    being kind, respectful, and innocent in terms of types of sexual activity. In the older
    generation of non-religious people this means to have little life experience. To each person
    this could mean something completely different, and these are just statements that I have
    heard from those in each generation/category. Acceptable vs nonacceptable behaviour
    mainly strives on “the norm’”, which means what is the normal? For example, normal
    would be wearing a tank top in public, that is normal and acceptable to society. But, 100
    years ago, this would not. Compassion could play in these situations, but often for
    compassion you need to have an understanding of the individual. You most likely would
    feel compassion for a random person.

    7. Blessed are the Peacemakers: “God does not desire God's creation or
    creatures to be dominated by empires”, and “Jesus is the antidote to the
    empire.” Reflect on these two statements in the context of what
    dominating empire that Jesus might counter today?

    “Dominating Empire” today would be considering the government. When reflecting the
    statements to this day you could see them as meaning that people should not be under
    ruling of the government, that Jesus should be the one to rule. If Jesus were here today, I
    believe the domination empire he would encounter would be the individual governments
    in the countries.

    8. Blessed is those who are Persecuted for Justice's Sake: “We are the
    persecutors in ways that we never understand because of our privileged
    existence.” What do you think about this statement? Explain

    I have two potential meanings for this statement. One is what I would relate the passage to.
    The other is what I believe it means in terms of religion. I would relate this passage to we are
    responsible for our own actions and what happens to us is by our own doing. In simple terms,
    everything happens for a reason, karma is real, and life will eventually catch up to you. In
    terms of religion, I believe this passage means humans destroy other creations simple off their
    own existence. For example, Catholics believe God created the world, yet simple by existing,
    humans (gods creations) are destroying the world.

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