On this 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we are invited to listen as Jesus preaches the great Sermon on the Plain. As Tony explains, Jesus reveals His interior life to us in the Beatitudes so that by His grace we might live as He lives, and thereby pursue authentic and lasting human happiness.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Jeremiah 17:5-8
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 & 6
Reading 2: 1 Corinthians 15:12, 16-20
Gospel: Luke 6:17, 20-26
Endnotes:
Genesis 1:28
Luke 5:11
Luke 6:12
Luke 6:13
St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 229A.1.
1 Corinthians 1:24
Matthew 5:3-10
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1.4.1-2.
Luke 1:42 & 45
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.