Sermon on the Mount Archives

Do You Hunger for Righteousness?

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. | Jan 28, 2023 | Sundays | 0 |

The Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes challenge us all. When Jesus calls blessed the...

You Can Make a Difference

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Sep 18, 2016 | Into the Deep, Social Doctrine, Sundays | 0 |

Chapter 5 of St. Matthew’s Gospel begins with the Beatitudes which Jesus proclaims to open his...

St. Augustine On the Beatitudes

by Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg | Mar 22, 2014 | In the Spotlight, Prayer / Spiritual Life | 0 |

In 393, Saint Augustine wrote his Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount. In this edifying treatise, he begins with the weighty proclamation that “anyone who piously and earnestly ponders the Sermon on the Mount — as we...

How You Can Make a Difference

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Sep 15, 2013 | Into the Deep, Social Doctrine, Sundays | 0 |

Go Make a Difference – This is the name of a popular praise and worship song by Steve Angrisano...

Salt of the Earth, Light of the World

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. | Feb 12, 2011 | Family | 0 |

As a teen growing up in a Catholic family, living in one of the most Catholic area of the US, I never would have considered abandoning my faith. But I also never would have considered getting excited about my faith either. Why...

Go Make a Difference

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Feb 6, 2011 | Social Doctrine | 0 |

Go Make a Difference – This is the name of a popular praise and worship song by Steve Angrisano that is based on the passage from St. Matthew’s Gospel where Jesus tells us we are to be the “salt of the earth” and the “light of...

The Blessed of God

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Jan 30, 2011 | Prayer / Spiritual Life | 0 |

The Beatitudes are the solemn blessings of God upon those who in spirit and deed respond to God’s loving call as He desires. Jesus pronounces them to open the greatest sermon ever given – the Sermon on the Mount. They can be...