CS 755: 7-6-21: The First Beatitude: Tuesday
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🗓️ 6 July 2021
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. |
| 0:32.7 | Hey there, sprouts. Today is Tuesday, July 6th, 2021. Now, this week on the Catholic Sprauds podcast, we are talking about the beatitudes. |
| 0:48.0 | Yesterday we talked about how this specific part of the sermon on the mount where Christ lays out eight ways where we can become blessed and happy offers us a portrait of who Christ was. |
| 0:52.5 | And how if we model our lives after him, we can be happy. |
| 0:57.1 | So the first beatitude, which is really the most important because it really contains all of the other beatitudes is this, blessed are the poor in spirit, |
| 1:06.2 | for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the poor in spirit. |
| 1:14.3 | Now, in some translations, it says simply, |
| 1:16.8 | Blessed are the poor. |
| 1:18.6 | And we know by reading the gospel that Christ takes extra special care of the poor. |
| 1:25.0 | He commands us to care for those who are in need, to share the resources we have |
| 1:30.9 | with those that are suffering and those that are hungry. But this command, this call to be |
| 1:37.8 | blessed and happy, goes beyond that. It does not say that you have to be poor, but we all need to be poor in spirit. |
| 1:50.3 | Now, what does it mean to be poor in spirit? Well, the big word to cling to as we talk about |
| 1:58.1 | this beatitude is the word detachment. I know detachment is a big |
| 2:03.9 | word, but detachment is simply meaning that no matter how many things you own, how big your bank |
| 2:10.4 | account is, or how fancy your card, no matter what, that you should never be too attached to it. Now, someone who is very rich could be actually |
| 2:22.6 | very, very happy and totally detached from their belongings. Maybe they freely give what they have. |
| 2:31.7 | Sure, they have lots of money, but they're very, very generous. On the other hand, |
| 2:36.9 | someone who is very poor, maybe they don't have very much, but what they have, they keep, |
| 2:43.0 | they refuse to share with anyone. And that person would be failing to live up to this beatitude. |
| 2:50.5 | So the true measure for how poor in spirit |
| 2:55.0 | we are is how generous we are, how willing we are to give what we have. Now, this beatitude, |
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