1. 2nd February 2014 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

2. Also The Presentation of the Lord

3. Gospels:
Mt. Ch. 5: 1 – 12 / Lk. 2: 22 – 40

4. The Beatitudes; Jesus is presented in the Temple.

5. The mission of Jesus … to teach
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The mission of Jesus … to teach

6. The story of the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh.

7. Blessed are the poor; God’s preference for the nobodies of the world, the humble, the lowly, those who find all answers in the Lord.

8. Jesus chose 11 poor fishermen to start His Mission.

9. The Beatitudes speak of a number of experiences that we feel as a result of the involvement in living the Gospel.

10. Jesus showers many blessings on those who struggle to love the truth of the Gospel.

11. Jesus, a life of Beatitudes
To understand the Beatitudes just read the life of Jesus in the Gospels.

12. Jesus is all powerful but lives the way of the powerless.

13. He is gentle, nice with the kind of people that others see them as hopeless cases.

14. He mourns when He sees how many choose to be blind when God visits them.

15. Jesus felt hungry, not of bread but hungry to do the will of the Father.

16. He ends up on another mount dying for what He believed in
He ends up on another mount dying for what He believed in. But in all this Jesus is blessed. God raised Him on the third day.

17. Because Jesus gave his disciples and to us the Beatitudes, we will face the same difficulties his disciples met.

18. But Jesus assures us that one day we will experience the fullness of the Kingdom of heaven.

19. Because the disciples were faithful to Jesus, they suffered as he did.

20. We must not be surprised if we will suffer one day the same as the disciples did.

21. Let us read carefully each one of the Beatitudes and try to understand each one in a simple way. Jesus tells us that those who believe in His words will be rewarded in heaven.

22. Read Lk – 40

23. The Conversion of St. Paul:
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