Tag: beatitudes

  • Year C, 16th February 2025, 6th Sunday after the Epiphany

    Year C, 16th February 2025, 6th Sunday after the Epiphany Luke 6:17-26 Blessings on the poor, woes on the rich 6:17He came down with them and stood on a level place with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.…

  • Preaching Paths 16 February 2025, 6th Epiphany Yr C

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Today’s gospel reading (Luke 6:17-26), the opening scene of Jesus’ “Sermon on the Plain,” includes beatitudes similar to those that open Matthew’s “Sermon on the Mount” (Mt 5:1-11). Yet, these texts are markedly different. In Matthew, Jesus’ beatitudes are in the third person plural, addressed to his…