The Cross And The Beatitudes 1st Fulton J Sheen by Fulton J. Sheen 9781887593083, 188759308X instant download after payment.

THIS little book is a correlation of the Seven Beatitudes and the Seven Last
Words. The eighth beatitude, in the language of Saint Thomas Aquinas, “is
a confirmation and a declaration of all those that precede. Because from the
very fact that a man is confirmed in poverty of spirit, meekness, and the
rest, it follows that no persecution will induce him to renounce them. Hence
the eighth beatitude corresponds in a way to all the preceding seven.”
There is no strict correspondence between the Seven Beatitudes and theSeven Words, but this work assumes they are not unrelated, for one seems
to be related to the other as precept and deed. Both were delivered on a
mountain; Our Lord began his public life on the Mount of the Beatitudes
and closed it on the Mount of Calvary. The story of how he practiced the
meekness, the mercy, and the poverty of the Beatitudes is here told. If it
brings just one soul closer to Our Lord and his Blessed Mother it will have
been eminently worthwhile.
- Venerable Fulton J. Sheen