Solemnity of all Saints, Mt 5,1-12

The meaning of holiness (Mt 5: 1-12)
Is holiness still current and temporal?

Do you remember the purpose or meaning of your life? Why do you live? What else do we want to achieve in life? And why?
In personal, social life, we hear that a climber wants to overcome a “four thousand,” a student graduates or obtains another diploma, fiancés to start a family, to raise offspring. And finally, we all want to live forever in heaven.
And what about the work of ourselves, to sanctify ourselves? To live according to God’s and the church’s commandments?

Climbing a high mountain “four thousand” or working on yourself – it seems simple, not challenging. When there is less oxygen at altitude, the ascent becomes strenuous. But there is also a risk of rapid weather changes, such as storms and fog. It so happened that alpine hikers and climbers regularly accumulate small rocks around the road, and these help them to orientate themselves, for example, in times of fog.
How many of these brands, mounds, have saved lives.

By the beatitudes, Jesus gives us valuable indicators on the way to eternity. Jesus declared himself: “I am the way” (Jn 14: 6), and in his beatitudes is a guide to how poor, weeping, quiet, hungry and thirsty, merciful, pure-hearted, peace-spreading, persecuted for righteousness (cf. Mt 5, 1-12), can successfully gain merit on earth for a blissful life in the kingdom of God.

Blaborish paintings depict the face of Jesus Christ and describe his love, expressing the vocation of believers who share in his suffering and resurrection. Beatitudes are characteristic attitudes of the Christian life and are paradoxical promises that keep hope in adversity, proclaim the blessing and reward that disciples receive in secret. The model is the life of the Virgin Mary and the saints.

Jesus was the meaning of life for the Virgin Mary and the saints.

The famous writer Agatha Christie begins one of her books by talking about a man who wanted to commit suicide. He jumped off a cliff. However, his fall was slowed down by a tree, so his attempt to kill failed. He told his nurse that he no longer wanted to live at the hospital because no one needed him. The nurse thought about it and said, “Maybe God needs you.”

There is a beautiful newspaper hidden in the Beatitudes. God needs us, and he, omnipotent, turns to the man and offers him cooperation.
And so every single person is essential. Perhaps we can see that we are entirely irrelevant to this world. A man sighed, “If I did not live, the world would not even notice.” But the importance of human life is not given to the world but God. It brings each person to live at a specific time, in a particular place, and with a specific mission. Would God create something unimportant? Not!
Everyone is invited to work with him to fulfill his plan with the world. But not everyone is willing to cooperate. Not everyone understands the meaning of their existence. This is perhaps because we do not ask about the importance of our lives. The catechism to the question Why did God create humans? – he answers: “God created people to know him, to love him, to serve him, and so they came to heaven.” Neglecting this truth will distract man from seeking the true meaning of life. And so, when he does not seek God’s will for his life, he lives according to his own will. He realizes his plans, and at the same time, somewhere in the depths of his heart, he feels sadness and an unpleasant awareness of the nonsense of his life.
One of the greatest psychologists of our century, Carl Gustav Jung, was at first an unbeliever and rejected religion as unbelievable. But when he empirically examined the human psyche, he found that there were questions: who am I, where am I from, why am I, where am I going? Some people may throw these questions in themselves with the noise and hustle of worldly interests, the deposition of material pleasures, or various stresses. But another person who delves deeper into these questions will get to such a depth within him that his self-knowledge will meet the knowledge of God. And so scientist Jung, working on God’s experience, declared, “The crucial question of human life is: Am I focused on God or not? According to that, my life has value or not. ” Finding the correct answer to the meaning of life means finding the importance and value of one’s own life.

God always stops when someone turns to Him in faith. We will be blessed if we can free ourselves from the false spirit of material values ​​and place our desires above all on spiritual and religious values. We will be blessed if we can be led to the humility of the strong, we will be able to renounce vengeance and hatred, and we will be wise over the fear of weapons and give preference to generous forgiveness, freedom, and conquering the world with goodness and peace. We will be blessed if our leadership standard is not selfishness but control and moderation.

Dominik Pecka’s writer shows in one humorous reflection what gives value to our actions: Virtue is not possible without love. The greedy man, for example, is careful when he protects his treasures, is fair, is afraid of giving someone more than he deserves, is modest so as not to spend his crowns unnecessarily, is also brave in the fight against robbers who want to turn him for his gold: but caution, justice, sobriety, bravery are not virtues, because they do not come from love. From the point of view of love, Bishop Klaus Hemmerle concretizes the Beatitudes:
Happy one who likes to give and can give up something.
Happy is he who does not shy away from the hardships and darkness of life, but bravely takes up his cross.
Happy one who stays calm and friendly when the other wants something from him.
Happy one who is not satisfied with half-life and, despite all the disappointments, perseveres on the path of progress.
Happy is he who is not indifferent to the distress of his neighbor, who has a heart and time for a man next to him.
Happy is he who remains pure, clear, and transparent despite all the power of temptation.
A happy one who soils his hands in the distress of his neighbor and contributes to the inner solution of tensions and conflicts.
Happy one who is not cowardly and overcomes the fear of resistance.

Let us each try to concretize the Beatitudes into their life situation.
Even though we have not uttered the word holy, it guides us to be holy, as Jesus Christ wants us to be.

The climb to the “four thousand” to reach the goal is beautiful and good, but we must not forget that we are invited to work on our salvation, always and always. Today, let us ask those who have already received a reward from Jesus for their lives.

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