Sixth Sunday C “over the year.”(Lk 6:17,20-26)

Let us understand the Beatitudes of Jesus.
Heaven is opened to those who can understand and realize the Beatitudes of Jesus in their lives.

Everyone longs for happiness. For it, we are willing to expend a lot of energy, devote a lot of time to study satisfaction, work hard on ourselves to be happy. We talk about happiness and unhappiness. It is the time of balls and parties. We want to have fun. The carnivals are peaking.
And perhaps today, let’s ask ourselves a question like this or this about happiness: What value does man have in his whole being? The answer may be in a shrug, but we can also look to God for it. For only, He knows all the circumstances of life and the free choices that shape each person’s personality.

On the subject of happiness, Jesus himself speaks to us in the Gospel when, from the Sermon on the Mount, St. Luke reminds us of the four times Jesus emphasized the word “blessed” and the exact words “woe to you.”

Jesus is a very demanding Teacher. Those who desire to live by his words have no time to be bored. We can see this in words above, “Blessed are the poor… who now hunger… weeping… when people hate you…,” but also at the terms, “woe to you rich… who is now full… …now that you laugh… and if all the people praise you…” (cf. Lk 6:17).
Jesus addressed these words to both Jews and Gentiles, where there was “… a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coasts of Tyre and Sidon” (Lk 6:17). And these words are addressed to us as well. As then, they evoke different feelings today. Because then and today, man has a similar logic. We only live once, and we need to enjoy it. Some opinions also follow the principle of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” And so the words of Jesus are received with incomprehension, underestimated, postponed to a later time… some reflect on these words and seek an explanation of how to understand them and how to live by them. If Jesus had not considered them essential, he would have said them, and if they were not necessary at all, he would not have told them. We understand from Jesus’ words that he gives them weight and importance, and their value is not lost even today. How do we put them into practice in our lives? The words of Jesus have been heeded by many, and it was not only the Biblical scholar, Benedictine J. Dupont, a great expert on the texts of the Holy Scriptures, but also the non-Christian Gandhi. Thus we understand that the words of the Lord Jesus are not addressed only to Christians.
St. Luke wrote his Gospel in Greek, which was the language of the culture and art of the time. The word “blessed” can be interpreted differently today. In the true sense of the word, we can say that the blessed is God. When Jesus is preaching on the mount and utters the word “blessed,” he is not referring to God but talking about people. Jesus said the word “blessed” a total of eight times. Let’s stop at the four that St. Luke the Evangelist mentions.
“Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God” (Lk 6:20). A poor person has absolutely nothing. Such is the beggar. But Jesus is thinking of the man who puts God first in the care of his material possessions. God created man to earn his living by the honest work of his hands. Man is to subdue nature and all living things. But man must not forget that all this must not and cannot satisfy his heart. Man has no permanent place on earth. Man is wise when he directs his life to leave the world at any time when God calls him away and not grieve over what he must go here. He is, after all, made for things beyond the material margin of the world. Material goods cannot limit man’s happiness. God created man for eternal happiness, consisting of a lasting union with God. Happy is he who has his joy in God. He believes in the love, the power, the righteousness of God. For this happiness, he renounces, limits, shares, and endures lack on earth for God’s sake.
“Blessed are you who hunger now, for you, shall be filled” (Lk 6:21). Jesus himself fed the multitude. But he spent forty days in the wilderness on hunger. The sins of gluttony and drunkenness offend God. God wants to satisfy us with “new wine” at a banquet in His Kingdom. The conditions this eternal happiness on our being lords on earth over the lusts of the flesh. God wants us to work to increase spiritual and mental satisfaction above the pleasure of the flesh, according to our age and the circumstances of our lives. In doing so, God does not underestimate or prohibit the natural needs of the flesh. The Church’s injunction to “perform works of penance as prescribed by the Church’s hierarchy” is conducive to this.
“Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh” (Lk 6:21). This sorrow leads one to the depths of heart and body. We realize the Beatitudes in connection with the difficulties that come upon us with original sins, such as pain, death, sickness, calamities… God teaches us not to fall into despair or loss of hope. God in His love does not cease to fill man with His graces. We realize that our homeland is in heaven.

“Blessed are you when men hate you when they exclude you from their midst when they reproach you and reject your name for the Son of Man’s sake.” (Lk 6:22). Since Cain, humanity has suffered from a lack of brotherly love. Brother tramples on the good name, honor, health, and other values God has endowed man with. Let those deprived of these rights endure hardship and injustice in a manner worthy of future reward and defend and advocate for their rights and the rights of the oppressed or persecuted.

We recall the words of the “Beatitudes” to use this encounter at the Eucharistic celebration also to draw strength to bear witness to the teachings of Christ. It is a moment that we want to renounce everything that might associate us with Christ’s warning in words, “woe to you.” It is, then, a fundamental relationship with God. This follows a real spiritual revolution, a change in man’s mindset in his relationships with God, his neighbor, and himself. Thus in this “Sermon on the Mount” of Jesus is hidden the essence of all Christianity. It is a new knowledge of God as a loving Father to whom we can entrust ourselves. The newness is in our relationship as children of God to the Father. Jesus revealed to us the fatherhood of God. The text teaches us to understand Christian worship, which is not an attempt by men to win God’s affection for earthly happiness but an expression of man’s desire for God. And Jesus also requires a new attitude toward God, neighbor, and ourselves, based on the love that is the soul of Christianity.
In the words of “blessedness” and “woe,” we become aware of how God views us, and we learn what we are to do to meet the demands God rightly makes on us.
It may help us to look at the book of The Wedding that Happened in Heaven (PO.
The story takes place in a primitive culture that did not forbid the selling of brides for cattle, which served as barter instead of money. An average woman was worth two cows, an exceptional one was paid for with three cows, while less desirable women were worth one cow. A wealthy and attractive suitor came to this society searching for a suitable woman to marry. All the families paraded their promiscuous daughters to flash before him. Everyone was surprised when the suitor finally declared that he was willing to negotiate with the family of a young girl whom they considered unattractive and clumsy. “Maybe he’s after a bargain,” people speculated, wondering if by chance he would offer only chickens instead of cows after all. To everyone’s surprise, he offered the family six cows for their daughter and quickly went on an extended honeymoon with her. When they returned a few months later, no one recognized the bride. Her shoulders sagged no more, and there was no vacant look in her eyes. As if she were someone completely different, new, she exuded beauty and confidence. No, her husband hadn’t bought her any beauty products, hadn’t given her a facial. Their relationship had begun with him making it tangibly clear to her that he considered her essential and valuable. She put herself in that role, began to look at herself with the same eyes that he looked at her with, and for the rest of her life, all her friends looked at her with awe as well. They looked upon her as the woman for whom they had paid six cows.
Do we realize that we are more valuable? Yes, more valuable than sparrows, than cows! We are the children of God. Jesus died for us. Let us behave accordingly. It is not enough that we know the teachings of Christ. We must live daily according to Christ’s words. He gave His own life for us to His Father. Let us take courage, let us gain strength, let us cooperate with the graces He gives us to be the kind of people God wants us to be. And we recognize that this includes the words “blessed” and “woe.”

Common sense tells us about happiness. God has given us a reason and free will and offers us even more. He provides eternal happiness that nothing on earth can compare to. And that is worth it. What does that mean for us specifically, what do we want, and what do we do? Already at Mass, already today?