McElroy said the vision of the Gospel and the Beatitudes offer a template for American Catholics’ patriotism. “The Beatitudes are meant to be directly the pattern that we live as disciples of Jesus Christ.
Blessed are those who read a newspaper article before commenting on it, for they shall be called wise. Blessed are those who leave you a short explanatory voicemail message, for they shall be called back ...Football crazy ... Terms and conditions apply ... .
For some reason we insist on complicating Jesus. The grave could not contain Him. Yet we have the audacity to be believe that our theology can ... His message was clear ... Let’s focus our attention on the Beatitudes rather than the more popular “me”-attitude.