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Let’s lay down some groundwork by considering why we act as we do. Unlike irrational animals driven by instinct, we have the power to determine what goods we will seek and how we will go about obtaining them. We are masters of our own actions. Those goods we seek are goals or ends, the things we hope to achieve by our actions. “Although the end be the last in the order of execution, yet it is first in the order of the agent’s intention. And it is in this way that it is a cause …

If you’re like me, the first time you ever took the trouble to learn the Beatitudes it was a list you had to memorize in catechism class. For most people, that is all the Beatitudes has been: a list, and now likely a forgotten list. What many don’t realize is that the Beatitudes were at the very heart of the teaching of Jesus Christ, and that they are a not a memorization exercise but way of life to be lived.The world first heard the Beatitudes proclaimed overlooking the Sea of Gali …