Blessed Part 2: Those Who Mourn

Last week I started a series exploring the Beatitudes and the Salt and Light passage at the beginning of Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew 5. I noted that the Beatitudes can only be produced by the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. In this way, they are similar to the fruit of the Spirit that Paul lists in Galatians 5:22-23, and also the three cardinal virtues of the Christian faith: faith, hope, and love (see 1 Corinthians 13:13).

Now, although the Beatitudes emerge in the belie...