Blessed are You: Reflections on the Beatitudes & Patience & Humility - A Handbook for Christians (2 Book Set)

• Blessed are You: Reflections on the Beatitudes
• The Beatitudes are the lens through which we should develop and live our spiritual lives
• Unpacks the meaning of each Beatitude, showing how they all interconnect to present a roadmap to holiness and happiness
• Patience & Humility - A Handbook for Christians
• Ten ways you can start acquiring patience today
• Humility: why it’s the foundation of our Christian Faith

The Beatitudes are perhaps the least understood passage of the Gospels. Yet in them, says Mother Mary Francis, a Poor Clare who spent a lifetime in prayer, “Christ delivers the Christian philosophy of life and gives the first course in theological living.” Indeed, the Beatitudes are the lens through which we should develop and live our spiritual lives. 

Many authors have written about the Beatitudes, but none with the spiritual wisdom and exceptional clarity of Mother Mary Francis. She masterfully unpacks the meaning of each Beatitude, showing how they all interconnect to present a roadmap to holiness and happiness. Best of all, she helps you analyze your own life in light of the Beatitudes so you can chart a course toward reaching the pinnacle of holiness to which Christ is calling you. You’ll learn:

• Why those who are poor in spirit are the only ones who are truly free
• How to display meekness without showing weakness
• Why “spiritual flexibility” is important — and how to know if you have it
• How practicing the Beatitudes makes us happy—even those who mourn
• How to balance a sense of mercy with a thirst for justice
• Why Jesus said blessed are “the peacemakers,” rather than “the peaceful”
• The most important characteristics of a clean heart
• Why it’s easy for the voice of your own spirit to sound much like that of the Holy Spirit
• The reason Christ wept (it had more to do with penance than with demonstrating His humanity)
• The one Beatitude that is most often misinterpreted

Find lasting happiness through the two virtues that lead to all others: patience and humility. Heroism, self-denial, and even martyrdom are worthless without humility and patience. This book shows you how to develop these two key virtues, no matter how difficult your circumstances may be. You’ll learn why Jesus said that to save your life, you must first lose it, and you’ll come to see how the self-surrender in humility and patience is guaranteed to bring you lasting peace and happiness.

From this simple book you’ll learn many things:

• Why God’s patience is the guarantee of your salvation
• The startling reason why God rejects the proud
• How to avoid all spiritual injury — forever!
• Why humility is the very core of holiness
• The battle for your soul: do you know who’s winning?
• God’s own humility: it’s a searing lesson for the proud
• Minor troubles: how to keep them from overwhelming you
• The secret rewards of humility that only the humble know
• Five obstacles to virtue: how to overcome them
• Why troubles may be your most valuable possessions
• How faith depends on the virtue of humility
• Three obstacles to prayer: a simple way to wipe them out
• Six conditions for making your prayer more effective
• Spiritual problems: how to gain strength to overcome them
• And many other truths to make your life happier and holier

• Author: Mother Mary Francis, PCC
• Pages: 160
• Format: Paperback

• Author: William Ullathorne
• Pages: 144
• Format: Paperback
• 5 x 8 inches

SKU: 9994053

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