Newsletter – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year A.

REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart

The verses of today’s Gospel are called the Beatitudes. Sometimes they are called the Be Attitudes because they tell us the kind of attitudes we need to develop and the way we need to be.

Do these Beatitudes sound like good news or bad news? Why?

Who are the most peaceful and contented people you know? What do they have in common with the attitudes of the Beatitudes?

What are the attitudes of consumerism and materialism? How do commercials and ads encourage people to buy products? How are these attitudes different from those of the Beatitudes?

What attitudes would make a better world? What attitudes would make a more selfish and self-centred world?

How could you rewrite the Beatitudes in language that most teenagers today would more easily understand?

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