The Blessed Peacemakers

With this seventh Beatitude we come to the last of a series of descriptions of the citizens of the kingdom of heaven. Each citizen of that kingdom as he faces God is poor in spirit, mourns over sin, is meek and hungers and thirsts after righteous­ness. As his soul faces his fellow men he is merciful, pure in heart and a peace­maker. You see, Young People, man differs from the animals in that, being created in God’s image, he has a soul that faces God as well as the earthly creation in which he...