Today we rejoin the Sunday cycle of Ordinary Time only to encounter the verses that form the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount To appreciate this conclusion it may be helpful first to look back at the sermon as a whole With the Beatitudes Jesus sketches the values and attitudes needed to ent
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