WEEK SIX: Peacemaking
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. – Matthew 5:9 –
The purity of the sixth Beatitude leads us to the seventh: becoming women and men of peace. A foreign word to most in our modern world, peace is one of the hallmark virtues that crown the disciple’s journey. Even as Jesus drew nearer and nearer to the cross, echoes of peace rung in His words...and in the life that He would soon lay down for us: making peace between God and his creation through the sacrifice of his own precious blood.