If we all lived the Sermon on the Mount (Fr. Ron Rolheiser)

   Jesus was a great moral teacher and his teachings, if followed, would transform the world. Simply put, if we all lived the Sermon on the Mount, our world would be loving, peaceful, and just; but self-interest is often resistant to moral teaching. From the Gospels, we see that it was not Jesus’ teaching that swayed the powers of evil and ultimately revealed the power of God. The triumph of goodness and the final power of God were revealed instead through his death, by a grain of wheat falling in the ground and dying and so bearing lots of fruit.

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser OMI,

Facebook, October 25, 2021

Image source: Cosimo Roselli, The Sermon on the Mount (1481-1482), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Cosimo_Rosselli_Sermone_della_Montagna.jpg