Monday – 10th Week of Ordinary Time B
Jesus begins the discourse in the gospel today, which is just one of the five big reflections he gives in the Sermon on the Mount, with the wonderful words of the Beatitudes. There are eight of them, each one beginning with the words, “Blessed are those…” ‘Blessed’ is also translated as ‘Happy’ and is from the Greek adjective makarios which includes not only the idea of happiness, but also of good fortune, of being specially blessed. So we can also translate it as “Happy are those…” or “Fortunate are those…”