Happiness Where It Is Not Expected – Meditations on the Beatitudes

The world today is sick with pride, with its insatiable greed for wealth and power, and it can only be cured by accepting the message of the Beatitudes. According to the author, poverty of spirit, the first of these, is the key to spiritual life, to every path of holiness and to every fruitfulness. They all contain a luminous and liberating wisdom, but it is difficult to understand and practice them. In this book, Jacques Philippe offers a suggestive reflection on each of them, and helps us to understand how they contain all the novelty of the Gospel, all its wisdom and its power to transform the human heart and renew the world. Jacques Philippe is a member of the Community of the Beatitudes, where he has held important responsibilities (general council, head of priests and seminarians, formation of pastors). Ordained a priest in 1985, he preaches retreats in France and abroad. Among his works, we can highlight Time for God; Interior Freedom; Interior Peace; In the School of the Holy Spirit; Called to Life; Prayer, a path of love and If you knew the gift of God, all of them published in Rialp.

JACQUES PHILIPPE

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