Change your Mind!

In today's Gospel we have one of the most famous and important passages in the New Testament, the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. As God gave his people through Moses the list of the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai, now God in the Person of Jesus gives his disciples the list of the Beatitudes. Yet this is not a list of "do's" or "don't's" but something more basic, more fundamental. Jesus gives us the attitudes that coincide with happiness. As Jesus inaugurated his public ministry with the call, "Repent (metanoiate -- go beyond the mind that you have) for heaven is near!" Now Jesus tells us what is the mind that we must have to be blessed. So, change your mind!