The Apostolate of the Laity. Living the Beatitudes One Day at a Time

By Fernando Davalos

The fundamental teachings of Jesus for obtaining the kingdom of God are the Beatitudes. These teachings form the cornerstone of the ideal Christian lifestyle and are unfortunately the ones that are least followed.
The Sermon of the Mount is probably the best-known, but least-understood, and least-followed of all the teachings of Jesus.
In spite of this, Jesus says in the Beatitudes that as long as ordinary people stand for the right things and do not retreat in their rightness before those who seem to have more power, what's right will prevail.
The tree grows from the root above and not from the top downwards, consequently, the Beatitudes are presented this way by Jesus to humanity. A kingdom organized not from the top down, but from the bottom up! As a true apostolate of the laity!
Unfortunately, with some honorable exceptions, the Beatitudes are not manifested or lived in the Catholic hierarchies, and that branch of the vine has withered.
The author maintains that the Catholic laity is a great big hope for the Beatitudes to be lived and manifested in this suffering world, and invites us all to live these teachings daily to become active contributors to the well-being of a world in crisis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fernando Davalos
• Release date: Jan 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215891704

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Table of Contents

Copyright Page

The Apostolate of the Laity. Living the Beatitudes One Day at a Time

The two branches of the Grapevine

The Beatitudes, a kingdom organized from the bottom up

Our daily blessings

Our great big hope: the apostolate of the laity

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Index

The two branches of the Grapevine

The Beatitudes, a kingdom organized from the bottom up

Our daily blessings

Our great big hope: the apostolate of the laity

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The two branches of the Grapevine

Nowadays we can witness with our own eyes the existence of two branches of Christianity, a big branch in danger of drying up that constitutes the purgative, itinerant, and pilgrim church that has lost its contact with the Holy Spirit due to having too many earthly power-driven interests and material attachments and that unfortunately has been infiltrated and crippled by the evil one, becoming this way more and more secular, and a small green and alive branch that we can define as the triumphant church on this earth, realized, sanctified and redeemed by Jesus that exists through the holiness of its members and where the Holy Spirit resides and illuminates their actions in this world, driven by an