Our Lord Outlines How to Achieve Happiness and Holiness Within Today’s Gospel

The one desire which gives all humans unity and meaning, force and decision to all desires is happiness.

It is the goal of all human activity, the perfect good which satisfies all human desires. The search for happiness is the common ground on which all human yearnings, all human ambitions meet. The child building sand castles at the seashore, the great banker computing his fortune, are all searching for happiness.

Christians Have Two Goals

As a Christian, we have two goals in life. The first is to be happy. The second is to be holy. Today’s Gospel gives us the means to achieve these goals: happiness and holiness.

Listen to this Meditation Media to understand how to achieve these two goals.

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Our Lord Outlines How to Achieve Happiness and Holiness Within Today’s Gospel.

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The Lord’s Prayer: French Painter: James Tissot: 1886-1896

This painting resides at The Brooklyn Museum. Other Tissot paintings appear on this site here and here.