Obtain mercy (ελεηθησοντα) "Sal win pitie theirsels" (Braid Scots). "A self-acting law of the moral world" (Bruce).

Blessed are the merciful. That is, those who are so affected by the sufferings of others that they are inclined to alleviate them…

The merciful —The thought is the same as that afterwards embodied in the Lord’s Prayer. Those who are merciful toward their fellow…

For they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful: Those who are kind, generous, sympathetic, ready to forgive those who h…

Glossa Ordinaria: Justice and mercy are so united that one should be mixed with the other. Justice without mercy is cruelty; m…

This beatitude is akin to Ps 18:25. Mercy embraces both forgivene for the guilty and compa ion for the suffering and needy. No particular object of…

Happy are the merciful—this paradox, too, contradicts the judgment of humanity.³⁶⁷

The world considers those people to b…

Blessed are the merciful
Who show mercy to the bodies of men, to those that are poor, indigent, and miserable, in th…

Our Savior here gives eight characteristics of ble ed people, which represent to us the principal graces of a Christian.

1. The poor i…

The Evangelist, above, set forth a kind of brief preamble to Christ’s teaching; now he relates the teaching itself and its effect, namely, the admi…