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                    [ArticleID] => 1517028
                    [Title] => Blessed
                    [Summary] => 

These are days we flock to the cemeteries to visit our dear departed.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-31 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134274 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 652382 [Title] => LOL: Love Out Loud 4th Sunday in ordinary time [Summary] =>

I borrow the title of this article from my former pupils at the Sacred Heart School-Jesuit (Ateneo de Cebu) who used it as the name of their Christmas outreach program for indigent children.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413159 [AuthorName] => Jonjee C. Sumpaico, S.J. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 652437 [Title] => The Beatitudes or the Sermon on the Mount [Summary] =>

Today’s Gospel is about the Beatitudes, one of the most profound teachings by our Lord Jesus Christ as a means of having a closer relationship with our Divine Creator.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388669 [Title] => The reason for meekness [Summary] => Christian believers always regard the beatitudes as the ultimate ideals to pursue in life. They are considered the pitch of Christian perfection, the very canon of God's ultimate will for us.

As such, they embody and consummate all God's commandments as revealed in stages through time and recorded in the Scriptures. The Catechism says they are the way pointed by Christ himself that leads us to eternal bliss.

This is how the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches about the beatitudes:
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133205 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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