Oct 13, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
Lavinia Spirito and Mary Lou Nemecek discuss Jesus’ Beatitudes, focusing on Matthew 5 and contrasting it with Luke’s blessings and woes, emphasizing that the Beatitudes are meant to challenge…
Lavinia SpiritoHostMary Lou NemecekHost
They're supposed to get in the middle of you and mess you up, you know? And kinda mess up all your, your, your preconceived notions and your expectations and what you think to be true because they're so, in a certain sense, counter-cultural, right?
And like you were saying, there is a way we can listen to the Beatitudes when they're proclaimed at mass or when we read them and say, "Oh, that's nice.
Well, just to, just to be good to everyone and give to the poor and, you know, all those-
And as you're going through the lecture and I'm, I'm trying to take all these notes and everything, which are all over pages and pages, it's like w- we really need to talk about this.
They're supposed to get in the middle of you and mess you up, you know? And kinda mess up all your, your, your preconceived notions and your expectations and what you think to be true because they're so, in a certain sense, counter-cultural, right?
And like you were saying, there is a way we can listen to the Beatitudes when they're proclaimed at mass or when we read them and say, "Oh, that's nice.
Well, just to, just to be good to everyone and give to the poor and, you know, all those-
And as you're going through the lecture and I'm, I'm trying to take all these notes and everything, which are all over pages and pages, it's like w- we really need to talk about this.
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