Both Uses
beatitude
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
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- For the Fourth Sunday After Epiphany, Canon Mackie chose Matthew—those troublesome Beatitudes; at least, they always troubled Owen and me.†
p. 147.8
- And then—after the Beatitudes, and the sermon by the stranger— the Nicene Creed felt forced to me.†
p. 148.4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(beatitude) a state of blessed, supreme happiness; or in Christian use, one of the sayings of Jesus at the start of the Sermon on the Mount that begin with "Blessed are…"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)