Both Uses of
beatitude
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- 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 *
Definition:
a state of supreme happiness
or:
one of the nine sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount -- each of which begin with the word "blessed" ("beatus" in Latin)
or:
one of the nine sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount -- each of which begin with the word "blessed" ("beatus" in Latin)