Mt. 5:1-12  “Blessed are you… you who welcome the coming of the Kingdom with a clean heart.”This is how the introduction to that long discourse can be summarized, Jesus, in the Gospel of Matthew, in which He seems to lay the foundations of what will be the Kingdom of God that He comes to inaugurate. That discourse, which is like an elementary catechism of Christian life, is the foundation of what we are called to live as followers and disciples of Jesus. Let us pause today in a prayerful attitude on those 8 Beatitudes, those 8 sources of joy that can be seen in the humble and simple, those who promote peace, those who are moved and consoled, those who fight against injustice and even more so, those persecuted because of that struggle. Let us try to see in them the portrait of Jesus, as Pope Francis tells us in his Exhortation on holiness: “In them is drawn the face of the Master, whom we are called to make transparent in the daily unfolding of our lives” (GE 63).