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30 Dec 2019

Peace And Families


Beati pacifici, quoniam filii Dei vocabuntur.

Pacificorum beatitudo adoptionis est merces, ut filii Dei maneant; parens enim omnium Deus unus est. Neque aliter transire in nuncupationem familiae ejus licebit, nisi oblivione earum rerum assumpta, quibus possemus offendi, fratenae invicem charitatis pace vivamus.


Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis, In Evangelium Matthaei Commentarius,  Cap IV

Source: Migne PL 9.933b
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. 1

The blessedness of peacemakers is the reward of adoption, that they remain as sons of God, God being the one parent of all. But it shall not be permitted that anyone pass into the name of His family except through the forgetfulness of those things received by which we are able to be offended, thus we may all live in the fraternal peace of mutual love.

Saint Hilary of Poitiers,

Commentary on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 4

1 Mt 5.9

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