©1994 by Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, C.F.R.
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This article is used with the author's gracious permission and was excerpted from his book "Heaven in Our Hands" (Receiving the BLESSINGS You Long for).

Published by Servant Publications.
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Author's Notes:

  1. Francis Thompson, Poetical Works, edited by Wilfred Meynell (London: Burns & Oates, 1913) also Modern Library edition (New York: Modern Library, 1969), 349.
  2. St. Augustine, The Lord's Sermon on the Mount.  Ancient Christian Writers, trans. John J. Jepson, S.S. (New York: Newman Press, 1948) now published by Paulist Press, Mahway, New Jersey.
  3. St. Augustine, Sermon on the Mount, 19.