Article September 14, 2020 Issue

Persecution and blessings

Katherine Milner-Hieronymus

I grew up attending a Christian Science Sunday School, where, among other activities, we learned the Beatitudes (see Matthew 5:3–12), the series of blessings Jesus declared in his Sermon on the Mount.

This certainly was time well spent, because while we were learning to live the healing ideas of the Beatitudes, we were laying the foundation for our individual spiritual growth and learning how to be productive citizens of our community and the world.

The Beatitudes made good sense to me as a child, except for the last two: “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” and “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.”

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