Please read the passage before the homily.
Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours.
The poor are you who have no money, who have hunger and thirst and who weep now. The reward of you poor will be great in heaven.
The poor are you “poor Christians”, those who seem to be sinners but who find it difficult to live the Christian life, you who struggle to live well. You will be saved by the mercy of God, same as the rest will be.
Blessed are you who struggle to live the Christian life because your struggle is a sign of your desire to be faithful to God.
Blessed are you who live under threat of deportation for being non-citizens, or for your sexuality, or for your religion. You are like the prophets of old who were friends of God.
Blessed are you who are bullied because the Lord is your protector.
You poor are those who are looked down upon by yourselves or by others. God, however, looks upon you whom others despise, with eyes of mercy and continues for you God’s love and grace.
The rich have to become poor in order to receive the blessing of God.
In then beginning, over the chaos of nothingness, the voice of God was heard over the abyss we call chaos and God from the chaos crested the universe, putting the chaos into the order of the whole of creation. God is always putting in order the chaos of our poverty into the richness of God’s grace. Blessed are you poor who receive the richness of God’s grace.