Some days it's easy to find ourselves in the Beatitudes. Other days it's hard. • At the Mount of the Beatitudes, I imagined what I'd think if I was sitting there hearing Jesus preach the Beatitudes. That, despite our material and spiritual poverty, our hunger, our suffering and our pain, we will find great reward in heaven. • As then and today, I wonder: Is that true? Why can't we find it here? Next to where we fell down? • Father Henri Nouwen once said: “The Beatitudes say, ‘Blessed are the poor.’ They don’t say, ‘Blessed are those who care for the poor.’ The blessing is located in our poor people, in people who are weak. They are the ones we should stay close to, not because they need us but because we need to receive from them the blessing." • Even if we cannot find ourselves in the Beatitudes every day, or if we struggle to find a Beatitude alive in a single week, we should remain hopeful that we can at least find Christ Himself in the Gospel, in the Eucharist and in the grace betw...