Beatitudes Respond To The Human Experience Of Injustice Essay

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PART B

Individually you are to write a 500-word response to the following question:

How do the Beatitudes respond to the human experience of injustice?

How do the Beatitudes lead Catholics to respond to the human experience of injustice?

In your response you must refer to:
- The Beatitudes and other scriptural references
- Christian leaders and/or Church documents
- Particular facts about refugees and asylum seekers in Australia
- Your own personal learning and reflection this term

The Beatitudes contain important virtues and characteristics that shape a Catholic’s beliefs. It is a necessity for a Catholic to live out the beatitudes at the heart of the matter, which I believe is asylum seekers. The way I believe that the beatitudes lead Catholics into responding to the human experience of injustice is through asylum seekers, and the injustice that they have had to experience. The Beatitudes allow a Catholic to have a perspective upon the injustice.

It is evident that there is human injustice with refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. Refugees and asylum seekers are seeking safety and protection from the severe circumstance of injustice that they have had to experience. There are over 436 people in offshore detention in Australia …show more content…

The Catholic Church teaches to take care and look after refugees and migrants in their trials and to be welcoming to the stranger who knocks our door seeking refugee. According to the Gospel, it teaches us to welcome strangers through practicing the commandment to love God “with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength and to love the other “as you love yourself” Luke 10:27. With loving each other and being attentive to each other’s needs, at the same time we are showing our love for God. Catholics are responding to the human experience of injustice by being attentive to the needs of

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