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Nutritionists tell us that our appetites determine our diet, our diet determines our intake, and our intake determines our health.

This phrase also applies in the spiritual realm. Jesus challenges us to look at our spiritual appetite with the penetrating words of the Fourth Beatitude.

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Respecting the Life and Dignity of the Human Person:

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Respecting the Life and Dignity of the Human Person:

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Call to Family, Community, and Participation:

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Call to Family, Community, and Participation:

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Taking the fourth and eighth beatitudes together, the meaning parallels: We are to hunger and to thirst after a kind of life that will cause some people to persecute us for our faith. So righteousness is a lifestyle that distinguishes us as true Christians and opposes opposition from the world with love

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-The Peace Corps sends out groups to provide for a variety of different causes.

-Volunteers peacefully march against an unjust law.

-A student stands up for an individual who is being bullied, teased, and thereby tormented

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John 4:1-42
Jesus  broke with societal and religious customs to honor the dignity of the Samaritan  woman.

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Romans 12: 9-18
Love one another, contribute to the needs of others, live peaceably with all.

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Human persons are  willed by God; they are imprinted with God's image. Their dignity does not come  from the work they do, but from the persons they are. (St. John Paul II, On the Hundredth Year)

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But God did not create  man as a solitary, for from the beginning “male and female he created them”  (Gen. 1:27). Their companionship produces the primary form of interpersonal  communion. For by his innermost nature man is a social being, and unless he  relates himself to others he can neither live nor develop his potential. (Second Vatican Council, The Church in the Modern World

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Matthew 25:34-40
What you do for the least among you, you do  for Jesus.

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The obligation to provide justice for all means that the poor have the single most urgent economic claim on the conscience of the nation. (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Economic Justice for All

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The  environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a  responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations and towards  humanity as a whole. . . Our duties towards the environment are linked to our  duties towards the human person, considered in himself and in relation to  others. It would be wrong to uphold one set of duties while trampling on the  other. (Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth