The Sermon on the Mount

""In Blood Brothers, Abuna Elias Chacour took us on a journey of love in the face of oppression that was geographical, historical and personal. In The Sermon on The Mount, written in the cave of pandemic, Abuna invites to go even deeper by leading us out and into the blessings given on the Mount of Beatitudes. Chacour exposes his core ethic to us--a costly grace, born of deep introspection. His timely teaching gives us examples of hope, and shows us the ways we can, together, face the urgent global reality of the need for the brave, sacred, Christ-filled bonds of true peacemaking."" --Anne Weirich, president of the board, Pilgrims of I'billin ""What are a Christian's credentials? For Elias Chacour they are the nine Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount. This book is more about self-examination than about examining three chapters in Matthew. It challenges us to consider our prayer and fasting, to think about our confrontations with scribes and Pharisees. Above all, it asks, do we live like we truly believe that every human being is created in the image of God and worthy of dignity and respect?"" --Robert E. Sawyer, former executive director, Pilgrims of I'billin ""If the Sermon on the Mount is the life program of the Christian and the Beatitudes our credentials, Chacour's faithfulness as a disciple of Christ gives him ample room to challenge his readers and reflect on the Sermon on the Mount as a practice of daily living. Readers will find themselves newly invited to live more and more into the call of Jesus through his most central teaching and Chacour's witness as 'living stone.'"" --Peter J. M. Henry, minister of Word and Sacrament, Presbyterian Church USA