To Our Readers
We are delighted that you have come to visit us today. Our fall issue centers on the theme of the Beatitudes, a classic text of the Christian tradition taken from Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel according to Matthew. At once challenging and inspiring, the Beatitudes raise many questions: What does it mean to be blessed? Who are the blessed? Do we really find blessing in poverty and meekness, purity of heart, hunger for justice, peacemaking, persecution? How does one live into the vision held forth by the Beatitudes? We hope that by exploring these questions along with our contributors, you may arrive at new insights that will enrich your experience of sacred music, worship, and the arts. If you like what you see here, please share this publication with others. Subscription is free of charge and open to all.
Rita Ferrone, editor
November 28, 2018
Table of Contents
Welcome to The Yale ISM Review
On the Cover: The Beatitudes, Illuminated
Visions of Blessing
Climbing the Mountain of the Beatitudes
Blessing and the Face of Being
Living the Beatitudes
Poverty of Spirit and the Spiritual Life of Children
Lessons from the Music of the Global South
The Christian Funeral and the Blessedness of Mourning
Places to Mourn for Those Who Have Lost Their Place
The Meek Will Inherit the Earth
Composing the Hymn for the Holy Year of Mercy
Living as Sacramental Jars of Clay
What Kind of Righteousness? What Kind of Blessing?
