Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12 What makes the great saints great is they saw themselves as the greatest sinners. St. Paul famously referred to himself as the “chief of sinners,” a title we apply to ourselves in one of our hymns. Convinced of their deep spiritual corruption, they nevertheless hated that reality. “O wretched man that I am!” said Paul, who believed he was not worthy to be an apostle. “I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells…. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice…. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” The greatest saints saw themselves…