Website DIVISIONS(Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend The 8 beatitudes of Jesus in Matthew chapter 5:3-10, is the secret to happiness. Jesus offers to anyone, who accepts, a way of life that provides peace in the midst  of a troubled world filled with trials and tribulations and also promises his followers eternity in the Kingdom of Heaven.   The following is the meaning of the beatitudes as given by St Gregory more than 1,600 years ago: “Beatitude is a possession of all things held to be good, from which nothing is absent…