had very much become the victim of his appetites. He was what he had eaten—in the profoundest sense. Elvis Presley’s tragic life dramatizes the significance of the Lord’s teaching in this fourth Beatitude, because in it Jesus sets forth the appetite and menu that bring spiritual well-being: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” In this splendidly paradoxical sentence Jesus tells us what we ought to eat and how we must eat if we are to have spiritual