Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us. Peace be with you. Friends, we

continue our reading of the marvelous sermon on the Mount. We're in the heart of

chapter 5. Kinds recommend to you, get out your bibles. Matthew 5, 6, and 7 is the

central teaching of Jesus, probably what he would typically teach as he

made his way around the countryside. But it's gathered here in one place for

contemplation. Here's I think a key now to reading the sermon of the Mount.

We can't read it as just one sort of moral philosophy among many. So, you know,

everyone from Plato and Aristotle all the way up through Kant and Hegel and

John Dewey have a moral philosophy. Here's our understanding of how humans

ought to behave or they have a political philosophy. Here's the way we think

society ought to be organized. That's true again from Plato through Karl Marx

and everybody in between. And they say, well, here's Jesus' ethical teaching. Here's

Jesus' political philosophy. That's precisely the wrong way to read it. Because

one thing you'll notice, I think, is no one sounds like Jesus. And I mean ancient

modern, I mean religious people, not a religious people, no philosopher, no

ethician sounds. Like Jesus, Jesus, in fact, sounds a little bit crazy. Name

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