Well, good morning, everyone. I'm Father Chris Alar here at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

And we're glad you could be with us today. We're here live with a great group of people here, and

we are excited to talk about, you know, we give you a lot of church teaching in these classes and

these explaining the faith where I take you back to seminary.

And that's a good thing because you can't love what you don't know.

But I was going through my seminary notes and I was talking with our theologian Chris Sparks.

And, you know, I don't do enough talk.

I do a lot on knowing the faith, but I want to start to do now more on living the faith. That's the purpose of our show on EWTN, Living Divine Mercy.

But in these Saturday talks, I had two full years, four semesters of moral theology.

And I want to take you back to seminary today

because what we're doing is we're going to teach you

what we learned in seminary about the most important virtues

to get you to heaven.

And surprisingly, they may not be the ones you think.

And so let us begin with a prayer in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Heavenly Father, we ask that you come, send the Holy Spirit down upon us to open our minds and hearts,

especially for those who made the effort to give of their time.

Today you will not be outdone in generosity. And we ask, Lord, that you reward these souls who are

taking the time to listen and watch with the grace and in virtues, that they can live their life

in the way that the teaching of Christ leads them

in living in virtue so that they may attain eternal life in heaven. And we ask this through Christ,

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