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

have one of the great passages on the New Testament today for our reading

namely the Beatitudes taken from the fifth chapter of the gospel Matthews, the

very beginning of the sermon on the Mount. I'm going to go through all

eight Beatitudes. I'm aware that as I record these words Pope Francis has just

said they think a lot of Catholic preaching is terrible and one reason is it's

too long and he said keep it to eight minutes. Well I maybe Holy Father I can't

guarantee eight but I promise you it'll be around 12 or 13 as usual but I'll

get through all eight. So first of all you know it's there's so important

because Beatitudeau just means happiness. I don't care who you are what your

background is that's the one thing we all want everyone has that in common we

all want Beatitudeau we all want to be happy everybody. Well here's the son of

God telling us how to be happy so we should pay close attention. He says first

how blessed happy again how happy are the poor in spirit the reign of God is

theirs. Why is this the first Beatitude? Well because pride is the greatest sin.

What does pride say basically I got to fill myself up to be happy I've got to

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