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Do You Want to Be Happy?
Bishop Robert Barron
Friends, for the next several weeks, we’re going to be reading in our Gospel from the primal teaching of Jesus: the Sermon on the Mount. And we begin today with a kind of overture to it, which we call the Beatitudes. “Beatitudo” in Latin means “happiness”—the one thing we all want, no matter who we are or what our background is. Jesus, the definitive teacher, is instructing us on what will make us happy—and so we listen.
Daily Reading
First Reading
Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13
Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,
who do his commands;
seek righteousness, seek humility…
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