Do You Want to Be Happy?

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.

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Do You Want to Be Happy? is an episode from Bishop Robert Barron’s Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies by Bishop Robert Barron.

This episode is 15:37 long.

This episode was published on Jan 28, 2026.

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