21 Apr 2024
The Good Shepherd
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For 21 April 2024, The Fourth Sunday of Easter, based on John 10:11-18
Jesus said: ‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
22 April 2024 @ 11:11 am
Jesus is the Good Shepherd who takes care of all kinds of sheep who have individual personalities.
It is wonderful to learn about this from your own experience of caring for sheep and then applying it to the example of the Synodal Church in process and how the Good Shepherd Pope Francis continues to guide his sheep in the way of new life and in communion with one another.
God bless your continued preaching. Thank you, Sr. Magdalen, so good to hear from you.
Joyful, Spring,
Brigid