Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
- How would you describe a "Good" shepherd?
- Have you even felt as if Christ has been a good shepherd for you? In what ways?
The Mystagogia Session this Sunday is at 10:30am
The Catechumenate Session dismisses from the 11:30am mass.
The next Inquiry Session will be Tuesday, April 27 at 7pm.
How would you describe a "Good" shepherd?
ReplyDeleteI would describe a “Good shepherd” as it says in the earlier verses of John 10 “…I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep…” There is truly no greater love.
The “Good shepherd” also searches after that which is lost as it says in Luke 15 “What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.”
Christ was speaking with sinners here and the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, “This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.”
They were considered the lost. The true is we are all the lost. As in Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, but for as John 3:16 God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten to resecue us from eternal death (the ultimate state of lost).
Christ is the eternal Good Shepherd!
The Good shepherd would also be the embodiment of Love as described in 1 Corinthians 13 “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres Love never fails”.
Christ is this as well for as 1 John 4 says “…God is Love”
Have you even felt as if Christ has been a good shepherd for you?
All ways and at all times, regardless of circumstance. He’s the perfect shepherd. I’m the flawed sheep (creation) thanks to sin. But he has given us the church and the sacraments to heal us of all that sin flawed us. We just have to continue to run the race.
In what ways?
By just counting my many blessings around me!