{"id":19140,"date":"2020-05-03T06:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T10:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=19140"},"modified":"2020-05-03T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T13:51:59","slug":"following-the-good-shepherd-who-gives-us-life-to-the-full-fourth-sunday-of-easter-a-may-3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/following-the-good-shepherd-who-gives-us-life-to-the-full-fourth-sunday-of-easter-a-may-3-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Following the Good Shepherd Who Gives Us Life to the Full, Fourth Sunday of Easter (A), May 3, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nFourth Sunday of Easter, Year A<br \/>\nMay 3, 2020<br \/>\nActs 2:14.36-41, Ps 23, 1 Pet 2:20-25, Jn 10:1-10<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click\u00a0below:<\/i><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-19140-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.3.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.3.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.3.20-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The following\u00a0text guided today&#8217;s homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Fourth Sunday of Easter each year is called Good Shepherd Sunday, because on this day the Church focuses on the tenth Chapter of the Gospel of St. John in which Jesus reveals the relationship he has with each of his faithful followers. Jesus says about himself: \u201cI am the Good Shepherd.\u201d And we, his faithful followers, reply with the words of today\u2019s Psalm: \u201cThe Lord is my shepherd. I want, I lack, for nothing!\u201d We mark this truth in the heart of the Easter Season each year, because it is the heart of our Easter joy: with the Risen Lord Jesus as our Shepherd, we truly have it all!<\/li>\n<li>But it\u2019s key for us to believe and live by those famous words of the Responsorial Psalm. By them, we publicly confess as Catholics that our treasure is Jesus, that if we have him, but don\u2019t have everything else in the world, we still recognize how rich we are. One of my favorite prayers is St. Ignatius of Loyola\u2019s famous <em>Suscipe:<\/em> \u201cTake, Lord and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my entire will. All I have and call my own. Whatever I have or hold, you have given me. I return it all to you and surrender it wholly to be governed by your will. <em>Give me only your love and your grace<\/em>, <em>which are enough for me and I ask for nothing more<\/em>.\u201d This prayer teaches us something very important about being a good sheep of the Good Shepherd: we recognize that Jesus\u2019 love and grace are enough for us. In the midst of a consumerist society, in which we\u2019re bombarded with advertisements that pretend that we\u2019ll be happy only if we obtain what they\u2019re selling, that we\u2019ll be fulfilled only if we have money and houses, fame and fortune, power and position, we focus instead on the Good Shepherd\u2019s love and grace. We confess that what Jesus provides is far more fundamental to happiness in this world and is absolutely essential to eternal felicity with him in the eternal sheepfold.<\/li>\n<li>Throughout the Good Shepherd discourse, a different third of which we get each year, Jesus reveals that he does for us essentially three things. For us to be good sheep of the Good Shepherd, we need to allow him to shepherd us in these three ways.\n<ul>\n<li>First, Jesus the Good Shepherd <em>feeds<\/em> his flock \u2014 He \u201cprepares a table for us,\u201d as we pray in today\u2019s Psalm. Jesus feeds us in every way. He feeds us materially each day as he \u201cgives us today our daily bread\u201d (Mt 6:11). He feeds our souls with his word, for \u201cnot on bread alone does man live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God\u201d (Mt 4:4). He feeds us, ultimately, on his own body and blood in the Eucharist, the food of everlasting life. Good sheep are not only grateful for this three-fold nutrition, but hunger for it!<\/li>\n<li>Second, Jesus the Good Shepherd <em>guides<\/em> his flock \u2014 Jesus \u201cleads us in right paths for [his] names\u2019 sake.\u201d He leads us \u201cbesides the refreshing waters\u201d of baptism. He guides us toward the \u201cverdant pastures\u201d of heaven. He says his sheep hear his voice and can distinguish it from the voice of strangers. He tells us he \u201ccalls his own sheep by name and he leads them out. \u2026 He goes ahead of them and they follow him.\u201d Jesus takes each of us personally to himself, but then he leads us on a journey, a true adventure, so that he may give us eternal life. \u201cI came so that they may have life and have it more abundantly,\u201d he tells us today. That pilgrimage is what life is about. He doesn\u2019t merely tell us about this life, he doesn\u2019t just indicate to us where we need to go, but he leads us by example. To be his disciple means to follow where he leads. St. Peter talks about this in the second reading: \u201cChrist left you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps.\u201d Our discipleship is following where he leads: to follow him to where he wishes to meet with us in prayer; to follow him as we seek to work with the virtues with which he worked in Nazareth; to follow him across the road as Good Samaritans; to follow him to the confessional where he forgives us; to follow him to the altar where he restores us. Good sheep try to follow wherever he leads.<\/li>\n<li>Third, Jesus the Good Shepherd <em>protects<\/em> his flock \u2014 Jesus tells us very clearly that there are \u201cthieves and marauders\u201d who are seeking to fleece, milk, kill, cook and consume us. Against those who come \u201conly to steal and kill and destroy,\u201d Jesus sets himself as our protection, as the gate to the sheepfold so that, essentially, in order to get to us they first need to go through Him. To protect us, not only was he willing to die for us, but did in fact die for us. \u201cThe Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep,\u201d he tells us later in his Good Shepherd Discourse. \u201cNo one takes my life from me. \u2026 I freely lay it down.\u201d This is why we can act on his words, \u201cBe not afraid!\u201d because he himself will protect us from everything that can eternally harm us, provided that we stay in his fold. Thus we can say with trust and confidence, as we pray in today\u2019s Psalm, \u201cEven though I walk in the darkest valley \u2014 and some of us have been in that dark valley! \u2014 I fear no evil, for he is at my side, with his rod and his staff to comfort me.\u201d Today, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, we thank him for that protection and renew that trust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>As Christians, however, it\u2019s not enough for us merely to be good sheep of the Good Shepherd. By his shepherdly care, Jesus wants to transform us to such a degree that we can become good shepherds, and share in his feeding, guiding and protecting of others. We see this transformation in the vocation of St. Peter. After the Resurrection, when Jesus appeared to the disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Jesus asked Peter three times: \u201cSimon, Son of John, do you love me more than these?\u201d Jesus was querying whether Peter loved him more than anything and everything else, because the Lord wanted that love to be the distinctive mark of Peter\u2019s life from that point forward. Three times Peter responded, \u201cYes, Lord, you know that I love you.\u201d After each response, Jesus gave him a commission, a task that would be the bedrock of all he would do in Jesus\u2019 name. The first commission was, \u201cFeed my lambs,\u201d telling him in particular to take care of Christ\u2019s young people. The second was \u201cTend my sheep,\u201d which in the Greek means to guard and guide. The third was \u201cFeed my sheep.\u201d Jesus, the Good Shepherd, was entrusting the care and nourishment of his flock, young and old, to Peter\u2019s loving solicitude. They would always remain Christ\u2019s sheep \u2014 feed <em>my<\/em> lambs, tend <em>my<\/em> sheep, Jesus said \u2014 but they would be guided by a sheep like themselves whom Christ would choose, appoint, and help to be a shepherd after his own example. And it\u2019s obvious that St. Peter never forgot this lesson, which he was putting into practice in today\u2019s first reading, preaching to the crowds and feeding them with the Gospel.<\/li>\n<li>This same truth is depicted powerfully on the fa\u00e7ade of incredibly beautiful Basilica of St. Paul\u2019s Outside the Walls where St. Paul is buried. There we see Christ in the Center in two different images arranged vertically, an iconographic technique that means they should be interpreted together. One is him sitting on a throne with his right hand raised in blessing and in his left hand an open book, signifying the words he wants to speak to us. The words are, \u201cI know my sheep and my sheep know me.\u201d Underneath that is Jesus depicted as the Lamb looking as if he has been slain triumphant from the dead on the mountain of Calvary from which four rivers are flowing. And coming toward him on the mountain are twelve sheep, depicting the twelve apostles. They\u2019re depicted first as sheep, as disciples of the Lord, whom the Lord then makes Shepherds, sending them out. Just as the Lord Jesus calls them to be missionary disciples so he calls each of us, by name.<\/li>\n<li>For the last 57 years, the Church has always celebrated on Good Shepherd Sunday the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, and especially priestly vocations. It\u2019s on this day that we unite ourselves to the Pope and to Catholics all over the world in praying to God the Father, the Harvest Master, to send out laborers, shepherds after the heart of his Son, into the fields.\n<ul>\n<li>Priests are the Good Shepherd\u2019s indispensable instruments to <em>feed<\/em> his flock with himself in the Holy Eucharist, but they also nourish us with his holy Word and the teaching of the Church.<\/li>\n<li>Priests <em>guide<\/em> Jesus\u2019 flock one-on-one in the ministry of mercy in the Confessional, in spiritual direction and counseling and guide the entire flock in their work as pastors, the Latin word for shepherd.<\/li>\n<li>They also seek to <em>protect<\/em> the flock of Christ from what Jesus calls in today\u2019s Gospel \u201cthieves and marauders,\u201d those who would seek to harm them. This involves a defense not just from the devil, his empty promises and evil works, but also all those earthly gurus who try to lead people from Jesus and the narrow path that leads to life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The priesthood is so important, because through it Jesus continues to shepherd us with love. On the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, we thank Jesus for the way that he has fed and tended us as his lamb and sheep throughout our life by those who love Christ enough to leave a family of their own, money and possessions, and their own will in order to serve us in chastity, poverty of spirit and obedience. We pray for the shepherds who have died, like Cardinal John O\u2019Connor, whom the Good Shepherd summoned to follow him into eternity 20 years ago today. We pray for those priests who are in any type of difficulty due to Covid-19 or other causes. We pray that every priest, seminarian and young man who has received a vocation may respond to God\u2019s graces to become truly holy shepherds after the Good Shepherd\u2019s heart. And we pray that God may hear our prayers and raise up many such shepherds from among the boys of our families, our parishes and Diocese and throughout the world.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus is the Good Shepherd who will never leave his flock untended. He continues to feed, lead and protect us. He continues to nourish, guide and defend us through the priests he makes pastors after his own heart. After having listened to the Good Shepherd\u2019s voice speaking to us in the Gospel, we ask him to make us extremely grateful for the \u201ctable he has prepared for us\u201d and for the priesthood that uniquely makes this great banquet of life possible. And we ask him to make us ever more attentive to his voice as he says, \u201cThis is my Body,\u201d \u201cThis is the chalice of my Blood,\u201d giving his life for us and to us so that we might have life to the full, and be strengthened to follow him all the way to the verdant pastures of heaven.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"cs_control_3684\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/2:14\">ACTS 2:14A, 36-41<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>Then Peter stood up with the Eleven,<br \/>\nraised his voice, and proclaimed:<br \/>\n\u201cLet the whole house of Israel know for certain<br \/>\nthat God has made both Lord and Christ,<br \/>\nthis Jesus whom you crucified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart,<br \/>\nand they asked Peter and the other apostles,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat are we to do, my brothers?\u201d<br \/>\nPeter said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cRepent and be baptized, every one of you,<br \/>\nin the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins;<br \/>\nand you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nFor the promise is made to you and to your children<br \/>\nand to all those far off,<br \/>\nwhomever the Lord our God will call.\u201d<br \/>\nHe testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them,<br \/>\n\u201cSave yourselves from this corrupt generation.\u201d<br \/>\nThose who accepted his message were baptized,<br \/>\nand about three thousand persons were added that day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228452\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/23:1\">23: 1-3A, 3B4, 5, 6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>R. (1) <strong>The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.<br \/>\nIn verdant pastures he gives me repose;<br \/>\nbeside restful waters he leads me;<br \/>\nhe refreshes my soul.<br \/>\nR. <strong>The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nHe guides me in right paths<br \/>\nfor his name\u2019s sake.<br \/>\nEven though I walk in the dark valley<br \/>\nI fear no evil; for you are at my side.<br \/>\nWith your rod and your staff<br \/>\nthat give me courage.<br \/>\nR. <strong>The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nYou spread the table before me<br \/>\nin the sight of my foes;<br \/>\nyou anoint my head with oil;<br \/>\nmy cup overflows.<br \/>\nR. <strong>The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nOnly goodness and kindness follow me<br \/>\nall the days of my life;<br \/>\nand I shall dwell in the house of the LORD<br \/>\nfor years to come.<br \/>\nR. <strong>The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228454\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1peter\/2:20\">1 PT 2:20B-25<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>Beloved:<br \/>\nIf you are patient when you suffer for doing what is good,<br \/>\nthis is a grace before God.<br \/>\nFor to this you have been called,<br \/>\nbecause Christ also suffered for you,<br \/>\nleaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps.<br \/>\n<em>He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When he was insulted, he returned no insult;<br \/>\nwhen he suffered, he did not threaten;<br \/>\ninstead, he handed himself over to the one who judges justly.<br \/>\nHe himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross,<br \/>\nso that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness.<br \/>\nBy his wounds you have been healed.<br \/>\nFor you had gone astray like sheep,<br \/>\nbut you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Alleluia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/10:14\">JN 10:14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nI am the good shepherd, says the Lord;<br \/>\nI know my sheep, and mine know me.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228453\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/10:1\">JN 10:1-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>Jesus said:<br \/>\n\u201cAmen, amen, I say to you,<br \/>\nwhoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate<br \/>\nbut climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.<br \/>\nBut whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.<br \/>\nThe gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice,<br \/>\nas the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.<br \/>\nWhen he has driven out all his own,<br \/>\nhe walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him,<br \/>\nbecause they recognize his voice.<br \/>\nBut they will not follow a stranger;<br \/>\nthey will run away from him,<br \/>\nbecause they do not recognize the voice of strangers.\u201d<br \/>\nAlthough Jesus used this figure of speech,<br \/>\nthe Pharisees did not realize what he was trying to tell them.<\/p>\n<p>So Jesus said again, \u201cAmen, amen, I say to you,<br \/>\nI am the gate for the sheep.<br \/>\nAll who came before me are thieves and robbers,<br \/>\nbut the sheep did not listen to them.<br \/>\nI am the gate.<br \/>\nWhoever enters through me will be saved,<br \/>\nand will come in and go out and find pasture.<br \/>\nA thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy;<br \/>\nI came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19142\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?resize=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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