{"id":21912,"date":"2021-04-26T05:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=21912"},"modified":"2021-04-26T08:47:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:47:19","slug":"responding-to-the-good-shepherd-as-good-sheep-fourth-monday-of-easter-april-26-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/responding-to-the-good-shepherd-as-good-sheep-fourth-monday-of-easter-april-26-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to the Good Shepherd as Good Sheep, Fourth Monday of Easter, April 26, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life,\u00a0Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the Fourth Week of Easter<br \/>\nApril 26, 2021<br \/>\nActs 11:1-18, Ps 42, Jn 10:1-10<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to this morning\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21912-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.26.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.26.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.26.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points\u00a0were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The mystagogical catechesis of the Easter Season commences with the apparitions of the Risen Lord to convince us anew of the fact of his Resurrection and how he seeks to have us seek the things that are above and live a new life. Then we have a four-day catechesis on the Sacrament of Baptism followed by an eight-day catechesis on the Eucharist. With Good Shepherd Sunday at the beginning of the Fourth Week, we begin to focus on various images and realities by which the Lord Jesus wishes to relate to us and bring us fully alive. Today is the second of three days on which we ponder the Risen Jesus as our shepherd. He summarizes the purpose of that relationship, the purpose of what he seeks to do in us through his passion, death and resurrection, at the end of today&#8217;s passage: \u201cI came that they might have life and have it more abundantly.\u201d St. John Paul II, in his encyclical <em>Evangelium Vitae<\/em>, said that by this phrase, Jesus presents &#8220;the heart of his redemptive mission.&#8221; Jesus wishes us to overflow with his risen\u00a0<em>zoe. <\/em>That&#8217;s what we prayed for at the beginning of Mass when we asked God to grant us the &#8220;full measure of [his] grace for ages unending.&#8221; Grace is our participation as creatures in God&#8217;s own life.\u00a0At the end of today\u2019s first reading, the Church grasped that God wanted his \u201clife-giving repentance\u201d to be preached and offered to all the nations because Christ has &#8220;other sheep&#8221; as he told us in yesterday&#8217;s Gospel that were not of the fold of the Jews.<\/li>\n<li>In the Good Shepherd Discourse,\u00a0we see how Jesus shepherds us to give us life in abundance, the full measure of his grace, in the following five ways:\n<ul>\n<li><em>First he calls\u00a0us by name<\/em> \u2014 None of us is a number to him. He knows us by name and calls us each individually. We\u2019re special to him.<\/li>\n<li><em>Second, he leads\u00a0and guides\u00a0us<\/em> \u2014 He doesn\u2019t call us and leave us on our own, but he constantly calls us to be with him. He goes before us so that he can turn to us and say \u201cfollow me.\u201d Because he knows us individually, he knows that we need direction and he constantly gives that personal direction.<\/li>\n<li><em>Third, he feeds\u00a0us<\/em> \u2014 In the most famous Psalm, which is all about how God shepherds us, we proclaim that with him, we lack nothing, but have it all. He leads us \u00a0into green pastures to have us graze. He guides us to restful waters to refresh us. He sets a table before us and makes our cup overflow. In St. Matthew\u2019s Gospel, when Jesus looked on the crowd because they were \u201clike sheep without a shepherd,\u201d on one occasion he worked the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish and on other occasion he began to teach, knowing that people were hungering for nourishment for their souls as well. As our shepherd, Jesus always remembers to give us each day our daily bread, both material and spiritual.<\/li>\n<li><em>Fourth, he protects\u00a0us<\/em> \u2014 The ancient shepherds used to risk it all to protect their sheep against savage animals like wolves but also against bandits who would come to steal them. Jesus came into our world courageously to do the same for us. When we get lost wandering away from the fold, he leaves everyone else to come to find us and rescue us when we\u2019re in danger.<\/li>\n<li><em>Finally, he loves\u00a0us enough to die for us<\/em> \u2014 Jesus lays down, and lays down freely, his life for his sheep. I\u2019ve always considered it crazy for a human being to die for an animal. It\u2019s silly for us to die for our hamsters or parakeets or even for our pet canines and felines. But shepherds actually would die protecting their flocks from wolves, or lions, or evil bandits. The distance between human beings and animals, however, is nothing compared to the gap between God and us his creatures, and yet that\u2019s precisely what God does. And he does so because he loves us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These are all characteristics of how the risen Lord Jesus wants to relate to us as our shepherd. Our first task is to respond to his shepherding in each of these five ways.\n<ul>\n<li><em>To respond\u00a0to his call<\/em> and singular involvement involvement in our life, to recognize that we\u2019re special to him and summons us to a special bond with him and share in his saving mission. He says that his sheep hear his voice and don\u2019t recognize the voice of a stranger. Yet one of the problems we face is that of discernment, because, after the Fall, we can\u2019t always readily recognize his voice, and so we seek to attune our listening, with the help of others, to his constant calling. Each of us is called!<\/li>\n<li><em>To follow\u00a0him with docility and alacrity<\/em>, knowing that we need his guidance and that he is constantly providing it. Our Christian life is not static, but dynamic. Jesus is always\u00a0leading us out and he wants us following him. He\u2019s leading us on a pilgrimage all the days of our life. Occasionally he will guide us through dark valleys with his rod and staff; we follow him there, too, as he gives us confidence to be with him even on the way of the Cross that is the path to glory.<\/li>\n<li><em>To hunger\u00a0for what he gives us<\/em>, derive our nutrition from what he provides, with gratitude. It\u2019s important for us to allow God to provide for us. That\u2019s what God helped St. Peter to see in today\u2019s first reading when God pronounced clean all food he had created. That\u2019s key to spiritual childhood, that we recognize we need him. In the Psalm today, we pray, &#8220;Athirst is my soul for God, the living God.&#8221; This hunger and thirst are important physically but even more important spiritually, and God seeks to feed our souls even more lavishly than he feeds our bodies, because for our souls, he gives us himself as nutrition.<\/li>\n<li>Not to run away from his protection to get his attention, but <em>to stay close to his strong arm<\/em>. That\u2019s what gives us great confidence and happiness. There\u2019s a beautiful part of today\u2019s Gospel that says that the sheep \u201ccome in and go out and find pasture.\u201d Those verbs point to the fact that they\u2019re secure enough, under the protection of the Shepherd, to wander about, without being paranoid about the wolves or thieves.<\/li>\n<li><em>To receive the fruits of laying down his life for us<\/em>. Jesus gave his life, as he tells us today, so that we might have life and have it to the full. The way we receive this gift is by coming alive, by seizing that gift of abundant life, which is not\u00a0<em>bios (<\/em>biological life), but\u00a0<em>zoe\u00a0<\/em>(supernatural life). We don\u2019t want Jesus\u2019 gift of life to be wasted, but to invest it so that we may have more and more a share of his life, by entering into his life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>When we begin to share in Jesus\u2019 life to the full, when we become Jesus\u2019 good sheep listening to him, following him, consuming what he gives, staying under his protection and receiving his life to the full, Jesus helps us to make the transition from being good sheep to becoming\u00a0good shepherds so that others through us may come to life to the full. Then we become capable of being his instruments in order to:\n<ul>\n<li><em>Call others individually by name<\/em> \u2014 Everyone is precious to God and we need to treat them as precious. That\u2019s what you do in helping every pregnant mother to recognize that the child growing in her womb is likewise precious. It\u2019s also one of the reasons why it&#8217;s important to learn people&#8217;s names. Names are how we relate to each other on a personal level, and if God calls us by name, we\u2019re called to relate to others by name as well.<\/li>\n<li><em>Set for them good example to lead them in the Master\u2019s ways<\/em> \u2014 The Lord seeks to use us to guide people to him and after him to abundant life. The greatest way we can pass on the gift of faith is by\u00a0<em>showing<\/em>\u00a0others\u00a0the faith rather than just verbally\u00a0<em>teaching<\/em>\u00a0it, and particularly by showing how beautiful the life of the faith is.<\/li>\n<li><em>Feed them with material and spiritual nourishment<\/em> \u2014 Before Jesus worked the miracle of the multiplication of loaves and fish, having looked upon the crowd that was like sheep without a shepherd, he told his apostles, \u201cYou give them something to eat.\u201d He asked for the five loaves and two fish they had. So he wants us to share in his shepherdly care for others, feeding them materially and spiritually.<\/li>\n<li><em>Protecting them\u00a0from wolves, thieves, and marauders<\/em> \u2014 Jesus wants us, like him, to be good shepherds protecting others from harm. He contrasts himself from the \u201cmerchants\u201d who run away when beasts or bandits arrive to harm the flock, putting their self-preservation over the protection of others. Jesus calls us to another form of life. For you, sisters, there are times in which you\u2019re spiritual maternity will take the form of becoming Mamma Bears protecting your cubs. This is what Jesus will help you to become.<\/li>\n<li><em>Loving them to the extreme<\/em> \u2014 St. John writes in his first letter, \u201cThe way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers\u201d (1 John 3:16). In forming us to be Good Shepherds, Jesus is helping us to be courageous, to lay down our lives for others in little ways or even by the supreme sacrifice. This is what a Good Shepherd does. This is what fathers and mothers worthy of the name do for their children. This is what Jesus is calling us to do for all our brothers and sisters. When we\u2019re willing to die for others, then loving them is so much easier. And like Jesus said in yesterday&#8217;s Gospel, we\u2019re called to say, \u201cNo one takes my life from me. I fully lay it down!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jesus does all of this training here at Mass. It\u2019s here where he calls us, it\u2019s here in which he guides us, it\u2019s here that he feeds us, it\u2019s here that he protects us from the evil one, it\u2019s here where he loves us to the full and gives us his abundant life. Indeed, with the Lord as our Good Shepherd, we have it all. Let us with joy come to meet him at the banquet he has set for us here on earth, which is a foretaste of the fullness of life he is seeking to give us in the eternal banquet he is preparing\u00a0for us in the eternal verdant pastures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/11:1\">ACTS 11:1-18<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea<br \/>\nheard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.<br \/>\nSo when Peter went up to Jerusalem<br \/>\nthe circumcised believers confronted him, saying,<br \/>\n\u2018You entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them.\u201d<br \/>\nPeter began and explained it to them step by step, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cI was at prayer in the city of Joppa<br \/>\nwhen in a trance I had a vision,<br \/>\nsomething resembling a large sheet coming down,<br \/>\nlowered from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me.<br \/>\nLooking intently into it,<br \/>\nI observed and saw the four-legged animals of the earth,<br \/>\nthe wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.<br \/>\nI also heard a voice say to me, \u2018Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.\u2019<br \/>\nBut I said, \u2018Certainly not, sir,<br \/>\nbecause nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.\u2019<br \/>\nBut a second time a voice from heaven answered,<br \/>\n\u2018What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.\u2019<br \/>\nThis happened three times,<br \/>\nand then everything was drawn up again into the sky.<br \/>\nJust then three men appeared at the house where we were,<br \/>\nwho had been sent to me from Caesarea.<br \/>\nThe Spirit told me to accompany them without discriminating.<br \/>\nThese six brothers also went with me,<br \/>\nand we entered the man\u2019s house.<br \/>\nHe related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, saying,<br \/>\n\u2018Send someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,<br \/>\nwho will speak words to you<br \/>\nby which you and all your household will be saved.\u2019<br \/>\nAs I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them<br \/>\nas it had upon us at the beginning,<br \/>\nand I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said,<br \/>\n\u2018John baptized with water<br \/>\nbut you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.\u2019<br \/>\nIf then God gave them the same gift he gave to us<br \/>\nwhen we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nwho was I to be able to hinder God?\u201d<br \/>\nWhen they heard this,<br \/>\nthey stopped objecting and glorified God, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cGod has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/42:2\">PS 42:2-3; 43:3, 4<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (see 3a)\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nAs the hind longs for the running waters,<br \/>\nso my soul longs for you, O God.<br \/>\nAthirst is my soul for God, the living God.<br \/>\nWhen shall I go and behold the face of God?<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nSend forth your light and your fidelity;<br \/>\nthey shall lead me on<br \/>\nAnd bring me to your holy mountain,<br \/>\nto your dwelling-place.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nThen will I go in to the altar of God,<br \/>\nthe God of my gladness and joy;<br \/>\nThen will I give you thanks upon the harp,<br \/>\nO God, my God!<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/10:14\">JN 10:14<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nI am the good shepherd, says the Lord;<br \/>\nI know my sheep, and mine know me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/10:1\">JN 10:1-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">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 he 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 \/>\nthey did not realize what he was trying to tell them.<br \/>\nSo 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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21915\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/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\/2021\/04\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/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\/2021\/04\/X120-christ-good-shepherd-mosaic-legacy-icons__84462.1499795781.jpg?resize=214%2C214&amp;ssl=1 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1703\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21912-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.26.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.26.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.26.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.26.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=21912-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.26.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"4.26.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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