Our merciful and loving Father grants to all who are contrite and repentant, life! Our Loving Saviour draws everyone to Himself, believers and non-believers alike. For those whose hearts are transformed and acknowledges Him as Lord and Saviour they too will be granted the very same heavenly inheritance that we receive.
As a disciple of Christ, we are called to tend to His sheep as our very own. Not only when it convenient or safe but in all circumstances and situations. Even if we have to lay down our lives for them. Or it can be simply by putting our brethren’s needs ahead of ours.
Because we all belong to the same body, not that there is any difference between bloodlines for we all have the blood of Christ in us. We are all ONE united with our one Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
First Reading
Acts 11:1-18
GOSPEL
John 10:11-18
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 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. 13 The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 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. 17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. 18 No one takes[a] 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.”
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