Readings
I - Acts 2: 14, 36-41
II - I Peter 2: 20-25
III - Jn. 10: 1-10
FOLLOW THE SHEPHERD
The fourth week of the Easter Sunday is celebrated as ‘Good Shepherd Sunday’. In today’s Gospel passage Jesus says, “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly”. The Good Shepherd has given his life for us his sheep that we might live. There is other way to inherit eternal life except through Jesus, the door of the sheep fold. In the first reading Peter invites the people of God to repentance in order to join the sheepfold of Christ. In the second reading Peter encourages to endure suffering modelled after the good shepherd who never retaliated at the face of suffering but put his trust on the righteous judge, God Those who listen to the Word of God as Jesus says, would inherit life eternal and will never perish. Those who reject the Word of God in the stubbornness of their heart judge for themselves to be unworthy of eternal life.
God’s words are sown into our hearts by various persons and we too do read the Scripture individually and as community. Reading alone does not suffice, we must hear God speaking to us, listen to him and abide by the same as the sheep of the flock of Christ. If we do so even amidst all joys, sorrows, success, failure, ups and downs of our life, we are sure to inherit life eternal promised by our Good Shepherd Jesus Christ. May our mind and hear resonate with the prayer: “Lord Jesus, help to follow you at all cost”
