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Categories: Homilies

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Description: Jesus sums up a long Biblical tradition when he says "I am the good shepherd." The prophets and the psalmist had yearned for a time when God himself would come to shepherd his people Israel. This yearning is realized in Jesus himself. What makes him good? The Gospel for today specifies two things: his willingness to lay down his life for his sheep, and the fact that he knows his sheep personally, recognizing their voices. Less

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