In the Gospel for this Fourth Sunday of Easter, we hear Our Lord use two images to describe our relationship to Him, a Shepherd and His sheep and a Gate. As Tony Crescio explains, by using these images Jesus is making radical and totalizing claims about human life. Most basically that we neither finally belong to ourselves or anyone else, but to Him alone, and He is the only way to the fullness of life.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Acts of the Apostles 2:14a, 36-41
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Reading 2: 1 Peter 2:20b-25
Gospel: John 10:1-10
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.