On today’s celebration of the 4th Sunday of Easter, also known as Good Shepherd Sunday, Jesus tells us that He Is the Good Shepherd, and that His sheep hear His voice, know, and follow Him. In his reflection, Tony discusses how we can know we are hearing the voice of the Good Shepherd in a world with so many voices vying for our attention.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Acts 13:14, 43-52
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 5
Reading 2: Revelation 7:9, 14b-17
Gospel: John 10:27-30
Endnotes:
2 Samuel 5:2; 1 Chronicles 11:2
1 Peter 5:2-3
1 Peter 5:4
Psalm 23:2 & Psalm 80:2 & 4
Ezekiel 34:15-16
John 10:1-21-Good Shepherd Discourse
I Am statements of Jesus: John 10:14 & 17 (Good Shepherd); John 15:1 (The Vine); John 6:35 (Bread of Life); John 10:9 (Gate); John 8:12 (Light of the World); John 11:25 (Resurrection and the Life); John 14:6 (Way, Truth & Life).
Exodus 3:13-14
John 10:31-33
St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 12.4.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 52; cf. God In the Dock, 100-101.
St. John Henry Newman, Letter to the Duke of Norfolk, 5.
John 14:6
St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Book of Sentences, IV.38.2,4, exposition.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I-II, 19.5.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I, 12.11.3.
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.