The key theme of this Sunday’s Gospel is the recovery of the repentant sinner. The Gospel itself comes in two versions: a short and a long form. The short form includes only the first two parables in ...

In John’s Gospel, Jesus talks in Chapter 10 a great deal about sheep and shepherds. A good shepherd knows the sheep and the sheep know their shepherd. In fact, there are four variations in this short ...

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full and I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, says Jesus Christ.

This is the picture painted in Isaiah 53:6. We are all by nature Mrs. Gadabout. We should be content with the things the Lord has provided, and we should be delighted to feast in His pastures. But sin ...

In calling himself “the Good Shepherd,” Christ likened us to his sheep, but every simile has a limit. Our Lord did not herd livestock, and we are not animals. Indeed, the challenge in Christ’s analogy ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. As I wait in line early in the morning at Starbucks, I hear the voice of a ...

The shepherd’s life. James Rebanks on the ancient and new life of the shepherd. Life is change, we hear a lot these days. For James Rebanks, that is only partly true. Rebanks is a shepherd in the far ...

“I think there’s a major concern for living more in harmony with creation, which is a result of conversion,” says Bishop John Stowe, O.F.M. Conv., “But I think Pope Francis is also, as our good ...

He’s been called Twitter’s favorite shepherd, his name is James Rebanks, and for more than 500 years his family has raised sheep in England’s rugged and beautiful Lake District. It was an unchanging ...