{"id":4334,"date":"2020-05-04T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2020-05-04T05:07:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T03:07:33","slug":"open-your-eyes-and-recognize-the-good-shepherd-around-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"OPEN YOUR EYES AND RECOGNIZE THE GOOD SHEPHERD AROUND YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me,\u00a0just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep.\u201d<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(John 10:14-15)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Shepherd has two credentials: his intimacy with his sheep (he knows them and they know him) and his total dedication of laying down his life to protect them<\/p>\n

There is no need for words to explain today\u2019s Gospel (John 10:11-18)<\/strong>. Just open your eyes and look around you today. Look at those who endanger their lives to provide us with essential services – here is the presence of the Good Shepherd.<\/p>\n

Look at those who literally and figuratively give their lives as first responders, as medical personnel, as accompaniers of the dying and the grieving – here is the presence of the Good Shepherd.<\/p>\n

Open your eyes to see the presence of the Good Shepherd all around you saying: \u201cI have no hands but yours, I have no heart but yours, I have no mouth but yours\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

In a letter to his mother in December 1808, St Eugene wrote:<\/p>\n

I will just tell you that the Lord is rich indeed and above all very generous, for indeed he amply repays us for the poor little deeds we offer him. What does the world amount to? Indeed, far from setting any value on the sacrifice we make of it to God, ought we not to count ourselves most blessed that he lets us strip ourselves of all that is contemptible, abject, perilous, to receive in exchange all that is greatest, most consoling, in a word his very self.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If people but knew the gift of God!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me,\u00a0just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(John 10:14-15) The Shepherd has two credentials: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}