Sunday, May 8, is the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Mass readings: Acts 13:14, 43-52; Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 5; Revelation 7:9, 14b-17; John 10:27-30. The Lord says, “My sheep hear my voice.” The Lord is not ...

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 ...

With the Fourth Sunday of Easter comes a shift in the kinds of Gospels we hear. From Easter until now, the Sunday Gospels have told of Jesus’ post-Resurrection appearances: the women with angels at ...

Two men recited Psalm 23. One was trained in speech technique and drama; he recited the psalm with power and the audience cheered and even asked for an encore. Then the other much older man repeated ...

You can find the readings here. I know them, and they follow me. Many years ago, I spent a few days on an educational farm, where I helped to birth a sheep. The little lamb was stuck in the birth ...

Lorrie Boyer, a longtime radio voice of agriculture in Eastern Colorado, has been honored with the American Sheep Industry Association’s Shepherd’s Voice Award for media in 2024. The award was ...

When I was a student at St. Mary's College, I had a theology professor who hated the shepherd-sheep metaphor for Jesus and his followers. The professor's issue with the idea of Christians as sheep was ...