If you would like to take a creation care guided meditation walk from Sacred Heart courtyard (near the front) around a 1 mile loop and back, 1) download VoiceMap app and create an account, 2) select "Tour Codes" at the bottom of the screen, 3) on the next screen at the top right select "Enter Codes," and then 4) enter "creation" for a free tour! Contact Christina Slentz with questions at cslentz@sdcatholic.org.
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Friends, today’s Gospel (John 10:1–10) again presents the image of Jesus as the shepherd who guides his sheep.
How wonderful and strange that Christianity is not a set of ideas. It’s not a philosophy or an ideology. It’s a relationship with someone who has a voice. The first disciples were privileged to hear the voice of the historical Jesus. They heard its very particular tone and texture.
But we hear his voice, too, in our own way, especially when we hear the Scriptures proclaimed at Mass. Mind you, we don’t just read the Bible; we hear the Bible. We can also hear the voice of Jesus through the teachings of the pope…. [and] in our conscience, which John Henry Newman called “the aboriginal Vicar of Christ in the soul.” We can hear the voice of Jesus in good spiritual friends as well, in those people who comfort us and challenge us and keep calling us to higher ideals and encourage us when we fall.
We listen to the voice of Jesus because he is leading us to a renewed and transformed life with God.
-Bishop Robert Barron
![Friends, today’s Gospel (John 10:1–10) again presents the image of Jesus as the shepherd who guides his sheep.
How wonderful and strange that Christianity is not a set of ideas. It’s not a philosophy or an ideology. It’s a relationship with someone who has a voice. The first disciples were privileged to hear the voice of the historical Jesus. They heard its very particular tone and texture.
But we hear his voice, too, in our own way, especially when we hear the Scriptures proclaimed at Mass. Mind you, we don’t just read the Bible; we hear the Bible. We can also hear the voice of Jesus through the teachings of the pope…. [and] in our conscience, which John Henry Newman called “the aboriginal Vicar of Christ in the soul.” We can hear the voice of Jesus in good spiritual friends as well, in those people who comfort us and challenge us and keep calling us to higher ideals and encourage us when we fall.
We listen to the voice of Jesus because he is leading us to a renewed and transformed life with God.
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Happy Earth Day!!! "Join us to honor and celebrate our remarkable planet on this extraordinary day. Earth Day is a reminder of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability, encouraging us to come together and take action for a healthier planet and brighter future." Visit www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/ to learn more!
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Father of all,
Creator and ruler of the universe,
You entrusted your world to us as a gift.
Help us to care for it and all people,
that we may live in right relationship—
with You,
with ourselves,
with one another,
and with creation.
Christ our Lord,
both divine and human,
You lived among us and died for our sins.
Help us to imitate your love for the human family
by recognizing that we are all connected—
to our brothers and sisters around the world,
to those in poverty impacted by environmental devastation,
and to future generations.
Holy Spirit,
giver of wisdom and love,
You breathe life in us and guide us.
Help us to live according to your vision,
stirring to action the hearts of all—
individuals and families,
communities of faith,
and civil and political leaders.
Triune God, help us to hear the cry of those in poverty, and the cry of the earth, so that we may together care for our common home.
Amen.
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Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us, by letting us be called God’s children; and that is what we are.
- 1 John 3: 1
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“If Christians, instead of radiating the contagious joy of the Gospel, keep speaking in an outworn intellectualistic and moralistic religious language, people will not be able to see the Good Shepherd. They will not recognize the one who loves each of his sheep, calls them by name, and bears them on his shoulders.
Jesus does not ask us to make arguments for God, but to show him, in the same way the saints did, not by words but by our lives.”
Pope Francis
World Day of Prayer for Vocations
🎨 Good Shepherd by Fr. Sieger Köder, Germany
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I am the good shepherd, says the Lord;
I know my sheep, and mine know me.
John 10:14
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The Spirit will be movin’
Feast of Pentecost Mass of Inclusion and Belonging!
Saturday 5pm May 18
Wear red and white to show your spirit!
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“St. John Paul II taught: “†Jesus wants everyone to be a Good Shepherd. Every Christian by virtue of their Baptism, is called to be…a Good Shepherd in the environment in which (they) live”. (from Homily at the Eucharistic celebration of the parish of St. Anthony of Padua, Rome; 6 May 1979) We are to be shepherds; we are to be guardians of the souls that have been entrusted to us. And we look to †Jesus as to how to be Good Shepherds, how we are to live shepherding other people and caring for those entrusted to us.”
-Fr. Mike Murphy
(Excerpt from a homily 2023)
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