The readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter--Good Shepherd Sunday--contain many shepherding allusions. Residents of the Mississippi Delta region need the assistance of a good shepherd . . .

The reading from the Acts of the Apostles this Sunday includes a summons to repentance, while Psalm 23 describes the Lord as a shepherd who guides “in right paths.” President Barack Obama Tuesday argued for a legal path to citizenship for the millions of immigrants . . .

The people of God “had gone astray like sheep” before returning to the shepherd who is guardian of their souls, we hear in the passage from the First Letter of Peter this Sunday. A ship carrying refugees fleeing Libya went astray . . .

“I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly,” Jesus says in this Sunday’s gospel. Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, died last week after a long and abundant life in service . . .

The shepherd calls his sheep by name and they follow him because they recognize his voice, this Sunday’s gospel tells us. Infants learn to recognize a parent’s voice and respond . . .

“The work of carefully encouraging and supporting vocations finds a radiant source of inspiration in those places in the gospel where Jesus calls his disciples to follow him and trains them with love and care.”

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