The ailing young man wanted to be face to face with God. I opened my shoebox.
Easter | Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
Acts 4:5-12; Psalm 23; 1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18
A shepherd’s staff has a crook for drawing the sheep away from danger, and a blunt end for prodding them toward places they would rather not go. This week’s texts embrace the tension between the two in the shepherd’s role.
It was the shortest Vatican II document but among the most influential. Whatever its limits, it was a watershed in Christian-Jewish relations.
It feels to me like evil is hovering over the prison in the form of a government ready to kill a woman who prayed with me when my father was dying of cancer. There isn't a thing I can do about it except pray this psalm and damn if we can't get it right.