Fourth Sunday in Easter
READINGS FOR THE COMING WEEK:
- First reading
- Acts 4:5-12
- Psalm
- Psalm 23
- Second reading
- 1 John 3:16-24
- Gospel
- John 10:11-18
The gospel from John:
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away–and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep.
1508-1519Le Breton, Jacques;* Gaudin, Jean
Cathédrale d’Amiens
Stained glass
Amiens, France
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I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”
*Notes:
Stained-glass composition by J. Le Breton (glass studio of Gaudin, Paris), 1933.
Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN.