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Mary Hooton and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy reflect on the Good Shepherd gospel for the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Fr. Eamonn opens with a striking video he’d seen of a Middle Eastern shepherd demonstrating to pilgrims that when strangers called his sheep nothing happened, but the moment his own voice rang out every head lifted.

That image anchors the conversation: whose voice are we actually following? Mary brings in Elijah — the man who defeated the prophets of Baal but then ran in terror from Queen Jezebel, laid down to die and had to be fed by an angel — as a mirror for the experience of Easter graces leaking away in the noise of ordinary life. The still, small voice of God, heard only in silence, is the one we need to carve out space for, through adoration, prayer, sacraments. Fr. Eamonn closes with the final line of the gospel: the thief comes to steal and destroy, but Christ came so that we may have life and have it to the full.

L'articolo Gospel Tidings – Do We Hear the Good Shepherd? – Mary Hooton and Fr Eamonn on the Fourth Sunday of Easter proviene da Radio Maria.