Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Today’s Gospel has Jesus say, “I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.” Could this be applied to all those who are not Christians but are nonetheless open to the fullest reality of Christ?
John J. Pilch
The Beloved Disciple is also a noble shepherd, but Peter the braggart is portrayed as the hireling who abandons the sheep to the wolf. He has miles to go before he can be elevated to the rank of shepherd.
The grave was bitter, our prison was indestructible, until the shepherd went down and brought to his sheep, confined there, the good news of their release.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The Lame Walk: An Image of the Church
The single verse—“the stone the builders rejected has become
the cornerstone”
—caught wonderfully, in a few words, the meaning of the death and
resurrection of Jesus.
Reginald H. Fuller
Salvation comes solely as a result of the death and resurrection
of Christ