The theme of God as shepherd comes through in each of the readings this Sunday. The connection between the divine shepherd ...

The Bethlehem-born shepherd-king harkens back to earlier figures. Abraham guides his flocks, both animal and human, into Canaan. Moses abandons the sheepfolds of Sinai to liberate his people from ...

Moses fled for his life ... There was a thief trying to steal sheep, and a shepherd who enters through a gate, one recognizable both to the gatekeeper and the sheep. This good shepherd knows ...