Yogi Nagar South Zone - Good Shepherd
Good Shepherd
Feast:
The Good Shepherd is a pericope found in John 10:1-21 in which Jesus is depicted as the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep. Similar imagery is used in Psalm 23. The Good Shepherd is revisited throughout the four Gospels in references to Jesus not letting himself lose any of his sheep.
In the surrounding context of the allegorical story of the Good Shepherd depicts the people around Jesus realized that he was asserting that he was God, the reaction of the Jews (picking up stones to stone him) show that they understood Jesus was asserting divinity. (see Leviticus 24:16).
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep 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 are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life - only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.
Parish Pastoral Council Members of the Zone
Yogi South - A - Albina Mathiah - 28338007 - Cell: 9820822399
Yogi South - B - Valentine Pinto - 28983621
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