Comments on: Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year B: The Shepherd and the Wolf http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/homily-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-easter-year-b-the-shepherd-and-the-wolf/ Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nicole http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/homily-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-easter-year-b-the-shepherd-and-the-wolf/#comment-6611 Thu, 03 May 2012 16:08:15 +0000 http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/?p=4764#comment-6611 How succinct.

]]> By: Aaron Pidel, SJ http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/homily-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-easter-year-b-the-shepherd-and-the-wolf/#comment-6608 Thu, 03 May 2012 12:19:27 +0000 http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/?p=4764#comment-6608 Contemplate the one Shepherd daily.

]]> By: Nicole http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/homily-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-easter-year-b-the-shepherd-and-the-wolf/#comment-6604 Thu, 03 May 2012 03:24:14 +0000 http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/?p=4764#comment-6604 Any advice for those failing at humility? And how does, say, a physician, stay grounded with all that knowledge, healing power, public admiration? I’m afraid it is such a difficult trap to avoid getting sucked into.

]]> By: Aaron Pidel, SJ http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/homily-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-easter-year-b-the-shepherd-and-the-wolf/#comment-6589 Tue, 01 May 2012 14:05:29 +0000 http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/?p=4764#comment-6589 I hear you. There’s no substitute for prudence in these matters, I reckon. That being said, I find religious “intensity” goes astray when it becomes directed more at shoring up our fragile egos (“At least I’m not like them …”) than at increasing union with God. Even though true religious intensity sensitizes us to sin in the world, it also sensitizes us to sin in ourselves (and thus makes us more compassionate, more approachable).

]]> By: Patrick http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/homily-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-easter-year-b-the-shepherd-and-the-wolf/#comment-6588 Tue, 01 May 2012 13:32:36 +0000 http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/?p=4764#comment-6588 “I think we all know that this “high-stakes” view of Christ and the Church runs contrary to more easy-going religious attitudes prevalent in our country.”

This has been my experienced; I’ve wondered to myself about this very often. Am I too “serious,” “intense,” sort of running ahead of God and demaning more than He does – of myself and others?

I think there is also a real tension, though, that I struggle to reconcile: that between mercy and the understanding that God must surely know and take into account our weakness as well as the craziness we live in, on the one hand, and the high-stakes call of Christ on the other. I find it difficult to live within that tension, or rather to understand how I ought to.

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