Three Qualities of a Good Shepherd - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2024
- Friends, we come to the Fourth Sunday of Easter, known as Good Shepherd Sunday. Jesus says in the Gospel, “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” What is it about that image that sings to us across the ages, from the pages of the Bible to the present day? What I want to do is reflect on this image of the shepherd-first, in relation to Jesus, then second, in relation to leadership in the life of the Church.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1 - Acts 4:8-12
Psalm - Ps 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29
Reading 2 - 1 Jn 3:1-2
Gospel - Jn 10:11-18
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Dear Bishop,
You don’t know how The Lord is using your sermons to reach millions. The clarity of your messages are unmatchable. A lot of none Catholics listen to you. I know some Pentecostal pastors who love to listen to you. May God continue to bless you and your ministry and may He continue to use you for the expansion of His kingdom.
It’s always a good time when you hear the “peace be with you.”
🐾 Shepherd's voice✨⭐👍
@goombatime I agree. However, I recognize that particular oil derrick emblem. I’m in the Houston area.
So true! 🐑✝️🙏🏼
“And God Bless You…”..❤
I pray for the Pope, Bishops, Priests, Seminarians, Novices, and Nuns: that they will be able to live their lives like The Good Shepard. That despite flaws, they will set the example, and be present to the people they serve. I also pray that God will continue to guide me, and help me follow only His will. Thank you, Bishop Barron.
Beautiful.
Amen!
Amen!
Bishop Barron himself is the personification of those of whom he speaks. Such clarity
Thank you Bisop Baron. Please find a way to shorten the lengthy comments some people think are be essential to our well- being 😮. Not true.
Wonderful , as always. Such a gift to have these sermons accessible and free to all! Thank u Bishop Barron! ✝️
I was lucky once as I saw a real shepherd with his flock. I was driving somewhere in south Bavaria, Germany and north Switzerland. I had to stop as the Shepperd stopped the traffic so his flock could cross the road. It was a magical moment. So humble! Listening to the sheep cross the road so confident and trusting. I am lucky to see what the Lord Jesus meant! Thank you lord.
Thank you, Bishop Barron, for being a good shepherd in the church today.
Winona Rochester is very fortunate to have Bishop Baron as their leader.
However, we are blessed to have his homilies as well.
Thank you, Bishop Barron.
Dear Bishop Baron,
I am from Sri Lanka and very recently started to follow your preachings. Our relationship with the bishops here as sheep and shepherds are totally different from what you are explaining today. The only thing I can do now is for praying for them asking my Lord to give them wise and humble hearts to understand their people as you. God bless you....Dear Bishop Baron...
God willing I will be priested in July 2024, and I will re-watch this again in the build up as well as many times after to remind me what it's all about. Thank you Bishop.
God bless and protect you, Deacon! May you be a worthy loving caring but firm and discerning shepherd always no teaching The Truth to your flock!
…always teaching The Truth…
I did not add the no to my sentence! I have heard the evil one can text. I see it first-hand for the first time. Lord Jesus, please deal with this one now. We thank You Lord Jesus Christ and we love You!
@@FiatMaryann Thank you and God bless. With God's help I'll do my best to follow your wise advice.
The best presentation of leadership (in the secular sense, too) that I have ever heard. Leadership, as opposed to management. Should be shown at every management training seminar!
Thank you Bishop Barron, you are always so illuminating!!
Bishop, I'm a sheep who has kind of been fallen away, or at least been behind the flock, and after hearing your homily I wish I could give you a hug.
One of the best sermons I have ever heard about Jesus.
Bishop Robert Baron the 21st century Archbishop Fulton Sheen. You are a wonderful recreation of the masterful voice of Archbishop Sheen so long missed and so much needed today. God love you!
I hope the Bishop will petition the Pope for the Beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
God love you ❤
Powerful, thank you Bishop Barron
Jesus who passed through the locked doors will pass through our locked hearts too
😊thank God for Bisschop Barron‘ sermons!
You are a good Shepard Bishop God bless you in your ministry 🙏🏻❤️🩹
Thank you. Blessings, be well.
May the 'Word on Fire', through you Bishop, on this Good Shepherd Sunday, reach out and bring back home all those who has left the Church and wandering, helpless and living in misery.
This is one of the most unassumingly best homilies I've ever heard. Thank you Bishop Barron 🙏
May God continue blessing you Bishop Barron 🙏
Thank you.
Thank you for all you do. I love listening to you. You are drawing me closer to God. I learned to TRUST in Jesus .
Love this !! You are helping me get closer to my faith and the Catholic Church , thank you❤
Thank you Bishop for this special explanation!
Great homily, thanks bishop
So illuminating. I can see clearly the holes in my leadership. This message will increase my effectiveness.
Thank you, Bishop Barron. God bless you.
Peace be with you from Indonesia 🙏
I am so thankful for your blessed wisdom. I live near Mundelein and love when you mention it.
Amen ❤thank you
Blessed Sunday!
Thank you Jesus for attending to those of us who have fallen behind. I am a sinner and you still take of me. 🙏💞🙏💞
Thank you Bishop Barron for using your Good given talents to bring us closer to our Lord Jesus Christ!
Pastor=shepherd. You are a good shepherd, Bishop Barron, thank you for leading us!
Thank you. Bishop Barron ✝️🕊️🙏🇺🇲
Thank you, Bishop Barron for your teachings and for sharing your ministry. I have always found strength and courage in our Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ!
I just want to add my voice to what has already been said here in saying Thank You, Bishop Barron, for you, your ministry, and your sacrifice. Words can not describe how helpful your Sunday sermons are to us! We are praying for you every day.
Praying for thousands of priests and bishops like this one. Our beloved Church is withering and afraid and that makes no sense at all.
It’s not. We tend to think our world is constrained by our geography. My diocese is so alive! So many beautiful couples with 6+ kids in attendance. That says nothing about Latin America and Africa where the Church is thriving! Asia is also an interesting place where the Church is flourishing. Korea and Japan are becoming Christian even if its only in a small part. God bless you!
Mostly caused by Vatican 2
Our Church will wither when we do! Peace to you.
Thank you Bishop for being a good shepherd
Amen. Leadership matters. Thank you, as always, Bishop Barron! 💙🙏
You do provide a Vision ALL THE TIME. YES
Thank you Bishop Barron for your reflection on the Good Shepherd
Thank Bishop Robert Barron. We are hearing the Holy Spirit in Kindle of the fire of our love. You are reaching God’s flock. Thank you for your Goodness and openness as a leader of our Church. I am praying For Bishop Robert Barron and I am listening and being inspired by our Joly Spirit. Thank you for your Gift of being a Good Shepherd. God Bless you Bishop Robert Barron. I appreciate you. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌞😊😊😊
Holy Spirit
You were my good Shepard everyday when you said mass all during the Covid situation. Started my day with hope and peace.
The Lord is My Shepherd there’s nothing I shall want !! Blessings
Peace be with you Bishop
Thank you Bishop Barron! You are a perfect example of a good shepherd.May God bless you🙏
Please pray for my family members who have fallen away from the Church. Especially my brother Rob and my son Ben.
What a message for a father to a family. That's hard enough. I couldn't imagine scaling this up to that of a diocese or the whole church. May God bless you.
God bless Bishop Barron 🙏 ❤
This should be required listening for all clergy.
OUT IN FRONT, IN THE MIDDLE & BEHIND! Thanks Bishop!
Will do! Thanks!
I took strength from this sermon as I applied it to my being a father. My “sheep” have grown and are thriving, Praise God, but still, I check in on them and offer my help and guidance anyway I can.
God Bless You Bishop who truly acts 'in person Christi' when teaching, witnessing, cheering on your flock and all of us extended sheep!! Thank you!!✝✝✝
May God continue to bless us with Our Good Shepherd, Bishop Baron!!❤
Thank you Bishop. Praying for all the Good Shepherds in our Church and for all Seminarians who are about to receive their Holy Orders in the coming weeks.
You tie so many thoughts together for Reflection!! Thanks so much!!
Thanks again Bishop Barron. As lay people we also need to be Shepherds in our local communities not just the clergy. Especially with the flock that has fallen behind and is need: evangelization, care of the sick, visiting the needy, etc. Thank you Father Barron for opening my eyes and seeing clearly the word and truth of scripture.
Yes, by virtue of our baptism, we are all priest, prophet, and king!
Another great reflection from a man of God. Thank you Bishop😊😊
Love your homily, Bishop Barron. Thank you very much, you have added clear meaning of how a Shepherd should be. God Bless Bishop!!!
❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
God bless you, dear Bishop Barron.
Bishop Barron is a pleasure to hear your words, God bless you.
Thanks Bishop Robert Barron. Thanks a lot. Yes, You’re a good shepherd! God bless you. Be sure that, here,,in the Amazon Region of Brazil, in the middle of nowhere, there many People praying for you. Day and Night. May God be always with.
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
That means the world to me. Thanks!
We need more good shepherds and religious leaders like you Bishop Barron. Many of our youth have veered away from our beloved Catholic faith. We Pray for a Greater understanding of why, as much as we Pray for an increase in faith, especially the religious life. As always, May God Bless You! In Jesus, The Good Shepherd's Name We Pray!❤
Thank you Bishop Baron!!.🙃🙏🎶🎶🇿🇦
Very inspiring
God has blessed us with not just a 'good, but excellent Shepherd in Bishop Barron. May God bless and keep him. Numbers 4: 24-26
thank you
And bless you too ❤🙏
Dear Bishop, I always appreciate your content. I was raised Catholic in a Catholic family that was "sleepy" to the Church. Going to church stopped being frequent many years ago, as a child, until we stopped going altogether. We became non-practicing Catholics. We fall asleep to the Church but not to faith. By faith, I decided to return to the Church after... reading the Bible. It awakened something in me that I had been crying out for for a long time: a thirst for belonging but more than that, a hunger for the Eucharist. From an inert position, I started to share my faith with my friends (they belong to another religion). In the theme of the Good Shepherd, which I deeply relate to the Divine essence existing - in its fullness - in the human condition of Jesus, I was approached with the question: How did Jesus know the hearts and thoughts of people, the past of the Samaritan woman, the death of Lazarus, Nathanaiel under the fig tree,..., and not knowing the day or the hour; the place where Lazarus was buried, for example? I replied that Jesus, being a man, was unaware of things that the human condition dictated but that, being divine, and Shepherd of his sheep, he knew their past, their thoughts, their state. The Good Shepherd knows His sheep (body and soul) but, everything earthly (day/time/place) was dissipated in the humanity of Christ. He came for His sheep and He saw and knew them as only God can know us. Was my answer wrong? I am re-learning all aspects of faith and sharing it is still not always easy for me.
Bishop Barron truly is a “Good Sheppard “ How lucky we are to have this man in our lives leading the flocks….God Bless.
God bless you always dear Bishop Barron. Thank you for the homilies and for being a good shepherd following Jesus
♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻♥️
Love you Bishop Barron. Praying for you and your ministry. Thank you Jesus
Thank you Bishop may God bless you
Beautiful, Bishop 🙏🏽
God bless my BBB
Amen!
My neighbor, now 86 came to America at age 15 as a Shepard. (We have sheep in Dixon CA). His brother is a priest. He’s a joy to have as a neighbor. He and wife raised awesome children and grandchildren. As I mother, knew my children were not mine but given me by the Good Shepard. Seems like all Catholics understand the Shepard on some level. ( I was lost and then I was found). Enjoy your talks. Peace to you and all who listen.
You are a good shepherd Bishop Barron. God bless you 🙏✝️
AMEN...THANK YOU BISHOP BARRON,GOD BLESS🙏❤️
I'm a Christian, but have watched and listened to a lot of Bishop Baron's guidance. He has helped to calm me, to give me insight, to answer questions, and to offer refuge when I feel consumed by sin or sinful nature. I am grateful that he uploads these words, and I am allowed to listen and study even if I'm not a Catholic. Thank you Bishop.
The very word Catholic means universal. These teachings aren't just for Catholics but for everyone willing to listen and learn. May God bless you as you walk in the faith of Jesus our savior.
@@yb5515 thank you my friend. May God bless you as well, and may your life be fruitful and whole with the light of the Lord.
Amen, Jesus never fails to send us good shepherds even though they smell like the sheep.
God bless Bishop Barren, God bless your ministry and may it reach to the ends of the earth ✝️🙏🏽
Thank you, Bishop Barren🙂
Once again, Thank you Bishop! You are a “good shepherd “! May God be with you! Today & always..🇨🇦❤️🙏🌷🇨🇦
Specific, convincing, practical,meaningful homily straight to heart.
Lovely ,Superb
Thanks
Bishop Baron, Thank you from PNG. Today our Parish Priest Fr. Moko came, so timely, he came at a time when the sheep here at 8mile, settlement, Port Moresby, were getting lost. It was so good, many lost Catholics came. When you shared, "Shepherd has to lead in front,, in the midst and behind his flock, I had tears. Iam thank full for Fr. Moko. He came to us, in a canvas shelter, drunks all around, loud music and swearing, but we were home and safe with our shepherd. Thank Bishop keep the fire burning.
Thank you Bishop Barron this is one of my most favorite teaching I have ever heard from You. Thank you so very much, and may Almighty God bless You for this. Amen 🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful sermon, thanks!
Amen. 🙏
Thank you so much for your guidance & instruction ❤️🫖☘️🙏😄
A good shepherd never confuses his flock.
So powerful and meaningful Bishop Barron. We are beyond blessed to have you teach us and bring us closer to Jesus!! Thank you and God Bless You!!
And with your spirit Bishop Barron.
Christ has Risen,Alleluia!!!!!!
Bless you too Your Grace, thank you
Awesome as usual.
Jesus the Good Shepherd, Blessed be God forever.
Prayers on this Good Shepherd Sunday for an increase in vocations, for the return of those who have wandered away from the flock and for the health and safety of those who currently shepherd us . Thank you, Bishop Barron, for your creating Word on Fire. You lead many souls to Jesus. God bless you and your ministry.