[From March 27, 2009 archive]
Woe to the shepherds
of the world
who destroy and
scatter your sheep!
Can’t you see what
they are doing:
bombs, war, rape, torture,
plunder?
Why are you so far
from helping
and from the words of
groaning?
God, what then are we
to think--
Are you for sheep or
shepherd?
O, you did not
withhold your Son;
but gave him up for
all your sheep.
With him help sheep
and shepherd
abide in him, as he
abides in them.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130
Jer. 23:1-8
Rom. 8:28-39
John 6:52-59
Selected Verses
Ps. 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
Jer. 23:1
Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my
pasture! says the LORD.
Rom. 8:31-32
What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but
gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else?
John 6:56
“…Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I
in them. …” [Jesus to those in the synagogue who
complained against him]
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