The Good Shepherd

1. The obligation of pray for the priest.

Today the Church celebrates Jesus as Good Shepherd, and ask to al the sheeps, to pray for they shepherds, the Pope, the Bishop, the priest. We have to beg Jesus to send more priests and to keep them safe.

2. I am the door, because trough him we have access to God.

Jesus is so called the door, because he opens for us the knowledge of God, and all the scriptures point to Christ.

According to Chrysostom, Christ calls Sacred Scripture the door, according to pray for us also that God may open to us a door for the word (Col 4:3). Sacred Scripture is called a door, as Chrysostom says, first of all, because through it we have access to the knowledge of God: which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was made to him the seed of David according to the flesh (Rom 1:2–3).

Second, for just as the door guards the sheep, so Sacred Scripture preserves the life of the faithful:[1]

Third, because the door keeps the wolf from entering;

so Sacred Scripture keeps heretics from harming the faithful: every Scripture inspired by God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction in justice (2 Tim 3:16)[2]

3. He careful with the thiefs

He that entirety not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.[3]

Who did not come with the authority of Christ, came to robber, what is the authority of God, the Church is his body and the people who came without the authority of Christ are a robbers.

Jesus call another pastors robbers, because they still the word of God, and killers because his doctrine did no lead to eternal life.

A priest became a robber, when it disposes the bible as and owner, not as administrator, I am a priest, I am no owner, I have to present the doctrine of the Church, no my own ideas.

And we became a killer when we did no teach the true that lead people to eternal life.

4. We enter by Christ when we imitates him

He enters by the door, who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ, so as to feel and know, that if God became man for us, man should not think himself God, but man.[4]

So Jesus is the door, is the word of God, and if we want to enter through this door we have to imitate him, carrying his suffering, the Cross is the mark that distinguish the Good Shepherd for a thief.

We can tell those pastors show me how much did you suffer for Christ,

Did you heal the wound sheep, did you have the houses of Charity

Did you go in search for the loosen sheep

With the suffering with can see if we are true Christians.

Now you have to teach them how to a Christian suffer.

Show me your wounds Saint Francisco.

IF WEE SUFFER WITH CHRIST WE ARE TRUE CHRISTIANS

[1]Saint Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of John Chapters 1–21, trans. Fabian R. Larcher, vol. 2, Latin/English Edition of the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas (Steubenville, OH; Green Bay, WI: Emmaus Academic; Aquinas Institute, 2018), 32. [2]Saint Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of John Chapters 1–21, trans. Fabian R. Larcher, vol. 2, Latin/English Edition of the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas (Steubenville, OH; Green Bay, WI: Emmaus Academic; Aquinas Institute, 2018), 32. [3]Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected out of the Works of the Fathers: St. John, ed. John Henry Newman, vol. 4 (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1845), 343. [4]Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected out of the Works of the Fathers: St. John, ed. John Henry Newman, vol. 4 (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1845), 344–345.