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Solemnity
of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Feastday: June 11, 2010
Reading 1
Thus
says the Lord GOD:
I
myself will look after and tend my sheep.
As a
shepherd tends his flock
when
he finds himself among his scattered sheep,
so
will I tend my sheep.
I
will rescue them from every place where they were scattered
when
it was cloudy and dark.
I
will lead them out from among the peoples
and
gather them from the foreign lands;
I
will bring them back to their own country
and
pasture them upon the mountains of Israel
in
the land's ravines and all its inhabited places.
In
good pastures will I pasture them,
and
on the mountain heights of Israel
shall
be their grazing ground.
There
they shall lie down on good grazing ground,
and
in rich pastures shall they be pastured
on
the mountains of Israel.
I
myself will pasture my sheep;
I
myself will give them rest, says the Lord GOD.
The
lost I will seek out,
the
strayed I will bring back,
the injured
I will bind up,
the
sick I will heal,
but
the sleek and the strong I will destroy,
shepherding them rightly.
R.
(1) The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
The
LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In
verdant pastures he gives me repose;
beside
restful waters he leads me;
he
refreshes my soul.
R.
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
He
guides me in right paths
for
his name's sake.
Even
though I walk in the dark valley
I
fear no evil; for you are at my side
with
your rod and your staff
that
give me courage.
R.
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
You spread
the table before me
in
the sight of my foes;
you
anoint my head with oil;
my
cup overflows.
R.
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Only
goodness and kindness follow me
all
the days of my life;
and
I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
for
years to come.
R.
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Brothers
and sisters:
The
love of God has been poured out into our hearts
through
the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
For
Christ, while we were still helpless,
died
at the appointed time for the ungodly.
Indeed,
only with difficulty does one die for a just person,
though
perhaps for a good person
one
might even find courage to die.
But
God proves his love for us
in
that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
How
much more then, since we are now justified by his blood,
will
we be saved through him from the wrath.
Indeed,
if, while we were enemies,
we
were reconciled to God through the death of his Son,
how
much more, once reconciled,
will
we be saved by his life.
Not
only that,
but
we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have now
received reconciliation.
Jesus
addressed this parable to the Pharisees and scribes:
"What
man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them
would
not leave the ninety-nine in the desert
and
go after the lost one until he finds it?
And
when he does find it,
he
sets it on his shoulders with great joy
and,
upon his arrival home,
he
calls together his friends and neighbours and says to them,
'Rejoice with me because I have found my
lost sheep.'
I tell
you, in just the same way
there will be more joy in heaven over
one sinner who repents
than
over ninety-nine righteous people
who have no need of
repentance."
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