Latest / Vitamina O: Evangelio dominical comentado / T1.E186| Juan 10, 11-18 "Yo soy el Buen Pastor"
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- 0:23Welcome to this space of vitamin or prayer, together with Francisco Ermengold, a
- 0:29brief spiritual Bible reflection capsules that entertain, teach and lift the soul. Good
- 0:38morning, Fourth Sunday of Easter and we read the Gospel of John. At
- 0:43that time Jesus said, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives
- 0:49his life for the sheep. The wage earner, who is neither shepherd nor
- 0:54owner of the sheep to come to the wolf, abandons the sheep and flees
- 0:59and the wolf steals them and scatters them and is still wage- earned does
- 1:03not care about the sheep. I' m the good shepherd I know mine
- 1:07and mine know me, just like the father. He knows me and I
- 1:11know the father. I give my life for the sheep. I also have
- 1:18other sheep that are not of this fold. I also have to attract them
- 1:22and they will listen to my voice and there will be only one flock,
- 1:26one shepherd. That' s why the father loves me, because I give
- 1:32my life so I can get it back. No one takes it away from
- 1:34me, but I deliver it freely. I have the power to deliver it
- 1:40and I have the power to get it back. This mandate I have received
- 1:44from my father. Jesus defines himself as the good shepherd, a comparison that
- 1:52today can become obsolete. Our societies today are mostly urban, with little agricultural
- 2:00or livestock population. That is why Jesus says that he is the good shepherd
- 2:06seems like a metaphor, old- fashioned, out of fashion and that he
- 2:14clearly needs to be renewed. Moreover, no one today likes to be compared
- 2:19to a sheep, especially because of the connotation of Gregarism, docility, ignorance
- 2:25and submission contained in that image. However, when Jesus used that metaphor 2,
- 2:32000 years ago, its meaning was very different. Let us look first
- 2:39at the qualifier of good shepherd. There are two terms, two words in
- 2:46Greek for the concept of good. The first is flattered, which is simply
- 2:51the moral quality of a thing, that is, something right, and the
- 2:58second is callous, which is the one used in this verse and concrete and
- 3:04means that a thing or a person is not only good right, but kind,
- 3:09that radiates love, that in his goodness there is a loving, kind
- 3:15and attractive quality, doing something wonderful, that his goodness expands and impacts on
- 3:23his environment. I once visited a girl in the hospital who was about ten
- 3:28years old with cancer, her name was Martina. Her absence of hair did
- 3:35not obfuscate the great beauty that communicated her eyes and much of the merit of
- 3:39the joy that this child had in the midst of all her suffering. He
- 3:45was the doctor who was taking care of her. He was not only a
- 3:47proper doctor and prepared for gazos, but kind calos entering the room. He
- 3:57was playing with Martina, making jokes and making her laugh. I wasn'
- 4:00t obliged to, but I did. It made Martina feel like she wasn
- 4:04' t a patient to him, but she was an extremely important person.
- 4:10Because Jesus is calos, because he is not only a teacher who illuminates and
- 4:17teaches from his altar as if he were a spiritual guru, but a shepherd
- 4:23who takes care of us, who watches over us, who accompanies us.
- 4:26He is not only our shepherd who keeps us in the fold, but he
- 4:30is also our pasture, for he has become our food. What it is
- 4:36to be in the fold is not Gregarism. Being in the fold is life,
- 4:42because that fold is life, the divine life, which God gives us,
- 4:46which God makes us sharers. Being in the fold of Jesus means that
- 4:51life does not belong to us, the divine life, but that we have
- 4:57received it as a gift. And rather, it is we who belong to
- 5:00her. Being a Christian is not just being a good ethical and upright person.
- 5:06Anyone can be a good person. Moreover, we must all be good
- 5:12people. To be a Christian is to have the participation of divine life.
- 5:17Jesus is the shepherd who knows his sheep by name, both those who are
- 5:23in the fold and those who are not yet. Says Jesus I have other
- 5:29sheep that are not of this fold. Those, too, I have to
- 5:33bring them to whom he refers to all those people who have not yet had
- 5:40the opportunity to establish a personal relationship of love with Jesus. They would be
- 5:44all those people in the world who are not Christians, atheists, agnostics or
- 5:48belonging to other religious denominations, indifferent, etc. When Jesus says I have
- 5:55other sheep, it implies that these sheep already belong to him that are his
- 6:00for the shepherd. All the sheep are equally important and for each and every
- 6:03one gives life comes out by loss, leaving at ninety- nine. Sometimes
- 6:10Christians are accused of being too presumptuous to believe that we are so important for
- 6:16God, who created the vast and vast universe, to worry about what I
- 6:21do or stop thinking so it would be too pretentious how God can have time.
- 6:30It is impossible for me to determine an exact number of how many human
- 6:36beings have inhabited the Earth since man exists, but it is estimated that approximately
- 6:42one hundred and eight billion humans have existed since Lomo Sapiens appeared on Earth some
- 6:47two hundred thousand years ago. How will God then have space in his mind
- 6:54for me one of those one hundred and eight billion human beings, because he
- 7:00is the good shepherd who knows each of his sheep and if it makes you
- 7:06crazy to think. So, it means you' re just beginning to understand
- 7:13what God' s love means. We are going to think today how we
- 7:18can be squalid and not just crouched, that is, how we can be
- 7:26kind and make love radiate around us and not just be correct and ethical.
- 7:30What makes the difference in this is the gratuitous giving oneself, without expecting anything,
- 7:36in return, without seeking personal benefits of return, as Jesus does,
- 7:42giving his own life that God bless you delicious paila ice creams, made with
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