4TH SUNDAY OF EASTER

Perhaps you’ve seen movies where people gain security access by placing an open hand on a sensor, or by having a scan of their eye print. As with face recognition, security technology software can now give us the ability to recognize individual voices. It’s already amazing that our brains can sort through the subtleties of voices to make an identification. In today’s Gospel, Jesus uses the example of a shepherd who calls his own flock out from the mixed flocks in the sheepfold. His sheep “follow him because they know his voice.” We hear many voices calling to us in our lives. The voice of the Gospel urges us to learn to recognize the voice of our Shepherd, Jesus, as he calls us to follow him and “to have life and to have it more abundantly.”

                         Deacon Dick Folger