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In his first line of today’s Gospel, Jesus says that if we love him we will keep his word. That might be a tall order; since keeping our own word is hard enough. Napoleon said it well when he advised: “The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.” The author of…
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In today’s Gospel, we are told to love one another. We don’t usually think of that command as applying to the animal kingdom, but God made animals with the same loyalties and instincts we experience. Such loyalty was demonstrated last spring when elephants seemed to grieve over the death of the man who had saved…
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The Gospel today says that the sheep know the shepherd’s voice. But can sheep be fooled by someone just imitating the real shepherd? How many eloquent and clever preachers have turned out to be charlatans intent on fleecing the flock for their own gain? But the real voice of our Shepherd Jesus cannot be duplicated.…
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