Good Shepherd Day:
Who would have thoughtM. Daría, that your second six-year term shepherding this little flockon a bend in the road, the terrain would become so deserted deserted and stony!Who would have thought that circumstances so beyond your control would keep us gathered in a sheepfold with the danger of misguided evacuation and access routes!
The Lord, who is the Door, returns to tell you and to tell us today: “Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will be able to go in and out, and find pasture.”; that door is the access to faith, to pass then from faith to vision, from credulity to contemplation, and to find fertile pastures in the vision of the face of the Lord’s face.and find fertile pastures in the vision of the face of God.
The landscape that opens before our eyes today could blur our vision and obfuscate our senses, making us wander lost in the desert of fear and discouragement, but we do not want to stop our steps.s because we know well Who He is and where the Good Shepherd wants to lead us through you.
That is why we want toto paraphrase St. Gregory Magno raise our spirits, to make us our faith our faith, and make our yearnings our longings for the things of heaven, knowing that that to love in this way is already to set out on a journey.
With you we want to feel thatthat no adversity cane We want to feel that no adversity can keep us from the joy of inner solemnity, since, when someone really wants to go to a place, the roughness of the road, whatever it may be, cannot prevent him from doing so…..
With you we want to live in the certainty thathat no prosperity, however suggestive it may be, can seduce us, for the wayfarer who, faced with the spectacle of an attractive countryside in the middle of his journey, forgets the goal to which he was going, is no less stupid..
M Ma Digna Díaz
Rome, May 3, 2020
Feast of The Good Shepherd