'My sheep hear my voice.' Sunday Reflections, 4th Sunday of Easter, Year C
The Good Shepherd , Marten van Cleve Gospel John 10:27-30 ( NRSV, Catholic Ed . , Canada) Jesus said: “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.” 'My sheep hear my voice' I know nothing about tending sheep and until I looked at the video above never quite understood the reality of the words of Jesus in today's gospel: ‘My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me' . An extraordinary example of the power of words is a story involving Fr Willie Doyle SJ , the army chaplain who was killed in 1917 in Belgium during the Great War. Some years before the War he was giving a retreat to a community of nuns in Ireland. He got a telegram on the last day from his Provincial Superior telling him to