No One Can Take My Sheep

A snail and orange-red tulips speak John 10:29-30: "No one can take my sheep out of the Father's hand. The Father and I are one."
โ€œNo One Can Take My Sheepโ€
Adapted from John 10:29-30
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.

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I Am the Gate

A daffodil with a snail resting on it speaks John 10:7: "I AM the gate for the sheep."
โ€œI Am the Gateโ€
John 10:7
Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.

John 10:9

I am the gate for the sheep.

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The Good Shepherd is a Surety

โ€œThe Good Shepherd is a Suretyโ€
A reflection on John 10:27-30
Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus said: โ€œMy sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.

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Lent, Day 33

A snail and a hyacinth speak John 10:38: "The Father is in me and I am in the Father."
โ€œLent, Day 33โ€
John 10:38 from the Gospel at Mass
Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.

John 1:1

The Father is in me
and I am in the Father.

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We Are Our Neighbors’ Keepers

โ€œWe Are Our Neighborsโ€™ Keepersโ€
Mark 9:42-48 in a โ€œsnailshellโ€
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œWhoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If

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No Greater Love

โ€œNo Greater Loveโ€
John 15:13
Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:11

Greater love has no one than this: 
to lay down oneโ€™s life for oneโ€™s friends.

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I Know My Sheep

โ€œI Know My Sheepโ€
John 10:14
Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:11

I am the Good Shepherd.
I know mine and mine know me.

Traditional Chinese Translation

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ๆˆ‘่ช่ญ˜ๆˆ‘็š„็พŠ๏ผŒๆˆ‘็š„็พŠไนŸ่ช่ญ˜ๆˆ‘ใ€‚

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God’s Beloved Sheep

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter

John 10:22-30

Jesus assures us in todayโ€™s Gospel reading that no one can take his sheep out of his hand. He knows each of his sheep by name and their unique identities. 

โ€œMy Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Fatherโ€™s hand.โ€

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