He asks us to be witnesses of his love in a world of darkness and despair. And now, Christ turns to each one of us without exception and asks us to do the same. Christ was asked to pour out his blood on the cross for love of me. Christ Loves Me: Through his Incarnation, Christ emptied himself of his heavenly glory for me! What would life be like without the Mass, without the Eucharist, without confession, without the Gospel (where we discover the path to follow), without the Church and the teachings of the Magisterium? But there was a price, a terrible and costly price for all of these benefits.This fact should be a source of great peace and confidence in my prayer-Christ does truly know what is going on in my heart. He knows not only our names, but he knows our thoughts, feelings, dreams and fears, and even our deepest desires. Christ made our souls! Christ knows our innermost selves. Although, as human beings, we are the fruit of our parents’ love, our soul was made and shaped directly by God. For them, a name reflected who you were your meaning as a person. For the Jewish people, to call someone by his name was to touch his deepest identity, his inner core.

Christ Knows Me: “He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out” (Jn 10:3).

Petition: Lord Jesus, help me to know and love you. My heart longs to be flooded with your grace so that I may fully accomplish your will in my life. Introductory Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you so much for your generosity and patience in being with me today. A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. So Jesus said again, “Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep.

But they will not follow a stranger they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.” Although Jesus used this figure of speech, the Pharisees did not realize what he was trying to tell them. When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice. The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. Jesus said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber. Sunday, Ap– Christ Knows and Loves His Sheep

Feast of the Dead by Source Point Press