Sheep

Today’s first reading (1 Peter 5:1-4) on today’s Feast of the Chair of Peter is a wonderful exhortation to people exercising authority in the Church:

Tend the flock of God in your midst,
(overseeing) not by constraint
but willingly, as God would have it,
not for shameful profit
but eagerly.

Good words for shepherds.

Good words also for all of us, for all of us – shepherds or not – all of us are God’s sheep.

May we treat each other with humility, generosity, and Christ’s love.