Today is Monday in the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time and the Office of Readings just seem to hit the nail on the head.
They're long so I won't copy and paste them, but look them up: Ezekiel 34: 1-6, 11-16, 23-31 and the Second Reading was a sermon On Pastors by Saint Augustine: Sermo 46, 14-15: CCL 41, 541-542.
Ezekiel prophesizes against the shepherds of Israel, who "pasture themselves", "feed off their sheep", take and take but not pasturing their flocks. They don't help the weak but prey on them. The sheep scattered.
Augustine tells pastors to
seek the lost, whether they want saving or not. And not to neglect anyone.
Do you think our shepherds are listening? How do some of them rationalize their behavior?
They're long so I won't copy and paste them, but look them up: Ezekiel 34: 1-6, 11-16, 23-31 and the Second Reading was a sermon On Pastors by Saint Augustine: Sermo 46, 14-15: CCL 41, 541-542.
Ezekiel prophesizes against the shepherds of Israel, who "pasture themselves", "feed off their sheep", take and take but not pasturing their flocks. They don't help the weak but prey on them. The sheep scattered.
Augustine tells pastors to
seek the lost, whether they want saving or not. And not to neglect anyone.
Do you think our shepherds are listening? How do some of them rationalize their behavior?
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