At this point in John’s Gospel, the evangelists at pains to found his identity in the mission and words given him by his Father. His mission and his works are intimately tied up with what he has been given by his Father And that has an echo in the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles where the early community is driven to spread the word and build the community and everything is driven by the power of God’s goodness and grace.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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This gospel has a very distinctive echo in our times. We live in an era of exaggerated emphasis on an externalized identity - as people in society, as citizens in countries, as males and females and son. Today’s gospel emphasises that our identities followers of Jesus is much more mysterious and subtle and something we have to search carefully and patiently to discover.

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We are taken immediately and quickly from considering Jesus as the bread to nourish us on our journey of faith - closer to us than we are to ourselves - as we have done in Chapter 6of John’s Gospel to now considering Jesus in one of John’s best known images of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, protecting, including, healing and helping us to live more abundantly the life he created for us to enjoy.

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Jesus announces himself not merely as a shepherd, but as the Good Shepherd. He is the one shepherd we can trust because he is the one shepherd who is not a sheep himself.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.

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Today’s Gospel from John specifies the pattern of Jesus’ life but also the pattern of the lives who follow him and imitate his pattern of service - giving up our lives that others may know and know abundantly the love of God poured into our hearts for the life of the world.

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Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes.

This week, Asian nations have experienced violence and repression with calls for justice getting louder. The Covid-19 pandemic has continued to wreak havoc, but there are also inspiring stories of love and compassion.

Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.com

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Here today, at the end of Chapter 6 in John’s Gospel, the central question for us is posed: when all is said and done, what does our engagement with God and the mystery of Jesus amount to? Some of Jesus followers found it too confusing and walked away. Jesus asked Peter would he walk away too? Peter’s replays the reply of all Christians looking for life and love: yes, it is a challenge to keep following Jesus but if we give up, where willow go?

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Intimate union with God through Jesus becomes available to us through the Eucharist. That’s the shock and the simplicity of how much God offers us and makes available to us. It comes to us in with, is given by God’s gift and is brought to us by God’s generosity.

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