As we do each Tuesday, my community of Franciscan friars comes together in the late afternoon to discuss the Scripture readings for the upcoming weekend. This coming Sunday is “Good Shepherd” weekend as the reading for the Gospel is always from John 10. It is also Vocation Sunday. In the course of the discussion, one of the friars remembered the key points of the homily at his ordination Mass. The presiding bishop said that the qualities of a good priest, a good shepherd, is a man who is joyful, lives simply, is a man of prayer, and one who can faithfully live in the ambiguity and uncertainty of parish life.
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