Good Shepherd Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Easter in the CatholicLiturgical Calendar; that is, the Sunday three weeks after Easter Sunday. The name derives from the gospel readings on this day which are taken from the 10th chapter of John. In this reading Christ is described as the Good Shepherd who, by dying on the Cross, lays down his life for his sheep.
In recent times the feast day has also become known as Vocations Sunday, a day on which prayers should be said for vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
Nevertheless, it shines forth more resplendently in certain mysteries from which great good accrues to us, and in which Jesus is more lavish of His loving benefactions and more complete in His gift of self, namely, in the Incarnation, in the Passion, and in the Eucharist.
Jesus, the living apparition of the goodness of God and of His paternal love, Jesus infinitely loving and amiable, studied in the principal manifestations of His love, is the object of the devotion to the Sacred Heart, as indeed He is the object of the Christian religion.
The idea of this act, which Leo XIII called "the great act" of his pontificate, had been proposed to him by a religious of the GoodShepherd from Oporto (Portugal) who said that she had received it from Christ Himself.
Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds.
He was called "the GoodShepherd" and identified with both the Lamb and the Lion.
They must generally be good leaders, do noteworthy feats of goodness and/or supernatural power, establish teachings and traditions, create community rituals, and overcome some forms of evil.
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