"I am the gate for the sheep" (Gospel Sunday) 
Jesus proposes a group of Pharisees a metaphorical story in which harshly criticizes the religious leaders of Israel. The scene is taken from the pastoral life. The herd is contained within a fold, surrounded by a fence or a small wall, while a guard monitors access. Jesus focused his attention on precisely this "door" that allows you to reach the sheep.
There are two ways to enter the fold. It all depends on what you intend to do with the herd. If someone comes into the fold and "not fit through the door" but jumps "on the other hand," is clearly not the pastor. It does not come to care for his flock. Is "a stranger" who comes to "steal, kill and do harm."
The performance of the true shepherd is very different. As you near the fold, "walks through the door", is calling the sheep by name and they serve their voice. Leads them out and, when met at all, it takes the lead and walks in front of them to the pastures where they can feed. The sheep follow him because they know his voice.
What secret is contained in the "door" that legitimizes the true shepherds who pass by it and exposes the strangers entering "other hand", fail to take care of the herd but to hurt? The Pharisees did not understand what they're talking about one teacher.
Then Jesus gives the key to the story: "I assure you I am the door of the sheep." Entrants into the lead of Jesus and his Gospel are still living, are true shepherds feed the community know Christian. Those who enter the sheepfold Jesus aside and ignoring their cause, are foreign ministers, will hurt the Christian people.
In many churches are suffering all so much: the shepherds and the people of God. The relationships between the hierarchy and the Christian people often live in a suspicious, tense and conflicted: there are bishops who are rejected, there Christians who feel marginalized sectors.
would be too easy to attribute all the abusive authoritarianism Hierarchy or unacceptable insubordination of the faithful. The root is deep and complex. We have created a very difficult situation. We lost the peace. We will need more and more like Jesus.
We grow with us mutual respect and communication, dialogue and the sincere search for truth of the Gospel. We need to breathe as soon as possible friendly climate in the Church. We will not leave this crisis if we do not turn all the spirit of Jesus. He is
"the Gate"
The Lord is my Shepherd 1 .- The resurrected life 
witnesses disappear from the scene the resurrection-Magdalena, Thomas, of Emmaus, and you see the deep value they announced: the resurrected life. "
I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly" , proclaims the Gospel today.
Jesus expressed in the allegory of the Good Shepherd. As he said: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life," "I am the true vine," "I am the light of the world," I am the bread of life ", in the same way, this Sunday , reveals: "I am the Good Shepherd." The biblical picture, quiet, bucolic. Beat well in a village culture of nomadic pastoralism.
Ewes rejoice in such a pastor is far from the dark side of "borreguismo" but rather, we remember the tender drawings of the catacombs, where the pastor is the first image of Jesus. And why not recreate the voice of poetry that sings to Jesus Christ, pastor? "What you leave, Pastor Santo, your flock in the valley deep, dark ...", "Pastor, with your loving whistles, I woke up of deep sleep. Arch did you do that you tend log in your powerful arms. "
2 .- Word 
is interesting to evoke the circumstances. The Pharisees have been cast out of the synagogue, the man born blind, they face occurs in the light that Jesus has returned in the eyes of this poor without sight. Ie belong to the bad shepherds because more than caring, crushed his sheep with a thousand heavy and unnecessary inflexibility.
Here lies the allegory of the shepherd. Jesus, in metaphor, is identified as the door of the fold, like the shepherd who walks through the door and not as the villain, as the good shepherd and not mercenary. What good is Jesus describing his love affair with sheep: The Good Shepherd knows them all, calls them by name, out to pasture, walk whistling in front of them and gives his life for them. Correspondingly, his sheep know him, hear his voice and follow Him. Without allegories Peter, in the second reading, presents Jesus as the suffering servant pastor, innocent, patient, always redemptive:
"His wounds you were healed" , reminds us.
revealing Jesus draws a parallel: Just as the Father loves you, he loves his sheep. Further. Is that sheep are the Father and the Son gives life to them, and for this reason the Father loves you. All, a sublime circle.
3 .- Life 
Because we believe in a shepherd who loves us so much, it awakens our confidence in him. Does not cost us hear your voice, know every day, follow him to death. Soon we will expose the false pastors, so many idols, "do not tell me what I want." And is that Jesus not only gives us life and life, is the way and the door to that life. Interestingly we call pastor ... and
"Lamb who takes away the sin." Pastor catching in his arms the wounded sheep, the sorrowful, the lowly, the sinner. He tells how his disciples:
"Fear not, little flock" And we believe it.
is urgent to realize that we all have to be good pastors, not only leaders, dignitaries, "top". As followers and imitators of Jesus, we took our lives the way of herding, ie, caring, protect, to heal wounds, on her arm, to give life and des-lived for others. Like Peter, Jesus asks: "Do you love me? Then, feed my sheep. " Only out of love makes sense. The credibility and moral authority of men and women of the Church is directly related to the ability to give life, and life is to be merciful, wash your feet, be Samaritans, comfort, a passion for justice. The opposite is typical of thieves and robbers: attitudes rigid legalism that crush, cold to the suffering of others. It's what Jesus denounced the Pharisees. (Can we ask here Why the silent march of so many baptized Christians who abandon us?). The magic word that echoes the Gospel is to "serve" serve all, not to use anyone.
This rule of thumb for a good shepherd do today demands on the Day of Prayer for Vocations. We priests and religious in the joy of being called by name, in the experience of hearing the voice of the Master, the ability of communion in holiness.
The Eucharist is the true meeting point between the shepherd and sheep. Copy to Luis de Gogora:
"lost sheep, come on my shoulders, now 'm not just your Pastor but your grass too.
reading from the holy Gospel according to John (from 10.1 to 10): 
At that time, Jesus said: "I assure you that that does not fit the door the sheepfold, but climbs on the other hand, is a thief and bandit, but he who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. This one opens the guard, and the sheep care for your voice, and he goes by the name calling to his sheep and leads them out. When he has brought all his own, walking in front of them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice; a stranger will not follow but will flee from him, they know not the voice of strangers. "
Jesus put this comparison, but they did not understand what he spoke.
why Jesus said: "I assure you I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not listen. I am the door: whoever enters through me will be saved and can come and go, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and slaughter, I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly. " Word of the Lord
COMMENT. IV This Sunday we celebrate the Easter Good Shepherd Sunday. Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd. It is a figure of speech as applied to God in the Old Testament and Jesus applies to himself. Say in the psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. In green pastures he gives me repose, he leads me beside still waters and restores my soul." With this image of the Good Shepherd is meant the application, the loving concern that God has for each of his sheep, for each of their children. The care that the shepherd with his sheep, bandage wounds, carried on the shoulders of the sick, look for the misguided, carry to greener pastures ... is care that God has for each of their children.
In the Gospel, we heard on Sunday in the Eucharist, the emphasis is on another image: Jesus is the door of the sheep. The door is the "place" [here's] why they should spend the sheep and shepherds. Pastors who do not pass through the door, Jesus, are thieves and bandits. This image means that Jesus is the way of salvation, the path of the Father's house. Whoever wants to reach God, must necessarily do so through Jesus, his person, his values, his message. In our religion there is a direct relationship with God; need of mediation, which is Christ, we need the mediation of the Church, he instituted the mediation of the sacraments.
the Gospel also gives other information about the Pastor, Jesus:
Meet the sheep by name and the sheep know his voice. Knowledge is a way of expressing love. The more knowledge there is, there is usually more love. Know the name of the sheep is to know its existence.
Walk in front of them. The Good Shepherd shows the way to the sheep. It's like going to show his example.
"I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly" . The pastor gives life to the sheep, it is not removed. Christ gives his life so that we can have a full life here on earth and eternal life in heaven. Christ is the shepherd who is also the Lamb delivered by his flock.
The text of the Gospel is addressed to the Pharisees, the false shepherds who have come through the door into the herd, which are as bandits and thieves, as strangers to the sheep. These are those who profit from the herd, their wool and milk, his life and his flesh, instead of serving you to find life.
the term "pastor" is "pastoral." With this expression: "pastoral" is meant everything makes the Church to carry forward the message of Jesus or, put another way, by carrying out the loving God has for each of their children. The Church puts his life in all pastoral work he does. Those responsible for pastoral duties (Evangelism, Liturgy, Caritas) are not just pastors, priests, but all the baptized.
On this day of the Good Shepherd, we are reminded that all Christians are called to bring forth the message of Jesus that all the baptized are responsible for the world to express concern that God has for each one of us, that we are all "shepherds", responsible for one another.
a special way tenemos presentes a las vocaciones consagradas; es decir a todos los hombres y mujeres que han consagrado su vida a Dios: religiosos, religiosas, sacerdotes. Celebramos la jornada de oración por las vocaciones, también de seglares. Las vocaciones consagradas siguen siendo necesarias hoy en la Iglesia para manifestar al mundo los valores del reino: la castidad, la pobreza y la obediencia. Se nos invita a pedir a Dios para que continúe habiendo vocaciones en su Iglesia.
Que pasemos nuestra vida por la puerta que es Jesús; que nos sintamos responsables de la pastoral de la Iglesia; que el Señor siga enviando las vocaciones que el considere necesarias a este mundo nuestro.
Sources: Divine Illumination
Joseph A. Conrado
Pagola Well, cmf
Pedro Crespo Arias Angel Corbalán
The devotion to Our Lady of the Sweet Wait goes back many years ago. There are images of the Virgin Mary pregnant, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe Patroness of Mexico and America, which sees the bulge of his belly. Many are those who are entrusted to Our Lady of asking with sweet hopes Devotion to the arrival of a son, for the successful completion of a pregnancy, as are many acknowledgments of those who were heard by the Virgin Mary and today enjoy the happiness of seeing grow up healthy and happy child so desired. The image of Our Lady of the sweet hope has become popular reproduced in prints, sculptures, etc., Where it appears with a hand holding a book symbol of the Word and the other caressing her belly. 
Mary, Mother of fair love, sweet girl of Nazareth, 
