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HOMILIES

As St. Augustine said, the purpose of the prayer of petition is to open our hearts to what
God wants to give us, because God knows our needs. God knows our thirst. God knows our
pain. God knows our life! He wants to be present in our life, to enrich our life with His truth,
His beauty, His goodness.

On this Good Shepherd Sunday, maybe we should take the time to ask God to come to the
aid of our faith. We can do so with this beautiful prayer from the Gospel: “Lord, I believe!
Come to the help of my faith!” We believe, but we are called to believe ever more.

Let us believe that the Good Shepherd takes care of us, every one of us. People are separated
from us, such as a sick relative in the hospital or a family member for whom you cannot care
as well as you would like. At this time, it is impossible, it is not allowed!

Parish priests long to take care of the people entrusted to them, reach out to the sick and
the poor. At this time, they find themselves with new constraints!

There are religious communities that provide social or educational work. They would like
to take care of young people, of youth, but now the confinement means all this limitation!

This is a special time to entrust to God, to whom we turn in our prayer, all those we carry in
our hearts. We pray to the Good Shepherd for ourselves and all those around us.

We entrust to him those we carry in our hearts, the members of our family, those who are
with us at home, those who are far away, those who are elsewhere, those who are in hospital.
Let us advance on the path of faith by giving ourselves to daily prayer, more confidently,
more decisively, more decidedly, and better motivated. Let us not hesitate to entrust in
him all those we carry in our hearts, the members of our family, the members of our parish,
the members of the Church, the members of society, even the whole of humanity. With full
confidence, we can entrust all of them to the Good Shepherd.

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Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 152