{"id":1379,"date":"2015-05-01T03:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/pastor-bonus-good-shepherd\/"},"modified":"2015-05-01T03:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T07:00:56","slug":"pastor-bonus-good-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/pastor-bonus-good-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Bonus (Good Shepherd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>This year I discovered that the fourth Sunday of Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday. Perhaps (probably) I&#8217;ve heard it other years, but this year I <i>heard<\/i> it for the first time. It&#8217;s certainly a fitting placement for such a Sunday, as the ultimate definition of a good shepherd is &#8220;one willing to lay down his life for his sheep.&#8221; And Jesus is our unparalleled role model, both obedient lamb and devoted shepherd. The shepherds in our lives are many and varied: parents, pastors, teachers, doctors, friends, authors, composers of music, and visual artists. We depend on them to teach us, to love, protect, guide, and search for us when we stray. To be a good shepherd, one must first be a good sheep, that is, listen with our hearts to recognize the voice of God when He comes calling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4820894\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5128_sm-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/D6v4rPaF-WI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other This year I discovered that the fourth Sunday of Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday. Perhaps (probably) I&#8217;ve heard it other years, but this year I heard it for the first time. It&#8217;s certainly a fitting placement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/pastor-bonus-good-shepherd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}