Every year during Easter, we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday. The Good Shepherd is one of the earliest images of Christianity, often associated with servant leadership. Let us reflect on this from the perspective of mentoring.
They're calling it the new matcha.
Out of sheer excitement over the image of the Good Shepherd last Sunday, I forgot to give the mission perspective...
As he approaches the altar garbed in his ceremonial vestments for offering the Mass, our eyes are on him. We feel the atmosphere of holiness.
I never experienced a Baguio that cold and that crowded as I did last weekend. It was as if people, suddenly scared of storms and seas, flocked to this mountain resort instead, in the days after Christmas and right before the new year.
This Sunday, we again encounter the image of the Good Shepherd. While the Gospel does not make mention of the Good Shepherd, it refers to the shepherd and to what is a key characteristic of a shepherd as leader or missionary: compassion, the ability to feel with and for others.
Last Tuesday, I attended the launching of the K+12 program of the Department of Education in Malacañang.
