The Lost Sheep

Hello! and happy and good Tuesday morning, GUYS.  Here is today's "food for the soul":

 

THE GOOD NEWS (11 August 2015) 

"What do you think of this?  If someone has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, won't he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside, and go to look for the stray one?  And I tell you: when he finally finds it, he is more pleased about it than about the ninety-nine that did not get lost.  It is the same with your FATHER in heaven: there they don't want even one of these little ones to be lost." - Matthew 18:12-14

 (The parable of the one hundred sheep is also found in the Gospel of Luke [15:1].  It teaches us several things: JESUS special concern for sinners and those who stray and, therefore, the missionary dimension of HIS apostolate.  In fact, JESUS came "to seek and save the lost" [Luke 19:10], "to call the outcasts, not the respectable people" [Matthew 9:13].  This attitude should impel our parishes and Christian communities to constantly reach out to the unchurched and marginalized, instead of just working with those who already are in touch with the Church.) 

 

One good example was the late Col. Thomas Edwards Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia".