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The Good Shepherd
The carving of the Good Shepherd, to whose dedication the temple is consecrated, presides over the sacred precinct from the apse. Formerly, it was in the primitive neo-Gothic main altar. It is the work of the Barcelona artist José Llimona, also the author of the carvings of the Four Evangelists, also coming from the old altar and today placed on the pillars of the transept.
HYMN TO THE GOOD SHEPHERD
ON THE OCCASION OF HIS CENTENARY
(1897 - 1997)
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
You walk next to the humans
sharing his pain;
sowing in your path
the hope, the illusion.
You are the pilgrim of love,
The Good Shepherd.
If you are by my side,
I can’t miss anything:
neither the grass nor the spring
where I can lie down.
I no longer have any fear
because you are with me.
Your rod and your staff are
my joy and security. (Psalm 23)
You go along with our walk
teaching to share
our bread, our freedom,
the joy of living.
Give us strength to move forward
without moving away from You.
Our paths will meet
in a happy destiny.
You walk next to the humans
sharing his pain;
sowing in your path
the hope, the illusion.
You are the pilgrim of love,
The Good Shepherd.
If you are by my side,
I can’t miss anything:
neither the grass nor the spring
where I can lie down.
I no longer have any fear
because you are with me.
Your rod and your staff are
my joy and security. (Psalm 23)
You go along with our walk
teaching to share
our bread, our freedom,
the joy of living.
Give us strength to move forward
without moving away from You.
Our paths will meet
in a happy destiny.
Jesus, the Good Shepherd
I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep. When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep.
I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them.There are other sheep which belong to me that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them, too; they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock with one shepherd.
The Father loves me because I am willing to give up my life, in order that I may receive it back again. No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do.
John 10, 14-15
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