Catholic Word of the Day: SHEEP, 03-22-12

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Symbols of the Twelve Apostles, with Christ in the center as the Good Shepherd. A later symbol early found in the catacombs shows Our Lord either supporting a wounded sheep on his shoulder with the other sheep nearby or the Shepherd rescuing the wandering lost ewe caught in a briary thicket. The twenty-third psalm speaks of "the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." In song and story it is illustrative of God's providence and concern. Sheep are symbols of docility, humility, and long suffering, all attributes expected of those who follow the Lamb of God. Sheep are also an emblem of St. Germaine (c. 1579-1601), the poor abandoned child of Pibrac, near Toulouse in France.

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Also in the Book of Revelation.

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Capital Virtues	Gelasian Sacramentary	Sodom
Natural Religion	Montanism	Ex Voto
Immanentist Apologetics	Credo Quia Absurdum	Purgatory
Beguines	Christe Eleison	Easter Controversy
Cheating	Apodictic	Confessions of St. Augustine
Coterie	Rome	Impetration
Archepiscopal Cross	Chamberlain	Herrenmoral
Our Lady of Einsiedeln	Maltese Cross	Sacred
Manifestation of Conscience	Anagogical Sense	A Posteriori
Sequence	Thomism	Obedience
Angels (Symbols)	Mechitarists or Mekhitarists	Epistles to the Thessalonians
Limbo	Divine Generation	Prostration
Jus Gentium	Seven Churches of Asia	Inculpable
The Little Flowers of St. Francis	Douay Bible	Perduance
None	Abulia	Judas Iscariot
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The phrase during the Mass that brought Scott Hahn into the Catholic Church — after hearing it four times (now five times) during the Mass.

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Lamb of God

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My Spanish choir has a devotion to Christ the Good Shepherd, and my prayer group is called “His Flock,” although we agreed that one could be geese, too ;-).