'He
who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd
keeps his flock'*
Jeremiah
31:
10
- 13
On the slope of a Romanian mountain that I am passing there is a flock of sheep tended by a middle-aged man. It makes me think of a sermon I heard at St Ann's in Warsaw.
„When
I was once on a trekking
holiday in Romania*”, said the priest, “we met some shepherds
who told us that a good shepherd never looks for a lost sheep,
because if it rejoined the herd it would encourage the others to go
astray. And if he somehow does find the animal, he kills it".
*today's Reading
