Pope Says: Be Shepherds not Hairdressers!

No offense to hairdressers (Ryan and Tammy, I love you guys!), but the gospel challenges us to be revolutionaries!

He writes, "In the Gospel there's the beautiful passage about the shepherd who realizes that one of his sheep is missing and he leaves the 99 to go out and find the one. But, brothers and sisters, we have only one. We're missing 99! We must go out and find them."

It is tempting to take the easy path, "staying home with that one little sheep, combing it, caressing it," he said.

However, the pope added, "the Lord wants us to be shepherds, not hairdressers to sheep."

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