Homily - 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time "The Good Shepherd"
Homily 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time June 14, 2026 No one likes to be told what to do. We husbands smile through our “honey-do” lists, but the truth is, it stings. Most of us have bosses, and we must answer to them. I have several bosses, depending on what I’m doing at that moment. I have two in here right now! Even bosses answer to bosses, and even the self-employed answer to markets and customers. My two-year-old grandson embodies our shared rebellion. When my wife tells him to pick up his toys, he squares his shoulders and announces, “You don’t tell me what to do!” My wife says that was actually me saying that, not him; I don’t remember it that way. We laugh because we see ourselves, grown-up versions still clinging to the illusion of defiant independence. Yet today’s readings confront that illusion with tender but unrelenting truth. In the first reading, God speaks to a people freshly delivered from slavery, “You have seen for yourselves how I treated the Eg...