# good shepherd (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover good shepherd. Page: Feed: --- ## [St. Monica & Staying Awake](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/st-monica-and-staying-awake) _2026-08-27 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ “Stay awake! ## [Our Response to Grace](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/our-response-to-grace) _2026-08-02 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ Homily for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) ## [Writerly resolutions: July status](https://www.dahosek.com/writerly-resolutions-july-status-7/) _2026-07-31 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ Having gotten relatively clear of my depression, I seem to be finally being a bit more productive. The new story is almost ready for workshopping and I hope to have revisions done later today or, worst case, tomorrow. Bunches of rejections over the course of the month, but also one acceptance, my first of the \[ \] ## [Good Aliens, Bad Theology](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/good-aliens-bad-theology) _2026-07-30 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ Disclosure Day's efforts to grapple with the Big Questions ## [Aliens, the Odyssey, and Human Imagination](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/aliens-the-odyssey-and-human-imagination) _2026-07-23 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ Watching Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey this past weekend with my family reminded me just how much I enjoy ancient travel myths and hero journeys. ## [Waiting](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/waiting) _2026-07-20 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ Teach me how to wait ## [How are We to Read the Bible?](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/how-are-we-to-read-the-bible) _2026-07-20 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ According to my extensive research (aka, a quick Google search I just did a few minutes ago), the plant with the smallest seed is the orchid, varieties of which typically have seeds ranging from 0.1 mm to 0.05 mm, or about the size of a speck of dust. ## [Donkeys & Warhorses](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/donkeys-and-warhorses) _2026-07-05 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ Homily for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) ## [When Job first heard the news that day](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/when-job-first-heard-the-news-that) _2026-07-03 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ I found this poem which I wrote some months ago after reading the book of Job. It’s meant to have an anticlimactic sort of feeling—Job’s troubles are mounting, and Satan is hoping for an explosive rebellion against the Lord’s hard providence... ## [Writerly resolutions June status](https://www.dahosek.com/writerly-resolutions-june-status-7/) _2026-07-02 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ So I’m climbing out of the depression, although not quite as fast as I’d like. Most of my writing this month has been on the working on the new story, which I have managed to finish the rewrite on which seems to have expanded the story by a bit over 10%. I only had two \[ \] ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/r0fBstW7kkCt) _2026-07-02 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [Not a Homily: The Shunamite Woman's Son & Matters of Hospitality](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/not-a-homily-the-shunamite-womans) _2026-06-28 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ Observations on the readings for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) ## [Our Participation in the Sacrifice of Christ](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/our-participation-in-the-sacrifice) _2026-06-07 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ Homily for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi ## [Writerly resolutions: May status](https://www.dahosek.com/writerly-resolutions-may-status-5/) _2026-06-01 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ My big revelation this month was that wasting time playing games online isn’t the cause of my not writing so much as a symptom of the cause which is that I’ve been kind of in a depressed state for most of this year. That said, I did manage to at least complete the revisions that \[ \] ## [Catholic nerd pilgrimage: the last church—Shrine of St Rita of Cascia of the Midwest](https://www.dahosek.com/catholic-nerd-pilgrimage-the-last-church-shrine-of-st-rita-of-cascia-of-the-midwest/) _2026-05-24 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ It only seems fitting that having started this project by going to Mass at the church of St Rita of Cascia on the South Side of Chicago, that I’d finish at the shrine church a few miles away on the grounds of St Rita of Cascia High School. I didn’t know back then that St \[ \] ## [Catholic nerd pilgrimage: St Bernardine](https://www.dahosek.com/catholic-nerd-pilgrimage-st-bernardine/) _2026-05-20 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ St Bernardine holds the title for the closest Catholic church I’ve never been to (until today). Daily Mass here is at 6.30a which is a heavy lift for someone who’s not so much not a morning person, but I forced myself out of bed and made the short drive over to the church. I’d always \[ \] ## [Catholic nerd pilgrimage: Queen of Apostles (the day after)](https://www.dahosek.com/catholic-nerd-pilgrimage-queen-of-apostles-the-day-after/) _2026-05-17 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ Closing in on the one-year mark (and thus the conclusion of this project), yesterday, I went to Mass at Queen of the Angels church which is part of the two-church parish, Queen of the Apostles. This Mass was their official celebration of the patronal feast (there was also a dinner at a nearby restaurant after \[ \] ## [When Moses hit the rock in rage](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/when-moses-hit-the-rock-in-rage) _2026-05-13 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ a journal-style poem ## [Anointed for Mission](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/anointed-for-mission) _2026-05-10 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter (Year A) ## [Catholic nerd pilgrimage: Saint James (two days late)](https://www.dahosek.com/catholic-nerd-pilgrimage-saint-james-two-days-late/) _2026-05-06 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ While I made it to St James on the feast day, for no good reason, I’m two days late writing it up. As I discovered back in July, I discovered that nobody really knows which of the Saints James their parishes are named for, but at the time, thepm; pastor of Historic Saint James at \[ \] ## [The Holiness of Labor](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/the-holiness-of-labor) _2026-05-01 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ A reflection on the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ffMgB3wxCs6g) _2026-05-01 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Writerly resolutions: April status](https://www.dahosek.com/writerly-resolutions-april-status-7/) _2026-05-01 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ Another disappointing month for progress. I’ve been a bit more attentive to my mental state though and I’ve noticed a few things: With the fixed-goal approach, I ended up being reluctant to get started when the daily amount of writing I had to do crossed a certain threshold and I ended up doing nothing instead, \[ \] ## [Catholic nerd pilgrimage: Good Shepherd (a day late)](https://www.dahosek.com/catholic-nerd-pilgrimage-good-shepherd-a-day-late/) _2026-04-27 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ I went to a Sunday evening Mass for Good Shepherd Sunday (aka the fourth Sunday of Easter). The parish church was built in 1968 and reflects the architecture of that era with a round nave and the pews arranged in a roughly semi-circular pattern before the sanctuary. The parish is pretty much entirely Latino with \[ \] ## [The Good Shepherd: Royal, Messianic, and Divine](https://teachingandpreaching.substack.com/p/the-good-shepherd-royal-messianic) _2026-04-27 · Deacon Matthew Newsome · Teaching and Preaching_ I think it’s safe to say that for most modern Christians, the image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is an image of comfort and care. ## [What did I know of shadows?](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/what-did-i-know-of-shadows) _2026-04-20 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ a ballad of sorts ## [Of monsters and malaprops](https://www.dahosek.com/of-monsters-and-malaprops/) _2026-04-15 · D. A. Hosek · D. A. Hosek_ I recently encountered a delightful malapropism in an article I read online: Greene’s final text of his so-called Catholic teratology Given that DiCamillo lists four books after this, I’m pretty sure the word he was reaching for was “tetralogy” and his spellchecker did him wrong giving him instead a word that means: 1 Medicine Biology \[ \] ## [How short the life a flower lives](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/how-short-the-life-a-flower-lives) _2026-03-30 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ Many of my friends, family, and acquaintances were plunged into grief with the sudden passing of a dear wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend and her sixteen year old son in a tragic car accident on March 20. ## [Glory](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/glory) _2026-03-10 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ Can you see his glory now? ## [When Peter Walked the Stormy Sea](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/when-peter-walked-the-stormy-sea) _2026-01-29 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ When Peter touched the stormy sea He surely felt the cold— With violence the windy blasts And billows round him rolled. ## [Jesus Wept](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/jesus-wept) _2026-01-07 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ Now as \[Jesus\] drew near, He saw \[Jerusalem\] and wept over it. ## [Through](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/through) _2025-12-03 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ He will lead me through ## [A Friend Gave You $30 (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/D8xNhkFETddm) _2025-12-03 · **Sponsored**_ Sign up, deposit $5 within 30 days, and start investing with expert guidance. ## [Thank you, Lord](https://wildwoodhollow.substack.com/p/thank-you-lord) _2025-10-13 · Esther Roth · From the Wildwoods_ “We need to understand that God is always working.