{"id":39411,"date":"2017-11-06T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=39411"},"modified":"2017-11-08T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T22:32:28","slug":"the-shepherd-in-sutherland-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/the-shepherd-in-sutherland-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shepherd in Sutherland Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a scene in the 1989 movie <em>Romero<\/em> in which Salvadoran soldiers have taken possession of a rural church.\u00a0 Archbishop Romero arrives to find the church interior shot up by the soldiers.\u00a0 He withdraws from the church and a crowd of locals stares intently at him, wondering what he will do.\u00a0 He reenters the church, gets on his knees before the main altar and proceeds to gather up as quickly and reverently as he can the consecrated hosts scattered on the floor.\u00a0 A soldier fires over his head and Romero is shoved to the ground.\u00a0 A second time he withdraws, this time driving off.\u00a0 He returns in full clerical garb and leads the locals back into the church; the soldiers fall back and leave.<\/p>\n<p>The bloodshed at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, reminds me of this scene.\u00a0 There too, the Body of Christ is desecrated, wounded, dying.\u00a0 There, too, shepherds of various sorts\u2014neighbors, family, friends, first responders\u2014gather up the desecrated bodies as quickly and as reverently as they can.\u00a0 Some have recovered, some will recover, some will die, some have died.\u00a0 Yet all of them are in truth gathered at this time by the One Shepherd, a Shepherd who longs to gather all of us (cf. 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