Looking back, my own spiritual journey with John’s gospel and today’s gospel lesson really began a few months after beginning work as rector of Trinity Church, Michigan City, Indiana. I arrived in December 1988. In the spring, I attended a workshop at our cathedral on formation programs for children. There I was introduced to the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, an approach to Christian formation for children that evolved from the collaboration of a Hebrew scholar, Sofia Cavalletti, and a Montessori teacher, Gianna Gobi, in Rome in the early 1950s.
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