Jesus was and is God, fully human and fully divine. When Jesus says that he is the “Gate” for the sheepfold, he is using another metaphor for the basic claim of John’s Gospel, beginning in ...

READ MORE: Daily Gospel, May 9 Daily Gospel, May 8 Jesus said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.

In grouping them as a flock and keeping them in a sheepfold, the Good Shepherd does not suppress their freedom or trample on their “autonomy.” The Good Shepherd and the Gate guarantee the ...

The Sheepfold, better known as Tavern on the Green today, was constructed in 1870 and is one of the park’s exquisite nineteenth-century structures. In order to understand why a sheepfold was ...

Dog owners rejoiced in the Sheepfold’s grassy meadow at the Middlesex Fells Reservation after park staff drove stakes into the ground, marking off the newly official area for unleashed dogs.