5/15/2023 0 Comments Find the shepherd![]() ![]() Oh, to have in our hearts such love of souls that it engrosses us so that we forget earthly needs, and only remember this yet higher necessity! It is a good house, said St. ButĪnd long before they have a thought of coming home, let us be on their track, eager to grasp them, if by any means we may save some. Let us not wait until we see some goodness in them- until they seek after instruction. Let us not talk about our friends, and say we love them but let us show it by earnest, personal, speedy endeavours to do them good. Let us learn the love of Christ, that we may be wise in shepherdry. However little the flock may be, even if it be restricted to our own family, or to the little class that gathers about us on the Sabbath, yet we are all our brother’s keeper in some measure. O sweet love of Christ, so practical, so pre-eminent, so prevenient! Let us ask for grace that we may imitate it, especially those of us who are called to be shepherds of men.Īmong God’s people most of the saints have a charge to watch over. He leaves the ninety-and-nine in their pasturage and for a while forgets them, that all his heart, his eye, his strength may be given to the one that has gone astray. The love of Jesus to the lost sheep is pre-eminent. ![]() He does not wait until the sheep is willing to return, or until it makes some attempt to come back but no sooner is its lost estate known to the Shepherd than he starts off, that he may find that which was lost. The love of Jesus Christ is love not in word only, but in deed and in truth. There is a sheep lost, and the Lord regrets it but his love does not spend itself in regrets he arises, and goes forth to seek and to save that which was lost. THE love of Jesus, the Great Shepherd, is very practical and active. In 2022, John Travolta confirmed that he is currently filming a cinematic version of The Shepherd on location in West Raynham, Norfolk.“Until he find it. In April 2017, Between the Ears won the ‘Most Original Podcast’ Gold Award at the inaugural British Podcast Awards. Between the Ears: The Shepherd won a Gold Radio Award in the 2017 New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards. Sound design was by David Chilton, with music and mouth/body percussion by the Saint Martin Singers specially recorded for the production at the church of St Giles in the Fields, and Vampire aircraft sound effects specially recorded at the Royal Air Force Museum London. On Christmas Eve 2016, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a new adaptation by Amber Barnfather for Between the Ears, performed by actor Luke Thompson. Sound design was by David Chilton, with a cappella pieces from the Saint Martin Singers. The performance, in aid of the RAF Benevolent Fund, was introduced by Frederick Forsyth. On 14 December 2014, actor Nigel Anthony performed an original adaptation by Amber Barnfather of The Shepherd, with music and sound effects, at St Clement Danes, the Central Church of the Royal Air Force, in London. In 2018, for the 50th Anniversary special of As it Happens Carol Off, Michael Enright, and Tom Power celebrated the tradition of reading The Shepherd by reading lines from the story. Read by Alan Maitland, the recording always airs on the last episode on or before Christmas Eve. The story has been broadcast "nearly every Christmas since 1979" in Canada on the CBC Radio One news programme As It Happens. ![]() While Forsyth is a former RAF pilot and could have heard and adapted such a story (either with or without the intent to do so) no references or anecdotal evidence have been put forward to support such claims. Many have speculated references to preexisting RAF folklore. Written on Christmas Day 1974, and published near that time a year later, the idea came while trying to think of a setting away from the typical haunted homes, and seeing planes flying overhead. The circumstances of how he is guided to a safe landing, and his subsequent efforts to identify the pilot who saved him, are the central themes of the story.įorsyth created this original work as a Christmas gift to his first wife Carrie after she requested a ghost story be written for her. Lost in fog over the North Sea and low on fuel, he encounters a De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber, which has apparently been sent up to "shepherd" (i.e. The Shepherd relates the story of a De Havilland Vampire pilot, going home on Christmas Eve 1957, whose aircraft suffers a complete electrical failure en route from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. The Shepherd is a 1975 novella by British writer Frederick Forsyth. ![]()
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