To be a pastoral minister is no easy task. The Church in recent years has found herself damaged by the work of pseudo-pastors, fake ministers who instead of drawing the flock of God together, have scattered it. 

Fr. Mark Wedig, O.P. calls us to be better, drawing is into a portion of Dominican formation, the pastoral year, and asks us to do one thing : to participate in Christ's own identity as the Good Shepherd. 

For the daily readings, see the USCCB.