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"If we follow the Good Shepherd - no matter how difficult, tortuous, or long the pathways of our life may seem, even through spiritual deserts without water and under the scorching sun of rationalism - with the guidance of Christ the Good Shepherd, we, too, like the Psalmist, may be sure that we are walking on 'paths of righteousness' and that the Lord is leading us, is ever close to us, and that we 'shall lack nothing'."

                                                                    -  Pope Benedict XVI,  A School of Prayer