Description
Monologue - for a shepherd. This piece, which need not be learned off by heart providing it is thoroughly known and any script (whole or for prompts) can be secreted from the audience, is perhaps most suitable for such occasions as an Afternoon or Evening Fellowship Carol Service. Its place is that of the “Talk� or “Address�.
Links are made with the Jewish Scriptures and their reference to shepherds – not forgetting that God himself was described as Shepherd of the flock (c.f. Psalm 100, Psalm 23), that the prophets believed themselves, the priests and other religious leaders called to be shepherds of God’s people (c.f. Ezekiel 34), nor indeed that the first murder victim in the Bible, Abel, was himself a ‘keeper of sheep’. There is further resonance with Jesus’ own self-definition as the ‘Good Shepherd’ and of Peter’s commission by Jesus to ‘tend my lambs…feed my sheep…tend my sheep’. There’s also a challenge to contemporary Christians.