Left out

Here's a lovely thought from Pope Saint Gregory the Great that will not make it into the homily this weekend. I wanted it to but it just won't seem to fit. I offer it for your reflection:

It is written, “All flesh is hay” (Isaiah 40:6). What is hay if not grass? The good shepherd has laid down his life for his sheep in order to change his body and blood into a sacrament for us, and to satisfy the sheep he had redeemed with his own body as food.