Pictures for the 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B

This is a small selection of free-use illustrations, photographs or images based on the readings and prayers/propers in the Roman Catholic lectionary for the sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B.  It is part of the Lectionary Art Series.

See Hymn Suggestions for this Sunday for more information about the readings and seasonal notes about this day, and links to other weeks.

Today's readings, about Jesus the Good Shepherd, have inspired many art-works.  The ones suggested below are but a handful of the images available for free-use.

Classical

Good Shepherd

Artist:  Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907)

Source:   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lord_is_my_Good_Shepherd.jpg

Contemporary

Sheep without a Shepherd

Original file:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Corriedale_lambs_in_Tierra_del_Fuego.JPG

Come Away to a Lonely Place

Original file:   https://www.flickr.com/photos/michalo/1130168958

Original title:  God is my shepherd, I shall not want.

Line art

Source:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shepherd_copy.JPG

Mother sheep and lambs

Source:   https://pixabay.com/en/sheep-animals-field-barn-babies-47483/

See also ...

• Where to find pictures to use in church

• Catholic Mass planning sheet
• General-purpose church-service templates