Sistine Lock-in

Well, the Veni Creator has been sung and the door has been closed. All we have to go by now are smoke signals and the hoped-for pealing of bells.
Meanwhile, in yet another marvelous liturgical coincidence (!), the Gospel for today's Mass practically gives a job description for the new Pope:
"The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.... I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice and there will be one flock, one shepherd."
And for all of us, Jesus says,
"The good shepherd lays down his life to take it up again."
How?
The most obvious way would be in his own resurrection--in which our human nature itself takes its life up again.
But then he takes his life up again also in the Church, his body (von B has a great section on this in Heart of the World),
And he takes up his life again in each of us, if we let him live freely in us.