Loving the Strays

Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me atYour Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

By Phillip Medhurst (Photo by Harry Kossuth) [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons

When I returned to the Catholic Church after thirty-three years, I loved today’s Gospel reading from Matthew 18:

“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen,...