For Your Weekend: When Your Child Rejects Jesus

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 6:1–6

I’m not the greatest mom. There are things I wish I had done or said differently, like that one Thanksgiving eve when my kids kept getting out of their beds and interrupting my frantic cooking and cleaning. I told them that if they didn’t sleep, Tom the turkey would peck their eyes out.

That left an impression.

But I’m not the worst mom, either, and if there is one thing I did right, it is that I raised my children in the Catholic faith. Sunday Ma...