For Your Weekend: Warning Against Exclusivity

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 9:38–43,45,47–48

In high school, I was a wannabe popular girl. I desperately wanted to be part of the elite social circle of the prettiest and most athletic girls, and I spent my high school days slowly climbing the social ladder until, eventually, senior year, I was accepted as a fringe member of the club. I was good enough to sit at their lunch table and be included in group projects, but when it came to the pre-prom photoshoot or the after-party inv...