For Your Weekend: When Jesus Gets Personal

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 10:17–30

I was doing everything right—okay, not everything, but most things. I prayed every morning, no matter how exhausted I was. I hauled myself to daily Mass, no matter how inconvenient. I thoroughly examined my conscience, noting the number of times I fell short of God's glory. I kneeled and asked for God’s forgiveness in the sacrament of Reconciliation every week. Morally speaking, I believed I was in pretty good shape.

Then I walked into the conf...