Today's OneWord: Flock
The priest at my church called the youth group the "new flock," which felt so odd and awkward to me. It was like we were all impressionable lambs, ready to be religiously molded into bleating, compliant sheep. I know what Father Hendricks was attempting to do; he was trying to bring Jesus's own words into our activities. He was the shepherd of his people, after all. But I still didn't like the idea of being shaped into an obedient cattle animal.