“We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has” (Kundera, Laughable Loves). Going through life, we experience many things, whether they may be trivial or major. At the time, their meaning may seem unclear and senseless, but there's a chance that one action you make could have a lifelong impact on you or somebody around you.
One very big event that happened about a year before I was born was the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the attempted attack on Washington, D.C. in a fourth hijacked plane that was brought down owing to the innocent passengers on board United Airlines flight 93. At the time, everyone was confused and horrified, thinking that US Airlines Flight 11 had flown into the …show more content…
Their Savior, teacher, and friend had just been arrested and they were associated with Him and had followed His word and they didn’t want to be arrested as well. This selfishness led to Peter denying Jesus three times, and some of the disciples fled and hid. But later, after the third day when Jesus rose from the dead, the disciples realized that Jesus had been arrested and had been sacrificed to save us from sin. That is truly what Salvation is; Jesus sacrificing Himself for us, He didn’t have to listen to God. He could have lived his life out like every other human being and we wouldn’t be saved from sin. But Jesus knew He had to do this for us to exist in eternal glory in Heaven. Looking back at this important event in Catholic history, we know more than we did when that happened therefore it makes more sense in retrospect than it did when Judas’ betrayal actually
One very big event that happened about a year before I was born was the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the attempted attack on Washington, D.C. in a fourth hijacked plane that was brought down owing to the innocent passengers on board United Airlines flight 93. At the time, everyone was confused and horrified, thinking that US Airlines Flight 11 had flown into the …show more content…
Their Savior, teacher, and friend had just been arrested and they were associated with Him and had followed His word and they didn’t want to be arrested as well. This selfishness led to Peter denying Jesus three times, and some of the disciples fled and hid. But later, after the third day when Jesus rose from the dead, the disciples realized that Jesus had been arrested and had been sacrificed to save us from sin. That is truly what Salvation is; Jesus sacrificing Himself for us, He didn’t have to listen to God. He could have lived his life out like every other human being and we wouldn’t be saved from sin. But Jesus knew He had to do this for us to exist in eternal glory in Heaven. Looking back at this important event in Catholic history, we know more than we did when that happened therefore it makes more sense in retrospect than it did when Judas’ betrayal actually