For my cultural immersion experience I want to talk about a day I spent at Holy Infancy Church. It was Sunday, January 10, 2016, my friend Jared decided to take me and a couple of our other friends who weren’t Catholic to his grandparent’s church, which was in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. While first walking into the church the Priest was greeting everyone that entered by name, he recognized that my friends and I were not regulars at the church, so he stopped and asked us our names and welcomed us to the church. The Mass started with reading from the Old Testament, which would rotate from reading to the singing of hymns. Then those who have done their Holy Communion would get up and receive the body of Christ and kneel for the Eucharistic
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My family has always identified with being Catholic, but this was my first time actually going to church, it allowed me to understand why people feel the need to go to church, and that it’s not to sit there for an hour listening to the Priest. Everyone is at church for a reason, they’re all there to worship the same entity, God. They all believe that this one spiritual entity is worth going to church and praying to him, it also allows them to feel better about themselves and their lives. I also now understand some of the different things that come with being catholic and attending Mass. I now know why Catholics kneel during the Mass, it is because kneeling is way of expressing their worship, and they’re completely surrendering themselves to God and humbling their sprits before him, they believe that Jesus is really coming. They believe the Jesus becomes present in Eucharistic elements once the Priest prays the Eucharistic Prayer (Little, 2015). I also learned why it’s necessary for people to go to Mass every Sunday, in the Third Commandment God says to “remember to keep holy the Sabbath day” for Catholics its Sunday, the Church says it’s an obligation to fulfill the Third Commandment by going to Mass. They also say that it’s not enough to worship in private, by going to Mass Catholics they’re worshiping God in the highest way possible because they have Communion with him, which is why it’s important to attend Sunday Mass (MacKinnon,
My family has always identified with being Catholic, but this was my first time actually going to church, it allowed me to understand why people feel the need to go to church, and that it’s not to sit there for an hour listening to the Priest. Everyone is at church for a reason, they’re all there to worship the same entity, God. They all believe that this one spiritual entity is worth going to church and praying to him, it also allows them to feel better about themselves and their lives. I also now understand some of the different things that come with being catholic and attending Mass. I now know why Catholics kneel during the Mass, it is because kneeling is way of expressing their worship, and they’re completely surrendering themselves to God and humbling their sprits before him, they believe that Jesus is really coming. They believe the Jesus becomes present in Eucharistic elements once the Priest prays the Eucharistic Prayer (Little, 2015). I also learned why it’s necessary for people to go to Mass every Sunday, in the Third Commandment God says to “remember to keep holy the Sabbath day” for Catholics its Sunday, the Church says it’s an obligation to fulfill the Third Commandment by going to Mass. They also say that it’s not enough to worship in private, by going to Mass Catholics they’re worshiping God in the highest way possible because they have Communion with him, which is why it’s important to attend Sunday Mass (MacKinnon,