Catholic Reflection

I was born into a Catholic family. Both my mom and my dad are Catholic and both grew up Catholic families, as well. This being said, I grew up as a Catholic and I always thought I would be Catholic forever. I still believe that I would like to remain Catholic, but this class has taught me what it means to be Catholic and the responsibilities that come with it. Though I grew up Catholic, I never attended a Catholic school. I went to a public elementary school and a private middle school. I played sports for CYO teams (image below is our St. Anne 's girls basketball team picture) and went to mass on Sunday, but I never really got the opportunity to Catholic courses. For a few years, I went to Faith Foundations on Wednesday nights at my church, …show more content…
I believe that the most valuable lessons I learned during this semester of Foundations of Faith were the individual stories from the Bible, and also how to read the Bible. These two aspects are core concepts of Catholicism that I was very glad to learn about. I think the lesson that helped me more learn about my personal faith was the question of theodicy. This really made me think more about God and the goodness of God and people. Through both moral and natural evil it can sometimes be hard to see the presence of God, but I learned how to see Him even through evil. To even more strengthen my personal faith, I would like to continue questioning God’s existence and theodicy. These are two questions that I never really thought about before this class and I will continue to try and …show more content…
The most controversial part of the Trinity (image down below illustrates the Trinity) that I learned about during this course is that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all equal. In Catholicism, we believe that there is one God, obviously due to the fact that it is a monotheistic religion, but this God embodies three persons. The most seemingly biggest mistake people can make when thinking about the Trinity is that the Father is more powerful than the Son. In human world, a father is older, wiser, and therefore more powerful than his son. Knowing this, it can be hard to envision both the Father and Son of equal power, but they are equal. The Father is many times viewed as also more powerful than the Holy Spirit. The Father is not the most powerful aspect of God, as God is made up of three equally powerful persons. Though I had heard of the Trinity before, this helped clarify that there is one God with many equal persons. Another concept I learned about during this unit that stood out to me is theodicy. Theodicy, as I mentioned on the last page, is the question of why there is evil in the world if God is all good. This topic really stood out to me because it was a way of questioning God’s goodness and existence that I had never thought about before. I look around in our world and see lots of evil that I can not understand. In those moments