Personal Narrative: How The Church Changed My Life

Growing up in a catholic family, the church never had much of a personal impact on me in the first 15 years of my life. All church was to me was something I did every Sunday because my parents made me do it, it was just a that I went through every week. Throughout middle school my parents made me go to a youth program that was so uninteresting to me at the time. It seemed like a waste of time and the food was anything but good. Going through the middle school program at was nothing more than a few hours every week where I had to act like I was somewhat paying attention, but once I got to high school things began to change. Leaving the middle school program and entering into what was called “Life-Teen” (youth group for high-schoolers) changed my perspective on the church. We played games and the talks that were given at …show more content…
At the time, I was unaware of what the sacrament of confirmation was but all I wanted was to get confirmed so my parents would stop making me stay at church after mass every Sunday. As a prerequisite for receiving confirmation all candidates had to attend a weekend retreat at a local camp. This made me furious- why did I have to waste my weekend on a retreat when I could be playing games or working on school work? The retreat wasn’t as bad as I anticipated and not a lot of it really stuck with me; however, our last day we were there we had to interview with one of the group leaders and they got to ask us questions and we got to ask them questions. I fabricated my way through the conversation so I could be done but when it came my turn to ask questions I became curious and asked the question I should’ve asked a long time ago, “What exactly is confirmation?”. The answer I received was simple but enough to become the catalyst to change both my life and