Personal Narrative: My Minority Experience

For my minority experience, I decided to attend a church service at the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Warsaw, Indiana. The service lasted for about one hour and was attended by many individuals of various ages. When the members of the church first walked into the sanctuary, they walked up to the front and kneeled or bowed to the cross and then walked to their seats and said a prayer that I did not know. Throughout the service, there were a few songs that were sung and the priest spoke for the majority of the time. At the end, the members of the church then took communion and received a blessing and anointment with oil from the priest. The first moment when I was impacted the most by, was when the priest threw holy water on the congregation. I had never experienced this in my life and was a bit confused at the reasoning behind this action. However, a very kind woman next to me explained that this was a way for them to represent baptism and the cleansing of our sins. I liked that they included this in their service because it literally forces you to consider the sacrifice Christ made for us on the cross and many churches fail to even speak of the death and resurrection of Christ each Sunday. …show more content…
I did not participate in their actual communion since I am not a member of the Catholic church but I did go and have the priest bless me and anoint me with oil. I have also never been anointed with oil, at least as far as I can remember, so it was interesting to participate. It was an interesting experience, especially seeing as how people were so comforted by this action. I have just never seen a congregation finding someone so worthy of their adoration. That may not be the right word to use in regards to how they actually feel but it just seemed to me that they were positioning their priest as a worthier individual than anyone else, apart from