Church Fathers

he’s gone now. He was an elderly gentleman who attended the same church as me. Every Sunday morning he’d ask what my name was and I would remind him with a friendly smile. He was hard of hearing and remembering things, as most old souls were. That didn’t stop him, though; he was always so dedicated to worship and wanted to be there every chance he could be. Such an inspiring person. He fell ill, so one Sunday after church my family went to his nursing home to visit him. I walked into…

Along with her parents, older sister and younger brother, their family lived with her father’s family on a farm. When she turned 3 and it was almost time to begin school, her mother informed her father that they were moving to town, with or without him. Despite promising to live with his mother, their father packed up and moved them to town where they were closer to schools and their family owned business, a grocery store called Piggly Wiggly. After moving to town, her interaction with her…

Boniface where they had a priest who had to be stopped”(Shanley 22) and she does not want the history to be repeating itself again. When she finds out about Father Flynn and Donald Muller's relationship and their trip to the rectory from Sister James she knows that she has to put a stop to whatever thats is going on and get the truth out. Father Flynn seems like a knowledgeable priest until he has the confidence to ”take sister…

what used to be. A major part of it was putting on a mask and staying positive. I had to do this to help my mom, who was having the hardest time coping. The hardest part of the entire divorce wasn 't because of how it affected me, but my mother. My father and I never had that great of a relationship so I was more or less not interested in his well being. At school my grades began to slip considerably. I was failing some of my classes, it was bad enough that I had to have a meeting with my…

an excuse for my son to be calm and watch Mickey Mouse. My mom and I sit together and watch one novela as we drink coffee. I remember when we were small, we used to do service for church. One time my brother was acting stubborn and said that he felt like not going to church. When my family and I came back from church, we found my brother watching Yu-Gi-Oh lying in bed eating ice cream. Yu-Gi-Oh is a Japanese manga series about gaming. I remember him saying that he liked being a bump on a log…

adult life. Dylann had to go through some of the same things that many young people must go through. He went through a messy divorce between his step mother and father. When interviewed his stepmother said that she was very afraid of Bennett Roof Dylann's father. She said in the interview that she put up with many beatings from Dylann’s father. Dylann’s education stopped when he dropped out of school after the ninth grade. Friends that were interviewed told stories that Roof was into…

Before the Stuart’s reign, the Tudors and English Parliament worked hand in hand. After Queen Elizabeth I’s death in 1603, the Tudor line was over, and the English crown was handed to the Stuarts. The first Stuart monarch, James I, started the conflict between his soon to be dynasty and Parliament. The Stuart family had a tumultuous relationship with Parliament during the 17th century due to the lack of dutiful rulers like James I and Charles I, with the exception of Charles II. James I was an…

polygamous off shoot of Mormonism called The Church of the Lamb of God. Anna’s father and leader of the church, murderous Ervil Lebaron had thirteen wives and more than fifty children as he led his followers as the one true prophet of God. Throughout the book the author tells readers about her 1970’s and 1980’s childhood in Mexico, Colorado, and Texas dealing with the hardships of living in the cult. While Anna lived in Mexico with a man who her father promised she would marry, she was forced to…

and happy feelings were communicated. Bad and negative feeling weren’t communicated as often. This was mostly because that was the type of environment my father had set up. Due to these unrealistic expectations, we could not have a serious conversation with my father. It was if things always had to go his way. When I would get upset with my father, he would never know about it. If he had some inclination of us feeling down or upset, he would brush it off. My mother was different, she didn’t…

mother and needed my help taking care of my younger siblings. I was responsible for making sure my youngest brother did his homework, while everyone else did their chores. I was also responible for getting my youngest brother and sister ready for church on Sundays, and some nights I was responsible for making dinner. Older sibling responsibilities were hard to handle and were very frustrating on some days. Luckily I had my wonderful sister, Destiny, to help me keep most of my responsibilities…