Eucharist

In my adolescent years, I went through a couple of struggles before I became a Catholic. I became a Catholic when I was baptized as a little baby but then bad situations occurred and I missed out on being the Catholic I wanted to become as a little girl because my parents stopped taking me to church. As I grew up, I have always felt I had a something missing and I knew it was God’s love. When I hit freshman year in high school I found myself going back to the Catholic church with my Catholic…

In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade traces the existence of sacred spaces and what characteristics each area follows to determine what defines a sacred space. Eliade has identified five elements of every sacred space. For a place to be sacred, there has to be a hierophany, cosmogonic qualities, a threshold, and where heavenly and earthly come to meet and has to have a break in the homogeneity of the space. To examine further, we explored Stonehill’s Chapel of Mary to see if it qualifies…

Paintings have been used as a type of expression for many years now. Using figural, landscape, and mural styles as different styles of depiction. In the past and specifically during the 6th c. CE it was more common to paint on the behalf of a religion. Depending on the religion being painted came a different style of illustration. In Christian art it was very common to see figural paintings, and scenes involving people to establish a story. These story depictions usually came from or were…

I go to Corpus Christi Catholic Church In Macon Mississippi. The congregation here is heavily populated by those of the Hispanic Ethnicity. One of my fellow youth members, named Brisa Chora, is currently age fourteen. She is rapidly approaching her fifteenth birthday which is on April the twentieth. At Mass this past week, Brisa stood up during the allotted time for announcements and told all of the parishioners of her upcoming Quinceanera. She told us that for her party, that will be on on…

Being in a church setting, I did not want to break many norms, or be overly intolerable because I knew that many people would be very upset. From breaking the norms (sitting down while everyone else stood up to sing, texting, ect.) the people got upset, but not upset enough to leave the service. I think if I would have continuously been disruptive and annoying, people would have left, or told me to leave. I thought that it was very interesting that while they sing, they stand up, while at my…

The main question focused on while doing this experiment was, “How many times does the ball bounce before coming to a rest? “ There were four groups and each one had a different ball in size to get a variety in the data. Each group did their own data analysis depending on the number of the bounces their ball did. Every group was expected to release the ball from their hands and count the number of bounces before coming to a stop which was then repeated 10 times. Once every group completed their…

In every standardized test I have taken since third grade there is a series of questions; two of them being “What race/ethnicity are you?” and “Are you Hispanic/Latino?”. I never knew why the questions were separated or why Hispanic and Latino were lumped together. To my understanding, Hispanic and Latino were two separate ethnicities that could sometimes overlap. Because of this, I never answered the first question. Now that I am asked my race and ethnicity without the restriction of having to…

a. Does What You Wear Say Anything About You as a Person? By Michael Gonchar, our personality shows from our clothes. Having Soccer jerseys, nose rings, flannel shirts, head scarves, tattoos and high-top sneakers can tell who you are. Beijing. In China people are sporting plastic decorations on their heads in the shape of vegetables, fruit and flowers. The green beans plastic put to the hair is a way to against the gray, stressed environment of the city. This expand the world, people doing…

What does being a Catholic mean? You can ask any person who believes in God the same question, and you will get twenty different answers. Father Damien showed us how to be a Catholic and how to appreciate everyone even if they can hurt you in the end. He knew that once he stepped on Molokai, he would never be able to return to the mainland. Father Damien’s faith carried him through tough times and it showed through to all the lepers there. When he arrived on the island, he brought his love for…

The Didache is a collection of early Christian teachings that outlines a variety of Christian practices. It was written as a result of Christianity’s urge to establish and differentiate itself amongst other popular and threatening religious groups such as Gnosticism and Marcionism during the second century. The purpose of the Didache is to guide in the process of standardizing and regulating church leadership and methods of worship. Subsequently after Jesus’ crucifixion, the prevalent notion…