“The fact that Connie’s interaction with Friend occurs on a Sunday but ‘none of [the family] bothered with church’ leaves her vulnerable and suggests that religion could . . . provide physical if not spiritual protection” (Caldwell). Caldwell continues this thought, saying “Although all the other members of Connie’s family go to a picnic, an activity that could replace .
What inspired me the most from the Drink and Drive presentation was when Sarah Gino started sharing her story. My first impression of Sarah Gino was the obvious, “she is young, beautiful, and she is blind.” But when she started talking about her story it really had me putting things into prospective. After Sarah was helped onto stage by her Dad, she started talking about an accident that involved her. She mentioned nine years ago, on a nice January day, she and her EX decided to ask his Dad to borrow his car in other for them to go to his cottage. Her ex’s Dad said “ OK” on that note, she decided to invite her sister and her sister’s boyfriend to the cottage as well.
In Ernesto’s pueblo there are his cousin’s Jesus and Catarino, his mother, uncle’s Gustavo and Jose, Don Catarino, and aunt Esther. His Father, Don Ernesto stayed in Miramar when the family moved to Jalco and they divorced due to he was Lutheran and his mother was Catholic. There was an agreement between them that the ring and sewing machine was to be kept by Ernesto’s mother and it was meant to make their lives easier. Every morning there was a routine which is done the same way every day. The town has live news so they are warned on what to expect.
She is a lonely woman that turns out to be quite the talker when she meets Evelyn. She reveals that she has been a widow for two years. She reveals that she is also a really nice and caring woman when she says “Well, I’m glad, and I’m going to pray for your nerves. You need to go to church and ask the lord to lighten your burdens and see you through this bad period, just like He’s done for me so many times” (Flagg 68). She seems like she’s taking a liking to Evelyn and gives her
Catherine led an extremely pious childhood, devoted to prayer and penance, despite her parents' strong but intermittent opposition. Sometimes on her way up or down the stairs she would kneel on every step and say a Hail Mary. Catherine was six or seven years old when she had a remarkable experience. She was returning with her brother Stephen from a visit to the home of her married sister Bonaventura when she came to a stop. She stood spellbound in the middle of the road with her eyes to the sky.
She practices her faith even though she can get crops or needs from the Wal-Mart that is “just down the road” (112). She can even perform a ceremony for her granddaughter in New York to the “twenty-first century totem pole…made of flash and neon” (114). Harjo is able to carry out her rituals and use her belief as a therapeutic figure for challenges she faces in life because nothing can damage her spiritual experience. Before Kamps became the spiritual being she is now, she once went to church to find truth in life. When Kamps’ mother died and she was pregnant, she needed the church the most.
Did the creator of the universe create the heavens, seas, humans, and the sun in six days? When I was younger, these stories weren’t just stories but factual history to me. But I went through a phase of total disbelief and rejection of anything that is Catholic. One time, my mom urged me to go with her to a Catholic seminar where this special group of Catholic nuns and priest only visit San Jose once in a while. It wasn’t mass but I vaguely remember it was more of a long, intense session of prayer.
Almost at once she fell in love. When she turned seventeen he asked for her hand.” Since Roberts father did not support this, they did what they felt was right, they eloped to Tijuana. Being a young couple wasn’t easy, they often did without. After the death of their infant son, they had a prayer meeting at their home and it drew the couple closer to God. They soon began tithing and becoming fully faithful to the Lord.
Clara immersed herself in church work to “keep busy” and help the community around her but never had “deep religious feelings” towards Universalism. She had trouble in the idea of the joy there should be in life with the amount of grief that was present in the lives of those around her. Although Barton never claimed to have no faith, she described herself as being more of a “well-disposed pagan”. By Barton’s own standards of living up to her religious morals, I believe that she did as she thought was right. The words of her father while on his deathbed seems to be what I felt Barton lived by in her life; “As a Patriot he bade serve my country with all I had, even my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he bad me seek and comfort the afflicted everywhere, and as a Christian he charged me to honor God and love mankind”.
In my family everyone is strictly religious and I have been attending Russian Orthodox Church since early childhood. I never had a deep understanding of why it is necessary to have certain religious beliefs and was always tired and annoyed by having to stand during the sermons. I rarely questioned any of the imposed moral standards and attended church regularly with my mother. It was something that I had to do because of our culture’s religion. Here in United States it took a different meaning since I realized that it provides a cultural bonding to people within the same culture.