A. Everyone gathers inside the church and celebrates the importance of Jesus being born. 1. Support material: Before we eat someone talks about the importance of this celebration. 2.
It had very little stained glass windows; unlike the windows that you would see in the Catholic Churches on the television. All Souls had nice greenery around the church to decorate it not to much but here and there, they also had banners hanging from the ceiling and a few on the wall. As I recall “The Order of Mass,” in which the Entrance Chant (a song), a woman did the Greeting then, shortly there -after was a Rite for the Blessing and Sprinkling of the Water. During this part of the service there were two deacons on the pulpit who did this ritual. The first deacon whom I assumed was the head deacon did the blessings and the other prayed.
In his sermon he did not include scripture. He preached about the plush carpet all over his house, the type of car he drives, the brand of clothing he had on, and how the birds disturbed him in the morning. My first thoughts were how a man of God can preach only about his blessings, neglect to preach the word and indicated how much his disapproved of the birds chirping in the morning. At that moment I felt as if he was putting on a production and not preaching the word. Needless to say that was my last time I attended that church.
On Good Friday (Viernes Santo), is when Jesus Christ was crucified. There are many religious processions on this day. In some towns, statues of Jesus and Mary are carried through the town to the Church. Most people dress in costumes to evoke the time of Jesus. The costumes are usually red or sometimes black.
When speaking to Kathy Whitted, she stated “she was baptized as a baby and raised Catholic.” She also states, “When a person gets married, the marriage is for life. Divorce is not allowed, unless certain circumstances are causing problems in the marriage. Depending on the type of divorce, a couple is allowed to receive sacraments.” Catechism is something that is required of the Catholic religion. Students are taught about it in Sunday school and if they attend a private school, they are taught about it in school. If a Catholic child attends a public school, he or she must attend catechism classes after school.
He told her she was a chosen soul from God. On Palm Sunday she stayed after everyone got their palm branches and on that night she ran away to follow Saint Francis. He had her cut her hair and dressed her in a black tunic and a thick black veil. Clare was put in the convent of the Benedictine nuns and was almost pulled out by her father because he really wanted her to get married to continue their family lineage.
Alexandra Beram 04/30/2012 English 1020 Holly Hunt Witchcraft Throughout my life I have always misunderstood the way that people see religion. My parents had my birth celebration at the Unitarian Universalist church, and I attended this church from then on. A Unitarian Universalists church or UU celebrates every religion and religious holiday. When I was 5 years old I attended a religious celebration dedicated to the Wiccan holiday Spring equinox. During this celebration we painted eggs, and colored pictures of fairies that we hung up all over the church.
Organizing weddings takes up to months and years, Pakistani weddings usually can’t take place without the consent of both parents and sometimes even the eldest in the family out of respect. In today’s day Pakistanis usually don’t have arranged marriages but they still have a lot to do with the family’s consent, the groom’s side has to go talk to the bride’s parents before they take any step towards their wedding. American weddings are never arranged and both man and women speak to each other before their families. Their families also get to know each other while the wedding is being planned. Traditionally American weddings take place in a church, family and friends are formally invited and they have bridesmaids, flower girls, and a ring bearer.
Liturgical Expression: The Lunar New Year Mass For Vietnamese Catholics, the Lunar New Year Mass is a very important liturgical event related to very much Vietnamese culture. I would like to describe the Lunar New Year Mass at Vietnamese community at St, Henry Church couple months ago. There was the couplet (parallel sentences) hang at both sides of the crucifixion meaning of God and spring season. People used yellow and red colors to decorate the Altar. The readers, acolytes, and ministers of Cup wore the traditional clothing “4- part dress” during the Mass.
Based on how Rudolph Otto described religious experience as a mystery that is both awe-inspiring and attractive and John Smith defended the position that religious experience is somehow part of the life of every human being, I think that the best religious experience that I can share which I really remember is when my goddaughter was baptized. It was on the morning of July 29, 2012. Her mother (my best friend), was not able to be there so I stand as her mother on that day. It was a very special day because it was the day that I was given the gift to be her godmother and I was there for her when she needed me, and it was the day that she was welcomed into the Christian world. It was a very simple yet touching ceremony.