Personal Narrative: My Involvement In The Church

I was baptized as a Catholic seven and a half weeks after I was born. I also attended a catholic school until ninth grade. At this point I had received a total of four sacraments, but sacraments alone do not portray involvement in a church. Throughout my years of attending a catholic school I learned that a church is not a building, but the people that are inside. My involvement in the church has hopefully positively impacted many people in my parish and outside of it.

I did not become truly involved in my church until I was in eighth grade. During eighth grade I was preparing to receive the sacrament of Confirmation. This is a very important sacrament when young men and women become adults in the church. Becoming confirmed is a very long process but is very rewarding, especially if you truly want to become a faithful servant of God. During my eighth grade year I decided to go to the principal of our school and propose the idea of dressing up for school masses. Normally we were required to wear our school uniforms every day of the week. After the principal agreed to my proposition students were able to wear ties on Thursdays for weekly school

We visited three different schools and spent much of our time at my parishes sister parish in Benqué, Belize. The mission trip was far from anyone's normal vacation to Belize, mainly because it was not meant to be a vacation but a vocation. While there we went to mass everyday and taught children every day except for two. We put together lessons to teach the children but I think they ended up teaching us more than we taught them. Their innocence and their gratefulness was astonishing, they were happier than any American children that I have ever met and they had just enough to survive. The poverty that I was able to witness in their country was eye opening. It was a blessing to get the opportunity to serve the people of their town and to represent my parish and