ESSAY #2 of 3
Serving
as an Altar Server
server at Saint
Catherines church. Being an Altar Server is a great privilege for me, because I
am able to help
the clergy during Mass. I get to help with things that are needed for the Mass.
And I can join in
the procession and the recessional.
An Altar server is a lay person who
helps the priest or the deacon during Mass. Altar
servers help
before, during, and after Mass, but most of the time, during Mass. Altar
servers are
needed to be
trained so they could do their best when serving.
What I do as an altar server is, on
a Sunday Mass, 15-10 minutes before Mass, I
would be setting
the bells, lighting the candles if they are not lit. During Mass, holding the
missal
for the priest,
holding the candles during the gospel reading, washing the hands of the priest,
ringing the bells
during the consecration, and leading the priest with everyone else during the
precession and the
recessional. After Mass, I would be, putting the bells away, blowing out
the
candles, putting
the missal away, and most inportantly, saying thanksgiving prayer.
When I am serving at the Altar as an
Altar server, it makes me feel encouaged to serve.
The more I do it,
I get the better I get. When I am about to serve, I feel excited to
serve. I get more
excited to serve on a Saturday or Sunday Mass because I having to be doing
more actions are
required. When I serve, I usually like serving with my friends.
ESSAY #1 of 3
Jesus
Jesus has been the biggest influence
in my life. Because I pray to Jesus and he
helped me. Jesus
through his priests hears my confession and gives me his Body and
Blood, so I could
be holy. He helps us understand the Ten Commandments and having
Sunday as a Holy
Day. He also tells us the Two Great Commandments which are: 1. Love
the Lord with all
your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strenghth. 2. Love your
neighvor as
yourself.
The Commandments 1-3 are about loving God.
If I follow the Two Great
Commandments, I may also be following the 10
Commandments. The
Ten Commandments are:
1. I am the Lord
Your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
2. You shall not
take the Lord your God in vain.
3. Remenber to kke
the Sabbath Holy.
The Commandments
4-10 are about loving neighbor.
4. Honor your
Father and Mother.
5. You shall not
kill.
6. You shall not
commit adulter.
7. You shall not
steal.
8. You shall not
bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not
covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not
covet your neighbor's goods.
The Commandments talk about not Just
about what is says but it also talks about
smaller sins. For
an example. The Commandment #5 says not to kill. Killing is a big sin
or a mortal sin.
But it also means not to hurt any body which is a smaller sin. Or not to
steal, also
meaning not to cheat as a smaller sin. Stealing may not be a mortal sin but it
would if it is
serious.
If any of the Commandments are not
obayed. They have been violated ether with a
venial sin, (which
is not serious) or a mortal sin. (which is serious) If a person commited
a mortal sin, it
must have three condistions done in order for it to be a mortal sin. The
three are: 1. It
has to be a serious sin. 2. The person doing knows it is a mortal sin. 3. If
the person know
that it is a mortal sin, and the person still does it, it is a mortal sin.
Without the Ten Commandments, I
would be doing a lot of bad things. But it is
not just me, it would
be everyone. The Ten Commandment are like rules in a country or a
nation. If someone
disobays or violates a rule, it has done somthing bad, and commited a
sin if the rule is
good. The same thing happens with the Ten Commandments. If someone
disobays any of
the Ten Commandments, the person not only did something bad, but also
committed a sin.
Rules could be in a county, state, city, and a household. These are a few
reasons why the
Ten Commandments and other good rules are important.
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