Catechism: A Personal Analysis

Sports has always been a huge part of my life. I would be the one team player who took the sports season a little bit too seriously. I was the number 1 doubles player on my school's JV tennis team. Unfortunately, I fractured my ankle during my junior year and wasn't able to play with my team. I was devastated, but I didn’t allow myself to become disconnected from my team. I became the team manager to allow myself to still play a role in my team, despite my injury. I would record scores to my division leaders and take pictures to post on the website I created for my team. After the season was over, my doctor told me my ankles required surgery to become fully healed. I knew that meant I couldn’t continue to play tennis, but I didn’t want to give

Adversity has a way of bringing up challenges unexpectedly, most people shrink away from it and get consumed, but when they push through it people come out stronger than they were before.

As I put off opportunities to improve my skills, and my character, the toll only became harsher and more difficult to overcome. In turn, my status among the other athletes began to deteriorate. Witnessing my peers expedite their game as I still struggled did not phase me so much at the time. In fact, I was sure that my role on the team would remain the same. This was obviously false, as within the matter of weeks I was pushed back further in the batting lineup, and committing more errors in the field than ever before. It was during our playoff run that I had realized the resulting detriment, when each player was counted on more than ever before. We ended up making it to the championship, only being one run short of winning. Although our team was able to accomplish that much, I felt short handed when it came to the successful

Learning Theology with the Church Fathers by Dr. Christopher A. Hall is a great place for a pastor, laity, student, or a believer to start growing in knowledge of the Lord and learning theology. Learning Theology is the second book in Dr. Hall’s three-volume patristic series examining early Church history – Reading Scripture, Learning Theology, and Worshiping with the Church Fathers. Dr. Hall is the director of academic spiritual formation and a distinguished professor of theology at Eastern University in Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. at Drew University, has worked in some capacity at Eastern University since 1992, and has ministered all over the world. Hall offers a simple overview, not focusing on one particular church father, which provides a strong foundational introduction for understanding how theology developed in the early church through the patristic fathers.

I became so much better than I was the year before that I was able to join the team at districts that year. I may still had have my sister's hammy downs, but I was more confident and more skilled in the game. Each year I got better with more experience, and became higher on the list of players on the team. Sadly after a couple of tournaments during the golf season junior year, I severely injured my wrist. I pulled a tendon, had a gap between my growth plates, and lost blood flow to a bone just in one wrist. I was out of the game for six months with tons of physical therapy, but what my failure from seventh grade had taught me was not to give up. During the time of my injury I helped the team by coaching them during practice and being a cheerleader. I may not have been able to play, but at least I was there for the team and gained some more knowledge of the sport from watching. Right after my injury was healed I went right back to practice. I know have arthritis in my wrist and there are days that I can not practice because it hurts, but I pushed through it. The whole year was hard on me but I was able to make the team again. This year I am no longer in the top five of the team, but I am still able to play and help the team

My freshman year of high school I broke the Scaphoid and growth plate in my right wrist while playing in a basketball game. I didn’t know that it was broken for two weeks and I played in three of four basketball games with my broken dominant hand. I found that is was probably broken the Monday before Christmas. On Christmas Eve I was told that I would be put in a cast for the entire Christmas break and on January 3rd we would find out if it was really broke. Sure enough we came back and told that I would have to be in a cast for six to eight weeks. I was pretty devastated and upset that I would be out for the rest of the season, it had barely begun. I was staying pretty optimistic about it because it would give me a chance to work on my weak hand, it was my left, and make it stronger. I still went to practice and worked as hard as I could hoping that the coach’s

The Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms that “freedom makes man a moral subject. When he acts deliberately, man is, so to speak, the father of his acts. Human acts, that is, acts that are freely chosen in consequence of a judgment of conscience, can be morally evaluated. They are either good or evil.” Likewise, the catechism states that “the morality of human acts depends on” three elements, which are “the object chosen, the end in view or the intention, and the circumstances of the action.” What it means is that classical theology affirms that to judge the goodness or evilness of an action, the three elements should be taken into account together because only with the unity of the three, essentially the object and the intention, the

Applying to join the Peace Corps a mid-twenty year old has required careful thought and consideration but I believe that I am prepared to undertake this rigorous challenge. The Timor-Leste Community Development Program opening comes at a time where I feel mentally tough, professionally experienced and intellectually curious to be a great volunteer. This is a critical juncture in my life and I am prepared through my life experiences to make a positive impact on this planet and also give back to the country that has provided me such amazing opportunities. In college, I spent six months in London.

Through difficult task I get to know myself, I get to know the rewards of discipline.

Everyone experiences adversity. Challenges that everyday people experience can potentially shape, improve, or destroy one's sense of self and personality. Through all these hardships and seemingly impenetrable obstacles, the most pertinent component of one's ability to overcome can only be shown in actions taken despite the odds. People have one of two options; to let those obstacles overwhelm them and keep them from pursuing all that they were destined to accomplish, or to march forward, fight harder and push past the seemingly impossible circumstances to become greater than they ever expected to be, but until they take the step that enables them to be successful -- they are stranded. All of our actions, mistakes, successes, and behaviors shape our person and what we can or cannot become, but what will always matter is our individual decisions and actions not those of the people around us because at the end of the day, we are the ones who have to deal with ourselves.

Religion had a prominent role in Western Civilization because it established morals and changed social interaction among humans. Christianity was one of the most influential and widespread religions, due to, its individualism that made each human become accountable for their own actions. Catechism is a written guide to christians to better understand the principles of their religion. Martin Luther was a Christian who occupied the chair of Biblical Theology and stressed the importance of learning the full extent of Christianity. He was so devoted to his beliefs that he even sparked controversy in the pope’s ability to remit temporal punishment (64).

I have many memories of being considered less capable of doing something, but my most vivid one of them is when my parents did. I wanted to do crossfit, which is a high skilled sport which requires very high intensity performance and a good strength capacity. I was excited to join and be part of it, but when I heard my parents opinion’s of me joining made me ruminate about it. They

All the different beaches around the shore compete in tournaments, and ever since I was young, I loved to compete. I was so thrilled that I would maybe get the chance to take part in these tournaments during my second year working. Before the first tournament, I asked the new tournament captain Todd when would tryouts be. His response to me was, “Kelly, I do not think we need you, these events are better when you are taller and stronger.” I was not even given the chance to try out just because of my size. I knew I should have gotten the chance because I competed in an all women’s tournament the previous year and did pretty well. This tournament was held Sandy Hook, and there were about 15 different beaches competing. The tournament had events including running, paddling, and swimming. As the old tournament captain Thomas was discussing what girl should be in each event, he realized that our team did not have a strong runner, so he placed me in beach flags just to fill the event. Out of the 15 ladies running beach flags, I ended up winning. Since there was an unlimited amount of entrees for the run-swim-run event, I was able to participate. I placed sixth out of forty girls, including beating all the girls from Bradley Beach. I really think that this proved to the tournament captain that I had the ability to

I grew up in an environment where I was sensitive to the needs of those immediately around me; my family, my neighbors, my classmates but my world was a very narrow one. This course has taught be to look at the world as my neighbors and feel a responsibility to the health, safety and welfare of all. I used to believe there was nothing I could do about the famine in Africa or the genocide in Croatia but I now realize that ANY small step I take is a step toward a path leading to action and understanding. One of my closest friends is a Major in the U.S. Army and she has been to Croatia, Iraq and Afghanistan; I am blessed to have her in my life because through her eyes and her stories, I am more in touch with the trials of our modern day world. “Lao Tzu said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step” (Loeb, 2010).

In his hardback titled The Church: Contours of Christian Theology, Edmund P. Clowney writes a systematic presentation about concerning the doctrine of the church. In chapter eight of his book, he describes the Marks of the Church. Clowney writes about the marks of a true church of Christ, which include the true preaching of the Word of God; the proper observation of the sacraments; and the faithful exercise of church discipline.