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Catholics' Goals are to Find Themselves and their God-given Talents

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As Catholics, our main goal in life is to find ourselves and our God given talents,. We are to embrace them and make a difference in the world, to make as great an impact as we can in order to work towards a world that is in Gods likeness. We learned from a young age to honor the one and only Lord and honor our mother and father. We learned not steal or commit adultery. As we grow older we learn the other commandments and become able to understand the greater meaning of His message of how to live. We identify our sins and work to eliminate them and many of the corrupt actions of our institutions on our society. Although we may have shortcomings, we actively pursue a life of improving ourselves and being kind to others.
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For, as Jesus ends, “many who are first will be last and the last first.”
While my own tendencies urge me to believe the good in all men I do not think this man was naively calling Jesus “Good teacher” out of respect, but rather to let Jesus know he was a man of wealth and therefore be due respect himself. Jesus directly rejects this social sigma, by not only refusing to address the man in a similar manner, but also rejecting the title “Good” for any man, for only God is truly deserving of such a designation. He rejects that a man’s earnings or wealth should grant him revere. In his expectation that Jesus would treat him well simply because of the, “Good”, respectable title he denoted unto him. For in that time, as in our common day, respect granted unto a stranger usually meant that such person was an upper class

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