Graduation Speech At St Francis Parish

I have the distinct pleasure of welcoming all of you into the National Honor Society, a group built off of high standards of achievement, not only in the area of academics but also in character and leadership. I congratulate each of you and your parents.

Good morning Principle Boyd, proud parents, faculty, and fellow graduates, to this extraordinary celebration breakfast, in honor of Our Lady of Grace Catholic School Class of 2017. Yes, I am graduating 8th grade, but I still have to make my bed, be nice to my siblings, do my chores, I cannot drive a car, I must continue putting my Iphone into my locker every night, so that I will not be grounded!  Nevertheless, I am graduating from Our Lady of Grace Catholic School, and I feel like I found a pot-of-gold at the end of the rainbow.

When choosing a religious service I was very limited on my choices so I was intrigued to go back to my roots and try the Catholic denomination. This denomination is the one that is most prevalent in my community and also in my social circle as well. Since I have actually been to a Catholic church as a child I thought I knew what to expect but I was shocked at how naive I was to the subject. My preconceived ideas and thoughts were that there would be a lot of getting down on your knees then back up again then saying your Hail Mary’s with not much depth to a service. Also growing up with a social group that was full of Catholics you would always hear of confession so that was something I was particularly dreading for the fact that I did not

Growing up in a Catholic household, I have always been an active member in the church as an alter server, interpreter, and assisting with

The church that we used to attend -Wooddale Baptist- was a mega church just outside of St. Paul, Minnesota. Every Sunday, I had the same schedule consisting of Sunday School, snack time, and then “Big Church,” which was with the adults. Due to the unthinkable amount of kids, I was never given the opportunity to make anything more than acquaintances. Every Sunday it felt like I met someone new, plus I only got to know their surface layer identity. Once we started at my new church, Aldersgate Church, my social and religious outlook improved. Starting on the first Sunday, my family and I had made plenty of good friends. We even had dinner plans with two strange families after church that night! Little did we know that these two families became the most supportive and trusted people we would ever meet. Also, the small community within the church and the pastor inspired me to grow in my faith than ever before. I began to enjoy Sunday school, and understand the lessons. Exchanging churches changed the way I worshipped God, and gave me the chance to meet new

Growing up within the church, I never felt out of place coming and going twice a week like the rest of my congregation. I made friends, attended activities, and even towards the latter half of my teenage years, I became involved within a youth group. As I began to age, however, I started to realize that I was different than the rest of the people I regularly attended church with. I was more reserved about my faith, and it was not something I jumped at the chance to talk about at any given point in the day. I found it straining to keep up with all of the so-called “duties” of a young Christian, such as reading your Bible and praying daily.

Welcome my classmates to this marvelous day on January 16 of 2017. I am happy to join you on this day as it will go down as the greatest day this year. 19 years ago at what was known as Georgia Baptist Hospital, a special little girl was born. On this momentous day, her parents had no idea of how much of an impact she will be in the future. Growing up, she was taught to be nice to everyone and treat everyone the same. During the years , she has witnessed gender and racial inequality. She realized that there needed to be a change and it needed to happen now. Although the new year has just started

This further invites a discourse of church practices in the U.S like attending a church regularly and being part of a small group or the Bible Study at a church, in order, for

Hello, and welcome to Escondido Christian School (ECS). In this essay I will be giving you some tips and tricks on how to survive Jr. high! Jr. high is definitely more difficult than elementary school, but ECS is very good at helping you grow in your faith and your knowledge. At ECS you will learn three very important things that will help you get through school. These three things are education, organization, and socialization.

Congratulations on being recognized as a top graduate within the Miami-Dade private school community! I am honored to join your family, friends, and classmates in celebrating your tremendous achievements.

“Mercy: the bridge that connects God and man, opening our hearts to the hope of being loved forever, despite our sinfulness.” -Pope Francis. The year of mercy comes every fifty years and I feel blessed to have spent a portion of my eighth grade year in the 2016 Jubilee. High school can be a difficult period, and I know that Mercy will help me through my freshman year. I hope to accomplish many things at Bishop Kelly through mercy, I know the obstacles, opportunities for guidance and kindness, and the goals I make going into freshman year will help me accomplish all of them. Mercy is a wonderful gift, it will help me through the challenges, opportunities for leadership and service, and the goals I have for my four years of being a knight.

Struggles are subject to happen in any given church if not conducted in a way pleasing to God and in view of his word being preach and teach to his congregation of people. In a research of churches struggling, the Catholic churches are prominent ones of reference. Everywhere from Boston to Minneapolis, Catholic churches have closed or been into regional cluster. The chief reason is declining Mass attendance. In New York, Mass attendance has fallen to European levels, around 15 percent on an average Sunday, according to The New York Times. In Boston, it is even lower, around 12 Nationwide, only twenty-four of Catholics go to Mass average Sunday, down from 55 percent in 1965. Several Catholics churches throughout the United States have begun to struggle in attendance of their morning Mass, mainly in the area of youth, treatment of lesbian and gays, the respected of women’s participation in the church, and the use of birth control. Sadly, these issues many churches will face in the future generation of churches attendance. Churches cannot dismiss these everyday life situations. A collection of these issues is what makes up today’s family. If only certain part of a family is welcome in the church, then the church loses the whole family. Churches are known to have a diverse in

Religion plays an important role in my life. I identify as catholic, but there are some thing that me and my family don’t follow. We don't go to church often and when we do it's only for important events. This is because we’ve had bad experiences with

It’s also the main source of your spiritual life, and if you took time to reflect on who you are, and how much you should give back to god, the attendance in mass would increase rapidly. A commandment from the Catholic church is to attend mass on Sundays and holy days, this is one of its six commandments, which at the moment is only being filled by 37% of Catholics, at the most (Shaw, 2014). It also helps Catholics live by the ten commandments.

Growing up I attended church consistently with my mother and brother. Every Sunday we would go to Sunday school for an hour then sit in service for another hour and a half. This is what I did until my junior year in high school when my Sunday school class dissolved from lack of attendees and I chose to only attend services sporadically. At that point I thought the church had nothing for me, no benefit. All my friends and peers whom I had grown up with left or stopped attending and I lost the social aspect I craved every Sunday. Church shouldn’t be about seeing friends and playing football on the church lawn, but it is a part of the church many people enjoy the most. The sense of community and family is what brings and keeps people together. Being the only one around my age sitting in a pew listening on Sunday made me feel isolated and I was unhappy with that situation. I had opportunities to