Tarpon Springs Beliefs

The rabbi began the service fairly casually, greeting the congregation in English. After the English greeting came a more traditional greeting in Hebrew, and then a song to greet the Sabbath, or Shabbat, which is the word that was used at the synagogue. The Hebrew might have been strange to me, but there were English translations for just about everything in the prayer book, along with the prayers and songs written out in Hebrew. My personal favorite part of the service was the singing. There were two singers, one male and one female. All of the songs were beautiful, and caused me to consider the fact that many religions use songs and music in order to convey their messages. I believe that this is a good practice, because music is a common language, one that everybody can understand regardless of whether they speak Hebrew, or any other tongue. Although I’m

At the front, there were three Rabbis; two male and one female. This was the first evident sign that this temple was reformed, on the grounds that in Orthodox and some Conservative Judaism, leadership by a female is not permitted. Each of the three rabbis wore the talit, and one of them was the Cantor. He played a guitar and sang a song and the style reminded me of the praise and worship songs we sing at my church. He continued singing as people found seats. The service started with some singing in Hebrew. The lighting of the candles for Shabbat occurred next along with the reading of a blessing. Some more readings and songs followed that. A decent amount of the service was in Hebrew, particularly the singing, however there were also times that English was also spoken. Since the books were in Hebrew, which reads from right to left, the books opened in reverse. This took some getting used to; however, there were English translations. The following segment of the service is what I describe as a parade of the Torah. The Torah,

The A.A Meeting took place in the Church Notre Dame of Mt at Cedar Knolls. When the meeting started, I ask myself “where are the guys seeking for help”? When I realized that they all were seeking for help. They did not look like they need it help, they look like you and me. When the meeting started first they when in to “The twelve traditions” and then to the events that they have each week, at the first I could understand what was going on they were laughing one another. When an old man when to the front to introduced his self. At the end of his introduction he asks everyone (except us) to give money to him, because he has things to pay, when he pasted the pot all around the room, everyone started to give something. I thought it was a joke but

Since being new to the service Mr. Snaider sat by my partner and I to help guide us and answer any questions we may have. The room was quickly getting filled up as the service was about to begin. As the service began Paula Morris led the service along with Eva Freund who gave the main message of the night. Many events happened throughout the night. Since it was Shabbat, in order to welcome it Paula asked the group to get up and sing L’cha Dodi which welcomes everyone and the angels into the Shabbat service. As we started to sing, I noticed other members of the congregation holding hands with other members of the group and waving their heads along singing joyfully. Something completely unexpected, but my partner and I participated in the events as a sign of

When we had first arrived at the church, I found it was in an odd location. The building connects with a Crossfit gym, that is between two other buildings. As we entered an old man held the door for the three of us and welcomed us. We walked in, having two other gentlemen welcoming us and referring to us as ladies. The room was a lot smaller than I had expected. There was around twenty people at the meeting. We sat in the fifth or sixth row. The front of the room is where the pulpit stood, which is where the pastor taught. There was also a table with the word “Remember” engraved in it. On the table sat two plates for money donations. I looked around the room and noticed all the posters on the walls. Many of them reference the crucifixion of Christ, with a scripture on it. The room had fake plants everywhere! They were on the ground, hanging on the walls, etc. It was to invite spring into the

There was a lot of singing and shouting done in these secret meeting places. Shouting had two basic forms regular shouting and ring shouting. The “ring shout” a ritualized group activity clearly of African origin, which gained momentum in praise houses. Shouting is experienced when the Holy Spirit fills and empowers the worshipers so that they are unable to remain still. Much like today, when the Holy Spirit takes over your body, you can’t hold still and the Holy Spirit jumps from one person to

There were two striking aspects of the service that stood out in my mind. The first was the amount of standing. I had heard that traditionally Orthodox services do not permit sitting at all. Only some of the

The event is well detailed as well as sequenced. They start with praise and worship to welcome the presence of God. In the process of praise and worship Matthew talks to the congregation to let them know if God did it for someone surely he can do it for you. Times like these it’s good to know that I have a sister in christ that can relate to my situation. They let us know that we are not alone that’s why God created us that we can

Monica asked everyone this “who loves Jesus christ every day of your life?”, and the room got loud and quickly filled up with cheer. After that she had us take our seats and get ready for prayer. After she prayed the worship team came up and we jumped up and worshiped. The last song was a slow steady song, I mainly paid attention to the words. At that moment I got teary eyed because those word where really powerful and really touched my heart because of the two deaths before and the word it said.

The service itself was very interesting, the priest would speak words that some I wouldn't understand, but some I could. He would say things like thank the lord for this beautiful day and this great opportunity for us all to be together here. He would ask the people to stand then sit and stand again and sit, then stand for a really long time that I actually got tired from standing it was funny, but I didn't sit down just to show signs of respect. As he would speak he would stop and everyone would respond to the priest at the exact same time saying the same words, it was really cool how everyone's words together sounded it created a very powerful voice amongst everyone. Then people would all do that one thing where they make a cross by putting their thumb, to their

Tribes of the Warm Springs, the Wascoes, and the Paiutes. These tribes arrived in 1855 the superintendent of the Oregon territory, Joel Palmer, negotiated a series of treaties, including the establishment of the Warm Springs Reservation.

I hadn’t gone since I was maybe thirteen. When I entered mass It was the first time going to mass here in bloomfield in St. Mary, I use to go to church in farmington. This time, when it was time for the readings I really payed attention to what the father was reading especially when it was the gospel. We also prayed many prayers I didn’t know during the mass. So on monday I practiced learning some of the prayers, one of the prayers I learned really fast was “our father “. Everyday when I came back from school and didn’t have homework I would rewrite the prayer on my notebook hundred times. Every week we would do something different in RCIA like watch videos things like that, Dekan Pat expected us always to attend mass that

Most Christians will recognize the term "Epiphany" as the celebration of Jesus Christ's manifestation of humanity recognized by the arrival of the Magi on January 6. ("Epiphany") In other words, Christian tradition maintains that the arrival of the Magi is the recognition that the baby Jesus was indeed the Son of God. This manifestation, or recognition has made its way into the modern vernacular as a sudden manifestation of understanding, what has commonly been called a "Eureka" moment.

When the service started it began with prayer, during the service there were moments of prayer, and the service ended with prayer. Something that I found very entertaining was the form of worship that they used which was singing. They sang a lot of different songs that worshiped God. You could tell who went to church a lot because they knew all the songs by heart. For those like me that didn’t know the songs, the words were projected on to the wall so you could sing along with everyone else. There was also a live band that played the music to sing to. This part of the service was really entertaining to me and I really enjoyed it.

Since it was September 11th, they paid respect to those who had died in the 9/11 attacks in New York. They had a moment of self-reflection; they all bowed their heads. After this moment the Rabbi took time to talk about Yom Kippur, she explained that it is a time to self-reflect and to build up to become a better person of faith; then continued on with a group prayer for those in their congregation that had asked for it. During one prayer, we were asked to stand, and as the Rabbi read the prayer, one line was read aloud and everyone in the congregation would bend their knees slightly and bow.