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Life Learning Essay
October 01, 2004
My Religious Odyssey
You can take the girl out of Catholic SchoolÂ…
Most people grow up with some type of belief system. Judaism, Christianity, Islam and even Agnosticism are some examples. It wasn't until I had a child that I realized that religion was just man's way of explaining God. Even as a kid, however, I always believed in a higher being. Not just because of my very heavy-handed Catholic upbringing. I questioned many things about my religion. Since I loved science, I was confused about how the "Big Bang" and Adam and Eve coexisted, but I always knew that God existed. I had no scientific irrefutable evidence – I just had faith. You know how they say everything you ever really need to know you learned by first grade? Well it wasn't until I had both my faith and my life tested, that I fully came to realize that one's spiritual journey in life doesn't have so much to do with what religion one surrounds herself with, as much as the faith that one has in God. Faith is what defines a person's spirituality as opposed to specific religions.
I was raised in a Catholic upbringing. I grew up in Chicago, which has the second largest archdiocese in the U.S. I was baptized as an infant at St. Sabina's and attended high school at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts, run by the Sisters of Mercy nuns. Catholicism is a religion steeped in ritual and tradition and so I vividly remember my first holy communion in the first or second grade, and my Confirmation, when in the seventh grade I reaffirmed my decision to be both a Catholic and a Christian. I also remember the many hours of study, every year, in religion classes that were required in each grade level. I had cousins who weren't Catholic who spoke of religion classes taking place only in Sunday school. I did not have Sunday school. I had
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday school. Every class...
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