“Retreat Evaluation”
In Fr Bill’s conference, we discussed what we thought of terrorism and the bombing on Libya by the U.S. We talked about the way the Church used to be and changes that we thought there should be in the church. I learned that there can be a good side to the bombing, that there has been a lot of unknown (to me) changes in the Church already, and a little bit of what it’s like for Fr Bill to have to get up there every mass. It can help me to relieve my boredom in mass by thinking what Fr Bill might feel like at the altar.
In Sr Teresa’s Conference, we discussed what it takes to have a friendship and we listened to “Greatest Love of All” on a record. I learned that you need certain things like trust and expectations to have a good friendship. This will help me in the future when I want to start a new friendship.
In “Flowers Are Like People,” we learned the similarities between flowers and people. I learned how people can change and grow like flowers if they only have a drop of hope to start them off and plenty of love shining on them. This can help me when I have a problem because I can relate it to a flower and see what a flower would do. In the prayer-writing we went off seperately and wrote prayers about whatever we wanted to God. I learned how caring our class can be by listening to their prayers. It can help me because I won’t look at them as just the people I see at school, but also caring people, so I won’t look on them as terrible or inferior.
In the letter I received from my mom, she told me what her day was like when I was born. I learned that I got really sick at first, and that she wouldn’t go to the hospital until my dad got home from work. This will help me realize, when I think about not doing a job she told me to do or complaining about it, how much she loves me and that complaining will just make her sad.
The best parts of the retreat was the letters from our parents and the prayers we wrote. I reacted to the liturgy by getting a feeling of specialness about it (uniqueness) since it was different from any other mass. The letters from the parents should definitely be kept. I think the prayers and the hikes in the woods should be kept, too. I think there should be a time when the class sits together and talks alone.
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