Catholic Retreat Analysis

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Everyone has different opinions when it comes to their beliefs. Where I live, most of the community is Catholic. Every day I am faced with a different discussion on how Christians differentiate from Catholics and why I am not Catholic. I was faced with these questions when my mom signed me up for a retreat; the only problem was that it was a Catholic retreat. At first, I felt somewhat confused about why she would sign me up for a retreat whose religion was different from mine, but as the retreat took place, I understood her motive.

All my life I have come across difficulties because of my religion. I have never been discriminated, more as I have felt left out. All of my friends are Catholics. They all have that “special” bond that I will never have with them. One day, my mom came into my room and told me that I was going to be living a retreat. She took me by surprise. I had never heard what a retreat was until that day, and now I was going to be living one? The last thing she told me after leaving my room was that it was catholic. She left me in my room and did not even bother to explain anything. I was in shock. I did not understand why she would do this. I barely knew anything about being Catholic. How was I going to fit in? …show more content…

My spiritual being reimbursed. I did not want to leave the retreat center. None of us did. I was afraid that everything was going to change when I got out. The fear of losing the bond I had gotten with my friends over the past few days was getting to me. Since the retreat was mainly about letting your emotions out, I told them what I was pondering in my head. They started laughing; I did not know how to respond to their reaction. I started to freak out; that is when they decided to tell me what they were thinking. They told me that I should not be feeling like that. We would always be close no matter what. That got me feeling sure about everything. I was finally ready to

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