Christian Based Institutions

In this every changing world today we stray from God’s and Christ’s vision of the world. We do this by living in a society that we except being an object in, we except being classified to fit social groups, we except that our worth lies in what we do and what we have. All of these statements that I have made hold true for the modern day beliefs. Sadly, these beliefs are just what society has created for its self and the people who live under it today. As each generation goes on I feel that more the idea of you are an individual competing in this world is pushed, instead of God’s world; how the world should be, loving everyone like there neighbor.

In a world that is losing the identity of being one, of loving your neighbors the institutions that are Christian-based start the revolution of us turning back to God’s word, and point the world/people to the way that it should work. In this contemporary time these organizations are aimed not only at the people in their communities, but toward the individual family, and even further toward the next generation.

An example of an institution that is Christian-based that does this is an educational system. Being in Cincinnati now for about three years I have worked for Holy Family parish, and have worked closely with their school. The school applies the Social Justice Principles in everything it does to tie the community together to teach everyone that everyone has the right to life, that the weak and poor most be attended for, and to protect/respect God’s creation.

The school holds events where anyone around the community is welcome, not just the family’s of the kids attending, or the students. When it is time for church they open up the doors to anyone; they have even recently last yea...

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... principles but tie in the Beatitude principles as well. Each institution does this because it is by the Beatitudes we realize that we are different, but one. That are differentness is what ties us together as living things, as human beings. It makes us self assess our lives and look to those who are suffering. We learn that if we do not change that we will feel the hunger, the thirst, the disease that people from all over fill if we do not help them, and that living through the modern beliefs of wanting more, having more is what makes us powerful and unique will leave us with a craving feeling that we will never be able to satisfy. It is by us being poor, merciful, etc. that we feel whole, that we can live in unity with our neighbors because it is right that our neighbors, our fellow brothers and sisters have the same as us; the basic essentials in order to live.