How Do Christians Respond To The Variety Of Christian Festivals

Christians' Response to the Variety of Christian Festivals

Festivals can affect us in many ways; they can affect our lifestyles, attitudes and behaviour. This can happen due to the example and teachings of Jesus. The first festival I will be looking at will be advent.

Advent is a time for preparation, we think about how we too can prepare for the birth of Jesus. Just like John the Baptist prepared by baptising the people. We can do this by going to confession. This can change our lives because Christians believe that by going to confession our sins will be cleansed. So if a person has done something bad then they will feel less guilty because they have spoken to a priest about the sin they have

All these factors make our behaviour change, for example we will think before we do something bad again, like argue with our parents or swear or even hit somebody. This happens because we would have already of been in the situation of telling a priest what we have done and this takes courage and we will not really want to go back there again. Our conscience will be telling us this.

Penance can change our lifestyles, this is where the priest tells us what to do to make up for what we have done wrong. This can change our lives because it can make you feel that you have worked hard for forgiveness, also the next time you come close to a sin you will think twice because you will remember how hard you had to work for forgiveness. This then stops a person from hitting or verbally abusing another person.

During these festivals we can give alms, this is when we give money to charity, this type of thing occurs around advent and lent. In school we choose charities like CAFOD (Catholic aid for overseas development), Nugent care (local), Zoë’s place, shoe box appeal and food hampers for the elderly. Firstly, this type of thing affects

or don’t go to the cinema. This can change our behaviour because we might recognise what it is like to sacrifice something. In some cases we will find out what it is like to live in a poor state, for example we will find out the building of wells. We also do other things like fill boxes with necessities; we then send them to third world countries and the elderly. This can help improve the social divide between young and old.

Pentecost is when the Holy Spirit appeared to the disciples, they at this time were afraid and hiding in a room, they didn’t want to go out and spread the word of God. When the Holy Spirit appeared to them they were filled with courage, this meant that the disciples were able to go out and spread the word of God.

This changes our lives because we will go to confirmation preparation classes, we will also learn about how Jesus challenged the disciples to “go out and spread the word of God.” We will learn about other teachings like “love thy neighbour.” We will learn about the creed and how our vows are based on this prayer- This means we will find