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Jesus
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In the world of religion we often look up to many significant figures and moments for guidance. One of these occurrences is life of and the man himself, Jesus. For myself Jesus is the main staple in my faith upbringing, being the relative symbol of what to strive for and do in our lives. As I enrolled into the class of Catholic Vision I knew I was going to gain some more perspective on him, but to what extent I had know clue. Now leaping forward to almost the end of the term I recognize that my knowledge of Jesus has gone to places I was not prepared for. This has happened through the teachings and readings from the book, Jesus the Christ, the catalyst for my new awareness of Jesus and Catholicism as a whole. As a child I knew that Jesus was supposed to be an important figure in my life through school and my parents. But to what extent, I did not know. I slowly began to learn the answer to that question as the Catholic schooling kept teaching me year after year the importance of faith and who inspires it. Jesus to me was one of those inspirations that ran common throughout all the different classes. Realizing this I thought it would be important to never be satisfied with what I know about him. As this quest began for me I soon realized that I am going to have to learn an incredible amount of history and faith. This would prove to be hard because all religion classes don’t just talk about Jesus the whole time, I’d have to come up with questions and hopefully understand the answers to get where I needed to be. When I think about this it always brings a smile to my face, because I’m happy I made that choice to learn about someone whom would is the foundation of my faith today. It gave my outlook a positive path to follow in terms of education and going to church as a youngster. What I learned in the first three quarters of my life about Jesus was pretty much your garden-variety background and interpretations of him and his life. Everything from he was the son of Mary and Joseph by Immaculate Conception to him dying for us on the cross. I always wondered why though, why this man, was there any other men or woman like him in history that we would learn of? I soon understood that the answer to that was a very stern no. He is the standard, the primary source, and the Son of God, with respects to many others; no one can touch his divinity and impact in religion to me. Resulting from my newly gained perspective, church became a much better venue to learn and absorb Catholicism and Jesus Christ. I was slowly beginning to be able to relate myself and my experiences to all the teachings and readings that would be verbalized to me during the masses.
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