Impact of the Bible in my life

Christianity, or the teachings of the Catholic Bible, have always had a strong impact on my life. I started going to CCD when I was very young, and went every Sunday to learn and read the bible. My family does not always go to church, but my mother always made sure we went to CCD. It wasn’t until highschool that I truly started to rely on my faith. I transferred to a private Catholic highschool my freshman year, where I was required to take theology every year. My school, Pope John XXIII highschool, held masses the first week of every month during school, which we would get half days for, and short masses every morning before school. Sometimes I think going to this school should have weakened my faith. If we were being disruptive in class and were given a detention, we had the option instead to go to a morning mass instead, or write a reflection on a bible passage. By making students go to mass or read the bible as a punishment should have surely disrupted our faith. However, everyone I talk to that went to my highschool almost always goes to church, and still reads the bible. We had clubs based solely on religion, where you could go on retreats to get “closer to God,”  and many people were willing apart of them. Every sporting team said a prayer together before their game, including our chess team. Our entire highschool was covered in religious quotes, our windows had pictures of religious events, and many of our teachers were priests. Christianity always surrounded me, which in turn increased my engagements with the bible. I’ve written many reflections on passages in the bible, I’ve written background stories on angels and religious figures, and I’ve even read the Bible outside of school. I chose to take this class in order to further my education in Christianity.