The Entrance by Alealonna
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This is the enterance to St. Augustine's Church. It is a catholic church, and I have been told that it was built by the french immagrants who came to live in Maine.
I was raised roman catholic, and we would go to church as a family every sunday... well every sunday while I was in sunday school, that is. As soon as I did my conformation we stopped going every sunday. Instead we would go once a year on Easter Sunday. Sometimes we would go on christmas too, but not always.
I wonder how many families out there do this, go to church and pray on Easter, think that they have paid their dues to god, and then are perfectly fine for the rest of the year.
What is it about that one Sunday that makes you go? And if you do go, do you get that ticket into heaven? Or is it that you get it by just being a good person? Do you even have to go to church on sunday, or would you be better off going out and helping a family in need, giving them a turkey or something nutritious for dinner rather than their normal ramen noodle?
Which one does God like more?
Comments (7)
Faemike55
I wish I could give you an answer! I really do. You raise an interesting set of questions, which in reality, is one of the reasons I've given up on organized religion and taken up my own method of bliefs
cowdog
I'd venture a guess that God weighs in the good & the bad we've done over our lifetime... and that simply going to church on Sunday, or sending a turkey to a needy family adds to your balance sheet, but doesn't necessarily guarantee a ticket anywhere :)
barryjeffer
Who's to say which church is the correct on in the first place...? Our deeds in life will be the weight put upon the scales at the end... and who's to say what, or who, is balancing those scales? A beautiful church though, great shot.... seth
anaber
You did a splendid photo of a magnificent building.GREAT WORK,as the others i have already seen. Well, i love your thoughts,you are right in what you think,i guess,in many ways,but "to me"the most important in our lives is to follow our heart and our HEAD,and to do what we think is RIGHT day by day.And WHY must we have tickets to somewhere?
giareg
Really beautiful!!
anahata.c
you always elicit fine comments...I agree with the ones above, and with seth & ana especially who say it so well. Really, the 'church' is in you, in the depths of our heart & souls, and we carry that chapel with us wherever we go...if we give from there, we're doing real worship I think. And that can be done in a physical church or in a field...And I agree that if you help someone instead of saying prescribed prayers, you will be doing what that church was built for in the first place. As for the picture, you've got strong clarity & a big feeling of rising stone, which is what the church-makers no doubt wanted. But you also got its gray & somewhat inhibitory feeling too (which definitely isn't what the builders wanted, but what almost all massive institutions create after a while). (Well I'm probably wrong: A lot of strict religious institutions probably did want a sense of inhibition: It's how they scared their public. Lots of conflicting pulls aren't there, beauty & its opposite all in the same place...) Very nice job, both in words and image, something you do a lot in your gallery.
greensleeves81
You are in a trap. Can a branch of a tree bear fruit if it is cut down from the tree. It will eventually dry up and burned in the fireplace. When You walk away from religion, you walk away from God and slowly slowly from all virtues. So Jesus said, "Well, then, pay the Emperor what belogs to the Emperor and pay God what belongs to God." By saying this, He meant, he doesn't want your turkey or a nutritious food, But he asks you to share it with your neighbour, who is in need. What he asks from you is Love, because he is your Father. Just like your earthly father who likes to hear from you calling him Dad, our Lord too is waiting for us each day, not just on Sudays or on Easter, to hear us, calling him "Our Father". He gave you Ten commadments. But He asks you to worship him only at one place. The rest is for us, to love and respect others and not to hurt any one. Do you think you are much better than Him? One more thing. he taught you to pray " Our Father" not "My Father". He said, " Where there two or three gather in my name, I shall be in the midst of them." If you are honest to what you said, Please read Gospel atleast one chapter a day. It will give you the right answear. Look at that image, now the Door is closed, I hope one day you will post the same image with the "Door Open" and with new thoughts. Dear Alealonna, please forgive me the way I said this. I,ll remember you in my daily prayers. May God bless you and guide you.