Sophia Viviani Sophomore Religion Blog

(Tracy , Brian, director.  The Four A's for Expressing Gratitude  .  Youtube  , Youtube, 22 Nov. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLMbaNG3G3Q.) This video talks about 4 ways to be thankful and how it won't only impact your life but the people around you as well.  I choose this multimedia presentation because it teaches people why and how you should be thankful for everything in your life. It goes along with the theme of this unit of prayer and giving thanks to God for all he does.  1. I have a very good understanding about what prayer is but during this unit I learned new things that I haven’t before learned about in all my years at a catholic school. I learned that they’re many different types of ways to pray and each type of prayer has a unique requirement that you do. For example, when you're reading a bible passage in a group, you have to re-read the bible passage with you group over and over again until you and the people you're with have a v...

During the presentations I learned that each of the four evangelist has a symbol that represents them. Mathew is a winged man, Mark was a winged lion, Luke was a winged ox, and last John was an eagle. I also learned that the four gospels writers didn’t right at the same time as one another and that only two of the writers, Matthew and Mark, followed Jesus while he was still alive. I focused more on Luke and from research I found that he wrote his gospel around the time of 85 c.e. Luke didn’t personally know jesus so he got his information primarily from St. Paul who was spreading the word of christ. Lastly I learned that all of the Gospels were originally written in greek rather than hebrew which would’ve been the best guess someone would have. (http://www.uncutmountainsupply.com/icons/of-saints/by-name/m/apostle-matthew-the-evangelist-twelve-apostles-series-1ma22/) There were many similarities between each passage that the writers wrote but I noticed that in Matthew's and Ma...