Day: 2. August 2014

Encounter with the reality of life

We had an introduction to Judaism with Sr. Anne. She said that Jews respect the “Torah” and that they believe that God is everywhere, and so, they can pray anywhere. We also learned that Judaism is not only the religion of the Jewish people; it is also their culture and tradition. In addition, we understand better how that Christianity came from Judaism, since Jesus as well as his disciples were Jews. We had input from Sr. Juliana about prayer, using our Constitution and Scripture. We shared two by two on these questions: Why do we pray? What is prayer? We said that prayer is an important part of our relationship with God; we need prayer. We can pray in different ways and for different people, such as prayer for people who are sick or in need, the poor, etc. We said also that prayer is not just words, but an experience which involves our feelings. We need to be silent in order to listen to the word of God. Prayer can renew our energy every …