How Has Serving At The Altar Affected Your Spiritual Life

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How has serving at the altar affected your spiritual life?

I have many things to be grateful for, but one of the things I am most grateful for is the way my mother nurtured my faith, planting a seed so that eventually I would be able to find water and quench my thirst and grow towards the brightness of the Sun. There were times of difficulty, times where I started to doubt in the faith I had grown up in. My leaves would start to shrivel, and the flower would hide its face from the Sun, not knowing that it needed the Sun’s bright love to grow and to flourish. In those times where I felt that stagnant growth, returning every Sunday to the altar was a reminder that I cannot grow by myself, that I as a human could not survive without the love that the Lord continuously offered, to then be able to grow and share the fruits of what I had received. …show more content…

I remember being led through each individual step, the timing, the details. After continuously practicing, each task was no longer a fear, but instead, each action started to bring joy, and awe in how the Lord had allowed me to be in close proximity to Him, on the altar. Growing up, one as a teenager starts to believe that they can do everything on their own, they believe they are unstoppable and start to hold themselves to a higher status than others. Unfortunately, I was infected by these standards, and it brought a significant amount of difficulties at home. Somehow, through God’s grace, altar serving started to form me into the person that He willed me to be. I was constantly humbled by the presence of the Lord, and I started to seek Him beyond mass, through adoration and SWYM. Through altar serving, I was able to witness the way the Lord was working in the people around me, and I was filled with wonder, wonder in the greatness of the

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