Roman Catholics go and attend mass and receive Holy Communion because it’s showing obedience to Jesus command and at the last supper Jesus said b4 breaking the bread “do this in memory of me”. Receiving the holy communion (body and blood of Christ) it is a reminder of what Jesus sacrificed for us on the cross, it is also a reminder that all Christians are all called to make sacrifices at some point in their life, time, money in the service of those that are less fortunate than us, a good example of this is Mother Teresa, who was a nun who went around minding her own business but she never hesitated when there was a time to help someone for example “ A woman was lying nearly dead on a Calcutta pavement, her feet were half eaten by rats and ants, she was there for days on end and know one had stop to help her. The one-day a nun came along, she was only small dressed in a white sere, which covered her head this woman, was Mother Teresa, she saw the woman on the pavement and stopped full of pity. So she picked the woman of the floor and took her to the nearest hospital for treatment, they told her that there was no point because this woman was too ill and couldn’t be saved plus they had no room in there. Mother Teresa pleaded with them but they said there was nothing they can do for her, however Teresa went of to another hospital, but it was in vain that the woman died”. Mother Teresa without even knowing this woman tried so hard to keep her alive and she didn’t give up at all. This means help people don’t give up go out of your way to do something for someone else and never give up. Roman Catholics may be inspired to simple acts of charity in their daily lives by the example like her. They are reminded of this duty at the end of the mass “ Go in peace to love and to serve the lord” this means to go and live in the same way Jesus did, spread the word of Jesus.
It is important for Roman Catholics to use crucifixes, statues and Stations of the Cross during prayer because it reminds Christians to follow Jesus, to sacrifice something to them just like Jesus did for us. The crucifix reminds Christians of the sacrifice that Jesus made for us and all the Stations of the Cross reminds and shows us what happened leading up to his death. The statues is Roman Catholic worship are used to pray to like when you say the hail Mary you would look at the statue of our lady. An example of someone who sacrificed their life for another is Maxamillian Kolbe who was a prisoner of the Nazis in world war two in a concentration camp who put himself in another persons place a man who had children, so maxamillian kolbe was killed later that day as he took another mans place. Roman Catholics can follow this example by giving something up in their lives even if it is just money.
I think that all the ways that churches worship are important in their own way towards individual people because they feel it is probably the best way to show their admiration and feelings towards god, when they do this they think they are serving the lord the way he intended us to. Which is follow the way that they feel is the best way.
