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Week 5. Religious Involvement Question: How Well Did You Participate in The Religious Activities of Your Church This Week

The participant attended daily mass through live streaming and Sunday mass in person. They reflected on how it is easy to see faults in others but hard to see our own shortcomings. The participant realized we should not waste time finding fault in others but instead take an honest look at ourselves and compare our behavior to Jesus to see if he would be pleased.

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Week 5. Religious Involvement Question: How Well Did You Participate in The Religious Activities of Your Church This Week

The participant attended daily mass through live streaming and Sunday mass in person. They reflected on how it is easy to see faults in others but hard to see our own shortcomings. The participant realized we should not waste time finding fault in others but instead take an honest look at ourselves and compare our behavior to Jesus to see if he would be pleased.

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WEEK 5.

RELIGIOUS INVOLVEMENT

Question: How well did you participate in the Religious Activities of your church this week
especially this Sunday? Answer it as honestly as possible.

1. a. Type and medium of the Religious activity (ex. mass, healing prayer session, bible
study, live streaming of your Church's preaching, or other means of religious
involvement-please specify) (1 point)
- Daily devotion
- Mass every Sunday

b. Date and time of the activity (ex. June 7, 8-10 AM) (1 point)
- Everyday, 9-10 AM
- November 15, 10-12 PM

c. How did you participate? (ex. actual participation in the parish church or watching on
TV or teleconferencing) (1 point)
- Sunday mass was through live streaming through YouTube except for the daily
devotion.

d. What spiritual nourishment did you get from this religious activity? Write a reflection
about it. (7 points)
I have been always wondering, why is it so easy to see faults in others and so hard to
see our own shortcomings? We can easily spot imperfections in other people like they talk
too much, they eat too much, they are lazy, they are mean, they are rude, they are
thoughtless, they are selfish, and so on. It is not that we claim to be perfect ourselves, but
when we compare our tiny flaws to the faults in other people, we think we actually look
pretty good. We can explain away our own weaknesses and rationalize our own failures, but
we are hesitant to give anyone else the benefit of the doubt. We tend to assume the worst of
others and assume the best of ourselves.
I asked myself, why do we do this? As long as we can find people who are worse than
we are, we feel good about ourselves. When we measure ourselves against the worst sinners
out there, we come out looking pretty good. But the Bible says we are using the wrong
standard.
There is one standard for determining whether our life is pleasing to God. It is found
in the Bible, not in comparisons with other people. We must place our lives next to the life of
Jesus. Only when we are like Him will we no longer have to be concerned with our own
shortcomings. Thus, we should not waste our time finding fault with others . Instead, take an
honest look at what we have, at our own behavior and see if Jesus will be pleased with what He
sees.

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