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Personal Narrative: My Trip To St. Teresa's Episcopal Church
For this second experience paper, I went to St. Teresa’s Episcopal Church with a mom I know from my dance studio. I didn’t know what to expect before I walked inside the church, and was wondering how different it was going to be from the first church I went to. We walked inside the church and there were people at every doorway welcoming everyone, and handing everyone a pamphlet with the. Then we walked inside the chapel where there was rows of chairs with a hallway in the middle leading to a small stage with a stand with 4 candles which were lite before the service started. Behind the stand was a a cross with Jesus crucified, and two bouquets of flowers. When the service started, music was played while the reverend (who was a lady) walked in followed by a man holding a bible above his head covered in gold, followed by a younger girl (who I surprisingly knew) holding a a staff with a cross of the top. The service started by a hymn to praise the God of Abraham, followed by other prayers and songs. During the prayers and songs we had to stand up and sat only when the reverend told us to. A lady came up to the stand and read the story of Moses from the book of Exodus. At the end, a prayer was said. After, someone came up to the stand and lead a a sort of prayer, where they said a phrase and the …show more content…
They had a silver cup under a silk cloth on a table in the front of the church, which they uncovered while telling a part of the story of the last seder. The reverend poured red wine into the silver cup. After that they then broke a circular shaped cracker (I’m not sure what it was exactly) over the cup and then broke it in many pieces. The reverend then ate a piece and passed a piece to everyone of stage, which they dipped into the wine and ate. Row by row, everyone stood up and went to the front of the stage where they handed each person a piece of the cracker and dipped it in the wine. after, everyone went back to their
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