Sunday, June 13, 2010

Part B

The Catholic Church I visited was St. Joachim's church,
(http://bne.catholic.net.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=11560)
the person who runs the church was Senior Kari Hatherell, and the Catholic Church was built on the 12th of February 1961.

Here is a picture of St. Joachim's church.

(http://www.urbex.50megs.com/Places/Brisbane/Churches/Holland_Park_West_St_Joachims_Catholic_Church_Full.jpg)

The catholic church believe in God but they believe that God has passed his authority and power down to his disciples or followers and some of the followers in now times would be people like Priests, monks, Popes so catholic people put their faith in them and God. The service in the church St. Joachim's was a very different experience from the protestant church.
The music in the Catholic Church was very plain; it was just a piano playing and 3 women singing from a book with the rest of the church. While at Brisbane City Church it was very active and different and fast then they had a few slow songs which still were very good and not normal.
At the Catholic Church every time you walk in front of the big crucifix you have to bow before you move on, at the protestant church you don't have to bow to anything you can sit or stand.
The clothes that the Priest in the catholic church wore was the same as back in the middle ages in Europe, while in the protestant church the Pastor wore very casual clothes that were up to date.
the Priest in the catholic church was telling everyone they had to repent and that not repenting was very bad and you are hiding your sins and they had a confessional box, but at the protestant church the pastor says "if you would like to ask God to forgive your sins it is as easy as just asking or you could ask me if you would like me to pray with you."
The Catholic Church finds that wearing hats or anything that makes you stand out is disrespectful but at the protestant church you can wear anything and it will not be disrespectful.
The Catholic Church was very monotone, because when the priest would start a prayer which he did a lot the rest of the church would join in but everyone would sound the same and when they sung it was all the same levels of singing no variety. While in the Protestant church anyone can sing at whatever level they want or not sing at all and if someone prays a lot of the time it is not a prayer in a book it is their own words.
The Catholic Church service was not run as well as the protestant church was and the Catholic Church expected the church to join the prayers when the priest started to pray, there was also very little humor so it was very serious and there was no Church involvement besides the songs and the prayers and some volunteers for the offering.
The Protestant service was run excellent and involved the church in everything they could and made the songs fun for everyone and had more than one instrument to play music and when they pastor or the guest speaker is talking they involve the whole audience sometimes by doing tests or talking to individuals.

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