Cathloic Service Obstervation Paper.

The sign in front of the medium sized fairly modern brown building gave me the reassurance that I had reached the Newman Center. Sitting atop the building was a large cross. Along side the building facing Third Street were stained glass windows, colored with many crosses also in the glass. The outside of the building was a plain, as expected, brownish color but beautifully decorated with flowers growing along the building. Immediately inside I noticed …

…as being the blood. They believe it is the body and blood of Christ because he explained they must receive it in order to have eternal life. The announcements at the end of the service are a way to tie the community to the church. And the way people exit out of the church, I believe, is another way of respect to the church. The chatting doesn't really begin until people have exited the building.