Sporting Events

I recently went to a Dynamo game. I am a big soccer fan and have season tickets. I have yet to miss a home game in the past two years. I go to these games with my friends and we have loads of fun. If you take the first mark of the church "One," you can relate it to soccer games or even sporting events. At these soccer games everyone in the stadium is one. We all cheer for the same team and chant the same chants, and when the Dynamo score, we all go crazy and cheer. It seems that every time I go to a Dynamo game my friends and I happen to meet someone new. It could be a group of guys or just one or two.One game we met these guys who went to Strake, they had graduated about 5 years ago. They told us how important

it was to try hard because Strake prepared them well for college. They also told us to get to know your classmates. They said they had a better experience once they united as a class, or became "One." I took this lesson from them and applied it to my life. It's good to have a core group of friends, but every once in a while get out there and start to know other people. This is kind of what the Catholic Church teaches. We are one Church and should act as one, centered around God. I found this at a Dynamo game, all the fans centered around one team (not that the Dynamo are anywhere close to God) and cheering for that team.