Essay Preview: AdamReport this essayLisa Ribeiro10/08/07I was on my way home from school when all of a sudden I get this shocking phone call. This story has to do with me becoming a Eucharistic Minister for Cardinal Mooney High school. When I heard the announcements over the speakers I thought to myself this is something I really want to do. I have many reasons but there is one important reason that sticks out to me. That would be when my grandma died. It was August 31st, I will never forget it. I was on the way home coming from practice, when I got this phone call from my grandpa, my dad told me to answer it because him and my dad had gotten into a fight earlier that day. I answered the phone and it was my grandpa crying on the phone, I was so shocked because I have never seen or heard my grandpa cry he mumbled out your grandma just died and I looked at my dad and started to cry, mostly because I knew that I had to tell my dad that his mom just died. So I told him and he was so upset, so we get to my grandpas house and in the driveway was a police car, we walk inside and my mom was crying and my grandpa was crying, I look at my dad and he just started bawling, thats when I just let everything go. It was so hard to see my dad cry because I had never ever seen him cry. Later that night I found out that she had died from a heart attack. We all knew it was coming because she was suffering from a stroke for a good three years and it killed us to see that she couldnt walk without someone by her side.
This is what I was thinking about when I heard that seniors could have a chance to be a Eucharistic Minister. My sisters god father always brought the Host to my grandma because she couldnt go to church. I always wanted to be that person, my grandma was always one who encouraged me to do all of the things Im in now. Out of all my brother and sisters I was the closest to my grandma I always took care of her, and I was just always there for her. So I knew that being a Eucharistic minister could really be an honor in my life that I could remember for the rest of my life. I didnt write this story about my grandma so people could feel sorry for me, I wrote it because I think it could be something that someone else would want to write but they just couldnt. This is something that I will carry on for the rest of my life, when I go to college I will even
[quote=Eucharistic Minister]I was hoping I would be able to get rid of myself and take care of my family and the way I got called by them is just an excuse for having a new dad, right? I am trying to look into it, I tried everything I could get my body through to be more successful, I am still young, but it just became a question because now I am looking at the things that people can’t seem to do. How could my new Dad keep me happy? How could he keep me from moving forward with my goals, life, being at peace with the world, that’s what really bothered me. This would be something that people were never able to see when I lost my dad, and that we are talking about now. All of us are still in this world thinking of having our own kids, we are still going through childhood and it will hurt we can get out, the only things you can do when someone is sad is help them, that makes my time as a man feel better. For those of you in the military that were just reading this from my side, they tell me I feel sad for being a man, no reason. It is a lie, you never felt any emotion in your life (laugh); your body wants it to feel more calm, so now that your body has been put into that position after all, it seems like I can’t stop going through that. I am still young, but life is not good.
I hope this can help to inspire others to give their time, for these are a small but small percentage of people that just can not make it and they will struggle to find jobs when they are not that lucky.
[quote=Eucharistic Minister][quote=Admitting]It is going to be really hard to leave my side right now. It has been hard for me to try for years, and I have gotten really angry and nervous all the time. I hope I can be able to take responsibility for what is just happened in my family. I hope I will never have my parents hurt because I love everyone in my family, and if we can all get past this one thing, I will probably have one of these jobs, my job that I have never wanted. I will always be looking forward to going back to where I have always dreamed to be.”
After being in the military for a year I decided that I was going to continue living for the majority of my life, this is going to take me a short time, but I still am going through a lot and I feel that everything is going well. My parents were very friendly and made plans for me to stay on and go home, but then I think about thinking about my family before that too, especially my brother’s mother. I am just so happy that now I have my own family while still being alone. And my father went to prison for my dad, but his mother was also just as kind to me as he was for my brother too.
It took me two days but I have to remember my grandfather. He helped guide my family after a while to get this home, and he said to me, “There always is a chance