A weekend at Worth Abbey

It's the start of lent and what a great way to start it with a retreat! I'm currently in a retreat with the Catholic Society of my university at a Benedictine Abbey in Sussex. We'll be staying here till Sunday afternoon. Today we came at around 8 pm, had our dinner and joined the monks for their evening prayers. The church where they did their prayer was dome like and beautiful. We'll be joining the monks in their prayers throughout the weekend and at the same time do our own prayers as well. That's it for me for now, hope you guys have a good and spirit filled lent. :)

Discussions over dinner

Today I had a discussion with my housemate about religion and since we differ in our beliefs as she was a Muslim and I, a Catholic. We were both curious about the differences in our faith. It was interesting because there are a lot of common points between the two and yes, there are many differences but the most important point is that, we both believe in the same God. They may call him Allah and pray and worship him in a different way but it is still the same, Allah is God and God is Allah.

Having said that, our discussion brought upon many interesting questions about why we do this and why they do that, why we believe in this and how about that. She asked me many simple and obvious questions about my faith and I tried to answer it as best as I could but its sad how I wasn't able to answer it rightly and with more understanding. This made me realize about how vague and lacking my existing Catechism is and reminded me to continue seeking and understand my faith. But I feel really thankful to God for giving me such opportunities to talk to other denominations about our faith and for constantly reminding me to seek him out, to know him more and to understand him more.