S2 Blog Response 10

Marian Apparitions and Resilience

I learned a lot from this chapter. I always think that religion only focus on God or Jesus or other devine males, but after studying this unit, I knew that people also worship Virgin Mary because she is the mother of Jesus and she can bring people's petition to Jesus. Every time, her apparition is not for personal benefits, but for human's general good. For example, in Our Lady of Guadalupe, she appeared and claimed that "And it is my wish that here, there be raised to me a temple in which, as a loving mother to thee and those like thee, I shall show my tender clemency and the compassion I feel for the natives and for those who love and seek me, for all who implore my protection, who call on me in their labors and afflictions: and in which I shall hear their weeping and their supplications that I may give them consolation and relief." She wants a temple not because she wants human's worship, but to provide a place to hear human's supplication.

In Our Lady of Guadalupe, when Juan Diego want asking the Catholic Church to build a temple for Virgin Mary because she asked to do so, the Catholic Church didn't believe his saying. Then when Juan Diego came back to the mountain of Tepeyac, Virgin Mary was there again. She told Juan Diego don't gove up and try asking again. I think that related to resilience because when we are in our down position, what we always do is to give up. However, if we want to back to the top, instead of giving up, we should give another try.

Just like the example I used above, I consider myself as being resilient because when I was down, I didn't give up. As a foreigner, the professional vocabulary on Biology and the tedious lab report for chemistry are my most challengeable assignment. I need to pay more effort than others to learn how to deal with it. I remember it so clearly, once I wrote a 7 pages lab report, and got an C- on my PowerSchool and cried for almost an hour. I almost dropped that class, but I remember how hard I tried to get double science. And therefore, I kept trying hard in that class, my effort sustains my through my first semester and had an A on my transcript.

Citation:
Joline Strömberg. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.
Battad, Do. "Our Lady of Guadalupe - Message of Trust and Hope." Our Lady of Guadalupe - Message of Trust and Hope. N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.