The Creation Story & Patty's Place

Monday: 20 minutes Catholic Q&A

Tuesday:  20 minutes Catholic Q&A

Wednesday: 20 minutes Catholic Q&A

Thursday:  20 minutes Anne of the Island

Friday: 20 minutes Anne of the Island

Saturday: None

Sunday

This week I continued reading my Catholic Q&A book.  I am also taking the RCIA classes at church.  While we were in class a couple of people brought up questions about creation and how the world was formed, and what the Church’s stance on topic was.  This was rather timely seeing as how the next two subjects in my Catholic Q&A book were about specifically Genesis (the creation story, and first book of the Bible) and the creation story and the creation of the world.  The book talked about how the Church’s stance on the creation story is essentially that the Bible though we believe it to be accurate is not a scientific description of what truly happened to the earth.  While the Church doesn’t necessarily subscribe to one major belief or another (big bang theory, etc.) it does acknowledge the scientific findings that our earth is very old.  Since God is infinite then what does a measure of time truly mean to him?  It says in Genesis that each “day” God created these different things, and then after 6 days of creating (parts of the world) that He rested on the 7^th “day.”  Those very well may not be literal days, at least not in our 21^st century concept of the word. 

I have also been re-reading one of my favorite series of books (yet again) and am on Anne of the Island.  After I left off of last week Anne and some of her girlfriends have stumbled upon a quaint house in a rather rich neighborhood that are unlike all the other houses.  The girls quickly fall in love with the house and try to find out who owns it.  After Anne hears that the house is called “Patty’s Place,” she is convinced that something special is going to happen there.  Come to find out later, the girls will actually be able to rent the house for the remainder of their time at Redmond.