These meetings were comprised of a small group with varied Catholic educations.Intense Side Stretch Pose Yoga Our group consisted of a few men and women who were either converting from other Christian religions for approaching marriages or, like myself, had never fully been initiated as adolescents. There was one man who was starting from scratch. His plan was to be baptized, receive Communion, and be confirmed, all in the same night. At first, I was shocked by how little I knew about the religion I had been linked to for all these years.Intense Side Stretch Pose Yoga I learned in school that the first language the Bible was written in was Aramaic, then Greek, then Latin, and finally translated into the other European languages. The word Catholic derives from the Greek word katholikos, which means universal, which I really liked, so I sought to find those universal truths of the church and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Essentially, the church, like all places of worship, was intended to be the setting for a spiritual community to thrive.