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Fr Joe’s Sunday reflection May 30 – Trinity Sunday (C)

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel  Jn 16:12-15

Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.

But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.

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The Trinitarian nature of God

Leela Ramdeen

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the most Holy Trinity. We are baptised “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Each time we pray the sign of the Cross; each time we say the “Creed” or the doxology: “Glory be to the Father…,” we profess our belief in the Trinitarian nature of God, our Creator.

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Fr Joe’s Sunday reflection May 23 – Pentecost Sunday (C)

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

First Reading: Acts 2: 1 – 11

When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.

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People of Pentecost

Leela Ramdeen

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

“Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.”

“Renewal” requires reconciliation – a word that is embedded in our Archdiocesan Mission Statement. In the midst of all the crime and violence in T&T and in the world, there is a yearning for peace, but there can be no peace without reconciliation and justice.

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Fr Joe’s Sunday reflection May 16 – Solemnity of the Ascension (C)

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel Lk. 24:46-53

Jesus said to his disciples: “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

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