Month: April 2011

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Combatting human trafficking

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Post date April 14, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

“The trade in human persons constitutes a shocking offense against human dignity and a grave violation of fundamental human rights. … Such situations are an affront to fundamental values which are shared by all cultures and peoples, values rooted in the very nature of the human person.” (Pope John Paul II)

As we enter Holy Week and journey with Christ to Calvary, let us remember the enormity of the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. This should send us from the images of Christ crucified on Calvary to the images of Christ crucified on the highways and byways in T&T/the world.

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Fr Joe’s Gospel Reflection Apr 10 – Fifth Sunday of Lent (A)

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Post date April 8, 2011

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel: John 11, 1 – 45

Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. So the sisters sent word to him saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

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Forming young people in our schools

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Post date April 7, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

“What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?” (St John Chrysostom).

As I prepare my paper to participate in a panel discussion during the Ministry of Education’s National Consultation on the Primary School Curriculum (Apr 5-6), I ponder over the way in which God works. The topic that I shall address is: “Addressing the need for morals, ethics, virtues and values in society”.

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Fr Joe’s Gospel Reflection Apr 3 – Fourth Sunday of Lent (A)

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Post date April 2, 2011

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel: John 9, 1 – 41

As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him. We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes, and said to him, “Go wash in the Pool of Siloam” —which means Sent—. So he went and washed, and came back able to see.

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Regional Consultation on HIV

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Post date April 1, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

On Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday 24, I attended UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Consultation on Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support. I was a member of the panel that focused on: The Social and Cultural Environment: Human Rights and HIV (see CCSJ’s website for my presentation).

Interestingly, among the 150 or so persons present – including Ministers of Government from around the region, I was the only speaker/participant representing a faith-based community.

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