Month: June 2011

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Let my country awake!

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Post date June 16, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

Today, Trinity Sunday, we reflect on the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity – “the central mystery of Christian faith and life… Christians are baptised in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: not in their names…for there is only one God, the almighty Father, his only Son and the Holy Spirit: the Most Holy Trinity…The Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the ‘mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God’.”(See Catechism: 232-260).

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Fr Joe’s Gospel Reflection Jun 12 – Solemnity of Pentecost (A)

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Post date June 10, 2011

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel: Jn 20:19-23

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”

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Using the gifts of the Spirit

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Post date June 10, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

Today, Pentecost Sunday is a good time for us to reflect on whether or not we are opening our hearts and minds to allow the Holy Spirit to work through us to renew the face of the earth.

We are the Body of Christ in the world. This fact forms a key aspect of our Catholic Culture and Identity. My experience at the recent Congress in Rome (May 16-18) on Justice and Globalisation, made me even more determined to continue raising my awareness and that of the faithful of what it means to be the Body of Christ in the world; what it means to be a Catholic in T&T.

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CCSJ opens its door to all

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Post date June 7, 2011

Posted on catholictt.ning.com by St. Joseph/Mt.D’or Catholic Com on June 6, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

The Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) on Wednesday 1st June opened the floor to the suburban vicariate in St. Charles, Tunapuna. The forum hosted by Leela Ramdeen proved only to be a taste of the CCSJ’s plan to introduce a social justice committee in every parish in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Fr Joe’s Gospel Reflection Jun 5 – Feast of the Ascension (A)

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Post date June 3, 2011

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel: Matthew 28, 16 – 20

The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.
When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”