Month: November 2013

CARICOM Leaders must act to find solution to Dominican Republic ruling

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Post date November 12, 2013

CCSJ calls on CARICOM Leaders to work with the authorities in the Dominican Republic (DR) and with other regional and international organizations, such as the Organisation of American States, to find a solution to the potentially devastating effects of the September 23 ruling by the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal that “foreigners with no residence permit in the country must be equated with the category of foreigners in transit, under which their children are not eligible for Dominican citizenship, even though they were born in Dominican territory.”

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A Christian response to the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan

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Post date November 12, 2013

CCSJ urges all readers to heed the call of the Catholic bishops of the Philippines for a novena of prayer and charity for victims of typhoon Haiyan which has claimed the lives of an estimated 10,000 people. Prayer and action are essential responses to this humanitarian disaster.

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Archbishop Harris’ Gospel Reflection Nov 10 – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

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Post date November 10, 2013

Gospel Luke, 20:27-38

Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, if someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. Then the second and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.”

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Experiencing the joy of faith

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Post date November 10, 2013

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

I thank His Grace for allowing me to represent the Archdiocese at two major events at the Vatican recently. Since I had planned to be in London around the time of these events, this facilitated my trip to Rome. The first event was a Conference held during the October 23-25 21^st Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family (PCF) on the theme New Anthropological horizons and the rights of the family.

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Archbishop Harris’ Gospel Reflection Nov 3 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

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Post date November 1, 2013

Gospel reading: Luke 19:1-10

Jesus entered Jericho and was going through the town when a man whose name was Zacchaeus made his appearance; he was one of the senior tax collectors and a wealthy man. He was anxious to see what kind of man Jesus was, but he was too short and could not see him for the crowd; so he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus who was to pass that way. When Jesus reached the spot he looked up and spoke to him: “Zacchaeus come down. Hurry, because I must stay at your house today.”