Month: September 2014

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross – Sept 14

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Post date September 14, 2014

Gospel John 3:13-17

Jesus said to Nicodemus: “No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. ”For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

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Engaging our youth to build our Democracy

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Post date September 13, 2014

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

“Democracy is fundamentally a ‘system’ and as such is a means and not an end. Its ‘moral’ value is not automatic, but depends on conformity to the moral law to which it, like every other form of human behaviour, must be subject: in other words, its morality depends on the morality of the ends which it pursues and of the means which it employs.”(Compendium on the Social Doctrine of the Church, No. 407)

Tomorrow, Monday September 15, the world will observe the UN International Day of Democracy (IDD). The theme this year is Engaging Young People on Democracy. Too often we adults underestimate and stifle the contribution that our young people can/wish to make to strengthen our democracies.

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23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (A) – Sept 7

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Post date September 6, 2014

Gospel Mt 18:15-20

Jesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.
If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that ‘every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again, amen, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

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Britain’s Youth 2000 – ‘A gateway back to God’

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Post date September 6, 2014

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI

Participants in this year’s Youth 2000 Walsingham Prayer Festival. Photo Youth 2000 Facebook page — Participants in this year’s Youth 2000 Walsingham Prayer Festival.
Photo Youth 2000 Facebook page

Dioceses around the world are developing strategies to support and encourage the faith journey of young people. I had the opportunity to speak to a group of young people in London who attended the annual Youth 2000 Walsingham Prayer Festival from August 21–25. The theme this year was The Journey.

About 1,000 young adults journeyed from various parts of the country to the outdoor Festival held near the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk. It included “international speakers, live music, workshops, discussions, prayer, sports, social times, evening entertainment and loads more”.

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