Month: October 2014

2014

30th Sunday of Ordinary Time (A) – Oct 26

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Post date October 26, 2014

Gospel Mt. 22:34-40

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

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Transform yourself first

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Post date October 26, 2014

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

We all know the saying: “Change the world, Lord, and start with me.” While the theme for Respect For Life Week (Oct 25 to Nov 1) is Transforming Society to Reflect Gospel Values, we must first examine our consciences to see how we are doing. Have each of us imbibed Gospel values? Is this evident in the way in which we live our lives? And how are we doing at a parish level and in our diocese?

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29th Sunday of Ordinary Time (A) – Oct 19

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Post date October 19, 2014

Gospel: Mt. 22:15-21

The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. And you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion, for you do not regard a person’s status. Tell us, then, what is your opinion: Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?” Knowing their malice, Jesus said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? Show me the coin that pays the census tax.” Then they handed him the Roman coin. He said to them, “Whose image is this and whose inscription?” They replied, “Caesar’s.” At that he said to them, “Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”

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Working for a world without poverty

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Post date October 19, 2014

“Oh, how I wish for a Church that is poor and for the poor!”

– Pope Francis speaking to journalists, March 16, 2013

On Friday October 17, the world observed International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. In his message in 2013, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN, reminded us that: “more than 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty worldwide. Too many, especially women and girls, continue to be denied access to adequate health care and sanitation, quality education and decent housing. Too many young people lack jobs and the skills that respond to market demands. Rising inequality in many countries — both rich and poor — is fueling exclusion from economic, social and political spheres, and we know that the impacts of climate change and loss of biodiversity hit the poorest the hardest. All of this underpins the need for strong and responsive institutions.

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Archbishop Dufour rallies Jamaicans against death penalty

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Post date October 12, 2014

Archbishop Charles Dufour of Kingston, Jamaica has urged Christians and other Jamaicans to work for the abolition of the death sentence, which he said was for a time when the world had no other options.
Speaking at an October 10 rally to mark World Day against the Death Penalty, Archbishop Dufour said while Jamaica had put a pause on hanging, it still hangs like a scepter over the heads of citizens. He acknowledged that brutal crimes, such as murder, must receive swift and decisive responses to restore order and begin to make Jamaicans feel safe again.
However, he believed that such a response showed disrespect for the sacredness of every human life.
The archbishop argued that the death penalty was for a world with no other options for dealing with what he described as these monstrous crimes. Archbishop Dufour said Christians should work for the abolition of the death penalty and comprehensive reform of the justice system.
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